This is also what you have to take into account though because Acer Warranty Service is shocking. OCUK only accept monitors back if its within the 14 day return.
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This is also what you have to take into account though because Acer Warranty Service is shocking. OCUK only accept monitors back if its within the 14 day return.
That is the thing though, high end Pascal is not "round the corner" it will be Q2 2017
No, that would be the mid end GPUs
One is the 16nm fab is new...and untested...and you can't go large and power hungry on first generation chips. Don't believe how unreliable a new fab is? Look at how long it took Nvidia to pick between Samsung and TSMC and finally siding with TSMC due to their longer working history and reliability.
Second point is...they will kill their own sales by offering their best card right at the release of the new generation. They will not be able to give any reason at all to their enthusiast market to upgrade their card within 3 years of launch. Whereas when you look at Kepler, people bought the 680, then the Titan came out, then the 780, and most people who bought the 680 eventually upgraded to those cards. And then when Maxwell launched, they started with just the 750 and 750ti. Then released the 980 that some bought, and finally after a while, the Titan X and 980ti which gave people (enthusiast market, again) a reason to upgrade.
Nvidia likes incremental upgrades. They don't want you to buy a card now, and launch another card in a year that completely destroys the card you bought. They put out one card, then 12 months later they bring out another card that is generally just 10-20% faster, so it's better than what they offered before, but not enough to **** off anyone who bought their last gen cards. And then another 6-12 months later they put out an even better card, with 50%+ better performance than their older cards, and people start upgrading again.
If on day one of the Pascal launch, if they come out with their absolute best card, they are going to have nothing interesting to bring to market for 2 to 3 years until Volta comes out. And that would be silly. Even if it were possible with the new 16nm fab. In terms of business, you need to offer a product that is a bit better than your competition, without being too much better/too costly for you. So they just need to put out a slight performance increase, but sell the card on much lower power consumption, wait for AMD to release something else, and then launch a bigger die version themselves, and back/forth they go. Just a quick reference:
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GTX 580 = 520mm2
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GTX 680 = 294mm2
GTX Titan = 551mm2
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GTX 750ti = 148mm2
GTX 980 = 398mm2
GTX Titan X = 601mm2
Do you see the pattern? Small, Medium, Big, restart. Don't think about it based on die size. Because it's really just about transistor count. Pascal at 16nm, even a 294mm2 sized die like the GTX 680, along with HBM2, would result in performance close to the Titan X...and perhaps even higher due to lower heat/power consumption allowing higher clocks.
Hope that helps.
Even that's becoming tiresome. I'm as unhappy about the next guy with monitor QA at the mo but the last few pages have been the same people regurgitating the same comments.
here here. and we see actual information from users who buy it from OcUK and provide pictures and information back from proper testing
I've had confirmation from acer that overclocking the X34 does not affect your warranty. the reason for the "up to" message is because the user can choose their selected max refresh rate support in the OSD, form 60Hz up to 100Hz 
review updated accordingly:
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/acer_predator_x34.htm
review updated accordingly:http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/acer_predator_x34.htm
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ive been after a decent gsync ips 144hz since the acer xb270hu got returned with severe back light bleed
i really really want one that doesnt suck on qa is this even possible?
no dirt, no dead pixals, just fing works? i would be the happiest.. p.s. yeh i know the new consumer laws are in place , but its still arse ache
i really really want one that doesnt suck on qa is this even possible?
no dirt, no dead pixals, just fing works? i would be the happiest.. p.s. yeh i know the new consumer laws are in place , but its still arse ache
We'll have to see what general feedback is from people that are first to buy these units. With an asking price of nearly a thousand pounds I think its sensible to wait.
It's possible, and your right of course, but these days you do enter in to somewhat of a lottery when buying a monitor. It's a totally ridiculous state of affairs, and one that would not be remotely acceptable for any other component, but it seems we just have to put up with it for now. The only real course of action that the manufacturers would pay attention to is if no one bought their shoddy merchandise!! But that's not going to happen. All you can do in the meantime is make sure you're fully aware of your consumer rights, roll up your sleeves and prepare to do battle if you receive a screen that doesn't meet acceptable standards of quality. It won't always get ugly though, it largely depends on the retailer and manufacturer. More to the point, it's just a MASSIVE hassle and pain to have to deal with these things at all. Totally unacceptable.
I was one of those who had the early batch of the monitor with the banding, and it only reaching 95hz (may be a non issue for some).
The best thing about it was the bleed was VERY good, I was actually really pleased with it. I hope that it's the same with these ones.
The best thing about it was the bleed was VERY good, I was actually really pleased with it. I hope that it's the same with these ones.
I cant wait to get mine (hopefully next Monday if they ship this Friday as expected). Been waiting for this thing since May.
I wonder how the firmware updates are going, any theories on how many engineers they send to fix the 100 units (original estimates) that OC has received, with a time estimation? i.e. 25 units a day x 4 days?
I wonder how the firmware updates are going, any theories on how many engineers they send to fix the 100 units (original estimates) that OC has received, with a time estimation? i.e. 25 units a day x 4 days?
Hopefully it is all on time, surely if it's meant to ship out on Friday then on next day delivery it should start arriving on Saturday, at least that's what I'm hoping for
No I left it next working day, which is good cause me and the missus are going away this weekend. I have Monday off work too which works out nicely.
Good luck to my missus if she wants anything out of me on Monday!
