Its not placebo? I dont notice any visual improvements using Gsync other than no tearing.
Anyway you still have that S34? Or did you sell it?
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Its not placebo? I dont notice any visual improvements using Gsync other than no tearing.
Anyway you still have that S34? Or did you sell it?
no sold it, had to really to fund the acer, the Samsung was nice but really had the urge to give gsync or freesync a go
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Its quite subtle honestly you're really not aware of it sitting a metre or so away. I half expected it to be bent like a banana but it's really not.
Should buying a monitor somehow be different to buying anything else?
You do the research and you look to see what issues there are with a product and then take the choice to buy or not.
Would I currently go out and buy a Vauxhall Zafira B, no I wouldn't, they catch fire!!
Do I own one, no I don't, have I had one burst into flames, no I haven't! You're logic and criticism of Metro post is flawed I'm afraid.
At this point I honestly have to question you impartiality, maybe your worried about the backlash on your website from manufactures. Your approach seems to be to bash the "consumer" and constantly stick up for the manufacturer even when their are very well know issues with the monitor. I don't recall the review on your site mentioning any of these problems, maybe they weren't present in the unit you tested?
I have to say at this point your posts are starting to irk me.
You seem to be bored of anybody that has anything negative to say about a £1K product that had launch issue as well as a catalogue of other faults that are now being posted on many other forums by the consumer.
The "sleep" issue is just another sign of Acer apathy towards QA and the consumer, this is basic functionality that just worked on any monitor I've ever owned. Would it stop me buying this monitor, in isolation probably not. It just seems that the attitude to this problem is that the consumer should just "live with it" which I find totally unacceptable and would stop me from buying an Acer Product.
No different to how the problems with the LG superwide put me off buying that monitor, at the moment the monitor market is a shambles, as a consumer I have no confidence in the products that are currently being offered therefore my money stays in my pocket.
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I just want to know how to save my screen settings 
Look I never said there weren't issues. I said Acer haven't done a recall on the screen which is some of the nonesense being posted around. Nowhere in that quoted Acer rep post does he say that it's being recalled. I have made the point that the sleep issues is not the massive world ending, worse thing that could ever happen problem some people are painting it to be. Yes it affects some people and bothers some. But equally there's plenty of people who will never experience the problem and plenty who have but don't care or mind. Acer have identified the fix and provided a solution to the problem for those affected. They've halted stock to retailers to fix the issue now. If you want to call that a recall, maybe it is in one sense of the word but in my mind a product recall implies something bigger and a recall from user units out there which is not happening
The unit I tested was not cherry picked. It came straight from the production line, shipped to me from Europe and not even via Acer press or product teams. It was unopened and unused. Anyway you know from my review that it had the banding issue and we reported on that fully. If I was bothered by what Acer thought then I wouldn't have posted the review with that in there, I'd have delayed it until it was fixed. In fact Acer spoke to me before I'd published it about the issue and I said I was publishing it anyway as impartiality is very important to me. I went ahead and released a very high profile review with a known issue and Acer understood why I had to do that. I've done the same with every screen I've tested.
I'm not denying the issues, but what bothers me are the people who only ever seem to regurgitate negative comments over and over again. It seems to me to be nothing more than pure Acer hatred for whatever reason. I like Acer no more or less than any other manufacturer but I do like to be realistic.
Headrat I see no reason for you and I to fall out (in the OcUK forum sense
). The reasons I'd asked metros if he owned it or used it was only because all he ever seems to want to post is negative comments about something he has read online elsewhere and it, in your words, was beginning to irk me. Had he been a buyer and had first hand experience I (and others) would perhaps put more stock in his posts. You only have to look back a few pages to see people think he's an Asus rep which if true, would be totally unacceptable. Some of the posts being made are Over exaggerated and ill-informed that's all. I don't deny there are problems with the screen. If you look at my review you will see we clearly covered the banding issue which I fully agree was a very big problem. Ive commented on the sleep issue in this thread which to be honest only came to light after the review in my following few days of random use of the screen and was so occasional it was hard to know if it was truly an issue or just one off bugs. I am not at all bothered by what the maunfacturers think about my site, reviews or comments I will always remain impartial and tell it how it is. I am just trying to put my opinion across
Maybe it's just your posting style, a few of my favourites are:-
What about Chipper500 screen settings issue, I guess he actually owns the monitor and has an issue?
What about Chipper500 screen settings issue, I guess he actually owns the monitor and has an issue?
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Please dont rule it out to be a user issue!
Ive stated a few times in this thread i am extremely happy with my purchase, esp given my skepticism prior to pulling the trigger
I would state however i think ud be hard pushed to find a similar lottery type market in any other purchasing sector today... Any product these days no matter the cost should be purchased with the knowledge that it will be 100% without fault and if not it should be rectified at the convience of the purchaser and the cost of the supplier/manufacturer
Ah I see. It was you on the receiving end of my get a grip comment
ok I probably should have apologised for that, I was pretty wound up by it all at the time and agree I was maybe a bit OTT. Sorry I've irked you. There's plenty of people who irk me too. I just dislike some of the regular negativity from people who just appear to be out to hurt a brand or product. Just a shame there's so much of it around at the moment.
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Ah I see. It was you on the receiving end of my get a grip comment
Dude, you're a Don. Just ban the ****
It's the lack of a scaler / presence of Gsync module on the X34 that allows the overclock to be stable. Same with other overclockable models like the Asus PG279Q
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The internet is one vast rumour monger unfortunately, to hear the things about AMD you'd think they were the spawn of Satan. Stories just go round and around. Everytime i buy one of their cards I almost feel like I'm taking my PC's life in my hand, and everytime I plug it in and everything is fine with zero problems I think, what was all the fuss about?
On non-specialist forums you'll hear any Nvidia card recommended even for those on a tight budget when an AMD would be better value but no, never ever under any circumstances buy an AMD card. Quite often though they'll innocently proclaim an AMD cpu as being perfectly acceptable though, and thats one thing that has fallen behind Intels offerings quite badly. Such is the Internet.
The herd mentality seems to have likewise decided that Acer is the devil's work and to shun it in future. The witch burnings have begun.
Even still that's quite an overclock for a screen - 33%, especially considering the screen is already overclocked to its limit. That gsync module must be quite something. Imagine overclocking your computer to the max, and someone else saying yeah, I can make it go 33% faster!
Maybe if you would pay attention and notice it's the same handful of people constantly bashing Acer ad nauseam. It's the reason some people like Badass and myself get short with them.
My X34 has the partial back-light upon power-up issue that goes away after a few seconds. Completely trivial.
My X34 does have "the lower the FPS while using G-Sync the more scan-lines are apparent" issue, which is a bit more serious. Not a massive concern for me as I always play around the monitor maximum refresh rate, but a concern none the less.
How exactly is this not a fault, and more of an "issue" as you put it? Or are you just being polite? Because those lines SHOULD NOT be there, regardless of whether they are a massive concern to you or not.