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OLED gaming monitors are becoming more and more

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affordable. So, I figured why not unbox the Acer Predator X27U X1. It's one of,

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if not the most affordable Cutie OLED gaming monitors on the market. Now, that

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comes with a few caveats. There are cheaper models out there, but they're all on sale. Whereas this, it's at the

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top already. It's only coming down from where it is at the juicy juicy price of

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$5.99. That's right. You heard it here

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first. Well, probably not. You probably saw something online, but it's a 1440p

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240 Hz QD OLED monitor. And right now,

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it's upside down. So, let me flip it over. It's going to be fine. No, no, no.

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What? It's good. As for what comes in the box, we've got our C5 power cable.

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And this guy just slides right into our handy dandy power brick together at

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last. Uh, and then we've got an HDMI cable, probably 2.1. Yeah, it says 8K 60

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on it. And then we've also got a DisplayPort cable. Press down, then pull. Hey,

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I've never seen instructions on how to actually uh take a DP cable out of a

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monitor, but that's what you do. You press down on the tab and then you pull it out. That's nifty. I've never seen

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that once in my life. Let's take a look at the stand. We've got the classic like

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V legs. Um I'm definitely becoming a

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bigger fan of just the solid square stand. I liked these at first because it

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meant that like up here is all empty, but I don't know, it just doesn't make

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sense. you end up with legs in the way and it's kind of annoying, but it's not

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too bad. They got like a big double column uh design here, so it's going to

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be nice and sturdy. You just pop that in and screw it down. Would you say you

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have a vendetta against V's? I

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wouldn't. Don't do it like I did. There's instructions on the box. I

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highly recommend you just follow those instructions for like how to open it.

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Ooh. Actually, this is a really good opportunity to show you the IO before I

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put the stand on. Being the bargain bin of monitors. Not to say that's a bad

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thing, but you just there's a lot of frills that you don't get when you're

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saving money on your display. For example, we have zero USB ports. So, if

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you wanted to hook up anything else to this, that's just not happening. It's

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literally just a display. And we've got

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power, two HDMI ports, DisplayPort, and

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audio. But if a lot of you don't care about those extra features, like extra

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USB ports or a more robust audio connection on your monitor, you can save

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some money. I've got to say, I really do

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like how thin these panels are. But it's

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really funny how, you know, you say, "Oh, it's so thin." And then you get this big control box. And then one thing

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I don't often see on gaming monitors is

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a little headphone holder. And it just flips up like that. Look, it's even got a little headphone symbol for you in

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case you were, you know, a little confused. One other kind of oddity is

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this guy. It looks like it's for cable management. I'm not 100% sure, but I

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don't know what else it would be used for because I am kind of noticing that I

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don't think there's a pass through anywhere for your cable. So, you're

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going to have to just go out and then kind of wrap around and then go through.

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Take that as you will. I don't think it's the end of the world. Um, and

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realistically, you can just put this thing on a monitor arm anyway. As for the stand itself, it's admittedly not

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the sturdiest one I've ever used. It is like a little wobbly and it feels

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slightly flimsy just at the very base. However, what do we have in terms of

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Okay. And then can we tilt? We can. Can

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it pivot? No, it can just do that like very minor pivot. And then let's check

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height adjustment. Wow, it's a monitor stand.

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But before I plug it in and try it, one thing I've got to complain about

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is Acer's naming schemes for their

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monitors, because you may have noticed that there are several Predator X27US,

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and they're all quite different. Um, for example, there's an 899 model that is

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like 4K 240 Hz OLED, and it's you don't

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know which one is which. This one has the designation uh all the way over here

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on the version number. So, it's an X27U,

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but then it's an X1 BM I I PHX, which is

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probably the longest monitor name I've ever seen in my entire life. Guys, don't

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name them all Predator X27U and then change it by like this is the X1 or this

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is what just change the names. I don't know. It's a really minor thing, but

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it's going to confuse people. Someone's going to go to the store and they're going to buy the wrong thing. Oh, and

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that's not to mention that X27U is just kind of their yearly uh product roll

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out. So, like there's old X27U. Do you know what they are? I don't. And you've

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got to check the stupid version number. Just put it on the box, but not in a

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sticker. Just like X27U X1. You have space. This could be There's plenty of

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room here. Even if this monitor is affordable and like a decent value, I

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don't like that. Okay, now that that rant's over, I can't wait to tell you guys about gaming on this monitor and

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now. Okay, let's uh check out the OSD. We've got brightness set to 100. Input

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is HDMI 2. Uh mode user. And then we've

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also got a bunch of picture options as

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per usual. HDR. Let's go set to off. No, no, no. HDR 1000 Max. Uh what else do we

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have? Color color modes. Oh, color spaces. There's a lot of modes. That's

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actually nice how you can change between like simp. That's not super common. We

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don't usually see a monitor offering you this many color modes. Um especially on

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something like SMTC and Ibu. Uh Rec 709,

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HDR, sRGB, those are pretty typical. DCI as well. Um but yeah, that's kind of

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nice. Uh of course, we're in HDR mode, so like gamma and color temp and all

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that is kind of just grayed out. We can't change anything. Um we're also

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currently set to 60 Hz, which I'll fix that in a moment. Uh but one thing

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that's really cool that I'm always a fan of is we have speakers. So, I'm going to

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turn them I'll go to 80. That's a pretty reasonable speaker

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volume. We haven't heard the bass or anything yet, but like just the

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ambiance, these are not

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bad. Okay, essentially zero bass, but I

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don't know if you were expecting that, and you probably shouldn't uh cuz it's

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just a computer monitor speaker, but those were fine. Like I could game on

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those speakers totally okay. And then hey, you want headphones, you plug them

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into the line out on the back and then you're good to go. And of course, Windows looks bad, but that's just

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Windows. I promise you when we look at some HDR content, this is definitely not

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the most color accurate display we have ever tested. Not even close. However, I

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would just like to take a moment to tell you that the level of color accuracy we

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are reaching today is so good that this

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thing being bad, it's still leagues

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ahead of any monitor or TV you've probably looked at as long as it's more

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than a year or two old. So, even though the numbers I'm going to tell you in a

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bit aren't crazy impressive, they're

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still like fine. They're totally as long as you're not like a display nerd or

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some colorist, they're fine. And the thing is this still looks really good.

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Like that green is probably off and that

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red is probably too red. It's it's kind of like you've got vivid mode on, but

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it's not even that bad. Like this is still really solid. Like unless I was

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testing color swatches, I would personally look at this monitor and be

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like, "Yeah, that looks pretty good." It might be a little oversaturated or the

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brightness might not be perfect in the right spots with the PQ EOTF curve and

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everything, but um this like this is

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going to kick the crap out of basically any other non OLED or QD OLED monitor

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you've looked at ever, unless you've looked at some very expensive mastering

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monitors. Like I've seen this hotel in person and it looks probably like that.

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Like I I don't I don't have it right in front of me, but yeah, that blue

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probably looks pretty close, if not close enough. You know, while display

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nerds and colorists are going to chase that perfect number for a long time,

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gaming monitors look so good. Now, as for text, yeah, there's going to be a

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bit of fringing. Uh, and it could look slightly better because you're only

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getting about 110 ppi, but you're still

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getting like 110 ppi. So, I think for the vast majority of you, this is going

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to be totally fine. This is crazy. This is making me want to upgrade my monitor.

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I've never I have not felt like I needed to. But it's also like it's not even

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like you said, it's not even like a really good QD OLED. It's just a cutie

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OLED. I know. And it's only like 600 B. Like there are other monitors that will

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go on sale that'll be cheaper than this, but like if you can get this one on

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sale, think about that. Think about that. But

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yeah, the reality is gaming monitors have just come so far in the past couple

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of years and prices have dropped. Like a monitor like this a couple years ago,

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well more like 3 or 4 years ago now I guess would have been like a couple grand or something. Like it's wild how

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inexpensive they are these days. Um we're running at 240 Hz. We are 60 FPS

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on our camera and I've got to say it feels great. We did measure latency and

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I think uh the lab measured um like4

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milliseconds of uh additional display latency which is pretty good. There is

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one kind of minor weird problem. We did also do latency testing at uh 120 Hz for

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all of you console gamers out here. Um and it does have more significantly

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more, but it's still only I think a couple of milliseconds of latency over

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theoretical perfect. And when theoretical perfect is like 4

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milliseconds, it's it's hardly noticeable. Like I can't notice 2

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milliseconds. Can you? I don't think so. I will say my only complaint so far is

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it does seem a tad overly bright or uh

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washed out. And I think that just has to do with our EOTF tracking. But man, it's

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still just really good. Overall, it's pretty solid. Like, it's definitely not

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the best monitor I've ever used, but it's also fairly inexpensive. I do have

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one final complaint, and it has to do

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with the SDR color accuracy. uh they

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claim that it's going to be under delta E2000 of two average and we tested

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slightly over that. And then in the out of the box mode, we tested closer to

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like a five average, which is not incredible. If you've been watching the

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channel for a while, uh you know that typically any of these new OLED or QD

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OLED monitors are going to be in the 1 to2 delta E2000 range, and they're going

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to get a lot better values at the delta E ITP measurements than average of 20.

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This is usually these days more like 5 to 10 is very good, but it's like it's

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$5.99 and if you buy it used or on sale, it's going to be even cheaper than that.

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I just don't know how else uh to explain that. Wait, as much as I might like the

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price on this Acer Predator monitor, LG has just announced their new tandem OLED

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stuff is finally coming to consumer monitors and it's only going to be $500.

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Allegedly, that's coming out in just a few months. So, if you thought this

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price was attractive, just wait. There's always better stuff on the

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horizon. Gaming monitors these days. And

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I know that 600 bucks is still a lot of money for a lot of people. And what I'm

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trying to say is that if you're stretching your budget a little bit, it

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might be worth it to stretch from 500 to 600 to get this guy, whereas you might

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not be able to afford to stretch from 500 to 7 or 800 to get one of the nicer

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cutie OLED models. And I don't think that's anything to be ashamed of. I

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think that this is a perfectly chromulent monitor that any gamer should

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be very happy to have. Thanks for watching ShortCircuit. This is the Acer

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Predator X27UX1. It's a good monitor for the

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price. And if you want to check out any other videos, uh I recently unboxed the

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AW 3425DW, which is the successor to my

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AW3423DW, which was the first QD OLED monitor that we tried on either LT or

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SC. The monitor.