compromises always compromises I'm so
sick and tired of compromises what if
someone just made a monitor that compromised nothing I want ultrawide I
want an IPS panel I want a high refresh rate I want high resolution I want the
works I want the whole works presents
and prizes and sweets and surprises and
is that really what I sounded like okay fair enough but this isn't a movie this
is real life I am not getting turned into a blueberry or drowned in chocolate
or whatever I am getting the Acer XR 341
cka a monitor that isn't perfect but boy
we are getting really really
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guys got to look at how everyone else does this you got your standard
corporate site product page with inoffensive color scheme then you need
to have a stylized subsite for your gaming products that communicates the
things that Gamers care about in a direct fashion I was blown away when the
single most interesting specific a of the XR 341 cka for me anyway wasn't on
the product page I mean to be clear the stuff that is on the product page is
pretty sick we're talking 34 in of gloriously curved ultrawide 21 by9
aspect ratio screen here at my ideal resolution of 3440 by 1440 so no scaling
required in Windows but much sharper looking than 1080p at this size a full
srgb color space capable LED back lit IPS panel with a 4 millisecond rated
response time perfect for gaming and content consumption DC backlight control
for zero Flicker and reduced eye fatigue and whoa adaptive sync AKA AMD free sync
if you go through the certification process is included over the display
port input so say goodbye to the tearing
associated with vsync off my friends now
hold on a minute lonus you're saying there's something cooler about this
monitor from a gaming persp perspective than the fact that it's the first curved
34in 1440p with free sync yes I am this
monitor runs at a maximum refresh rate of 75 htz and if you don't think that's
a big deal you're wrong the difference between 100 HZ and 144 htz is possible
but difficult for me to perceive by contrast and I've talked about this
recently on some of my gaming notebook videos the difference between 60 HZ and
75 HZ is is night and freaking day now
some of you will know that while I use an LG 34 u97 at work and I am such an
advocate for ultrawide that LG sent me a 3D printed action figure of myself
standing next to a bunch of ultrawide monitors I'm still running an R Swift
pg278 Q at home because for gaming the
color Fidelity and immersion tradeoff
has not yet been worth it to me to have to deal with 60 HZ refresh screen
tearing and relatively slow response
times that all changes today gaming on
this sucker is simply put freaking awesome would I recommend it to
professional Esports competitors no they're still going to want to be using
standard aspect ratios and are going to want every Edge they can get so bring on
the 144 HZ refresh rates and 1 millisecond response times but for folks
who game simply for enjoyment this is the best experience that I've had yet
much better than surround with those bezels in the way but I realized I've
gotten ahead of myself a little bit here I completely forgot to do an actual
overview of the monitor at the back we find buttloads of inputs two full-size
DisplayPort 1.2s and a mini with two HDMI 2.0 ports one of which is MHL
compatible a headphone jack and power for the external power brick and the
Uplink and four down links for the built-in USB 3.0 Hub round out the io
also at the back we discover that vase amount support is more than an
afterthought but you probably won't even need it because the monitor supports the
essential ergonomic adjustments tilt
and height adjust but there is some disappointing stuff back here too glossy
plastic never looks as good in person as it does on a product page and the way
the connectors stick straight out causes undue strain on them if you change the
height of your monitor not to mention that the top DisplayPort lock can't be
released without finding a skinny tool to help you these kinds of things should
have been caught at some point in the design process moving around to the
front the top and side bezels are thin
perfect but I'm really not a fan of the two-tone chin bar bezels should be like
children as unobtrusive as possible unless I have a specific reason to
interact with them which leads us to my next negative point the onscreen display
controls are among the worst I've ever encountered the buttons aren't labeled
they're mushy it requires three clicks to get into menu the only saving grace
here I think is that there's almost no real reason to go in here for most
people the default settings on the monitor normal overdrive DP 1.2 and HDMI
2.0 enabled uh low input lag mode and even the default color mode are all
pretty darn good but can you quantify
pretty darn good yes for the first time
ever I actually can thanks to my brand new i1 basic Pro 2 spectr photometer and
calman 5 Ultimate Software big thanks to those guys for providing this gear by
the way I can say that while the XR 341 cka doesn't quite achieve the 100%
coverage of the standard computer srgb color space that it claims it is damn
close at 99.4% and while our color cheer test
does reveal some deficiencies in orange and yellow accuracy if we throw out a
couple of outliers here almost everything is sitting in the Delta e of
four or less range with a Delta e of less than two considered to be basically
accurate grayscale performance looks pretty good to me as well with a bit too
much emphasis on Blues which is typical of all but the most high-end LED backlit
displays resulting in a cooler appearance and blacks getting crushed a
little bit but nothing too alarming on the subject of backlight there's some
bleed in the corners as seems to be typical of these curved monitors but
again nothing that I would consider detrimental to the experience of using
it though your mileage may vary as mine is an early engineering sample but I
guess that's sort of this monitor in a nutshell there is a lot of good here
with complaints that will not affect the usability dayto day and if you're
willing to Shell out it's admittedly very expensive asking price you may get
another happy surprise too using NVIDIA's display overclocking tool I was
able to get 85 Hertz on this puppy 85
Herz ultrawide 1440p be still my
fluttering heart only the lack of g-sync
prevents this from winning my coveted editor's Choice Award since NVIDIA
currently has a stronger offering at the
high end of their product stack where buyers of this monitor are more likely
to be shopping but we should see that remedy shortly if what I heard from a
little bird is anything to go on speaking of
birds uh Crunchyroll uh is a site created by
anime fans four anime fans they offer the most current episodes of new shows
straight from Japan like Koko's basketball 3 and JoJo's Bizarre
Adventure I'm really going to have to change that script at some point because
at some point those aren't going to be like the newest shows and they have a
large collection of the most popular anime series like Naruto and one piece
all of the content on their site is professionally subtitled and if you head over to crunchyroll.com Linus Linked In
the video description you can get 30 days of Crunchyroll premium for free
that means new shows within hours of airing straight from Japan with
professional subtitling 1080p streaming being able to stream anywhere on a
variety of devices like your phone tablet or game console and the best part
is if you decide you like premium then all you have to do is pay $6.95 a month
to continue it so head over to crunchyroll.com Linus to check them out
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