when I tweeted a picture of just the box of the Acer b326 HK I was surprised to
see that I had responses right away from folks telling me that they were already
sitting with a finger on the trigger waiting for my review to let them know
if it was good or not and they were planning to buy it however it happened
Acer has some hype around their 4K monitors these days oh and by the way
for the gamers out there we've got an AMD value 4K gaming rig build blog
coming up that investigates just how hard it is to drive mainstream and
competitive games at this resolution so don't miss that or this General use
review of what I think is the 4k monitor
that a lot of people have been waiting
for ensure Swift Victory with Corsair's highly responsive lightweight gaming
mouse the saber RGB click now to learn more 4K non-tn monitors like the PQ 321
Q from ASUS have been available for over a year now but that one even at half of
its introductory price is $1,500 and a two tile display to boot
not the most elegant solution especially for gamers and UHD TN monitors while
available at great prices like $600 is
and in some cases I've actually got reviews of a few interesting ones here
here and here offering very competitive performance for TN monitors are still TN
monitors so a lot of you have been waiting for an IPS s 4k monitor with the
improved text readability viewing angles and color Fidelity that comes with that
well here's a pretty darn impressive looking option let's take a run at the
physical overview and specs of the b326 HK shall we the stand is actually
surprisingly solid considering it has an 8 kilo 32in panel sitting on top of it
and features swivel tilt and height adjust but no pivot although that's
pretty uncommon on a monitor of this size the base has a textured surface
finish actually confused me until I started absentmindedly piling things on
it and I noticed that they didn't roll off touche Acer and it also features
Acer's trademark paperclip magnet thing
if you don't like the stand though the panel's got Vasa compatible mounting holes at the back so you can use a third
party option or wall mount the sucker since we're looking at the back we might
as well have a quick look at the io aside from a power input the Uplink and
two of the ports for the built-in USB 3 Hub the other two are on the left side
by the way and a headphone pass through would normally expect to see a display
port input and an HDMI input or maybe two but instead I was pleasantly
surprised you get HDMI with MHL full-size DisplayPort mini DisplayPort
great for hooking up your laptop without any adapters and what dual link DVI it
only supports running at up to 30 HZ without manual overrides at 4K but it's
a handy thing to have in a pinch for older computers Acer could have knocked
my socks completely off with better outof thebox support for waking from
sleep on a Mac and 60 HZ Ultra HD HDMI
2.0 but this is still a really strong offering onto the panel itself what a
pleasure this thing is to use at a pixel density of 137 PPI about 27% more than a
27in 1440p monitor it is amazing what a
difference a nice high contrast panel makes to the usability of this product
compared to other UHD monitors that I've tried the extra four diagonal inches is
definitely helpful most of what I've used is in the 27in size range but I was
still shocked to find myself actually able to use this Beast without scaling
quite comfortably in Windows 7 and based on this new egg review it looks like I'm
not the only one now my eyes are pretty good but they're not perfect so it seems
like the nearly imperceptible IPS Glow Higher contrast even when viewing at an
angle something that's bound to happen more often than you'd think with a display this large and flicker-free
backlight helps enormously when reading
or working on it it's not perfect though mine did have a bit of a hot spot of
backlight bleed in the bottom right corner although it's the kind of thing
that I only noticed because I went looking for it so I could tell you guys
about it and there is a little bit of a bluish color shift at more extreme
angles if you move horizontally again though not something I noticed using the
monitor like a normal person speak speaking of using the monitor like a
normal person I do have some thoughts on the truly not very normal 32in monitor
size in general the last time I used something this big as a daily driver was
the BenQ BL 3200 PT a VA
2560x1440 Affair that was a compelling offering at the time if you felt like
you wanted the pixel density of a 24in 1080p monitor but much much larger
Brandon uses it everyday for video editing and loves it but that's not for
me I don't find such a large panel particularly comfortable to use I mean
you really need to move your head to look from one corner to the opposite one
so for me the only way to justify such a large screen would be if I get more
screen real estate to spread things out something that can't be achieved if you
scale screen elements within your applications or Windows itself
especially given how poorly all of that stuff works so that is what stood out to
me about using the b326 h K the legitimate benefit of using it more
sharpness is nice and once in a while I do catch myself sitting in front of the
217 PPI 5K iMac retina that I've been
using lately marveling at how fine the image is but from a productivity
perspective nothing beats firing up an awesome window management app like
display Fusion or Aqua snap and spreading out your work over an immense
area so you can see more at once something this panel is the first to
allow me to do at 4K I really really
like this monitor but it could still improve the onscreen display isn't great
to navigate and while it offers Sixaxis color adjustments for the custom picture
profile srgb mode for designers who want accuracy Above All Else and reasonably
robust picture in picture in picture by picture functionality it's a little
tedious to manually select an input instead of just waiting for the autod
detect to cycle through them and there's no control over pixel overdrive
something that many game ERS like to be able to adjust the good news is that
compared to other IPS monitors that I've used in the past the default setting for
the b326 HK for Pixel overdrive is actually really solid with almost no
visible overdrive artifacts and very minimal motion blur or ghost Trails
behind moving objects it's still a 60 HZ
display though and going from the 144 HZ Rog Swift that I've been using on my
gaming rig was a bit of a kick in the teeth but after grounding Myself by
throwing an older 60 HZ monitor on my desk for a more fair comparison I'm
perfectly happy with the responsiveness of the b326 HK for gaming even though I
couldn't find my stupid Leo Bodner thing to actually measure it which leaves us
with just the conclusion should you buy this
monitor I still have the same personal feelings that I've had for a while now
about 21 by9 monitors and I'm not going to rehash all of that here but for me
the answer is not quite but not everyone
has any desire for an ultrawide and if you want Ultra HD for more seamless
support in applications and games Pixel Perfect playback of UHD video content or
any of the other numerous reasons that you might prefer it this monitor is a
great choice unless you're a gamer maybe
well hold the phone lus I thought you said that its gaming performance was
perfectly happiness inducing or something along those lines I did and it
is so I need to give kudos to Acer for
making one seriously kick display at a great price but Gamers need to see
what's around the corner what's going to be announced with free sync or g-sync
support in the coming weeks before they can make a properly educated decision on
whether or not this is the UHD monitor of choice even if right now it actually
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