in the old days I could just go to the store with x amount of dollars in my
hand till the sales rep I had amount of dollars x minus two then after some
upselling I'd walk out of the store having spent x amount on whatever
Samsung monitor fit my budget well thanks to Acer and LG my life has gotten
a lot more complicated lately with LG seriously upping their game and
delivering some amazing curved and ultrawide displays and Acer waking up to
the existence of the gaming Market in a focused Fierce manner well today's
ferocious gaming monitor is the Predator xb270hu from Acer and it might just be
the best I've ever
seen
now this isn't the first time Acer has blown me away with a gaming monitor
their xb280hk became my 4k monitor of
choice for gaming thanks to being the first 4K display to feature support for
g-sync a technology that eliminates the annoying screen tearing and that's
associated with uncapped frame rates and the stuttering and leg associated with
vsync for users of compatible NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards but I still had
some issues with it for one the 3840 X
2160 resolution is extraordinarily
difficult to drive in AAA games even for a high-end graphics card so you got to
factor in constant video card upgrades in the cost of your gaming setup and for
two while TN monitors have improved dramatically in the last couple of years
it's still a TN so that means lower contrast worse color performance and
lesser viewing angles compared to VA or IPS type panels so ultimately the
monitor that one the spot on my gaming desk was the ASUS Rog Swift pg278q which
fixed a couple of those problems well that changes today the XP 270 hu
delivers some absolutely jawdropping specs that will make it the
weapon of choice for just about any gamer it features a 27in
2560x1440 IPS panel with that g-sync
technology I mentioned before giving folks who are willing to trade some
response time and refresh rate for better visuals a chance to finally try
g-sync which oh hold on sorry let me
just put that away uh sorry so like I
was saying IPS lovers can trade response times and refresh rate to finally try
gsync okay for crying out loud sorry I got to take this just yeah what is
it I'm in the middle of filming this
what you're
me okay that was Acer there there is no
tradeoff the XB 270 hu is also the first
IPS 2560 by 1440 monitor that supports a
144 HZ refresh rate natively out of the
box that's on par with the TN based
pg278q with no overclocking Tom Foolery
required to get that performance and while pixel response times are a touch
higher than the top TN panels about 4 milliseconds versus 1 millisecond 3
milliseconds of response time is definitely a trade that I'll make for
the better experience of ips especially for only a
$20 price premium over its closest
g-sync supporting competitor so maybe the physical
overview will reveal some fatal flaw or something uh the
xb270hu features a rounded glossy B Bass
with an orange accent ring okay so it's not doing that well here so far connect
Ed to a stand with support for the full range of ergonomic adjustments tilt
swivel height adjust and pivot all right this just got a little more interesting
at the back we'll find the usual g-sync monitor IO so power and DisplayPort uh
this is a g-sync limitation so there's nothing Acer can really do about it
without implementing a full additional scaler like Ben Q did with the
xl2430t along with a usb3 hub with two ports underneath at the back and two on
the left hand side of the display and since we're moving in that direction
let's have a look at the front ooh marks
off here again Acer went and put a reasonably slim albeit not as Slim as
the pg278q bezel on here but they went
and made it glossy when will they learn
thankfully the panel itself is a really nice semi matte so kudos for that moving
on the onscreen display which can be accessed with the buttons at the bottom
right is fairly limited this is once again a g-sync issue with brightness
adjustment pixel response time adjustment that I'd recommend leaving on
normal some rudimentary color profiles and then a couple of cool things you can
put a very narrow refresh rate indicator on the left side of the screen so if
you're obsessive about that kind of thing you can keep an eye on it and
there's also the menu for ultra low motion blur a backlight strobing
technique that unfortunately can't be used at the same time as g-sync but does
have the extremely positive effect of significantly reducing the smear
appearance of moving objects on the screen the only caveats here are that
you're limited to 100 HZ which is still very noticeably better than 60 HZ by the
way and maximum screen brightness is significantly impacted by this setting
since it's effectively turning the backlight on and off many times per
second to simulate the way that CRTs worked by flashing an image versus
displaying and then holding an image on the screen until it updates so let's
talk about using this puppy then shall we well it's awesome I actually don't
really know what else to say about it uh g-sync has been and continues to be
awesome 1440p continues to be a sweet
spot for gamers who want more than 60 FPS without spending ludicrous amounts
of money on three or four-way graphics card configurations that deliver results
that are only sort of better in many cases as you'll see in this video here
but don't want to be stuck in the 1080p Stone Age and the IPS panel on this
thing is unlike any I've ever seen before you see the thing is that faster
refresh rates have been done but it's the pixel response times that have been
an issue for high refresh rate IPS monitors in the past so mouse cursor
movement or in-game movement would feel really responsive because the game
engine is getting more frequent updates but the onc screen image could often
look blurry and kind of rubbish because it just wasn't able to keep up not the
case even without ulmb so being able to
take advantage of g-sync the experience of gaming on the XP 278 hu is absolutely
fantastic okay hold on a minute here lonus there's got to be a catch Nothing
in life is free and even if you claim gaming in front of this monitor is
lights out amazing with very little perceptible motion blur no perceptible
input leg better image quality thanks to its srgb IPS panel Etc there's got to be
something all right well let's try then shall we if I had to come up with a
reason not to drop your other plans and buy this monitor right the second I
guess it would be this look how far we've come in the last couple of years
monitors are changing at a rate that we haven't seen in years and new
technologies like AMD freesync an open and lower cost competitor to gsync that
only works on AMD cards right now are only just emerging so if you're afraid
something better will come out very soon then this is a lot of money to spend on
a display but the other side of that coin is that this is a really amazing
monitor that I believe any gamer would be happy with the first no compromises
display that I've seen and the one that I'll be using for gaming until a 3440 by
1440 144 HZ IPS ultrawide equivalent
steps onto the playing field well done Acer well done which I guess brings us
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