Recommendations on 1440p monitors.

EVerybody here seems to prefer the acer preditor x34 but that is a 34" monitor.

Is that rig for gaming?

for 27" the acer XB271HU comes highly recommended

Edited by DST4ME - 30 Aug 2016 at 9:15am

Ok so that is why you have 32GB of ram and that setup of hdds then, for vr.

ok can I recommend this to you by any chance?

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Edited by DST4ME - 30 Aug 2016 at 11:08am

Sorry I meant VM but I typed VR.

didn't realize you had already ordered.

the XB271HU is great monitor for gaming you gonna have tough time finding one that is better.

You can always adjust the text size.

Our pleasure Credit for the monitor recommendations goes to db188

Be sure to connect it via dp port.

Edited by DST4ME - 30 Aug 2016 at 3:21pm

No go with Fry's. That monitor appears to be out of stock everywhere. Wonder if they are moving to a newer model? Anyway,think I'll just keep an eye on Amazon for them to come back into stock. Thank you both for the help.

Yea today's was a good day Amazon is shipping my monitor and I went to stage 5 at DS

Nice looks like we both should get our monitors and PC's around the same time. That's the only reason I can handle the wait I don't currently have a usable monitor

The planets are coming into alignment.

Great deal money back new monitor PC on the way what more could you ask for.

coming in late here, but my Acer Pred XB271HU is still providing me with great visuals.  i just resize my UI in the games i play to account for 47 years old eyes

i set the over drive setting to normal, didn't oc-just kept it at the native 144Hz refresh.  i adjusted the rgb color, brightness, contrast and gamma settings to my liking.  did not calibrate (no tools).  


Edited by db188 - 04 Sep 2016 at 3:39am

Everyone here does not prefer the Acer monitor. In fact, the first gen x34 predator monitor was so bad, I'll probably never buy a high performance Acer monitor for gaming.

For standard 1440p, I loved my PG278Q from ASUS. I run that as a secondary monitor now, since I was finally about to get my PG348Q... which turns out curved 3440x1440 is currently my most favorite resolution to game on. I thought the curved screen would be a little gimmicky, and it kind of is, but it still add's a slightly nice/noticeable immersion aspect to the gaming.

Yes and no Hoze928, in a way you are correct but there are ways to combat that.

For example in the case of the monitors we can do some homework, 1. we look at the panel of the monitor, 2. we look refresh rate of the monitor, 3. we check review on tftcentral and look and see what number they came up with as far as other aspects of the monitor. 4. we look at as many review from people as we can we also ask people here on the forums that own the monitor.

Now when you read reviews its important to not just look at overall but look at each individual review and see what they say, I like to look at the one star and 2 star reviews, every single one, I'm looking to see what each person complains about, and I'm also looking for a pattern, aka more then 3 to 5 people that have the same complaint about the product, if I can find a pattern then I'm out. If I see over 13% negative reviews and they are not from DOA, then I'm out.

If you look at the reviews of both monitors here (asus vs acer) you will see the acer XB271HU has 6% negative reviews (4 people out of 92), when you look at the asus PG278Q you see it has a 22% negative review (64 out of 290) and there is a quality issue pattern. The fact that the acer is also consistently out of stock combined with the low negative reviews leads me to put my money on the acer, and let me tell you I'm no acer fan, but that is from long time ago.

the PG348Q is newer so it does not have many reviews yet so I would wait and see, meller says its good so it has that going for it, but its not native 100hz, If I'm going for faster refresh rate then I'm going for native 120/144Hz, so not my cup of tea.

So in short for me if I have to decide which monitor I go with, I would go with the acer based on those facts, and the fact that I hate asus customer service.

to each his own but don't think its a complete gamble, it does not have to be if you take the time to look around.

you can see the reviews I pointed to here:

asus review



Acer review



to each his own

Edited by DST4ME - 05 Sep 2016 at 4:36am

Great then you are all set

let us know how you like it after proper testing