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so it's been really windy around here and if I start to sound a little raspy or just a little like then I apologize it's allergies focus on germs but anyway you guys recall early last week I did a video about the Acer predator X 34 34 inch ultra wide 21 by 9 IPS 100 megahertz gaming panel and I switched my entire config to just this one panel so today we're going to talk about this panel what it's been like going back down to a single panel and what this thing is like for gaming is after all that's who this thing is being touted towards a $1300 gaming panel holy hell this thing is pricey I want to thank today's sponsor harrys.com Harry's is the official raiser of the Movember foundation making this arrangement very very easy for me now not only am i passionate about the Movember foundation bringing awareness to men's health and testicular cancer and trust me you save the testes they're kind of important but it has actually been a pleasure using the Harry's razor and I got to tell you right now the amount of stuff that you get for 15 bucks in there Truman set or their starter pack is absolutely crazy I mean you get shaving cream it smells really good you get a razor handle a spare razor head the value is absolutely amazing but anyway look in the description of this video and you will see a link make sure that you put in my promo code two cents in the promo box at checkout and you can say five dollars off your first order and considering everything that you see here only cost fifteen bucks to begin with you're gonna get all this for $10 and let me tell you I challenge anyone to get that kind of a deal at any sort of big-box brands as just simply not gonna happen but anyway guys thanks Harry's comm once again for sponsoring today's video and bringing awareness to men's health and their involvement in the Movember foundation that to me speaks volumes okay here she is in all her glory and I have to admit I have already made a mistake I mounted this thing on my visa articulating arm immediately because I liked the monitor to look like it's floating and such which means I took off the base which means the base is included in this video but I can't tell you at least before we get started with the panel quality that the bass is amongst the highest quality of any monitor I've ever used solid metal it's got five degrees of tilt up thirty five degrees of tilt down and it's got just an amazing quality too it's got built-in cable management it's all metal who could ask for more but anyway I hope the pictures I put up here suffice because I've already packed away the base like in storage yeah that's how sure that's how sure I was I wasn't taking this monitor down but obviously that brings us to point number one which is the fact that this thing is vase amount to bolon it's 100 by 100 base amount is pretty standard and if you guys want know what arm I'm using with this then click here on the screen or in the description I'll put a link to the video as well about the monoprice arm that I am using to keep things going right here it's actually a dual monitor arm which I took one of the arms off and I'm just using it for this big guy now there's a lot of things we could talk about with this panel and the fact that it's IPS was kind of a turn-off to me in the beginning in fact NVIDIA sent me this panel not Acer and the reason why Nvidia sent it was because it's got their G sync technology and I thought to myself well when they asked me if I want to check out that Acer panel that everyone's talking about I thought we were talking about the 34 40 by 1440 P 144 Hertz gaming panel which is not an IPS and I was a little disappointed when I heard it was IPs because typically IPS panels have slow response time they're all about color accuracy not so much about speed but that has all changed right here now let's let's go ahead and get some of the specs stuff out of the way you know some of you guys get completely like you know wet over specs and stuff of MIT I kind of do the same thing but anyway this panel here is a 34 inch diagonal viewable q HD 34 40 by 1440 P curved monitor now the curve is you know a lot of people like that curve that's dumb but I will admit it has been nice to look at it really has been but anyway it is an IPS panel it's an LED LCD TFT display but it gives you a hundred and seventy-eight degrees of viewing angle from all sides and that's one of the things that makes IPS really nice compared to say TN panel is that you don't get any of that color shift whatsoever it is accurate from all of the viewing angles that you could possibly look at this thing from now it does feature a 4 millisecond response time now some people are going to look that and go oh my god that is so freaking slow and the only reason they're going to say that is because there are panels out there like the Swift which feature 1 millisecond response time but if you look at the average response time of IPS panels 4 milliseconds is incredibly fast and in fact I have not noticed any input like whatsoever from the 4 milliseconds I personally feel that anything under 5 is perfectly fine especially when it comes to shooters I play like 99% shooters and I don't have any issues whatsoever I don't even notice it so that's kind of a big deal if shooters are not noticeable in the response time no other game is going to be noticeable either now when it comes to the refresh rate the spec sheet says this is a 60 Hertz panel although they advertise it as overclockable to a hundred Hertz that's actually a big deal now coming down from 144 Hertz panel losing 44 frames per second through J sync technology even with that frame pacing and frame interval you would think that that would be really noticeable but it's actually more noticeable going from 60 to 100 than it is going from 100 244 which means go ahead and cube that typical internet argument of well the human eye can only see 24 frames per second anyway which is why movies are in 24 frames per second bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla doesn't really matter everyone's eye is going to perceive frame rates a little bit differently not happen to feel that I'm a bit sensitive when it comes to frame rates and I noticed the stutters and the slight interval gaps and missed timings where different frames are rendering at different intervals that's where g-sync comes in so you've got an IPS panel this overclockable to a hundred Hertz and it's I you know it's IPS the color accuracy is amazing a hundred percent srgb is what they they claim but it looks freakin amazing and I hope my videos are going to look better too because I've got a good IPS panel here now before we talk about gaming there's a couple other specs to put on here mostly because they're just comical for instance the contrast ratio on this thing is one hundred million to warm of course that's dynamic you know it's really realistically going to be a hell of a lot lower than that once you have ambient light going on but I digress it's going to anti-glare coating on the scree you're not going to be looking at your own reflection or backlighting in fact I've got these soft boxes and some can lights going there is no reflection whatsoever on this screen and that's a huge deal but you're also getting nice colors with a flat what's technically a matte screen which tends to make colors look more washed out but that's not the case here which is actually really really good but it's got a 4 port USB 3.0 hub built into it which unfortunately the cord that comes with it is too short to reach from where my monitor is to the PC right next to it by using a path where the cable doesn't show so you might have to get a longer USB 3.0 cable if you want to actually use that hub one of the things that I really like about it those effected it's got this under panel lighting which is adjustable five different colors and it's kind of funny because three of those colors obviously are red green and blue but then it also has a gold and it has white so it's kind of unfortunate that you know you don't you don't get full RGB support on the color but it's got some different modes to it just like keyboards gonna breathing mode and sort of a nitrite or like sweeping mode and all that kind of stuff so it's going to give you really nice exit lighting to your man cave or your desk or your computer space or whatever which is a nice little bonus not necessarily a selling feature but definitely a nice bonus but of course the biggest selling point on this is the fact that it's overclockable to a hundred Hertz now here's the thing I find a little bit confusing you don't do it through a custom resolution which you typically would do when you overclock a panel you actually do it through the settings which are all handled right here underneath the monitor and then you just simply go into the refresh rate of the panel and set it to a hundred now doing that was pretty much plug-and-play set it to a hundred sometimes get the plug unplug the DP cable and plug it back in to make it recognize sometimes it could crash or need a reboot but what's really weird is it's been so solid for me at 100 Hertz I don't understand why they don't just ship it at 100 Hertz I don't know what the circumstances would be that would make it not work at 100 Hertz of course gaming on a 21 by 9 aspect ratio actually took more dimension real quick one of the reasons why we call it 21 by 9 and not 7 by 3 is the fact that typically the numbers get bigger as they indicate whether or not the monitor is wider or larger for instance if we called 7 by + 3 which do you think is bigger four by three seven by three or sixteen by nine once you kind of think sixteen by nine is bigger than seven by 3 because just your natural instinct is to think that the bigger number is better kind of like what people are going through right now with x99 and z170 but anyway 21 by 9 panels are amazing to game on because they make you feel like you've got more immersion more more field of view to play with and it's kind of like having a surround setup without dealing with multiple panels obviously it's not as wide as say three panels but it's pretty damn wide as you can see right here compared to my hand this thing is pretty wide it's not really picking up on the camera how wide it really is but you get much more field of view to play with and that is a big deal for things like FPS shooters and MMOs and things like that you can see more of the ground you can see what's what's going on in the game you just feel more visible which is a big deal now one of the things though to keep in mind is it's going to depend on whether or not the gaming developer even includes 21 by 9 aspect ratio in their resolution settings most of the time it's not a problem and ultra-wide panels have been around long enough to where most game developers have either started coding for it or patched their games to support it however there are brand new titles that still aren't doing that for instance fallout 4 if you playing fallout 4 and you have an ultra-wide panel you've probably already realized that the only way to get 21 by 9 aspect ratio to actually fill the screen is to go into the ini file and put in a custom resolution which then begs the question why do the developers have fallout 4 simply not add the feature in there when all you're doing is going to the ini file and telling it what resolution to run at couldn't they have simply made that a drop-down anyway I guess that's more of a fallout 4 complaint not a panel complaint so I'll digress again but playing games like FPS shooters or even the new Star Wars Battlefront which I've been playing a bit of the 4 millisecond response time is not a problem some might think that that's slow because of the 1 millisecond panels out there however that has not bothered me one bit I haven't even noticed it and 100 megahertz speed on this again as I said earlier I don't notice the difference between 100 and 144 it's perfectly smooth for me 60 Hertz can't do it after going to 140 for 60 Hertz just looks even with g-sync very very choppy to me even though the frame interval is perfect it just motion and turning seems very be to me I'm very used to this it's like looking at that you know true motion upscaling that you see on TV panels and stuff when it comes to editing I've actually had a very nice time editing on this I don't have to fill up the screen with my workflow I can simply put part of the screen as my workflow and then have part of the screen to where I can put my folders and things and it hasn't been that big of a deal to me going from the four panels down to this guy has been very easy it's a very easy transition but the best thing to do is go down to your local computer store and hopefully they've got one on display make sure you guys go and check it out that's really the only way you're going to know if this is something that you like now the price of this thing is pretty fucking high at about $1,300 MSRP you're going to see prices vary it's going to probably come down quickly $1,300 is more than a lot of people are spending on their entire system and I certainly wouldn't recommend putting a $1,300 panel like this on a lesser expensive system because you are going to need some horsepower to run this puppy considering 13 or 34 40 by 1440 is not a whole lot smaller than 4k in fact you've got almost the horizontal pixels of 4k and not quite the vertical pixels of 4k but it's close so it's something to keep in mind you need some good graphics to run this thing if you want high settings I think it's awesome but again for the price it better be for the price it better this thing better have breakfast ready for me in the morning damn it feel like I'm missing out on something if it doesn't but there it is guys tell me what panels you're using obviously the qHD ultra wide is a very niche very small percentage of the gamers that are out there a lot of people aren't into it I wasn't either but now that I'm using it gotten used to it and I'm not sure I could go back to a 16 by 9 I keep spoiling things for me or at least the company's sending me this crap is spoiling it for me god I think it's time to quit quit YouTube just kidding I'm not quitting but I hope you guys have enjoyed today's video give me a shout on Twitter if you guys have any questions about this panel I'd like to answer any questions you might have I know this video was a bit longer but there was a lot to talk about with this panel I'm his face it is this is like the panel that everyone is talking about right now so I figured I'd give you guys as much information as I could without you getting to get hands-on don't even think about getting hands-on you're not allowed in here my space this is off-limits all right guys I'm gonna turn around play some games after I edit this video I think anyway see you guys next time thanks for watching