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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 2 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 ultra wide 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 xB 270 hu from Acer and it might just be the best I've ever seen now this isn't the first time a star has blown me away with a gaming monitor there xb2 a thk 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 lag associated with vsync for users of compatible NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards but I still had some issues with it for one the 3840 by 2160 resolution is extraordinarily difficult to drive in triple-a gains even for a high-end graphics card so you got a factor in constant video card upgrades in the cost of your gaming setup and for - while TN monitors have improved dramatically in the last couple of years it's still a TN so that means lower contrast worst color performance and lesser viewing angles compared to VA or IPs type panels so ultimately the monitor that won the spot on my gaming desk was the asus rog swift PG 278 Q which fixed a couple of those problems well that changes today the xB 270 hu delivers some absolutely jaw-dropping specs that will make it the weapon of choice for just about any gamer it features a 27-inch 2560 by 1440 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 sorry so like I was saying IPS lovers can trade response times and refresh rate to finally try g-sync okay for crying out loud alright I gotta take this just yeah what is it I'm in the middle of filming this what you're me okay that was a sir there is no trade off the xB 270 hu is also the first IPS 2560 by 1440 monitor that supports a 144 Hertz refresh rate natively out of the box that's on par with the Tian based PG 2 7 8 Q with no overclocking tomfoolery 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 of the xB 278 xu features a rounded glossy thick base with an orange accent ring okay so it's not doing that well here so far connected to a stand with support for the full range of ergonomic adjustments tilt swivel height adjust and pivot alright this just got a little more interesting at the back we'll find the usual g-sync monitor i/o so power and DisplayPort 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 XL 2430 T along with the USB 3 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 I'll be it not as slim as the PG 270 q 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 on-screen display which can be accessed with the buttons at the bottom right is fairly limited this is once again AG 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 back light 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 smeary appearance of moving objects on the screen the only caveat here are that you're limited to 100 Hertz which is still very noticeably better than 60 Hertz by the way and the 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 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 weig 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 most cursor movement or in-game movement would feel really responsive because the game engine is getting more frequent updates but the on-screen image could often look blurry and kind of rubbish because it just wasn't able to keep up not the case even without you LMB so being able to take advantage of g-sync the experience of gaming on the XP 270 hu is absolutely fantastic ok hold on a minute here Linus 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 lag 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 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 and 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 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