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compromises always compromises I'm so sick and tired of compromises what if someone just made a monitor that compromised nothing I want ultra wide I want an IPS panel I want a high refresh rate I want high resolution I want the works I want the whole works presents and prizes and sweets and surprise isn't that really what I sounded like okay fair enough but this isn't a movie this is real life I am NOT getting turned into a blueberry or drown in chocolate or whatever I am getting the Acer XR 341 CK a am under that isn't perfect but hoo boy we are getting really really close Corsair delivers real neck or nothing with their new strafe mechanical keyboard featuring genuine German made cherry MX key switches click on the spot right here to learn more a sir you guys going to look at how everyone else does this you got your standard corporate site product page with inoffensive color scheme then you need to have a stylized sub site for your gaming products that communicates the things that gamers care about inter direct fashion I was blown away when the single most interesting specification of the XR 341 CK a for me anyway wasn't on the product page I mean to be clear the stuff that is on the product page is pretty sick we're talking thirty four inches of gloriously curved ultra wide 21 by 9 aspect ratio screen here at my ideal resolution of 34 40 by 1440 so no scaling required in Windows but much sharper looking than 1080p at this size a full sRGB color space capable LED backlit IPS panel with a 4 millisecond rated response time perfect for gaming and content consumption DC backlight control for zero flicker and reduced eye fatigue and whoa adaptive sync aka AMD freesync if you go through the certification process is included over the DisplayPort input so say goodbye to the tearing associated with vsync off my friends now hold on a minute Linus you're saying there's something cooler about this monitor from a gaming perspective than the fact that it's the first curved 34 inch 1440p with free sync yes I am this monitor runs at a maximum refresh rate of 75 Hertz and if you don't think that's a big deal you're wrong the difference between a hundred Hertz and 144 Hertz is possible but difficult for me to perceive by contrast and I've talked about this recently on some of my gaming notebook videos the difference between 60 Hertz and 75 Hertz is night and freakin day now some of you will know that while I use an LG 34 you see 97 at work and I I'm such an advocate for ultra-wide that LG sent me a 3d printed action figure of myself standing next to a bunch of ultra wide monitors I'm still running in rog swift PG - 7 8 Q at home because for gaming the color fidelity and immersion trade-off has not yet been worth it to me to have to deal with 60 Hertz refresh screen tearing and relatively slow response times that all changes today gaming on this sucker is simply put freaking awesome would I recommend it to professional eSports competitors no they're still going to want to be using standard aspect ratios and are going to want every edge they can get so bring on the 144 Hertz refresh rates and one millisecond response times but for folks who gain simply for enjoyment this is the best experience that I've had yet much better than surround with those bezels in the way but I realize I've gotten ahead of myself a little bit here I completely forgot to do an actual overview of the monitor at the back we find but loads of inputs to full size DisplayPort 1.2 Zanda mini with two HDMI 2.0 ports one of which is MHL compatible a headphone jack and power for the external power brick and the uplink and four down links for the built-in USB 3.0 hub round out the i/o also at the back we discover that vase amount support is more than an afterthought but you probably won't even need it because the monitor supports the essential organ AMA key justments tilt and height adjust but there is some disappointing stuff back here - glossy plastic never looks as good in person as it does on a product page and the way the connectors stick straight out causes undue strain on them if you change the height of your monitor not to mention that the top DisplayPort lock can't be released without finding a skinny tool to help you these kinds of things should have been caught at some point in the design process moving around to the front the top and side bezels are thin perfect but I'm really not a fan of the two-tone chin bar bezel should be like children as unobtrusive as possible unless I have a specific reason to interact with them which leads us to my next negative point the on-screen display controls are among the worst I've ever encountered the buttons aren't labeled they're mushy it requires three clicks to get into the menu the only saving grace here I think is that there's almost no real reason to go in here for most people the default settings on the monitor normal overdrive DP 1.2 in HDMI 2.0 enabled low input lag mode and even the default color mode are all pretty darn good but can you quantify pretty darn good yes for the first time ever I actually can thanks to my brand-new i1 basic protune spectrophotometer and Cal 9 5 ultimate software big thanks to those guys for providing this gear by the way I can say that while the XR 3 41 CKA doesn't quite achieve the 100% coverage of the standard computer sRGB color space that it claims it is damn close at 99.4% and while our color checker test does reveal some deficiencies in orange and yellow accuracy if we throw out a couple of outliers here almost everything is sitting in the delta e of 4 or less range with a delta e of less than 2 considered to be basically accurate greyscale performance looks pretty good to me as well with a bit too much emphasis on blues which is typical of all but the most high-end LED backlit displays resulting in a cooler appearance and blacks getting crushed a little bit but nothing too alarming on the subject of backlight there's some bleed in the corners as seems to be typical of these curved monitors but again nothing that I would consider detrimental to the experience of using it though your mileage may vary as mine is an early engineering sample but I guess that's sort of this monitor in a nutshell there is a lot of good here with complaints that will not affect the usability day to day and if you're willing to shell out its admittedly very expensive asking price you may get another happy surprise to using invidious display overclocking tool I was able to get 85 Hertz on this puppy 85 Hertz ultra wide 1440p be still my fluttering heart only the lack of g-sync prevents this from when my coveted Editors Choice Awards since Nvidia currently has a stronger offering at the high end of their product stack where buyers of this monitor are more likely to be shopping but we should see that remedied shortly if what I heard from a little bird is anything to go on speaking of birds crunchyroll but it's a site created by anime fans for anime fans they offer the most current episodes of new shows straight from Japan like Kuroko's basketball 3 and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure I'm really going to have to change that script at some point because at some point those aren't going to be like the new shows and they have a large collection of the most popular anime series like Naruto in one piece all of the content on their site is professionally subtitled and if you head over to crunchyroll.com slash Lynas linked in the video description you can get 30 days of crunchyroll premium for free that means new shows within hours of airing straight from Japan with professional subtitling 1080p streaming being able to stream anywhere on a variety of devices like your phone tablet or game console and the best part is if you decide you like premium then all you have to do is pay 695 a month to continue it so head over to crunchyroll.com slash Lynas to check them out thanks for watching guys if you disliked this video I think you know what to do but if you liked it then please do press that like button consider giving us a contribution through our forum maybe change your amazon bookmark to one with our affiliate code we have instructions on how to do that in the little cards and the eye up there so that kind of helps us out a lot I kind of lost track of what I'm talking about so now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so click that little button in the top right corner there to check out a pretty sick video where I build a computer inside a mini-fridge whoo see you next time