acer 27 Inch 4k IPS Monitor With 90w USB-C

I absolutely loved this monitor for the time I used it. First of all, the stand is amazing; highly adjustable in every direction you could thing of and feels very sturdy. The monitor itself looks great, very fast response time, 75hz refresh rate and large surface make it a great contender for gaming as well as any other professional task. HOWEVER, mine stopped working after a little more than two years. It was still under warranty from acer and so they offered to repair it for free, I just had to ship it to them. I had thrown out my box, and with a new box to ship in and protective packaging + shipping I would have paid over 150$ just to get it repaired. I decided to buy a new one instead… Might just be my unit, but be weary. That aside, this thing was a beast. Would recommend (if you’re willing to gamble)

I bought two of these monitors to replace my old 27″ 60hz BenQ panels that I’ve had for years, because they didn’t mesh well with my newer LG 34UM69G-B ultrawide. I game on these monitors, and I needed something that matched the same specs: IPS, 1ms response, FreeSync, Display Port, 75hz (mixing refresh rates can cause some weird things with Windows, like if you’re watching a video on one monitor while gaming on another, it can cause the game to stutter and lose FPS regularly) as my ultrawide. The price is also a huge plus. Swapping to these has resolved my issues. Games on the ultrawide no longer stutter and drop FPS while watching a stream or YT video on another monitor, and the games that I span across all monitors are now fluid on all monitors with no weird hitching.

Height adjustable stand was also a must. My setup has different uses, normal gaming, and sim racing. I needed to be able to lower and raise all my monitors depending on what I’m doing at the time. I previously used a triple monitor VESA stand to hold all of my monitors, but it was bolted to it’s height, and in order to change it I had to remove the monitors, unbolt it, adjust it, bolt it back together, put the monitors back on. That was just too much work, so in order to simplify things I decided having each monitor on it’s own stand that they could easily be moved. These raise and lower very easily, and hold their height with no issue.

I’ve read a lot of reviews complaining about the screen door effect. That’s something you’re going to get with this resolution at this size. The individual pixels are larger than a 1440p or 4k panel, so if you look close enough you can see those individual pixels. I personally don’t have a problem with this, sure I can see it if I get close enough to the monitor, but at a foot away or more, it disappears. If you’re using your monitor that close, you may want to change how you do things.

Calibrating the monitors to match my ultrawide did take some work, out of the box the settings were pretty bad. I used a combination of getting it as close as I could with the monitor settings, then fine-tuned it in the Nvidia Control Panel. This would be easier to dial in with a screen calibration tool, but I was able to match them all pretty close just by eyeballing it. Both monitors match at the same settings, so that was nice, being able to adjust one and simply copying the settings to the other. No fussing around trying to fine-tune them individually.

The settings I settled on:

Brightness – 100
Contrast – 50
Black Boost – 0
Blue Light – Off
ACM – Off
Super Sharpness – Off

Gamma – 2.4
Color Temp – User
R Gain – 55
G Gain – 50
B Gain – 80 (I prefer a cooler, whiter image)
All Bias – 50

I have FreeSync enabled on all monitors, and it’s working fine with a 2070 Super. I’m also using Display Port on all monitors.

Nvidia Color Settings:

Use Nvidia Settings – Enabled
Settings were done under All Channels, I didn’t have the need to fine tune individual channels.
Brightness – 62%
Contrast – 0%
Gamma – 0.80
Digital Vibrance – 75%

Conclusion: These monitors are a steal for the price. It has great specs, and once you tune it, a pretty good picture (I can’t speak for professional work, but if that’s your goal you’re probably looking for something more high-end than this with better color accuracy). Add to it that you get a good height adjustable stand, with the ability to go portrait, and this is a real winner. For a gaming/general use/media consumption monitor, you can’t really go wrong with this one.

I picked up two of these for a work from home system. I prefer to run my monitors in vertical mode to make reading documents easier, and wanted displays that would work in that orientation. These did not disappoint. The default stand is a sturdy metal base and pole, very simple to attach. The mount is a simple VESA click-in (with 100mm holes optional). The stand can rotate to portrait or reverse portrait mode, and the monitors run well in that orientation. The fonts are crisp, and because of the extra display size and slightly lower resolution, they’re easy to read. The display is bright, the OSD menu is rather simple to use once you get the hang of using the little joystick (and realize you can press it down as a click action), and the functions all make sense.

Cons:
The speakers on these are pretty much useless. At 100% they’re barely audible, and project out from the bottom of the screen in horizontal mode. They’re on and at 70% by default, even when nothing is plugged in. If you use a display only interface (VGA/DPort), and there’s no audio plugged in, the monitor will buzz or humm occasionally. You can mute it in the menu, but honestly it should default to mute if there’s no audio plugged in.

On one of the two monitors I got, the bottom right corner has a slight darker/bluish tint to it, almost like something is pressing on the screen lightly. It’s a super minor defect, so I’m ignoring it for now, and hoping it’s not a sign of something more going wrong with it.

As another review noted, the panel doesn’t reach the edge of the display, leaving about 1/4″ around the top/sides, despite the bezel being super thin. It’s better then the last monitor pair I had, which had 1/2″ bezel all around, but it’s still there. Not unexpected, thanks to the review here, but still disappointing.

There is also a significant color delta between the two monitors, depending on it you use VGA, DPort or HDMI for input. If you change input type, you effectively have to re-color-balance the display again. Not the worst, and they give you three “modes” to save color settings into (probably just for this), but still annoying.

Me gusta mucho, su resolución, nitidez, es ideal para el trabajo constante y video juegos.

Perfect size and adjustable height. Screen colours are vibrant and picture is crisp & sharp. Has a hook to keep cords tidy, base doesn’t take up much room. Good value.