For the beyond years the Acer Predator X34 has remained one of the satisfactory gaming video display units available on the market. I've been so glad with it given that release that that I've saved it as my private reveal for both gaming and video manufacturing. I love the combination of a 34-inch 21:9 3440 x 1440 show with a a hundred Hz maximum refresh charge, G-Sync, or even fantastic colour accuracy for a gaming screen.

But this new display from Acer, an upgraded model of the X34, is even higher in almost every manner. It’s referred to as the Predator X34P, and it may be the correct monitor to tide us over before the HDR-succesful X35 finally hits the marketplace.

As an thrilling note, the Predator X34P has acquired its fair share of release troubles. This monitor was truely unveiled all of the manner lower back at Computex 2016, so it’s taken a long term for the new panel in this show to end up ready for mass manufacturing.

And sure, there's a new panel in the X34P. It retains the identical 34-inch size and 3440 x 1440 decision as the authentic X34, but it now comes with a one hundred Hz refresh rate as preferred with the capability to easily overclock as much as one hundred twenty Hz.

Previously, the X34 came as a 60 Hz monitor with a one hundred Hz overclock, even though a few buyers couldn’t hit one hundred Hz stably due to flickering. The X34P solves this supplying local a hundred Hz with an delivered boost up to one hundred twenty Hz. My retail unit had no problems hitting that mark and I hope this is the case for others as nicely.

The other key alternate to the panel is a more aggressive curve, moving from 3800R to 1900R. I’m now not a large fan of curved shows, however the X34 is so wide that the accelerated curvature does enhance the enjoy.

With the brand new 1900R curve, the rims are simply slightly extra in your field of view, which I like to suppose allows me gun down foes greater easily in games. The truth is I’m possibly simply as mediocre as before, but with a new fancy screen to study.

Most other specs remain the same: IPS, three hundred nits most brightness, a a thousand:1 native evaluation ratio, 4ms grey-to-grey reaction times, a hundred% sRGB coverage, and G-Sync support. Power consumption is apparently the equal, too, although in my checking out the X34P uses approximately 8W more power whilst overclocked to one hundred twenty Hz, and about 6W greater at 100 Hz.

The X34P design has obtained an overhaul that fixes basically every trouble with the unique X34. The traumatic smooth plastic has been nuked in favour of plastic with a faux-brushed metal finish, even as all other plastic has acquired a diffused improve to a greater classy layout that better fits the reveal’s lofty price tag. Unfortunately the ‘chin’ along the bottom remains, though this is probably a spinoff of the way the panel itself is designed.

The top news for slender-bezel lovers like myself is the bezels have also gotten smaller marginally with the X34P, shifting from 13mm to 10mm on maximum aspects, that's a neat though minor improve. The stand has become greater flexible as properly, now supporting a extra range of peak changes together with new swivel help. The stand is a piece uglier from the rear as a end result, however the delivered flexibility is virtually a pleasing bonus.

The screen gods have listened to my prayers as the X34P subsequently consists of a directional toggle for the on-display screen show, instead of the lousy five-button method of the authentic design. The toggle makes it so much easier to transport across the OSD and make adjustments as necessary. It’s complemented by means of 3 buttons for quick adjustments to enter, brightness and show modes.

There’s not anything modern approximately the OSD, in here you’ll discover fundamental color controls along side overdrive settings, the overclocking choice, typical capabilities like shadow boosting and occasional blue light, together with additions like crosshair overlays or even a refresh charge counter. Most of the additions I never hassle using, even though you might find some thing thrilling in there.

The 20 Hz refresh charge improve the X34P provides over the original is virtually not as sizeable as the jump from 60 to a hundred Hz, however it’s nice to get that little bit of more refresh fee headroom. Back while the X34 released, it was plenty harder to hit a hundred FPS at 3440 x 1440 with ultra fine settings in AAA games, but with present day cards just like the 1080 Ti, this monitor’s more pace certainly comes in on hand.

Unfortunately it appears AMD customers are once more not noted of the birthday party, as there’s no FreeSync equivalent, leaving Acer’s excellent 3440 x 1440 FreeSync display caught at 75 Hz. This is one of the instances wherein the G-Sync version no longer only supports Nvidia’s variable refresh era, but also packs extra capabilities one of a kind to the G-Sync variant.

Acer usually makes correct claims about the performance of their monitors, and the X34P is not any exception. Contrast ratio is round 1040:1, simply barely higher than what's indexed at the spec sheet, even as peak brightness I measured at 294 nits, close to the rated 300 nit mark. A assessment ratio of above a thousand:1 is maintained throughout the brightness range too, which is good to look.

Like many curved presentations, the X34P does suffer from a few uniformity problems, although it’s not nearly as horrific as I’ve visible with different panels. The proper side is slightly tinted yellow relative to the center, with a maximum deltaE difference of two.2 with an all-white show. This is fairly major while viewing solid colorations.

Ghosting and pixel reaction appears close to-equal to the X34, which means that the ‘ordinary’ overdrive putting remains the best choice for maximum users. The IPS panel used within reason brief for this form of show generation, so ghosting isn't a large problem for the most component.

Viewing angles also are superb, as you’d anticipate from an IPS panel, even though evaluation ratio isn’t as desirable as you’d see from a VA display. With that said, at the same time as the comparison ratio doesn’t attain the heights of VA displays, the X34P does no longer exhibit any sizeable backlight bleed.