A couple of weeks in the past you would possibly have noticed our review of the Asus ROG Swift PG27UQ, the primary 4K one hundred forty four Hz reveal on the market with a DisplayHDR 1000 certificatia Chip:nd, of course, G-Sync HDR. It’s a very dazzling display, really one of the first-class you may get, although we didn’t precisely supply it a complete recommendation because of its $2,000 charge tag and a few early adopter troubles.

Well, the Asus isn’t the handiest such screen on the market. The new Acer Predator X27 makes use of the equal AU Optronics panel, in order that they’re each equipped with the identical specs, but that doesn’t suggest they perform similar to I’ll discuss a bit later.

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In phrases of design, it’s an smooth win to Acer right here. The Predator X27 is certainly a much greater appealing and well built product as compared to the PG27UQ, simply more becoming of its vast price tag.

The front of the display itself isn’t all that unique to the Asus version, with a comparable bezel size and similar easy design. But it’s the stand where the X27 starts to distinguish itself with a much more stylish and less overtly gamer layout.

Up till the pillar, the stand makes use of a completely unique and entirely metallic creation befitting of a top class show, with ridiculous mild projection functions or coloured highlights. The chunky pillar on the rear, which provides height and swivel adjust along side the usual tilt assist, does smash the stylish layout a little bit, but you may’t see it from the the front which is incredible.

The relaxation of the rear seems affordable even though it does fall a bit into the gamer category, but it’s now not nearly as awful as Asus’ ridiculous ‘tech’ pattern at the PG27UQ, so in evaluation the X27 is basically the maximum stunning display ever created.

The X27 does use plastic everywhere but the legs, presenting one-of-a-kind finishes at the rear, and it does experience a little reasonably-priced. The display is still a piece of a corpulent beast as well, even though I suspect that’s broadly speaking because of the FALD backlight

There are also RGB LED strips integrated into the design, one within the V-formed vent towards the top, and the opposite alongside the bottom facet. Certainly a cleaner manner to combine RGB than truly chucking it into a huge brand on the rear, though individually I’d nonetheless disable it.

The inputs you’re getting are no unique to different G-Sync video display units: a unmarried DisplayPort and unmarried HDMI port, plus an audio jack and USB three.zero hub with more than one on hand short-get admission to ports at the left facet.

The OSD is managed thru a directional toggle which is exquisite to peer, and navigating Acer’s feature-packed menu is simple and fast. Most of the settings you’ll find right here relate to shade and backlight controls however there are nonetheless favorites like cheat crosshairs and dark raise options, even though no ultra low motion blur.

The other factor you’ll be interested by I’m positive is the lively cooling fan. I criticized the Asus PG27UQ for having an audible cooling fan for the G-Sync HDR reveal, and I’m sorry to mention, the Acer Predator X27 additionally calls for a fan to cool the internals. However, Acer makes use of a pretty distinctive controller for this fan which allows it to vary the fan’s velocity.

The Asus version of this reveal runs the fan at the same speed all of the time, while the Acer model ramps up the fan slowly from idle, which is a extra first-rate and gentle manner to introduce the noise the monitor creates. The X27 also appears quieter in its SDR mode, whilst walking HDR content material fires up the fan to across the same level of noise because the PG27UQ.

That said, the fan continues to be audible all through SDR operation, which may be a bit stressful depending at the ambient noise in your room. Ideally this kind of reveal wouldn’t require a fan, and if it did, the fan might be larger, slower and near silent. But as I stated within the PG27UQ review, that is one of those problems that comes approximately with early adopter products.