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Gaming is never the same...

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2018

It comes with Display port to Display Port Cable, Power Cable, and headphone to headphone cable. The speakers on the monitor are small tweeters, So, might want to stick with your awesome heaphones.

Very refreshingly satisfying frame rate. Compared to regular 60Hz, Everything looks smoother. Mouse cursor moves more smoothly, the videos play more smoothly, and games play better. Switching from a Samsung 4K monitor that runs at 60Hz, Faster frames are just so much more satisfying that going back to Full HD is no big deal. I do not miss 4K, at all.

I fell in love with this monitor since It went from using 30% of my graphics card to 70% of my graphics capacity playing the same game at 144 fps. Now, it feels like the games were meant to be played this way.

Note: if you play a game in 144Hz, you will never want to game in 60Hz, again...

Just for FYI, I was thinking about building a new rig just to max potential this monitor, but after using my current rig from 8 years ago with modern budget card, I changed my mind. I am using Nvidia GTX 1050 2GB with this, and it works with low settings with some medium post processing. Am I getting full 144 fps? seeing that it does not go 100% usage, but fluxuates around 70%, probably.

I have an Xbox One S on 1080p TV, and comparing the gameplay of PC and Xbox S, monitor makes the PC gaming experience so much better. I have only praises for 144Hz gaming. It definitely improves the gaming experience. I am guessing, due to less eye strain.

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Terria Chick

acer monitor 2nd one with issue

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2018

this is the second monitor that i have returned with the same issue....... after it has been on and used for surfing the web and lite gaming the monitor screen will go black..........you must turn it off and unplug the connection to power and unplug the display port from graphics card. Wait a few minutes plug i back in and it will shut off again. After letting it sit for a few hours and turn it on connect all the connections then it may or may not power on if it does it will work for a bit then do the same thing again, this time I had the issue once a couple of weeks ago till today. I am not going to keep or use a product that is not solid and clearly this one is not. I think it is ludicrous that your charging me a restocking fee for a defective item and on the last day I can return it to you. It would be different if it was 90 days or more and if this was first time returning the item. Clearly there is an issue with this acer monitor.

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DLuu

Good monitor except for one major caveat

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2018

Style: Monitor onlySize: 24 in/144 HzVerified Purchase

I really wanted to like this monitor. The display was good and is what you would expect from a TN panel. Not much backlight bleeding. Colors did require some adjusting out of the box.

Everything worked well except for one major issue. I use this monitor as my second monitor (extended display). When this monitor is turned off, it is COMPLETELY disconnected from your computer. It is no longer listed in the connected displays. This is usually not the case with most other monitors. Why is this important? When you turn on/off the monitor, it re-extends the display each time. When that happens, ALL other connected displays will go black for a few seconds. In my case, it was at least a good solid 5 seconds before my main display showed anything. This would not work well if I decided to turn on this Acer while I was in the middle of a game.

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Capt. S

DP Quality not impressive. Spend more on better monitor

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2019

Style: Monitor onlySize: 24 in/144 HzVerified Purchase

This monitor is being riven by a RTX 2060 graphics card. Also tested with a GTX1050ti and Strix 580. The picture quality is good when using a dvi cable but only allows for 100hz refresh. When using the digital port (DP) 144 hz is obtained but the picture quality goes down. The on screen aimer is a great idea but its accuracy is questionable. I recommend spending more and purchasing the Viewsonic 240hz 24" monitor. That's the one I replaced the Acer with.

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Nick Wang

Great Monitor with Fatal Flaw

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2021

Style: Monitor onlySize: 24 in/144 HzVerified Purchase

This is a great monitor with everything you could want - decent price point, mountable, 144 Hz refresh rate and so forth. The only problem? This monitor will randomly not work when using a display port. At first, I thought I just bought a bad cable. After all, it was a very cheap cable bought off Amazon. I go to BestBuy to by a SECOND display port cable. All goes fine for a short while, but today was the last straw.

It is the most frustrating thing to turn on your computer and wonder why only one of your two monitors is working. I have updated graphics drivers countless times, searched the internet for causes, all to no satisfactory avail. It's too late to return this product for me but I would NOT recommend this product IF you want to utilize a display port and access all the features you use display port for (e.g. G-sync). If you only plan on using an HDMI cable, then this monitor will work fine but you're likely better off purchasing a cheaper monitor.

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Kelsey T

Ugly and wouldn't work

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2019

Style: Monitor onlySize: 24 in/144 HzVerified Purchase

I bought this G-Sync monitor and was extremely excited to get it up and running. The minute I got home from work and plugged it into my video card, things started to go south. First off, my second monitor which was plugged into my VC via HDMI was no longer recognized. I went to reboot to see if that would fix the problem and suddenly my computer had a crash dump, which it hasn't had in 3 years. Once the crash dump was finished processing I decided to reinstall my video card drivers to see if that would fix the issue. Once again, I rebooted, and once again, I got a crash dump. Something about this monitor was conflicting with my video card. I decided to give up on trying to fix that and instead moved on to see how the monitor impacted my gameplay. I booted up Diablo 3 and was prepared to be blown away--but no change. I started to google "how to set up my G-sync monitor." Pages upon pages of instructions until I finally found a simple process. I opened my NVidia control panel and went to the place where enabling G-Sync was supposed to be and it wasn't there. I even verified through the NVidia site that my video card supported G-Sync so I was at a loss. Another googled webpage told me to turn on Vertical Sync via my NVidia control panel and that that would enable G-Sync---once again to no avail. I finally called a computer expert friend of mine for some help. He remoted in and tried to do all the same steps I did and wasn't able to find any option to enable G-Sync. He was though, able to go into my monitor setting and turn it up to 144hz, which DID look amazing. But no G-sync for gameplay.

So that's all the technical headache. Aesthetically, this monitor has much to be desired and is really showing its age. The monitor is thick, with a thick frame. Doesn't match the look and feel of modern, sleeker monitors. Looked like an ugly stepchild when sitting next to my Dell monitor.

Pros:
144hz looks nice
Very reasonable price for a monitor

Cons:
Very difficult to get working properly
Not compatible with some NVidia video cards
Ugly aesthetics

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Daniel Jackson

The worst panel we have ever used. 'Washed out' doesnt even cover this monitor.

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2019

Style: Monitor onlySize: 24 in/144 HzVerified Purchase

The case and stand are ok but the panel is by far the worst I have used, even after full calibration and various settings it is painfully bad. I have used several current 144hz gaming panels and this panel is so washed out, look elsewhere.

(I have used several Asus 144 hz panels and while they could be considered "washed out" compared to a VA or IPS panel they look amazing compared to this monitor. Trust me on this - if you are even a little picky about the monitor you use, consider alternatives to this panel. Personally I am going to try the AOC that rock paper shotgun recommended and if that's not much better I will be paying another 50$ and going with a Samsung VA panel - They look amazing and have 144hz + freesync.

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Derek Jass

Great monitor, lackluster warranty

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2019

Style: Monitor onlySize: 24 in/144 HzVerified Purchase

First off, the monitor itself is great. I have no complaints about the color/performance of this monitor. It has performed great and compared to many of the more expensive gaming monitors, the price is very reasonable. It does benefit to go through a color calibration process on your computer when you get it. By default, the monitor is a bit bright and washed out, but through calibration, you can get some really vivid and full colors from this thing.

Anyway, the reason for the negative review is regarding the warranty. I purchased this in October of 2018 and one day only 9 months later the monitor would not work; it kept saying no signal. I called up their support number and got on the phone with someone and after going through a lengthy troubleshooting session.

Firstly, I was talking with a person who I had a really hard time understanding. Between my kids making noise in the background, the quality of the phone call, and the accent of the person, I had to ask him to repeat everything he said for most everything. It was difficult, but I managed.

After going through all possible solutions, he said that I'd need to send it in to be repaired. They would not send a call tag to have the monitor picked up at their expense. Instead, I would have to send it in at my own expense, and in the meantime, I'd have to either find a different monitor to use or be without a monitor for 7-10 days.

I decided instead of paying for the return shipping to instead put that money toward a new monitor. Before buying a replacement, I kept trying to make the original monitor work, and fortunately, I have been able to get it working again (not really sure what made it work again), so I have not had to purchase a replacement.

Again, I cannot say anything bad about the monitor, as long as it is functioning, but if you end up having to get it replaced, do not expect a great experience. Their policy of me having to pay (even if it's just the shipping) to have it repaired is not acceptable to me, particularly within such a short window.

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Jake

Good stand; poor screen.

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2018

Style: Monitor onlySize: 24 in/144 HzVerified Purchase

I returned this monitor after about three days. 144hz is great, but if you care enough to get that kind of refresh rate, you'll care that this monitor makes it look bad.

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As far as 144hz monitors go, this is about the cheapest you can get. And it shows. You'll see lots of reviews about how poor the color looks on this screen - and they're right. Some of them, and other places on the internet, will tell you that this screen can be improved with manual color calibration. While that's *technically* true, it will never come close to any other monitor I've had in terms of color range. No matter what settings or color profiles I installed, the colors always looked washed out. I'm not a big "videophile" or anything like that, but I couldn't use this monitor with any other monitor I own because the difference was incredibly noticeable - and nauseating. After never worrying about colors on my other monitors, this was a stressful experience that I did not anticipate.

Many LCD monitors advertise a precise viewing angle at which to view the screen. On this monitor, the viewing angle is SO small that the top and bottom of your screen will always look slightly off, and only the very middle will maintain the appropriate colors - or near to them, since the poor screen color problem still exists there.

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I will say that I liked the stand - high range of motion, good angles, rotation great. However, it's LARGE. The stand base is about a foot, in a circle, and it didn't fit comfortably on my desk. I had to move my keyboard farther forward to make room, and move my desk itself away from the wall to let it hang over a bit. This may not be a problem if you have a large desk, but just be aware.

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Shonn Burton

Very poor video quality

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2019

Style: Monitor onlySize: 24 in/144 HzVerified Purchase

Just received my monitor today 1/12/19 and right out of the box the monitor had terrible image quality. I'm coming from a 4K 60Hz monitor, but before that had a 1080p 60hz monitor that had better image quality that this one. Text is very hard to read, especially with a white background. The fonts almost seem to be slightly doubled. The white backgrounds almost wash out the images and the text on most web pages. In games I can see the 144hz refresh rate smoothness but image quality is just terrible. Even typing this review the fonts are almost blurry. i tried using the DP cable that came with the monitor and a high end HDMI cable I just recently bought, but both were terrible. Sad, because I read a lot of great reviews, even from people that went from 4K down to this 1080p display and they had nothing but praise, but I am either doing something wrong or there is just something wrong with this display that I got. I called Acer tech support 4 times tonight and they could not rectify the issue and recommended that I get it replaced or send it in for repair. Not a good first day experience. Hopefully I don't have any issues returning it through Amazon.

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Corrupted Samus

Terrible Color, Blur effect while moving in game, Do not buy

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2019

Style: Monitor onlySize: 24 in/144 HzVerified Purchase

It was cheap when I bought it and it was one of the few cheap 144hz monitors that had Freesync and supported G-Sync. Now that I've owned it for around 7 months, I can tell you that the colors are freaking HORRIBLE and no amount of menu tweaking quite fixes them. Also, this may just be me but it also has this weird "blur" effect when aiming or turning in games, but that may just be because of the TN panel. The terrible color and blurred movement show just why this monitor is cheap. Yes, it supports Freesync and is G-Sync compatible, but that is its only redeeming factor. I went back to my non-Freesync, non-G-Sync ASUS VG248QE, which can use strobelight for backlight strobing and almost no blur and it has been fantastic.

TL;DR OK for a secondary display for watching videos while doing something else on a main display, but HORRID for gaming or decent color.

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Eli Espinosa

Good quality monitor but hard to recommend.

Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2020

Style: Monitor onlySize: 24 in/144 HzVerified Purchase

It’s hard to recommend this monitor. I received my first one with a dead pixel on arrival which I noticed not even 10 minutes into use. But I wasn’t willing to let one bad monitor ruin the experience for me. So I requested a replacement, and when I received a new one it had a white spot at the top of the monitor. However that wasn’t enough for me to call it quits. I continued to use the monitor for another week until I was running some benchmarks which required me to turn off G-Sync. Which didn’t cause any problems until I turn G-Sync back on which caused a dead pixel to appear. I don’t think it’s a problem with G-Sync, it’s a problem with how the monitor wants to be able to run G-Sync and AMD Freesync. The store page claims to be G-Sync compatible but when you receive the item, the packaging only says that it is Freesync compatible. I am convinced now that I have gone through two of these monitors, that these monitors are not truly compatible with G-Sync which is causing these monitors to to damage themselves.

Despite all of those problems, the overall quality of the monitor is great. When you receive the monitor is has a blue light filter enabled by default but with a little bit of tweaking with the settings you can get rid of that easily. The refresh rate is smooth at 144 hz with very little tracing or motion blur. Sadly it is not oveclockable to 165 hz, and any attempt to do so will cause the screen to go black until the refresh rate gets changed back to 144 hz. Despite the problems that G-Sync may cause, if you can turn it on without damaging you monitor it is well worth it. G-Sync offers a much smoother experience with virtually no screen tearing to be seen and you can expect the same with AMD Freesync if you are on team Red.

Final conclusions, the monitor is great for the price and offers a lot more features than I was expecting. However the dead pixels make it hard for me to recommend seeing as I have now had to return two of these monitors.

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