Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Acer Predator Gaming X34 Pbmiphzx Curved 34" UltraWide QHD Monitor with NVIDIA G-SYNC Technology (Display Port & HDMI Port),Black

BEST GAMING MONITOR PERIOD!!! Buy it while the price is low!!!

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2018

I bought the first X34 in 2016 for $1399. At the time it was the best gaming monitor out there, and it worked flawlessly for me for over 2 years. It hit 100hz, and worked every day without a hitch. No dead pixels, no light bleed. Fantastic. This is why I trust acer and bought yet another acer product. I played a lot of single player games like tomb raider, farcry, assassin's creed, mass effect, GTA, too many to count. The experience was PHENOMENAL!!!!

HOWEVER... I got back into shooter games like PUBG, COD, and Counterstrike... and 100hz just wasn't cutting it. So I bought a BenQ ZOWIE XL2546. That is a fantastic monitor for what it does (240hz is sooooooo nice) but when I saw this new X34 was out and on sale (got mine for 899) I couldn't help myself. I upgraded to this new one and WOW, what a shock. Puts the old version to shame and just what I needed to make the x34 an awesome ALL-AROUND monitor that shines in literally every game I play on it.

The curve is more extreme than the old X34 (which I hated at first and now love too much for words) and the extra 20hz refresh rate really makes all the difference. Now I'm playing CS:GO, PUBG, and COD on the x34 (something I didn't like to do before because 100hz was too jittery) and the action feels nice and smooth. I'm back winning games of PUBG with 10+ kills and boy does this monitor look as good as it feels while I'm doing it. The detail and immersion is unlike anything else on the market. If you have a powerful gaming PC and haven't experienced ultrawide QHD gaming yet, BUY THIS. You will not regret it.

I know the X35 is coming (the new 200hz version of this) but A) It's not IPS B) there is no release date and they teased it over 18 months ago and there is still no update C) It's going to be $1500+ D) Realistically I don't think any computer out there will be able to push much above 120fps at 3440x1440 in most games for quite a while. I currently have an 8086k and a watercooled 1080ti and barely reach 120fps in most modern titles with the graphics on medium-high at this resolution (save Counterstrike, which I get 300fps easy). I have a 2080ti on the way so that will give me a boost but honestly, for half the price of the upcoming x35 I feel like this monitor is a steal. 120hz is enough to be competitive in my opinion. 240 is nice, but 120 cuts it just fine.

So in a year or two, I'll upgrade graphics cards again to something that can actually run 3440x1440 at 200 FPS, and then I'll buy the x35 once the price has dropped down below $1k. Until then though, this monitor is too good to put into words. Believe me guys, you really just can't believe it until you see it. This thing will (literally) open your eyes to a whole new world of gaming goodness that you didn't even know existed.

BUY BUY BUY

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Gosling_dkc

Most bestest, awesomest monitor I've ever seen!

Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2019

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I want to start by making it known that this is my first review of any product I've purchased through Amazon.
This monitor is AMAZING. Far exceeded any of my expectations. Granted I did come from a cheaper 1080p 75hz monitor. This is my first UW.
I read a lot of reviews for different monitors before deciding on this one. I was going to go with the AW because of the QC and warranty I've read about. If I had problems with this one. But I can happily say that if you are on the fence and thinking about purchasing this one. DO IT! Maybe I'm just lucky and received a good one on the first shot. But if you do get a good one it's one of the best monitors I've seen.
I am running a Ryzen 7 2700x paired with GTX 1080 ti OC. I'm getting anywhere from 80fps to 120fps depending on the title in high to ultra settings. If I had just a couple complaints it would mostly be objective. It does have a little bit of ips glow but marginal and something I accepted before purchasing an IPS panel. And its MASSIVE. I will also say that I was a little bummed out upon first setting it up. Thought I had a few dead pixels that literally just ended up being tiny pieces of styrofoam.... lol.
Beautiful monitor at a pretty price tag. But well worth it if you get a good one. Easy to navigate. 120 fps oc is very easy to do. Clr and contrast is pretty perfect. Get it. I dont think you'll be disappointed. Just thought it was worth writing a review.
Also, just to those who have been having problems with scan lines or flickering. I know this is kind of a given to some. But in case you dont know. When you change the refresh rate of the monitor and overclock to 120hz. Make sure to go into nvidia settings and change that to match. I had some scan lines top left after OC to 120. Had to change nvidia to match and boom! Smooth as butter!

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Will

There aren't quite words to describe how incredible

Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2018

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I have been looking for an ultrawide for a while and was very torn between this and the Alienware AW3418DW. Ultimately it came down to how the panel looked aesthetically. For those who do not know, both this monitor and the AW3418DW are LG panels. Meaning that the screen internals are from LG. Dell and Acer simply purchased the screens from LG and put it into their own hardware. Knowing this I had the decision of "the King of Ultrawides" being the AW3418DW or the less popular X34P. Most of the comparisons I found online, while doing my research, were between the AW3418DW and the X34 (the older model at 60hz native rather than 100hz). After much delibaration I came to the conclusion to buy this one because I knew if I bought the Alienware I'd be paying a premium for the name. I have to say I'm really glad I did. Maybe I was lucky but my panel has virtually no back light bleed, over clocks to 120hz with zero flickering, and feels, overall, just high quality. The colors are vibrant and rich and adds a certain depth to my gaming experience that I just haven't had before. I'm completely blown away. I've seen a few mentions here and on forums about potential issues but I took the plunge any ways because I'm a firm believer in "people are quick to complain when there's an issue, but slow to pay homage when every thing works as expected." I love this monitor. I'm completely floored by Acer's quality and am proud to say they have just gained a loyal customer. Worth every penny. Highly recommend.

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RoadRage

I am happy with purchase for my needs

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2020

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I did a ton of research and realized that for me the specs of this monitor fit what I needed with a good balance between larger resolution for desktop use (multi window single screen) while still being good enough for gaming I do not need the best I just do it for fun not competition. I will state that I hate curved displays or at least TV's but very happy with a curved display for my computer which I was on the fence about. The display has a slight curve and is just enough to make viewing such a large screen easy without feeling you have to turn your head. The stand is very adjustable but for me sits monitor much further forward than I would prefer but this is due to design and nothing to do with the curve. I am including a picture with an 8.5'x11" sheet of paper on my desk which clearly shows this. From back edge of my desk it forces it forward about a foot and my last monitor was 4" so this is a little tough to adjust to and I hate to give up all the desk space.

The picture quality looks excellent but I am not that exact when it comes to colors so would research as others have measured warmth and color accuracy. I do not use the speakers because I have my own and most speakers in displays are horrible. The USB 3 hub was an excellent feature for me but the provided cable was much too short and I bought a 10-foot one which cost more (U322-010-BK) and the same for the DisplayPort cable, too short and bought one of those too.

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Brian Glenn

The X34P exceeded expectations in all areas.

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2019

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I came to this monitor from a competitors 4k 60hz Freesync HDR display after being both disappointed in the color performance and wanting to upgrade to a G-Sync display since I have a NVIDIA card. I will say this monitor has impressed me on every front.

Pros:
The colors are vibrant, but not over saturated.
The blacks are a deep and dark (no purple hue on this monitor).
G-Sync is no joke either I haven't had a single screen tear and I don't have to cripple my games with V-Sync anymore.
It does in fact overclock to 120hz and it is 100% stable on the unit I received.
I far prefer having 3 windows open simultaneously when working and or doing school rather than using two monitors or constantly Alt-tabing. This has greatly improved my productivity.
No back-light bleed at all.

Cons:
No HDR support in the X34P model. Some would view this as a con, however after coming from a, "HDR" display I will say right now HDR isn't fully matured on Windows 10 and I do not miss or even notice the lack of HDR at all.

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J. Schlotter

Excellent monitor that demands a quality Display Port cable

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2020

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When the monitor arrived, I didn't have any trouble using this monitor when using the HDMI input, but using the Display Port cable that came with the monitor, I had immediate signal drop outs with my older PC (ATI Radeon 9550 card) and a brand new PC with an NVidia RTX 2080 Super card. The monitor would loose the signal from the PC every few seconds when playing games. New PC would intermittently loose signal and unplugging and plugging the cable back in would fix the problem for a few days. From reading posts online, found that others have had the same issue with this monitor. Purchased an Accell DP to DP 1.2 6 foot cable ($19) and have not had any more signal drop outs. So if you purchase this monitor, be prepared to have to purchase a better Display Port cable. Other than that, the monitor has been excellent. Great picture and running games at 3440 x 1440 has been a huge improvement over 1080p. Just wish Acer would have provided a better Display Port cable with the monitor.

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Caleb Christesson

Stellar

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2020

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Not sure if I’m a real authority on this subject because this technically my first “gaming” display but wow is it amazing. Going from 60 to 120hz still feels fresh after 5 months. The color is beautiful. My particular unit has very little back light bleed, only enough for me to notice in the top left and bottom right hand corner if I’m really looking for it, and far enough away to see those corners straight on not just out of my peripheral vision. The stand is sleek enough, but it is massive and that would be my only complaint. I plan on buying a monitor arm or wall mounting it soon but for the time being I had to trade my girlfriend my much nicer but slimmer profile desk for her much uglier and broken but wider and longer desk so that I could actually fit a mouse and keyboard in front of it. Overall though, I’m not disappointed one bit. I was worried how I’d feel about spending so much money on a monitor but considering the next generation of these monitors with 4k resolution or 240hz or both are 2, 3, or even 4 times as expensive as these right now I think it’ll hold great value for at least a few years to come.

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Zissou

UPDATE: 8 BIT ONLY... Box is BIGLY YUUUUGE!

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2018

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UPDATE - RETURNING AS IT IS 8 BIT ONLY

Finally got around to attempting to calibrate this thing with a Spyder5Pro and DisplayCal, and enable 10 bit (8+frc).

I am quite aware that no 2 panels match perfectly once calibrated, and i am quite aware of the differences between true 10 bit, "10" bit 8+frc which this claims to be, and 8 bit displays.

5 different known, 10 bit capable, nvidia and AMD graphics cards, and countless display drivers later, there is NO WAY TO ENABLE 10 bit (8+frc), so banding remains horrid. I was also unable to get a proper calibration that didnt leave me with less than 95% sRGB coverage, which is practically unuseable. Backlight bleed was also pretty bad on left two corners, but no colorshift across the panel. I have initiated a return, it has "10 bit 1.06 billion colors" all over the box too. Did work perfectly editing high speed footage at 120fps however.

My X34P arrived today, replacing a 27" 1440p 60hz IPS 10 (8+frc) bit panel, i expected backlight bleed and/or IPS glow, dead pixel(s) etc. Assumed i'd be exchanging it at least once. This is my first ultrawide, first high refresh rate (since the days of my ancient 19" VGA 4:3 Trinitron 1600x1200 at 80hz), and first G Sync display.

I use my home PC for 1080p/4k RAW editing with Adobe suite, and have a proper true10 bit panel as well as a 4k HDR tv connected for working from home. 8700K delidded at 5Ghz, 32GB 3466mhz ram, dual 1tb 960 evo nvme, GTX 1080 Ti SC2, 8x 850 evo 500gb on an areca 1880ix.

I also play games, from fps to rts.

This monitor is amazing, curve is perfect, and i did NOT want a curved monitor initially. Love it. Corners have some backlight bleed, not much ips glow, even and rich colors. clocks to 120hz just fine.

TONS of real estate and great viewing angles. Chrome/google search look sooo empty now on fullscreen...

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Brett Bellmore

Warranty process is frustrating and inadequate

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2021

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My monitor had problems out of the box displaying HDMI picture. I can eventually get it to work after up to 15 minutes of plugging and unplugging the cable and turning on and off the monitor, but as you can imagine, that quickly gets annoying and adds up to being a tremendous waste of time. The issue is not the computers or the HDMI cables--I've tried multiple of each. So, I contacted Acer support. Support was clueless and didn't get past trying to get me to select an Auto Source option that this monitor doesn't even have before instructing me to ship it to Acer as a defective hardware problem for repair.

Which brings me to today: I am absolutely incensed at Acer's method of dealing with warranty claims for defective products. Making the customer deal with return shipping might be reasonable when the item in question is a laptop; it is wholly insufficient when the item is a 34" ultrawide monitor that doesn't detach from its stand. I do not have a box that can fit this. Shame on me for disposing of the box it came in, I guess, but since Acer recommends in its repair shipping instructions not to send it in the original box because they won't return it in that box, this would be a problem regardless if someone wanted to retain their original packaging. Acer provided a FedEx shipping label for the package, but even the FedEx Ship and Pack locations by me don't have boxes that can fit this (and I'd of course be paying for the ship and pack service/materials out of pocket)! I wasted forty minutes of my day driving to and from a FedEx location that couldn't pack this ridiculous monitor, with the added heartburn of trying to safely get the monitor there and back in the back seat of a fricking sedan. It's a 34" ultrawide on a tripod stand--not exactly designed for transportation. I wasted a similar amount of my day getting temporary monitors from my employer so that I can keep working while Acer repairs my monitor, and I'll waste more time setting up those monitors. Now I get to waste more time going to Home Depot and buying a box and packaging materials that can safely handle shipping, only to go back to a FedEx to actually get it shipped. This is a colossal pain, and it should not be the customer's problem. I should not be wasting more of my time and money on dealing with Acer's defective product. My plans for tonight involved doing my own damned job, not running all over the place to be able to ship an overpriced $900 hunk of junk.

If Acer support happens to read this, hey buddies, you have two warranty and return options to avoid wasting your customers' time and money over your defective products (and to (i) save yourself scathing reviews and (ii) earn repeat business):

1. You ship a specially tailored box to return the item when the item in question is a gigantic, unwieldy curved monitor.

2. You ship a replacement item, your customer returns the defective item in the replacement item's box, and you worry on your end about the defective item and eat the loss of reselling it refurbished.

To potential customers, this monitor is not worth the risk that you'll need to deal with Acer's terrible support and warranty policies. Buy something similar from a manufacturer that cares about the customer experience. And learn from my mistake and save the original box if at all possible (because of course everyone has space to store a legion of boxes for every electronics product they purchase).

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Burnt Toast

Waiting on Replacement... <Updated>

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2020

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Will update review once I get my new replacement.

Received product about a month early (said in stock about a month out but received it in a week or so) and there was no damage on the box or anything... however when I cleared off my desk, hooked everything up to the monitor, and fired it up... there was obvious panel damage (see photo). Oddly there was no physical damage on the screen itself or the back of the monitor so Im thinking it shipped like this.

Amazon chat agent was quick to order a replacement but currently it says not in stock until November (hopefully I'll get lucky again and they'll get some in stock early). Not fun packing everything up and lugging it to a UPS Store, thats for sure.

The areas not damaged looked beautiful and there were no dead pixels... so Im pretty disappointed that it came this way. Sound was pretty good (for monitor speakers) as well. Like I said I'll go ahead and edit my review once I get the replacement in my hands and fired up.

UPDATE: Received the replacement monitor today and fired it up. No dead pixels (whoo) and there isn't a screen tear like my first monitor. Sound is full from the speakers (for a monitor) and it's beautiful. Only games I've played were Hades and World of Warcraft so far and it's all smooth. Very nice.

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