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The Acer Gaming ED242QR 1920 x 1080 75Hz any good??? PLZ Answer just learning my way around the tech world.

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For $150, I don't know. I know there's much better displays at the $250 range. Overall, it's a pretty garbage monitor though. 1080p at 75hz, with 4ms response time, from a curved VA panel, that's not even ultrawide.

 

Just to put things in context, 1080p displays can reach as high as 360Hz with 1ms response time. VA panels exhibit more ghosting than IPS, and you pretty much only find them on 32”+ monitors, nowadays, because of technical limitations of IPS at large sizes. VA also has worse viewing angles than IPS, but that has been improved a lot over years to the point where it only becomes an issue at ultrawide. That is why you'll often see curved VA panels there, both because of the typically larger screen sizes and the curvature increases the view angles. To need a curve on a normal widescreen indicates it's a pretty bad VA panel.

 

Like I said, $150 for a monitor is bargain bin territory, so this may be as good as you can get, if you need to stay at that price point, but stretching your budget $100, will get you an infinitely better monitor for gaming.

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For $150, I don't know. I know there's much better displays at the $250 range. Overall, it's a pretty garbage monitor though. 1080p at 75hz, with 4ms response time, from a curved VA panel, that's not even ultrawide.

 

Just to put things in context, 1080p displays can reach as high as 360Hz with 1ms response time. VA panels exhibit more ghosting than IPS, and you pretty much only find them on 32”+ monitors, nowadays, because of technical limitations of IPS at large sizes. VA also has worse viewing angles than IPS, but that has been improved a lot over years to the point where it only becomes an issue at ultrawide. That is why you'll often see curved VA panels there, both because of the typically larger screen sizes and the curvature increases the view angles. To need a curve on a normal widescreen indicates it's a pretty bad VA panel.

 

Like I said, $150 for a monitor is bargain bin territory, so this may be as good as you can get, if you need to stay at that price point, but stretching your budget $100, will get you an infinitely better monitor for gaming.

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