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How good is the Acer Predator XB271HU?

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Great monitor, it was the world's first in a lot of things, first 144hz IPS monitor, first 144hz 1440p IPS monitor, and first 144hx G-Sync monitor

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Has anyone had experience with one? I've heard great things about them other than there being a backlight bleed issue.

 

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Great monitor, it was the world's first in a lot of things, first 144hz IPS monitor, first 144hz 1440p IPS monitor, and first 144hx G-Sync monitor

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Actually, the XB270hu was the first. The 271 was kind of a redesign on the 270 which answered a lot of common complaints about the 270 like the stand and thick glossy bezels. Overall, I like my 270 the 271 comes with pretty good overclocking as well. If you decide to pick one up get it from amazon or ncix which will exchange the unit even if it has 1 dead pixel. If you get it anywhere else you'll need to have a ton of dead pixels in the same area in order for it to qualify as a defect. 

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it's legendary o.O

mine has slight backlight bleed in the lower right corner but nothing you would notice in normal use, people make a flack about light bleed for no reason IMHO it just won't really change anything (unless maybe you get a very bad screen with tons of backlight bleed i dunno)...

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Honestly, I didn't find it as game changing as everyone on youtube seems to. It's good and smooth but it didn't make drool or anything. 

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1 minute ago, gsheph252 said:

Honestly, I didn't find it as game changing as everyone on youtube seems to. It's good and smooth but it didn't make drool or anything. 

 

14 minutes ago, ANewFace said:

Great monitor, it was the world's first in a lot of things, first 144hz IPS monitor, first 144hz 1440p IPS monitor, and first 144hx G-Sync monitor

 

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6 minutes ago, gsheph252 said:

Honestly, I didn't find it as game changing as everyone on youtube seems to. It's good and smooth but it didn't make drool or anything. 

are you serious?! what GPU are you using and what games? also what did you have for monitor prior to that?!

i was on a 1080p 24'' TN panel and this one is night and day...it changed EVERYTHING for me!

i think you got used to it...you should revert to your old monitor for a couple days...

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Personally I upgraded to a ultra-wide recently and after weighing in the differences I decided on a BenQ XR3501 and I love it. It's a quite a bit cheaper but on the downside it doesn't have G-Sync. But I haven't had any issues with it and I love it.

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Ive got a strix 980 ti oc played a few different games killing floor 2, final fantasy 14, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Arc, few other games I could think of that might test its range of capability. Don't get me wrong I still feel like it's the best monitor I've ever owned but it lacked the wow factor for me that it seems to have given everyone else. 

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1 minute ago, ThisGuy010 said:

Personally I upgraded to a ultra-wide recently and after weighing in the differences I decided on a BenQ XR3501 and I love it. It's a quite a bit cheaper but on the downside it doesn't have G-Sync. But I haven't had any issues with it and I love it.

Yea Idk, from what I've been told g-sync doesnt play a big role on high frame rates. Its only really impressive on sub 60 fps

 

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1 minute ago, gsheph252 said:

Yea Idk, from what I've been told g-sync doesnt play a big role on high frame rates. Its only really impressive on sub 60 fps

 

That's what I was told when I was shopping for the two monitors. I heard from multiple sources that if you have a machine that is actually truly using the 144hz then I shouldn't need G-Sync. This has proven to be true because I haven't had any Sync issues.

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Just got mine 2 days ago to replace a dying ROG Swift. It's amazing! Colors are fantastic and it took just a little calibration to get that way. I have a slight bit of light bleed on the top right corner. But it's not bad. I heard that the Asus equivalent is atrocious. OCed to 165hz with no problems. I would highly recommend it!

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2 minutes ago, foamygopher said:

Just got mine 2 days ago to replace a dying ROG Swift. It's amazing! Colors are fantastic and it took just a little calibration to get that way. I have a slight bit of light bleed on the top right corner. But it's not bad. I heard that the Asus equivalent is atrocious. OCed to 165hz with no problems. I would highly recommend it!

Also no dead pixels.

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