I got my new Acer Predator XB272 G-Sync in today!
Posted: 26 Jul 2017, 06:56
Thank you BlurBusters for the prize money from the monitor list contest, every dollar went to this amazing monitor
Right off the bat the contrast on his panel is defiantly not the best and only best when view straight on with any slight variant up or down pretty much destroying any sort of colour accuracy this panel has, being in a dark scene in a game defiantly shows off the flaws of the panel as every gradient of dark grey will be very distinct. Same goes with colour, any colour at the bottom of the panel will washed out and any at the top will be saturated due to angle at which you view it at. I found that the Gamma at 2.5 actually fixes the dark scene issue.
images like this, look like this:
The Inversion Patterns test also brought up a weird artifact that also happened on my ZizWorks 240hz where the rest of the screen would have a weird faint interlaced patern on it. But the test itelf has no inversion artifacts which is pretty impressive i guess.
Although the pixel inversion test at testufo.com/#test=inversion looks normal with no artifacts i believe this is what i am seeing at lower refreshrates as i can notice a faint vertical interlacing when g-sync gets below 60fps, it is noticeable at higher just in very specific locations
The Over Drive is pretty sweet. It looks about the same as the XL2420G in 144hz mode but when you crank it up to 240hz the overdrive becomes more apparent, it's not like it smears more it's just more noticeable behind the alien. i'm not sure if this is due to persistence being lower so the overdrive looks cleaner? lol. But in game it's not noticeably at all just like the XL2420G even in scene where it can be really bad like the bright blue sky of Dust2 agents the yellow building in CS:S.
This is the picture i took on my XL2420G best case scenario, it's pretty much like this with the Acer:
The OSD and feature are defiantly cool, it has everything. Saturation, Black reduction, Shitty crosshairs that are too big, 6-axis colour control, like everything. This was one of the main points that had me wondering if i should go with the little bit more expensive Asus 240hz because it might of had more features but this OSD pretty much has everything which is great.
Btw the colours are good, none of this Benq "We're going to have shitty colours out of the box" bs.
Edit: I've notice that out of the box the Contrast was set to 45 which i believe to be a mistake. This will make the monitor perform worse then the other 240hz G-Syncs in brightness. Contrast set to 50 will NOT wash out the colors and will only begin to at 50>. anything below 50 is simply a brightness change and does not change contrast.
Over all i'm very happy with it, i can't wait to do some runs or play some CS with it, i'm going to do reply to this thread with updates on the overclocking and whatnot when i do it. This wasn't supposed to be a review, just more of a "What does someone who really cares about monitors think of this" sort of thing.
Right off the bat the contrast on his panel is defiantly not the best and only best when view straight on with any slight variant up or down pretty much destroying any sort of colour accuracy this panel has, being in a dark scene in a game defiantly shows off the flaws of the panel as every gradient of dark grey will be very distinct. Same goes with colour, any colour at the bottom of the panel will washed out and any at the top will be saturated due to angle at which you view it at. I found that the Gamma at 2.5 actually fixes the dark scene issue.
images like this, look like this:
The Inversion Patterns test also brought up a weird artifact that also happened on my ZizWorks 240hz where the rest of the screen would have a weird faint interlaced patern on it. But the test itelf has no inversion artifacts which is pretty impressive i guess.
Although the pixel inversion test at testufo.com/#test=inversion looks normal with no artifacts i believe this is what i am seeing at lower refreshrates as i can notice a faint vertical interlacing when g-sync gets below 60fps, it is noticeable at higher just in very specific locations
The Over Drive is pretty sweet. It looks about the same as the XL2420G in 144hz mode but when you crank it up to 240hz the overdrive becomes more apparent, it's not like it smears more it's just more noticeable behind the alien. i'm not sure if this is due to persistence being lower so the overdrive looks cleaner? lol. But in game it's not noticeably at all just like the XL2420G even in scene where it can be really bad like the bright blue sky of Dust2 agents the yellow building in CS:S.
This is the picture i took on my XL2420G best case scenario, it's pretty much like this with the Acer:
The OSD and feature are defiantly cool, it has everything. Saturation, Black reduction, Shitty crosshairs that are too big, 6-axis colour control, like everything. This was one of the main points that had me wondering if i should go with the little bit more expensive Asus 240hz because it might of had more features but this OSD pretty much has everything which is great.
Btw the colours are good, none of this Benq "We're going to have shitty colours out of the box" bs.
Edit: I've notice that out of the box the Contrast was set to 45 which i believe to be a mistake. This will make the monitor perform worse then the other 240hz G-Syncs in brightness. Contrast set to 50 will NOT wash out the colors and will only begin to at 50>. anything below 50 is simply a brightness change and does not change contrast.
Over all i'm very happy with it, i can't wait to do some runs or play some CS with it, i'm going to do reply to this thread with updates on the overclocking and whatnot when i do it. This wasn't supposed to be a review, just more of a "What does someone who really cares about monitors think of this" sort of thing.