Acer Announces XR341CK 34-Inch Curved IPS FreeSync Monitor

[N.Broekhuijsen]

Acer's new XR341CK is a 34-inch curved FreeSync monitor with an IPS panel.

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[poochiepiano]

Man, that is a beautifully designed monitor. Now if only I could afford to buy a monitor the price of an entirely new PC.

 

[salgado18]

So, I finally found that every single feature I want in a monitor costs $1100. Fair price probably, I think I have a spare kidney...

 

[salgado18]

So, I finally found that every single feature I want in a monitor costs $1100. Fair price probably, I think I have a spare kidney...

 

[jaber2]

That's not a curve, that how i get my monitor if I send it via USPS, its just bent slightly

 

[Frozen Fractal]

I thought Acer would implement a "fast" IPS panel, like 120Hz+, at least that's what we can expect from Acer when we listen to "New Acer IPS monitor".

 

[eklipz330]

so close to the ideal monitor... just need a 20-144hz range and THEN we are in business.

 

[captaincharisma]

no thanks acer. if you want me to spend that kind of cash on a monitor it has to be 4K

 

[Frozen Fractal]

no thanks acer. if you want me to spend that kind of cash on a monitor it has to be 4K

Well, it is kinda 4K, just short of about 3 Mega pixels

 

[childofthekorn]

so close to the ideal monitor... just need a 20-144hz range and THEN we are in business.

This.

 

[mosc]

The whole point of freesync is that you don't NEED crazy refresh rates to make things smooth anymore. In fact, Freesync doesn't seem to be able to cut the refresh more than in half so 144hz max might force you into some pretty high refresh rates and not really fix anything if your graphics can't deliver. 40-75 hz is a great range of playable motion with no tearing. It's already expensive enough!

My main complaint is cost. If I could get one more thing at the same cost I'd request more resolution going to 1600 pixels tall

 

[RedJaron]

The whole point of freesync is that you don't NEED crazy refresh rates to make things smooth anymore. In fact, Freesync doesn't seem to be able to cut the refresh more than in half so 144hz max might force you into some pretty high refresh rates and not really fix anything if your graphics can't deliver. 40-75 hz is a great range of playable motion with no tearing. It's already expensive enough!

My main complaint is cost. If I could get one more thing at the same cost I'd request more resolution going to 1600 pixels tall

This isn't a 16:9 or 16:10 display. It's 21:9 ( or close enough. ) It's like a wide movie letterbox. It's not as wide as triple 1080 of course, but it gives you that semi-panoramic view without requiring massive desk real estate. It's also 25% fewer pixels, meaning you can get away with a slightly weaker GPU for gaming. In terms of productivity, it's great for getting applications side-by-side on your screen. Otherwise I'd agree with you on wanting more height.

 

[Frozen Fractal]

The whole point of freesync is that you don't NEED crazy refresh rates to make things smooth anymore. In fact, Freesync doesn't seem to be able to cut the refresh more than in half so 144hz max might force you into some pretty high refresh rates and not really fix anything if your graphics can't deliver. 40-75 hz is a great range of playable motion with no tearing. It's already expensive enough!

Freesync is just for making games smooth at unplayable frame rates (usually below 30 FPS, as they say). Inclusion of Freesync doesn't mean a panel shouldn't be any more fast . Newer (and upcoming) GPUs can already blaze 1440p to 60FPS+ meaning this baby will be too. That in turn means end users will notice more tears and artifacts at higher refresh rates, or just have to cap out a GPU at 60 (or in this case 75) FPS (MAN!!!!! So this is how it were to be used? Ohw! Great feature, never noticed it before, up until now )

 

[steve4king]

so close to the ideal monitor... just need a 20-144hz range and THEN we are in business.

I agree, but we need AMD/NVidia and major monitor vendors to start building dp1.3 to make that happen.

 

[uglyduckling81]

Nvidia needs to drop G-Sync and get on board with Free-Sync so we can get a standard.
This monitor looks amazing but I currently have an Nvidia GPU. I just can't accept being railroaded into one brand of GPU or another.
I must be able to make a choice between the competition at the time of purchase.

 

[Bartendalot]

Nvidia needs to drop G-Sync and get on board with Free-Sync so we can get a standard.
This monitor looks amazing but I currently have an Nvidia GPU. I just can't accept being railroaded into one brand of GPU or another.
I must be able to make a choice between the competition at the time of purchase.

I thought you can use freesync with Nvidia cards?

 

[uglyduckling81]

Nvidia needs to drop G-Sync and get on board with Free-Sync so we can get a standard.
This monitor looks amazing but I currently have an Nvidia GPU. I just can't accept being railroaded into one brand of GPU or another.
I must be able to make a choice between the competition at the time of purchase.

I thought you can use freesync with Nvidia cards?

Technically it could be possible so long as the cards have display port 1.2a which is exactly what people have done with a special driver on laptops. Nvidia won't allow it though as they wan't to sell the special G-Sync chip. They are arseholes but they make some good products.

 

[WyomingKnott]

Won't a curved display showing content for a flat screen introduce distortion? Or is the idea to keep your line-of-sight always perpendicular to the screen?

 

[Frozen Fractal]

Won't a curved display showing content for a flat screen introduce distortion? Or is the idea to keep your line-of-sight always perpendicular to the screen?

No, it won't. Think of a printed photo. You can look at it flat, or can curve it a bit, without losing any details, or distorting the photo. This is how curved monitors work, and the idea is to make the display more immersive, along with keeping pseudo-fixed distance of the display from your eyes.

 

[poochiepiano]

Won't a curved display showing content for a flat screen introduce distortion? Or is the idea to keep your line-of-sight always perpendicular to the screen?

I think it depends on where you are relative to the monitor. For most applications, it should be fine. In fact, you would probably perceive less distortion than you would with a traditional flat monitor. But I have never used a curved monitor before so maybe it requires some getting used to. I bet our brains are already wired to compensate for the distortion of a flat screen.

 

[WyomingKnott]

I guess I'm more thinking of video, which was shot in one configuration and is now being played back in another.

 

[Frozen Fractal]

the videos are just displayed, there's no contribution of monitor in that (except that it shows what is being displayed).