Acer XB270HU perfect?

[nyxanna]

Hi everyone,

I need to order a new monitor by 01/09 and have started looking around.

After some googling I read that the Acer XB270HU is pretty much the perfect gaming monitor.
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/27-acer-predator-xb270hu-v2-2k-144hz-g-sync-ips-displayport-2560x1440-350cd-m2-100m1-4ms-speakers-us

Can someone please give some feedback whether this is true, or is there a better monitor?

Many thanks

 

[guanyu210379]

There is no better gaming monitor today than XB270HU.
But, XB270HU is not perfect. I is expensive, does not support 3D-Vision and ...pay attention... Acer's QC for XB270HU is extremely bad.
The chance that you will get defective monitor is quite high. (Dead pixels, backlight bleeding, etc.)
You might have to RMA the monitor several times until you get a fully working one.
If you can get a working one, this is indeed the best current available gaming monitor.
I enjoyed my XB270HU, if you want to know.

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

If you're using a NVIDIA card then yeah, it's the best monitor for NVIDIA. If you're using an AMD card, then it's called MG279Q. They both use the same exact panel, so picture quality will be the same. Also, judging by the amount of people that got problems with their XB270HU, I really wouldn't buy one, and support a terrible company. That is not acceptable, no matter how good their product is on paper...

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Monitor: Acer XB270HU bprz 144Hz 27.0" Monitor ($719.99 @ Amazon)
Monitor: Asus MG279Q 144Hz 27.0" Monitor ($569.00 @ Amazon)
Total: $1288.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-28 03:45 EDT-0400

 

[guanyu210379]

Just as Info, here where I live ASUS called all MG279Q back due to some firmware issues.
Among the issues: the display could go only to 120Hz and not 144Hz like mentioned on the specs.
If you decided to buy, I would recommend that you check the firmware version too.

 

[nyxanna]

Thank you for your replies.

I definitely do not want to RMA and wait any longer, I need it next week so perhaps I should be looking at other monitors?

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

Was that later or? Because according to the article from Sweclockers where they found it in their test lab, they fixed it before 'officially' releasing it, or maybe just the first few were affected. I haven't heard of anything similar to the problems the XB270HU has recently.

 

[spagalicious]

Quality Control or not, I would not buy Asus because of their questionable dead pixel policy. Asus claims that 10 or under dead pixels is 'normal' for a panel and will not provide warranty replacement or service for anything less. Acer is very, very good at providing warranty service and replacement panels when compared to Asus. I don't think Acer is a 'terrible' company at all. XB270HU is a great panel but is not perfect.

I've seen lots of owners and purchaser's of the panel with excessive backlight bleed/IPS Glow. However, the panel I received (July) is pretty perfect and has little to no BLB/IPS Glow.

Asus and Acer do not make the panel, mind you. AU Optronics is the manufacuturer.

"The new AU Optronics panel, the M270DAN02.3, is a 27-inch example. It boasts a 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 350cd/m2 brightness, sRGB gamut and 178/178 viewing angles."

I'd say go for the Acer over the Asus.

 

[nyxanna]

The thing is that I have an AMD card but might change to NVIDIA soon.

Does the monitor work if you plug it in to a AMD card or does it have to be NVIDIA?

I don't really want to base my graphics card choice depending on the monitor.

 

[nyxanna]

Can someone please tell me if a G-Sync monitor will work with an AMD card?

 

[guanyu210379]

GSync monitor should work with an AMD monitor but the GSync function will not work a.k.a. it will be simply a normal monitor.