expiredNavy-Wife | Staff posted Oct 21, 2023 08:15 PM
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expiredNavy-Wife | Staff posted Oct 21, 2023 08:15 PM
Costco Members: 34" Acer Nitro UWQHD 165Hz 1ms FreeSync Curved Monitor
+ Free S/H$250
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However I have heard some people complain about using curved monitors for a lot of spreadsheet/excel work. I guess the curve can make the rows of the spreadsheets seem slightly distorted or bent from the display's curve.
However I have heard some people complain about using curved monitors for a lot of spreadsheet/excel work. I guess the curve can make the rows of the spreadsheets seem slightly distorted or bent from the display's curve.
This is a great deal especially from Costco. Would jump if I didn't grab an MSI 100hz model a few months back for the same price.
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...right?
...right?
My only concern is that the $299.99 regular price seems low. There are lower resolution monitors with similar other specs priced higher. This usually indicates lower build quality in order to allow better specs at a lower price. The last 34" Acer Curved Monitor I purchased at Costco developed really bad coil whine after a few months to the point where I returned it.
Anyone have this monitor? Thoughts?
From what I've heard, Acer is relatively new to the gaming monitor market, so its monitors tend to cost less to gain market share and cover the fixed costs of this new endeavor.Correction: I was thinking about ASRock when I wrote the above... For Acer, the lower prices are likely due to the slightly lower quality materials it uses, missing certain features compared to the competition, and the fact that the Acer brand doesn't have as much weight as Samsung, LG, or other top brands would. Just a guess.
1) I picked up the 31.5" version of this monitor for $200 recently. They are very similar, so they probably share some hardware.
Not sure if it would be worth the upgrade for me... this one is actually narrower than the 31.5", so significantly wider.
Any thoughts on how good of a deal the 31.5" for 200 for 34" wide for 250 is?
2) I'm not sure if this is an issue with my setup, but at the high refresh rates (144+) in linux using an nvidia GPU I get a weird noise / artifacting along the right side, about 1.5" and top to bottom. It almost isn't noticeable, it shows up more displaying dark colors.
I managed to find an obscure thread somewhere with people complaining about the same issue, some even sent it in to Acer and they would send it back and it still never worked.
I cannot figure out if it might be a driver issue since nvidia sucks, or if it's some sort of issue with sync. The fact it doesn't happen in windows makes me think that - but my other 27" 144Hz monitor doesn't have the issue.
Tempted to buy this from Costco just to see if it also has the issue.
Anyway, if anyone has any ideas for that issue let me know.
3. I can confirm all the other stuff people said is true for this one too - it has VESA but it is recessed. It came with stand-offs to help with that though, not sure how great it is to mount on standoffs though. Speaking of which, be careful when taking everything out of the box, almost lost the tiny bag of screws needed to assemble the monitor mount. The monitor mount has a small amount of vertical pivot and no horizontal pivot nor vertical translation.
4. If the monitor is on in store you might want to try navigating the menus. I find this is almost a deal breaker because I do switch between different inputs using the menus and the buttons feel like they aren't the best, worried they might stop working with too much use. And the menu itself is annoying - to change inputs you have to press a button, wait a sec, press another button, wait a sec, press the arrow button to select input, press a button, wait for it to switch input. My other monitor has an input button that cycles them, so no having to navigate/wait on a menu at all. This is a really annoying aspect of it that if some other equivalent monitor goes on sale any time soon I would 100% return this.
But this does seem like probably a niche complaint.
Oh btw this has speakers via 3.5mm jack or HDMI. Those are about what you would expect.. works fine if you have nothing but not what anyone would like to use all the time.
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