My gamer heart has been beating like a madman for the last week. Let me show you why.
At the end of October this year my favourite hardware reviewer released the following video:
Best thing evar? Yah sure like every thing that gets reviewed and labeled as "the best" is true, hah! I'm not that dumb Mister Linus, besides, every Ultra Wide screen has had one flaw or another. High refresh rate? Low pixel density. High Resolution? Massive input lag. All of the mentioned? On a TN Panel. That's why I stopped looking for a new screen and stayed on my BenQ XL2411Z, which is a great 24" screen don't get me wrong, one of the best for it's size, but I wanted more.
So I'm watching that video and he starts to mention the specs; 34" 21:9 aspect ratio nice, I knew that. A 3440x1440 resolution, damn, That's close to 4K, a very nice resolution with high pixel density sweet. It's an IPS Panel, which means high colour density and accuracy but has a bit higher response time than a TN panel (the BenQ I used has 1ms G2G, the x34 has 4ms) which isn't really a noticeable difference. Then he says "It has a 60Hz refresh rate" and I was like see? See what I mean that every cool monitor has a flaw? Why the hell can't it have higher "...but it can be over clocked to 100Hz". Oh, nice? I mean it's not 120 or 144Hz but 100 is a very nice number. Ok, please tell me more. "It has G-Sync" Whaaaaaaaaaat bonged! That was all I needed to know, from that moment this monitor was burned into my retina and I had to have it, I want it for Christmas.
I adventure myself into all the online shops checking for availability and I notice, not even one has it in stock, nor is able to give a precise delivery date. I phoned around, sent emails, checked shops in neighboring countries, nothing, they all say that Acer are not giving them any more detailed info. Many already changed the delivery date to 2016. I ordered it at a shop that had it's price around 8% lower than anybody else, but their delivery date changed many times. First it was 27th of November, then the 1st of December, then 3rd and then suddenly, 15th of March 2016 and I was like:
The Pre-Christmas Miracle
I received an E-Mail saying "Your Predator X34 is now on its way, here's your tracking number". WHAT?! They actually got a small batch of monitors and they were able to ship some of the early orders, I was one of them. God was I hyped. *Jumps around in the living room*.
And I am so happy that I was able to trust my guts on this one, it has been a huge investment so I really didn't want to have any bigger issues with it, like game compatibility or back light bleeding and such. Nothing, everything is perfect. I fucking love it. I had to get a Zotac GTX 980ti AMP! to make sure I would get the best out of my new monitor. Closest, and in my opinion best 4K experience you can have. Here are some screenshots of the games I configured and tested so far, each one plays like a charm, I also downloaded Skyrim again because of reasons.
Grand Theft Auto V
Fallout 4
DayZ Standalone
Rocket league
Kerbal Space Program
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Battlefield 4
Since I installed the Acer Predator X34, every time I leave work I get super excited to sit in front of my pc again, it feels like back when I got my first PC at home when I was like 15 years old. Damn I love gaming, and this monitor made it even prettier. The only downside? Every screenshot is now 9Mb big, "we gonna need a bigger drive".
Okay okay, lets forget the pressure about making a perfect first post. After correcting that first sentence about three times lets start by introducing myself to this Blog and to myself, the only ones who will ever read this anyway. I am DHR_000x, also known by my real name which i censor here and get called mostly when i happen to be outside fleeing from the sunlight or of course, at work. What do i do for a living you ask? Well guess... IT. I am an IT Manager for a medium sized business with about 150 people to support. Actually the word support would mean i solve IT problems and stuff, when for most of the time i just try to calm them down when they panic after seeing some cryptic and scary warning messages like "Acrobat reader needs to update" or "are you sure you want to delete this file?". I'm just exagerating, its not that bad... mostly. I am 25 years old and in about 3 weeks i will be living alone for the first time in my own flat just 300m away fro
Good evening Madam Screamer: SKREEEEEEE!! Quite so, quite so... * Starts running hysterically* We picked it up again. Back in 2013, in the middle of our DayZ craze, Stealth and I were trying out some of the different new zombie survival games that were popping up through the Steam Early Access Program, one of them was 7 Days to Die. Also another seemingly good choice was The Dead Linger, with its 360 km 2 map (compared to the 225 km 2 of DayZ), but the pre-Alpha had nothing more to offer than flat landscape, a few buildings and some utterly retarded zombie IA. Glad we didn't invest more than 5 bucks in that game, because it got shelved in 2015 any ways. 7 Days to Die on the other hand had something appealing to me with it's sandbox base building survival thingy going on. "DayZ with Minecraft elements in it?" - I was thinking - "Gotta try that out".
Is it me you are looking for? Once more I'd like to take a trip to nostalgia town and take a look at my days in Linage II. This is the first MMO I've ever played, and that was back in 2006, when it was two years old already. Lineage II is a Korean MMORPG which, as usual for Korean games, focused in its majority on your avatar, more than gameplay, story or basically everything else. This made it perfect for me because I had no idea what was going on.
I adventure myself into all the online shops checking for availability and I notice, not even one has it in stock, nor is able to give a precise delivery date. I phoned around, sent emails, checked shops in neighboring countries, nothing, they all say that Acer are not giving them any more detailed info. Many already changed the delivery date to 2016. I ordered it at a shop that had it's price around 8% lower than anybody else, but their delivery date changed many times. First it was 27th of November, then the 1st of December, then 3rd and then suddenly, 15th of March 2016 and I was like:
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