Acer Nitro XV272U Vbmiiprx 27 Zero-Frame WQHD 2560 x 1440 Gaming Monitor | AMD FreeSync Premium | Agile-Splendor IPS | Overclock to 170Hz | Up to 0.5ms | 95% DCI-P3 | 1 x Display Port & 2 x HDMI 2.0

amazing budget monitor, would recommend to xbox users.

I purchased the 27 QHD version of this monitor two months ago and so far it has been great. Coming from a 60hz, 1080p monitor this thing is buttery smooth during gaming and QHD resolution is a huge step up from FHD. The menu took a little getting use to as far as navigation since my old monitor didnt have a joystick, but its fairly easy and the connectivity is great. The 4-port USB 3 hub is also incredibly convenient for plugging in mic, webcam, external storage drives or whatever else you may need quick access to. A lot of reviewers complained about how dim it was and the IPS glow, but neither has been a problem for me. I have brightness at 100% and while the display isnt going to blind you, it is perfect for my viewing. Also there is some IPS glow around the edges but only noticeable in the dark when the screen in black, which is not a problem as I dont use my computer in the dark. I liked this monitor so much I got one for my brother for his birthday and he thinks its great too. As feature rich as this monitor is, its a steal if you can get it for $300 or less.

Update: If your display keeps flickering black seemingly at random or when you click on a window, make sure you disable GSYNC in the Nvidia control panel. Apparently its when you have a HDMI source, even if you use DisplayPort with this monitor. If it happens at all just disable it, it isnt worth the hassle unless you use this as a secondary monitor to a real GSYNC monitor. I followed another reviews instructions for a beautiful HDR display: Enable HDR in Windows settings, set NVIDIA color settings (bottom of change resolution option) to YCbCr422, 10bpc, and limited range. Make sure to enable HDR in the monitors settings OSD. In HDR mode it is beautiful and runs/looks great at 144hz or more. HDR is a bit too bright for me, so I set it back to SDR with mid brightness and it looks pretty good/standard. You really need to mess with the display settings in either your OS or the monitor itself to get it right, dont freak out if it looks wrong when you first get it. Overall this monitor is exactly as described and looks amazing if you enable HDR. My biggest complaint is the cheap/wobbly stand. Id recommend getting a good replacement if possible. I had no issues with brightness except with HDR, but thats par for the course. Light bleed seemed perfectly acceptable to me, even with HDR enabled. OSD controller know is easy and intuitive, made it easy even with another monitor bordering the edge. I highly recommend this monitor, I upgraded from a CB271HU and its much nicer.

What I like: - 1440p 27 in monitor with built-in speakers at a good price - sound quality is good for everyday things - monitors LED doesnt blink when I suspend the computer. The light changes to amber and is barely noticeable. Other monitors blink so brightly and light up the room at night - USB charging ports What I dont like: - no eye saver mode. There are other modes, but I cant tell the difference between them for the the work I do. I got a monitor that has eye saver mode, and it really does save your eyes - there are cheaper 1440p 27in monitors with built in speakers now. Id probably buy one of them now. Their LED might blink when suspended, but I found that covering the LED with three layers of duct tape mutes the color

I plug this monitor with the display port cable it comes with through a docking station to my laptop and I get 170hz. Its amazing. Better picture quality than my 165hz laptop screen. I was skeptical at first- i thought there would be issues since my laptop is only 165hz. However, when I used the display port cable it worked wonders at 170hz. Will be keeping this monitor for a long time.

Heres what you need to know: -HDR mode looks BEAUTIFUL. HDR is great for this monitor in fact. With HDR enabled, Dark Blacks, very opaque, accurate colors - most of all increased brightness and contrast, which is almost necessary with this monitor. The factory settings are a little bit dark for my tastes. Increasing brightness manually may also increase backlight bleed. Some reviewers say HDR doesnt make much difference, but it does. I bet some people do custom color adjustments, including increasing brightness, and in that case that would make HDR LESS noticeable, but that makes the blacks less dark. Both adjusting brightness/color settings or enabling HDR are good options, if you dont want to mess with HDR, but I prefer the HDR as I think it gives the best overall picture on this and I dont have to mess with factory settings. -GSync Capable with 144Hz refresh rates. Some users say G-Sync and HDR dont work together on this monitor... but they do. I have HDR enabled with GSync and have my frame rate max capped to 120 FPS in Nvidia Control panel. I can see that I am getting 120 FPS in games and can FEEL the difference between when GSync is on or off, so I know it works with HDR, which I NEVER turn off on this. - Crisp pictures. You can SEE the difference between 1080p and 2K. Very obvious improvement, especially with gaming. - Great viewing angles, virtually zero washout effect when viewing even from extreme angles -Solid refresh rates, to the average person, you will perceive no visible ghosting or screen-tearing in games with lots of action even with HDR enabled (which lowers response times... I dont know how low the response times are but the advertised <1ms does not apply to when any mode other that gaming/action mode are enabled. BE AWARE: Windows10 has HDR as a built in feature and it is BUGGY as heck, especially paired with NVidia cards, apparently. What will happen is that you will see the monitor colors get washed out and blacks will get grayish. It will look like a cheap TN panel. With only ONE of these monitors, I didnt have much issue, but having two of these 2K monitors hooked up to my RTX 3080 and suddenly Id have a monitor suddenly change to washed out when starting certain games or apps. IT IS NOT THE MONITOR if this happens to you. I believe some viewers complaining about picture quality caught the Windows HDR bug and didnt know about it or how to fix it. -Heres what I did to minimize it: 1) Enable HDR in Windows, and on the monitor 2) NVidia Control Panel > Color options... choose the option for limited and go with YCBCR 4.2.2... This is because Windows supports the HDR10 standard and you can ONLY get 8-bit option unless you enable this and go to limited mode. You will notice a small change in colors when enabling this. Everything gets slightly brighter and less subtle. In some games, you have to TURN OFF Windows HDR for it to work in the game (Red Dead Redemption 2) for example. If a monitor suddenly becomes washed out, while opening/closing apps you can toggle HDR on or off for that screen in display settings in Windows OR you can power the monitor on/off and it usually comes back to its full HDR glory. AGAIN be aware it is NOT a monitor issue. HDR is still Buggy and half-baked in Windows and googling Windows10 HDR will give you TONS of input (some different than mine) on how to deal with this. My advice is The cool thing about this monitor is that you have the empirically superior picture that ONLY and IPS panel can offer, and you can do it with features like 144Hz refresh rates and GSync enabled. To have the IPS panel benefits, you have to enable HDR. What is also cool is that if your graphics card cant push the frames high enough in competive shooters, so you are worried about ghosting in competitive shooters with fast action and abrupt screen movements, you can have TN-panel like performance with blazing fast response times, 144Hz freesync/GSync capable refresh rates, just by hitting a button to switch modes (Action mode) (disabling HDR). The result is that it loses some brightness and contrast. This is where a person would probably want to increase Contrast and brightness, and this would make your blacks become more dark gray... ie it will look like a budget gaming VA panel, or a TN panel with better color and viewing angles. That is essentially what this monitor is: It is a very good blend of lots of well-executed compromises. It is a cheap IPS panel with great picture, but HDR is MANDATORY to get that perfect IPS experience. That is perfectly fine. It also has some moderate, usually not noticeable, backlight bleed. Again, it is a compromise in exchange for not paying $2K for this 2K IPS monitor with fast refresh rates, backlight bleed is ~50% more than a top-of-the line IPS panel. If you are a competitive gamer who just HAS to have 1ms response times and 144Hz GSync, then this monitor will do that too, but the compromise is that HDR has to be disabled (action-mode), but it will require giving up the IPS eye-candy while I play that game. Personally I just accept that I mainly play Planet Coaster and RDR2 and I dont need to ever turn off HDR in those titles with my RTX 3080. Cons (which are NOT really cons if you know about monitor tech) - SOME backlight bleed (ie when the monitor is on a black loading screen -you can see where light bleeds through the bezel in a few spots, like someone has a flashlight behind your screen and some of that brightness actually bleeds through. Backlight bleed is basically a guarantee with EVERY IPS monitor ever made. The only question is HOW MUCH backlight bleed will you get. This model is middle of the road for backlight bleed, and I have 2 of these and both bleed a little differently. I would categorize backlight bleed as noticeable, but not noticeable when gaming unless you are gaming in a dark room, crawling through a dark dungeon. - Refresh rates go UP with HDR enabled (even though you can still get 144Hz refresh rate and GSync at the same time as HDR, to get the <1 ms response times you have to change to non-HDR modes, which is something I would NEVER want to do. For these users, who just want the fastest refresh rates while having deep blacks and bright whites, you want to purchase an at least equally, if not more expensive TN panel instead. HOWEVER, TN panels will GUARANTEE relatively washed out viewing angles, poor washed-out colors compared to IPS. Heres the pros and cons of the different panel types: IPS (this monitor) Great color accuracy and look. HDR. Black blacks, white whites. Good Refresh rates. PERFECT viewing angles. Con- backlight Bleed is noticeable in a dark room on a dark game. VA Panel Can have decent color accuracy and OK refresh rates / response times.. Viewing angles are not great, but usually OK. Wash-out occurs when viewing from angles, but not nearly as bad as TN panels. Contrast ratios are usually between TN and IPS. Usually backlight bleed not a problem. This is the ultimate master-of-none panel and usually exist marketed as gaming panels at 1080p only. Nothing wrong with a VA panel if it is a good one. TN Panel Best Contrast Ratios (Black Blacks, whitest Whites). NO noticeable backlight bleed. Tied with the latest IPS panel breakthroughs for having the fastest response times and highest refresh-rates for competive gaming. You basically cant beat a TN panel for having a combination of contrast ratios and refresh-rates/response-times The CONS however, are not insignificant. The best most expensive TN panels still suffer from poor viewing angles. If you are straight in front of it, the edges and your peripherals in the screen are subtly and more progressively washed out. This is the reason that the ideal screen for pro-gaming is usually a 24-inch TN panel because keeping the screen small keeps all the screen action in front of them, and reduces the washout that happens as the edge of the screen gets further away. The color accuracy is considered poor and would never be used by creative professionals, and make terrible screens for viewing movies and Netflix and such, due to the lesser color/ picture quality. These are screens just for the most die-hard competitive gamer. It is a tool really. This monitor looks (and acts) a lot like a TN panel (with better color/ viewing angles, worse contrast ratio) when in action mode. The rest of the time you get all those benefits of the IPS panel listed above So just a really cool monitor. A monitor is a very personal thing, so there is no right answer to user-preference, but I personally would NEVER do anything but IPS at this point now that they have overcome the refresh-rate limits of yesteryear. It is clearly the most advanced monitor tech out right now. This is a GREAT budget entry into the 144Hz 2K IPS world.

Has features found in $500 monitors, and a near identical panel to some in that category. I was scared because of the last letter in the model name being different than the more will known version. Dont know what was changed, by the panel is the same. This deal cannot be beat at $250!

Spent weeks looking for a good monitor to use with my ps5. Im not really computer savvy ( I havent actively used a computer since 2014), so I basically had to research what all the specs mean, and how it would function with my console. With a $300 budget I wanted the best I could get to hit 120fps and also with hdr and at least 1080p. So the extra pixel count is a nice bonus with this model. If youre discouraged to buy a monitor after watching reviews and reading reddit threads and seeing how someone always had something negative to say about any computer product. as someone who knows basically nothing about this stuff, I can say that this particular monitor has met all my needs and Im 100% satisfied. I would buy again. Setup was super easy, you really dont even need to reed the instructions. I had it out the box and set up and playing games within 20 minutes. And the analog stick button on the back makes it super easy to navigate its menus. Just an overall amazing monitor for the price and for anyone with next gen consoles.

Looks great, has had no issues. Works perfect for what I use it for, casual use and casual gaming. Am looking at it right now as I type this review and I have nothing to complain about. Maybe the controls are clunky but how often are you going to have to mess with the settings? Thats just nitpicking. Overall great monitor.

I have had this monitor for about 6 months now and its great. It serves as my 2nd monitor currently. Havent had 1 issue with it to date. The speakers arent amazing but theyre no worse than any other monitor. Stand is fairly compact and very sturdy. All and all I would recommend it for sure