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Can recommend f.lux as been using it for the last few years. However, for those on Win10 like myself, it now has a built in function which does the same thing. It's called Night Light for anyone not wanting another program to install.

Maybe using f.lux could help if you are using the monitor with a PC/Mac: https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/flux-a-neat-program-to-automatically-adjust-your-screen-display-in-order-to-help-protect-your-eyes-and-help-you-sleep-better-2909165 Quite a lot of settings and options. It is free btw.

Must be selling these off now, cause the 27 inch version was the exact same price last week from eBuyer.

I think the main reason for this is that ULMB/lightboost at the highest setting dramatically reduces the brightness of the image on the screen. This means for the tech to work the overall brightness offered needs to be super high. And it is worth it. Lightboost is fantastic at reducing blur. But I'm not sure you can have lightboost active while using highest refresh rate or with gsync active. As for the quality of the image being degraded at lower brightness, I've got a similar display and have the brightness set at 0 in the on screen menu. However i've also tweaked the colour and a couple of other settings and have a fantastic looking display. I dont have the hardware to calibrate the display myself but borrowed from another. It isn't as accurate as the ips it sits next to, but there isn't a huge difference once both are calibrated. In addition, the ips can't do 240hz, so each has its place. I know many gamers seek out high brightness displays and that high brightness is a requirement when showing 3d content so that may also play a part. In fact I believe lightboost is a part of the Nvidia 3d offering so they go hand in hand. But it would be nice to have a greater range on the brightness slider.

I got this about a week ago on offer. It is great, but one BIG issue anyone buying should be warned about is it is VERY BRIGHT! Since having it I feel like I am staring into lamp. It also is bad if you ever use a webcam or camera in general as it will wash your face out. Even with the light off in my room this thing makes everything lit up. Now you can lower it but I find it loses a lot of quality. Just a warning. I am happy with it for gaming but for general use I use my old screen instead.

Just buy second hand

It'll probably have the marginally better i5-7400 in it, not the advertised i5-6400.

I used to have one of these...ended up having to return it because the power on button kept breaking. Got a pcspecialist one instead.

Pretty much not upgradeable unfortunately :(

Yes it does! I know GPU prices are coming down but still...

I see, fair enough, although the monitor I had didn't flicker initially for the first few months and then it started out of nowhere. Is that normal?

yep happens on all g-sync moniotrs ive had, reason why ive just upgraded to a 1440p without as jusr drives me insane

The Gsync flicker is NOT caused by the monitor, it is a 'feature' of ALL adaptive sync graphics cards (Gsync or FreeSync). It depends on the game you are playing as to how noticable it is (and also the person and their sensitivity). This problem has been present since day 1 and has not been fixed because it can't be fixed. If you want gsync or Freesync, some games will flicker.

I must have, as I say I know there are good ones out there and I'm not claiming them all to be bad, my experience just mirrored what a lot of forum comments / reviews mentioned so I thought it was worth sharing. Glad yours was a good one though! When it worked for me initially it worked beautifully.

And yet I have had the same model for a while now and had nothing but a great experience. G-sync works outstanding and the eyetracking software is a good feature. Though I must admit I prefer keyboard and mouse to control Windows 10. You must have had serious bad luck here.

Only just made hot I expect, just report as expired.

Why is this revived? The price is back way up.

I was curious and had a look at Sam's comment history and there's not a lot of things that makes this person happy. NEXT!

This site has cost me a lot in the past week. The Samsung nvme with farcry 5 and now this. Just thought I would report that mine has been despatched delivery tomorrow.

got this monitor from overclockersuk when it was 300, can confirm its an absolute beast and wouldnt trade it for anything else (atm)

Bonus! Although the box matches the advertised spec, the actual machine has an i5-7400 (Kabylake) not an i5-6400(Skylake). While not a massive performance improvement, it's definitely welcome as the CPU is the weakest component. I guess Acer refreshed their later production runs with whatever they could get hold of. It also has 1x8GB 2133(Crucial CT8G4DFS8213.C8FDR), and 3 free ram slots, which is both good and bad; good for future upgradeability, but bad for current performance (only single channel)

Mine being delivered today :)

Terrible build with a crippled GPU and CPU and by the looks of the price a cheapo PSU and Case.... Needs £500 spemt on it to put it right lol

People saying the card is £300... It's £300 brand new, this is not. So I would probably say it's closer to £200.

Travel a little way to save more money? He's saying he's never mined the crypto currency etherum with the 1060 he is selling. I use gumtree for most of my builds is amazing

Not everyone wants 2k or 4k, with the additional overheads of buying a GPU that can cope with the added strain in games. 1080p is fine for me.

Two Samsung 1080p displays running off Macs here. Both are fairly well calibrated, 60Hz and 4:4:4. Not sure of the problem here i can compute from the comfort of my easy chair good source material is plenty sharp. (y) I'm sat about 4' from the screens.

Agree, just plugged in my LG 27" ips monitior (going up from 21.5), a lot of screen and just starting to loose it's sharpness.... tried big led tv on pc's before, not sharp at all...

I don't understand why they make 32" screens at 1080. I have a 27" 1080 screen on a very large desk and still this is pushing the limits of this resolution. I can not imagine my pixels being even bigger than they are now, would be an awful viewing experience. Just because this is cheap it does not make it a good deal.

Great find, thanks!

Price brings it inline with scan.co.uk pricing which have similar laptop specs but include Gsync and newer processors. Cold

i7-6700HQ its old

1200 for a 1060. Nope

You should probably use backspace for the massive spaces in between each line in description (embarrassed) Heat for the deal (party)

Where indeed? I've been spoiled with IPS panels, every TN screen I see seems very washed out. Poor colour accuracy in the reviews is what is putting me off this :(

Where?

Middle range If its not IPS screen, there are IPS monitors out there with similar speck. TN screens are old school

TN I believe.

expired? shame its only 60Hz, more of a second monitor imo.

Nice price on this especially with Gsync. Hopefully prices continue to fall. I wish these could do 1080p@120hz as well as 4k@60hz. Would make them perfect for my needs at the moment. 1080p60hz the gold standard in PC gaming? Even for 60hz 1440p has been around for a long while now. It's not that 60hz isn't playable but for fast twitch shooters where you are using a mouse to control your view there is a very noticeable difference dropping from 120hz to 60hz. If you are using analog sticks on a joypad the difference is way less apparent. There are still plenty of games I will chose to play on a tv at 60hz rather than 144hz on my monitor. A 1080ti will hit 144hz in most pvp twitch shooters at 1440p at high or max settings paired with the right cpu. Although in competitive shooters people tend to run lower settings for general increased visibility and also to get reduced input lag from a higher frame rate anyhow. Joycons vs mouse and keyboard and different games. It's not exactly an apples to apples comparison.

Err... dude this a gsync monitor

Snobbery is all it is. I have a 144hz monitor and would whole-heartedly recommend 144hz to everyone but I also have a Switch where 30/60 FPS doesn't bother me at all, and still very much enjoy.

dam, it feels like just yesterday the gold standard is 1080p60fps, but everyone talks like 60fps is unacceptable. IIRC even 1080ti cant hit 1440p at 144hz but i guess above 90fps, you can really see a different

Lots of people use 27" 1080p screens. Like myself. People really gotta stop assuming their own preferences are universal. It's bizarre how small minded so many are. You dont need to reach the cap of 240fps to benefit. And plenty of people play less demanding games that certainly can get up to the ~200fps range without some top of the line system.

You go for it and enjoy running your 1080Ti at 1080p in order to actually achieve 240Hz, in some games. Maybe to competitive CSGO players then this is ideal i would agree, but for ordinary folksd, i don't think so.

LOL TN garbage

Why do you not need g-sync on a 240hz monitor?

Who even designed this? No one wants a 1080p 27" screen, no one needs G-Sync on a 240hz monitor and the stand takes up way too much desk space.

just like to say ive had this monitor before, have the x34a now but ive also had the first ROG monitor & the IPS version. I would rate this monitor above the both. the Rog versions have annoying faults the TN version also the IPS has faults that can only be fixed by sending it to Asus for a firmware flash, also the power brick died twice with the Asus monitors.

For the money you’re getting what you pay for so, yes

because its out of stock

There doesn't seem to be a button to add it to basket?

But would you recommend it for ~420?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-LC49HG90DMU-49-Inch-Computer-Monitor/dp/B073RJQXB1/ref=sr_1_1?tag=amazon0c83-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1505678557&sr=8-1&keywords=Samsung+CHG90

Because it's 4K res you don't get 4k screens at 144/165Hz

oh yeah sure for an xbox one or anything like that go with 1080p 1ms, 60fps. For xbox one x maybe something like this... maybe something cheaper if it offers the same IQ and gaming performance.

I agree with you there. But I'm sure there's 1ms with great image quality for a cheaper price. And the older xboxs can only do 1080p. I've seen good quality monitors that are 1ms+1080p+60fps+ips monitors at a much lower price point. Just trying to get the best deal without losing out (lol)

1ms and best image quality is the goal, for a console limited to 60fps I wouldn't go for a cheap one if a more expensive one offered lower input lag or higher image quality.

pity there's no hard drive, otherwise, great deal!

Acer nitro 5 was the unmissable deal for me on cyber monday. In stock sometime after midnight and gone by 3am ish. Annoying. After saying how good my HP Probook has been it's now crapped out it's sata controller somehow - i've temp got round it by using the SSD via an adapter in the ODD bay, Need a new laptop.......but need to get a stonking deal is higher.

Something similar popped up on here last week - same laptop iirc. No doubt it looks like a good deal but the Warranty issue concerns me. At the very least you'd have to get 3rd party insurance.

Get where you are coming from. I have been waiting for too long for the ‘right deal’ seems like an age! (lol)

thought about this when it came out on cyber monday. but i would rather wait for bristol ridge to disrupt the laptop market. the reviews for ryzen are looking good already. if i had seen it when it was at £861 including import fees on black friday I would've pounced though. https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/acer-predator-helios-300-gaming-laptop-i7-7700hq-6gb-gtx1060-16gb-ram-256gb-ssd-at-amazon-for-860-2839228

Buy 4k now

Yakkal303 £20 is still the same regardless of where in europe it comes from

20 quid is 20 quid imo! I see your point though, I just like saving as much as I can. Frugal if you like.

Not bad price but it was £169 last week in the uk, no doubt it will drop again shortly. I don't think it is entirely worth it to buy it from germany to save £20 tbf