Acer Nitro VG271U Pbmiipx 27 WQHD (2560 x 1440) IPS AMD Radeon FREESYNC Gaming Monitor, 144Hz, VESA Certified Display HDR400, DCI-P3, (2 HDMI 2.0 & 1 Display Port), Black

This is the first one I bought (5/2020). 2nd one I bought from another vendor (9/2021). I use it for work, photo editing, a little video work, and watching streaming services. Very happy with the monitors. I recently (1/2022) got a monitor tree to mount them to have them at a more ergonomic height. What vexed me is the VESA mounting hole werent all M4 threaded. On the Amazon monitor one hole wasnt M4 and Im pretty sure I cross threaded it getting the M4 screw in there. On the other monitor the bottom two holes I could not get M4 screws in at all. What worked were #6-32 3/4 screws. What the heck Acer? Somebodys manufacturing quality controls are off.

Great monitor for gaming!

The quality is good except for a glaring defect. Theres a large oval shaped discoloration in the screen that I didnt notice at first because you cant see it in webpages with white backgrounds, but as soon as you watch a movie thats dark in color or most video games, its hard to not look at.

27 Inches, 1440p, 144hz. If that doesnt encourage you to buy it then I do not know what will. Ive lived with 24 inch monitors my whole life, in 1080p. I switched to 144hz 2 years ago, and I am never going back to 60. Ever. That solely encouraged me to try a higher resolution at the same frame rate, now Im never going back. 1440p 144hz gaming is something one should experience at least once in their lifetime. Luckily, I experience it every day. Highly recommend.

great value at 240$, gotta mess with settings to get it just right but still a great monitor.

This has really nice specs. Videos, documents, or pictures look really nice with this monitor. I also have 25” acer 1080 monitors and this 2K is a nice upgrade and I can confirm that 27” is the sweetspot size for a home computer.

as most of you are probably doing in these self isolating times you are looking for a new monitor. and if like me are seeing countless terrible reviews from people who simply dont know what they are talking about discourages you from buying a monitor it can be extremely frustrating. overall very happy with this purchase no dead pixels the BLB and other problems people are talking about arent present. maybe i got lucky but the build quality seems great. games look better. dont expect this to be mind blowing although it does look better it is only 1440 not 4k.. so once you get that straight you wont be disappointed or angry because of lack of knowledge. IPS panels can be a gamble but honestly i feel 90% of bad reviews are just people coming off a TN panel and are used to everything being the same. i can 100% confirm jumping from a samsung 24 TN 1080p 60FPS monitor this is a huge improvement and for 350 bucks you cant really go wrong. picture quality is great BLB is non existent in my panel at least and theres no bleed around the panel tested in completely dark room. so if you are sick seeing bad reviews pay more close attention to what they are complaining about. IPS panels are far more different than TN or VA so keep that in mind before you write bad reviews on products before researching

(UPDATE DEC 2021) The pixel ghosting I mention below actually has to do with inverse ghosting, better known as overshoot. This was happening because I had Overdrive turned on to Extreme. Turning it down to Normal allowed the overshoot to eliminate almost entirely, but, you will notice a little bit of blurring while playing something. Its honestly fine, and may actually resolve itself at higher refresh rates. The problems I was having were pretty much related to Skyrim and playing it at 60Hz on this monitor. (UPDATE NOV 2021): After installing Windows 11 I decided to finally give some time to figure out how to properly set up HDR on this monitor. Im glad I did. Setting the monitor to HDR 400 (it has an Auto setting I didnt find quite as good) and messing with some color settings in Nvidia Control Panel game me an amazing experience that Im glad I took the time to get. Whites are actually white (at least in games), light sources pop, and theres just better depth to everything. Im so glad I took the time finally to do this. Still going to leave it at 4-Stars though because no matter how you cut it, this is not a top-tier monitor and still has some pixel ghosting issues when playing games where there are a lot of bright colors on screen at the same time. _____________________________________________________ (Original Review) First, Id like to say that Im using a 10-series Nvidia GPU. Changing around the refresh rate and color was done in Nvidia Control Panel, and monitor settings were obviously done on the monitor itself. That said, Im mostly happy with this monitor, and I think you will as well. Youll just need to know a few things before buying it to get the most from it: 1. Dont forget to use a DisplayPort or HDMI 2 cable. A regular HDMI cable is restricted to a 60Hz signal, so you wont get 144 unless you use the right cable. I only say this because in almost every instance where someone Ive spoken to claimed there was almost no difference between 60 and 144, it was because they used a regular HDMI cable, sticking themselves to 60Hz even if their PC was running at a high FPS. 2. If you are gaming, be sure to put the monitor on Action mode, and be sure the Over Drive is set to EXTREME, with Ultra-Low Latency to ON in the Gaming section of the monitors menu. 2. You will not get 10bit color unless you put the monitors refresh rate to 120Hz. However, doing this caused a pixel response time change, making it somewhat unenjoyable to play games because of pretty bad pixel ghosting when moving quickly, especially if the background was a light color. 10-bit 120Hz, in my opinion, should only be used for media work/editing, browsing, and other low-intensity activities. 3. The ghosting was resolved by putting the monitor back to 144Hz, 8bit color, and was perfectly enjoyable for gaming, and should be used as such. 4. HDR was pretty bad. It just overly brightened and washed everything out. I did not make any real attempt at changing settings around to compensate for it because it really wasnt all that important to me. (REFER TO NOV 2021 UPDATE REGARDING HDR) 5. FreeSync, at least with my Nvidia card, was not good. It did eliminate tearing, but it introduced bad pixel ghosting because it overrides monitor settings, shutting off Over Drive and Ultra-Low Latency. This may be completely different for you if you have a 20-series Nvidia card or AMD. Also, the Setup G-Sync option (which can be enabled on even FreeSync monitors) will not be available in Nvidia Control Panel unless you turn on FreeSync in the monitor settings first. Overall I love this monitor when I use it in the way described. When I use Photoshop or After Effects, I put it on 10-bit/120Hz. When I game, I put it on 8-bit/144HZ, all in the monitor. For the price, its a small thing to deal with, so Im pretty happy overall. Just dont expect this to be perfect with all of the features it possesses.

Great for people who like rich colors. The pixel response time on this monitor is what made me return it after just a week. The description claims 4ms response with the VRB mode enabled but I know for sure that it wasn’t that fast because of the evident screen smear and ghosting. I was going to use this monitor as a replacement for a 144hz 1080p TN panel also from acer but ended up returning this one to amazon and picking up a comparable dell TN panel.

This is a great product so far, it is a 120hz 1440p IPS display for under $300. The colors are great and accurate and I have had no issues with frame rates or flickering as some have noted with older models. There is very minimal bleed in the corners as expected with IPS but overall great display. There is slight ghosting but it is not really noticable and you have to spend more to remove this. The stand is complete garbage though so buy a vesa mount if you purchase this pls.