Quoting "Gaming" in the title might seem redundant but it's far from it. This is not a mockery of the claim of the seller, the monitor is in reality an excellent gaming monitor and there are no doubts about that. As mentioned in some of the prior reviews, that the product they received had some defect in them like dead pixels, a crack here, etc., so the first thing I did was checked for any faults so I could raise a replacement request straight away, but thankfully it didn't come to it.
It is difficult to find a monitor this big at the price at which it is offered. I suppose the manufacturer was able to cut costs by using a VA panel instead of an IPS one. There's a lot of confusion related to the panels, but the most relevant points to care about are:
1.) IPS Panels have a better viewing angle. This doesn't mean that the VA has bad viewing angles, actually far from it, it's just that it's not on par with IPS. Besides, if you're buying a monitor, a fair assumption would be that you'd view it sitting in front of it, so the viewing angles aren't really important. I checked the monitor from different angles and it looks fine to me.
2.) VA panels have better contrast ratio ergo better picture quality and better blacks compared to IPS panels. Pictures with a dark background are viewed much better on VA panels so that's a bonus as well.
I'd like to highlight some of the things I liked and some minor gripes.
What I liked:
1.) Screen Size: This monitor is huge, I don't know what I was expecting when I bought this, but definitely not what I'm seeing right now. It's almost on the verge of the TV territory especially from up close. Prepared to be treated with delight playing on this. It would definitely be hard to go back to a smaller screen size after getting used to this mammoth of a screen.
2.) Picture Quality: The Picture quality is phenomenal. I'm basing this after playing a couple of games on a PS4 (I bought this to play my PS4 on). I don't know much about the technicalities, the images in the draw distance are clear, the closeups are very detailed, there is no motion blur or choppiness in fast paced scenes, the response time is good and the gameplay is fluid. I tested both games running on 30 and 60 FPS. It's such a shame that a majority of the games are clocked at 30FPS on a PS4 so I can't really see the true power of this monitor, but oh well, I'd get a PC soon and then we can see.
Some Minor Gripes:
1.) I wish the monitor was height adjustable. It's tilt adjustable so that's good. I have a chair where I can adjust the height and recline so it's not much of a problem for me personally.
2.) Out of the Box settings are quite bad. The Gamma is set to 2.2 which should be 2.4, the temperature is warm which you would want to change to Normal and Cool, depending on your preference. Calibration is required to find your fit. I haven't calibrated mine but plan to do so. Downloading the Acer Desktop Widget app is a pretty cool way instead of fiddling with the buttons.
Overall, I'm very satisfied with the purchase. The picture quality when using as a regular monitor is not as crisp as I have seen on other monitors smaller in size (It makes sense because the pixel density in a big monitor would be lower), but none of that matters when you load up a game on it because there are absolutely no compromises there.
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