Predator X34 Owner's Club & Discussion.

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I drove 30 miles to my local Micro Center and bought a Acer Predator X34 @ $1,299 + Tax.


It is boxed & sitting beside me, but I am unable to get to it, until tonight. This monitor is not a myth anymore. Who else here decided to try this route?
 
Sorry, I do not see one.

All I see, is a big 9-month old, massive thread with months & months of speculation about this product. Not about ownership and reality. People should not have to weed through 9 months of hear-say, and speculation now that the Product is officially released. I am quite sure this community will want to read about the reality of the X34, not stuck reading a speculation thread that started 9 months ago, right?

So I started a thread based on the reality & ownership of the Acer X34.
 
Got mine yesterday and having issues. 100hz isn't stable at all and sometimes causes flickering and even driver crashes. Having some issues with Gsync and certain refresh rates with TW3 as well. I'm starting to think this may be a driver issue on some fronts. Reinstalled Windows and will do more testing today.

And yes, it's normal to have a new thread after a product is released and for the old discussion thread to die. Happens all the time around here.
 
Still having issues with higher overclocks. If I set it to 75hz, I don't seem to have any issues at all.

I also noticed a slight whine from the monitor once I got over 80hz. Haven't decided if I'm going to keep it or not. It's a thing of beauty, but there are definitely some problems. Hopefully a new firmware and better driver very soon will fix the issue, or I'll probably return it.
 
officer921 said:
Still having issues with higher overclocks. If I set it to 75hz, I don't seem to have any issues at all.

I also noticed a slight whine from the monitor once I got over 80hz. Haven't decided if I'm going to keep it or not. It's a thing of beauty, but there are definitely some problems. Hopefully a new firmware and better driver very soon will fix the issue, or I'll probably return it.
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if i remember correctly, overclock is not guaranteed for this monitor
 
Savoy said:
That's true but at this price if i couldn't get 100hz stable that fucker would go back immediately. Guaranteed or not.
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Exactly. It really seems like 100hz is really pushing it on this monitor. My impression is that when I bump it up to 100hz, the Gsync module starts causing problems. The flickering and occassional BSOD's. That may not be what's happening at all, but that's what it seems like.

At 100hz my entire system seems to be much less stable. I'd never even seen the smiley face BSOD screen on Windows 10 until I hooked this monitor up.
 
Is it possible to run it at 96hz?
Would make sense with movies and maybe less chance of problems than 100hz.

Or do you need to successfully OC to 100hz then create custom resolution?
Can anyone check and see?
 
That sux, definitely sounds like you guys got unlucky. So far no real issues with mine. 100hz is fine. Had video cut in out for a second a couple of times but that is it. No whine or crashes.

Only played a few games so far. BF4 video wouldn't come up at full screen need to mess with it some. D3 looks great wish it supported the res though. World of Warships is very nice.

Still not sure I can get use to this small of a screen. Watching movies and tv on it is not great, which I know is not its focus. Just need this thing in a 37-42" screen.
 
Morkai said:
Is it possible to run it at 96hz?
Would make sense with movies and maybe less chance of problems than 100hz.

Or do you need to successfully OC to 100hz then create custom resolution?
Can anyone check and see?
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Once you set the max overclock level to 100hz in the monitor, you can then go into the NVCP and set it by 5hz increments. So you can set it to 95hz.
 
I've been running mine all day. 358.59 driver with newest X34 driver on Windows 10 64. I used the same calibration settings that are on TFT Central. 100Mhz fine with no flicker or crashes. No whine. BF4 looks great. I watched a few 21:9 videos without issue. So far I don't have the partial dark screen on wake issue that a lot of people are reporting. I have the typical light bleed on the corners on a black screen, but it's not a big deal. I'll report back if I discover any issues. Oh, and the monitor is awesome!
 
GreenGoose said:
I've been running mine all day. 358.59 driver with newest X34 driver on Windows 10 64. I used the same calibration settings that are on TFT Central. 100Mhz fine with no flicker or crashes. No whine. BF4 looks great. I watched a few 21:9 videos without issue. So far I don't have the partial dark screen on wake issue that a lot of people are reporting. I have the typical light bleed on the corners on a black screen, but it's not a big deal. I'll report back if I discover any issues. Oh, and the monitor is awesome!
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You running SLI?
 
is this thread for both the a-sync and g-sync variants (of what is essentially the same monitor)?
 
I picked up my X34 Predator from Microcenter yesterday. Will hopefully get it set up when I get home from work tonight.
 
They need to open a microcenter in Austin, TX .. I would have loved to see this in person before purchasing.
 
officer921 said:
Once you set the max overclock level to 100hz in the monitor, you can then go into the NVCP and set it by 5hz increments. So you can set it to 95hz.
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What i mean is, can you set it to 100hz and then add a custom resolution in the nvidia cp for 96hz?
 
enkur1972 said:
They need to open a microcenter in Austin, TX .. I would have loved to see this in person before purchasing.
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There's one in Houston and one in Dallas. What are you waiting for? ;) I drove an hour and half one way to get mine. Ha.
 
MistaSparkul said:
But if you have a dud that's an hour and half drive back to return it :(
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I remember when I tried to avoid long drives.

Try having kids. Now, nothing sounds more wonderful than a long drive with some podcasts that need listening.
 
Hurin said:
I remember when I tried to avoid long drives.

Try having kids. Now, nothing sounds more wonderful than a long drive with some podcasts that need listening.
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I probably wouldn't mind long drives if I didn't live in the LA area where traffic is a huge pain the ass :mad:
 
Morkai said:
What i mean is, can you set it to 100hz and then add a custom resolution in the nvidia cp for 96hz?
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I'm not sure, but I think you can. Is there something magical about 96hz that I'm not aware of?
MistaSparkul said:
But if you have a dud that's an hour and half drive back to return it :(
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That's the situation I'm in now. 1 hour 45 minute drive to get it, and now I'm leaning towards returning it. Sucks.
 
I've ran mine two full days now. Zero problems so far and lots of awesomeness.
 
Linus gets excited about everything it's going to look good cause it's bigger but not sure if I could digest a monitor that size plus the Ultra Wide feels like the top is missing. Wouldn't scale good for all games out there on Steam.
 
Comixbooks said:
Linus gets excited about everything it's going to look good cause it's bigger but not sure if I could digest a monitor that size plus the Ultra Wide feels like the top is missing. Wouldn't scale good for all games out there on Steam.
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That's true he does get excited about alot of things but i really can't find any fault with anything he said in his review of the x34. He seemed to be spot on with pretty much all we know both good and bad. So, what's wrong with that?
 
Overview - Linus

Review - TFTCentral, [H] user NCX.

The quality AND quantity of information provided by the latter options speaks for itself. Whether or not you need that level of information is up to each individual to decide.
 
I'll cross post some of my issues from the Acer forum. Here are the issues I'm having:

100hz causes mutliple issues for me. I sometimes get really bad flicker. I even get BSODS and hard reboots on certain games. Noticeable coil whine even when not gaming.

95hz is a little better, but still some occasional flickering. Noticeable coil whine.

75hz runs fine so far. Very little coil whine.

I occassionally get the dreaded half backlight when waking from sleep bug

I'm running 2 x 980TI Classfied in SLI. Attached via DP. Gsync enabled. Fresh install of Windows 10 Pro 64 bit. Nvidia driver 358.59 which is a hotfix driver that is supposed to fix Gsync issues. Prior to that I was running 358.50. Same issues with both drivers. I've also tried a new DP cable, plugged DP into different cards and different ports on said cards. Nothing fixes it.

Here's a video of the flicker on the desktop:
https://vimeo.com/143740917

Here's a video of the flicker in Mad max:
https://vimeo.com/143742976

And here's a video showing that if I open my browser while it's flickering, it stops for some reason:
https://vimeo.com/143749630

So like now I'm running 100hz, but no flicker because I'm using my browser. If I minimize my browser, I get the flicker back. Also, if I set the monitors resolution to 2560x1440@100hz and I get no flickering.

My goal here is to figure out of this is an SLI issue, a driver issue, or just a plain monitor issue. People are reporting their X34's running at 100hz just fine, so I'm hoping I'm missing something.
 
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Vittra said:
Overview - Linus

Review - TFTCentral, [H] user NCX.

The quality AND quantity of information provided by the latter options speaks for itself. Whether or not you need that level of information is up to each individual to decide.
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OK. Get it.
 
officer921 said:
I'll cross post some of my issues from the Acer forum. Here are the issues I'm having:

100hz causes mutliple issues for me. I sometimes get really bad flicker. I even get BSODS and hard reboots on certain games. Noticeable coil whine even when not gaming.

95hz is a little better, but still some occasional flickering. Noticeable coil whine.

75hz runs fine so far. Very little coil whine.

I occassionally get the dreaded half backlight when waking from sleep bug

I'm running 2 x 980TI Classfied in SLI. Attached via DP. Gsync enabled. Fresh install of Windows 10 Pro 64 bit. Nvidia driver 358.59 which is a hotfix driver that is supposed to fix Gsync issues. Prior to that I was running 358.50. Same issues with both drivers. I've also tried a new DP cable, plugged DP into different cards and different ports on said cards. Nothing fixes it.

Here's a video of the flicker on the desktop:
https://vimeo.com/143740917

Here's a video of the flicker in Mad max:
https://vimeo.com/143742976

And here's a video showing that if I open my browser while it's flickering, it stops for some reason:
https://vimeo.com/143749630

So like now I'm running 100hz, but no flicker because I'm using my browser. If I minimize my browser, I get the flicker back. Also, if I set the monitors resolution to 2560x1440@100hz and I get no flickering.

My goal here is to figure out of this is an SLI issue, a driver issue, or just a plain monitor issue. People are reporting their X34's running at 100hz just fine, so I'm hoping I'm missing something.
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Probably just a manufacturing issue like a panel lottery. Acer does say "up to" 100 Hz. I'm sure that manufacturing tolerances are going to make different displays have different amounts of success when overclocking. I'm hoping that the snsv version will be better.
 
Armenius said:
Probably just a manufacturing issue like a panel lottery. Acer does say "up to" 100 Hz. I'm sure that manufacturing tolerances are going to make different displays have different amounts of success when overclocking. I'm hoping that the snsv version will be better.
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What is snsv?
 
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