Acer GN246HL Bbid 24-Inch Full HD (1920 x1080) Widescreen 3D Gaming Monitor|144Hz Refresh Rate|1ms Response Time| (1 x VGA, 1 x DVI, 1 x HDMI)

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I love this monitor! Its the best deal out there right now. I was going to buy the asus 144hz monitor but they jacked the price up about 80 bucks for no reason, so I got mad and decided on this and I was not let down. Okay it doesnt have g-sync but I put it next to my friends Asus Rog g-sync and couldnt tell the difference. It doesnt have speakers but who uses crappy monitor speakers anyway. Its really durable, I am constantly taking it to LAN at friends houses and leaving it in my car trunk bouncing around for days. No dead pixels, super dependable and easy to break down and put back in the box with all my other stuff for LAN-ing. Switching to 144hz is the biggest noticeable improvement I have done to my computer short of upgrading video cards. Buy this monitor and dont look back, use the money you saved to buy a nice head set or something. If you found this review helpful please up vote me, thanks.

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I cannot tell you how many monitors I had to go through until I settled on this one. Price/Feature: This monitor is priced well. Here are the features I like about the monitor 1. 144hz refresh rate, 2. Lightboost capable! - lightboost can be used with Nvidia videocards. There is a little tweak that you must use a Custom Resolution Utility (CRU tool) it can be found on blurbusters.com. Lightboost uses the 3d backlight, making it strobe really fast and it further removes blurriness from the image. Gaming with lighboost on is very enjoyable. 3. Easy to Debezel. The casing around the monitor can be popped off by using a kitchen knife or anything else that is slim and can separate the bezel. 4. Its FlickerFree! I do not have any eyestrain after longer hours of looking at the screen. 5. I purchased a second one, and may get a 3rd for surround gaming. Cons 1. The vesa mount is on the plastic cover. If you debezel the monitor, you will lose the vesa capability and will need to become creative - luckily there are many options out there in forums. 2. Really for the price I have no other cons to share about this monitor. You get a VGA cable, DVI-D cable, Power brick in the package. Stand is not adjustable but does tilt forward and backwards. You will need a screwdriver on hand to tighten the stand. Hope this helped.

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HOLY COW This monitor is GREAT for the price. Having upgraded from a 60hz monitor to this one, the difference is NIGHT AND DAY! If youre having problems getting your OS to display it in 144Hz with this monitor, DO NOT USE THE HDMI, as it can only refresh at 60hz. to get the full 144 must use the DVI cable.

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I wouldve started this review with 5 stars, but my experience with this product quickly detoriated. The monitor at first is not bad. Its a good picture with great color quality at 144hz. However, its like Acer designed a product that cant handle its own power. If you look through the Amazon reviews, youll see a consistent story of monitors overheating and going out. This monitor would probably do fine at 60hz, but when pushed to 144hz for too long, it breaks. I started getting vertical colored lines about 6 months after having the monitor. From what Ive read, this is an indicator of a failing monitor, and its only a matter of time before it completely goes out. Fortunately, for me, it was still under warranty, so I paid Fedex $75 to have the monitor shipped back to Acer. However just getting to that point involves going through the Acer Customer Service hotline, and let me tell you, their customer service is an absolute joke! First, its about a 50/50 chance that youll get someone who even speaks English. From there, anticipate being put on hold after every sentence that you say. The one thing Ill give Acer credit for is honoring my warranty, but after the repairs were complete, they shipped it back to the wrong address! Getting that issue taken care of has been the biggest pain in the whole process. So far, Ive talked to 4 different customer service reps and spent about 3 hours on hold over a 3 day period. Save yourself the headaches and spend an extra $50 getting a reliable monitor thats even better quality. This one isnt worth it.

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Pros: *Superb Monitor for the price. *No Input Lag. *Great monitor for gaming. *Not harsh for the eyes. Cons: *For some reason Im not able to go above 120hz anything more then that causes flickering such as 144hz. Ive tried removing the cable and putting it back restarting my PC downloading the latest drivers for my graphics card. Im using an AMD card. So far 120hz is stable for me. Edit: I have fixed the issue, I went to Best Buy and purchased a DVI-D cable for $8 and I am able to use 144hz without any glitches/flickers. You do not need to buy any other brand for 144hz as theyre indistinguishable and cant tell the difference by other expensive models offering the same 144hz. I will be buying another model of this monitor next month.

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Awesome display, and the colors are very vibrant. 1080p is brilliant on this display, so good in-fact I purchased a second one! Pros: -awesome display -true 1080p -DVI cable(yesss) -adjustable tilt -HDMI compatible -true 144hz Cons: -Not really a complaint, but the display is set to SUPER BRIGHT right out of the box! To conclude: get it. I know that you have been thinking about getting one of these for a long time like I did. I too wondered if it changed my skill or anything like that and let me tell you, it did. Once you play 144hz you will never want to go back.

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NOTE that if you buy this monitor you will NOT be able to run at 144hz with a HDMI cable. They NEVER state this anywhere but I have tried every HDMI cable under the sun, adapters, custom settings in the Nvidia control panel etc. You will NOT get above 60hz over HDMI and if you are using a gaming laptop like me, HDMI might be your only option. I was very upset by this as it is one reason big reason why I picked this monitor. There are plenty of monitors that may list things like being able to run at 144hz but they at least provide details in the description. For example, they will say, "120hz and up to 144hz with overclocking". This monitor, NOTHING to give you heads up with this monitor that 60hz is the best you can do on HDMI. I wouldnt be so mad if I got 120hz but couldnt get to 144hz, but this is very upsetting as its a HUGE difference between 144hz and 60hz. DO NOT LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO SAY YOU CAN GET 144HZ WITH THIS MONITOR WITH HDMI AS THEY OBVIOUSLY DONT OWN THIS MONITOR. Also, there is no way for me to get Lightboost to work either. The monitor is good quality for a 60hz monitor but I didnt buy a 60hz monitor!

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Great monitor compared to my old one! Everything was great out of the box and it came with a dvi-d cable, the only problems i have with this monitor are the brightness is way to bright and the settings menu is very hard to navigate and control.

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Its best to use this monitor with lightboost at 120 hz for gaming because it has a horrible motion blur issue at 144 hz. Everything looks so much clearer on 120 hz, and it just took some color adjustment in the nvidia control panel. Before I did so, the motion blur was so bad it made me sick while gaming. Looks great on 144 hz outside of gaming though. Nice, bright display.

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I ordered this after researching several monitors. I settled on this Acer for two personal reasons. 1- its affordable and shipped free and 2- Im familiar with Acer (blue collar great quality monitors) and was looking for this specific monitor. The price was very good, it shipped and was received sooner than expected and all "hookup" options were in the box when I received the monitor. I went with the hdmi option. Just so you know, there are no built in speakers for this monitor. I didnt want/need them so that wasnt any concern of mine. I just wanted folks who are shopping around for monitors to know that. Youll have to use your computers sound card or the graphics card (if it has audio built in). I used this monitor to upgrade an older HP monitor I had for quite some time. My gaming system is an older I-buypower build that Ive personally upgraded over the past couple of years. The monitor was recognized and installed on the Gigabyte MB without a hitch. I did go in and readjust the graphics settings to my preferences rather than run with the (recommended) default settings. Its simple to set up, readily recognized and mine came with all of the software and hardware that would be necessary for setting it up on a Windows 10 system. The monitors extremely crisp, clear and the colors great! Im running it with an XFX (AMD) Radeon RX 480 (8GB GDDR5) graphics card. It does make a big (favorable) difference in the gaming graphics quality. I tossed around the idea of getting the "next one up" but for the price I ran with this one. Im very happy I did.

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