Do you need a joystick on a monitor? No! but let's convince you that you do and you can pay more for it as well. Technology is ridiculous now, back to the tent for me.

Reviews
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/acer-predator-x34,review-3364.html
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/monitors-and-projectors/monitors/acer-predator-x34-1317867/review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_GXkjPAkDw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FVtyZPkMx4

Similar price on ebuyer if you so prefer.
http://www.ebuyer.com/745369-acer-predator-x34a-34-curved-ips-uw-qhd-monitor-um-cx0ee-a01

Have some heat.. Very expensive for a monitor but it is a good price for what it is. Personally Im looking at the dell u3415.same resolution but less refresh rate.. It can be over clocked to get it closer to 80hz i think. Big price difference considering the performance difference.

Absolutely no

If you're considering buying the X34A, you might want to look at the forthcoming X34P which is a refreshed version with an improved OSD (with joystick), greater curve and metal chassis. Even if those improvements aren't thing you're interested in, it might be worth hanging on to see if the X34P pushes the X34A down in price.

As impressive as this monitor is, I suspect we are a way off above 60 fps 4k gaming. My dual titan x rig struggles to maintain 60 fps at max settings at a 2k resolution on the new hitman for example, though I suspect that's more to do with the game than the machine.

Bottom line if you have the best part of a grand to spend specifically on a monitor get something like this, otherwise go for a 4k one with lower refresh rate for a good chunk of change less.

I got the z35 and was blown away by how good it looked but ghosting was an issue with it being a va panel.
I think this looks good for the price just out of my budget though.
Bear in mind 27" ips over 60htz are around £600

Don't hdmi ports get capped at 60hz????

Thought it'd be a good deal. Sigh... Is it because the base price is too high to most?

Heat from me (despite the horrible Predator logo badge). Noticed the price drop myself as this has been sitting in my basket along with the Asus PG348Q and the Asus PG279Q (which has gone up in price in the last few days).

it's a **** deal because it's gsync :smile:

I did like the Z35 especially for turn based games but ghosting was a major issue in any action game and made most games unplayable. Also scrolling on a dark screen made the text unreadable such as this one.example website
I tried all sorts of settings and found everything looked better on 144 but for that sort of money it needs to be right.

I know the current gen VR headsets dont have the clarity yet but after playing with virtual desktop and other similar apps, I wonder if there will be a need for large high performance screens in the future.

I admit the current gen don't offer the same quality.

Surely curved monitors are poor for photo editing?

God tier monitor. 21:9 is the way forward. Earlier adopters tax pushes this too high imo, considering the gpu(s) you need to run it.

Have this monitor, paid £550 in amazon wharehouse deal. my usual evening is split screen you tube and hotdeals then some gaming.

I could not go smaller than 3440x1440 just seems normal.

mine only hits 95hz but im happy with that.

Just got reference my March 2016 hits 95Hz stable, not 100.

This monitor plus a sub-£600 GTX 1080 here or here = I'm a happy guy. Provided my kidney finds a buyer on ebay.

After trying it, I don't think it will

Star trek bridge crew has awesome potential.

Not remotely comparable.

If you think this monitor is worth more than £200 - £250 you are sadly wrong. You can argue it all day long with "facts" but the fact is, this isn't worth the money.

To this day, this monitor (alongside the Asus PG34Q) is the absolute best monitor money can buy.

However there's one issue that no one seems to mention about this monitor, which is the HDMI input port stretches any feed that you connect to. Basically, if you plan to play your consoles with this monitor, it will stretch all your games by a bit on both sides. So instead of a normal 16:9 with black bars on the sides, you will get an awkward ratio (~18:9) still with black bars on both sides.

Aside from that, this monitor is heavenly for normal '2D' PC gaming. It would be near perfect if this monitor had support for nVidia 3DVision 2, but unfortunately, no monitor supports 3DVision anymore.

Though I pre-ordered it for £880 on Very before it even gets released, so unless you have the 5% student discount, the current Amazon price is hardly worth it, especially considering the P version is right around corner.

3D 'died' because of inconvenience and cost, not because the experience was worse.

Go play either (reboot) Tomb Raider games in 3D vs 4K/Ultrawide/etc. and see which version is superior for yourself. 3D for gaming is simply superior to any resolution and FPS bump, but to get 3D work correctly, it requires quite a bit of effort, and the added inconvenience of the glasses made it rather unappealing to the vast majority of consumers.

VR faces an even bigger uphill battle for so many obvious reasons, but the biggest one is the lack of proper high-production games on VR. So far the experiences seem to tailor toward arcade style games, and it appears that to get VR work for traditional FPS/third-person type games, an enormous effort is required by devs in order to overcome potential motion sickness issues.

VR could provide the best gaming experience and still face a low adoption rate with consumers, simply because of all the added hassles it brings with itself.

The technology isn't ready for VR, the resolution is way too low and won't be solved for quite some time as the graphical power required to render modern games in 8K+ doesn't exist for the general consumer. VR is more likely to progress on mobile platform where 4K screens are becoming more abundant and we'll get 8K screens and higher on mobile devices sooner rather than later.

I don't have a problem with the specs or the price, however Acer quality control and RMA process are absolutely horrendous. Keep this in mind should yours develop a fault which Amazon say has to be resolved by Acer.

Still considering purchasing this monitor. Will my GTX 980ti XTREME be enough to push this monitor on high settings?