Acer Predator Z301C is 30inch Curved VA Panel with 200Hz Refresh and GSYNC
Okay, the refresh rates are just getting dim-witted. I mean who needs 200 Hz unless you have bionic eyes? Acer a new 30" ultra-wide model in their Z1 gaming monitor series. The Predator Z301C comes with a 2560 x 1080 resolution and 1800R curvature.
The panel is VA, and supports an up to 200Hz refresh rate. It is a little uncertain if that is overclocked or not, but the panel used is a AU Optronics AMVA panel and that could be a native speed. Whether the VA panel can offer response times fast enough to make this 200Hz refresh rate practical, and whether you can power a screen with this resolution at that kind of refresh rate reliably is another question of course. NVIDIA G-sync supported for them nice dynamic refresh rates.
"The 30-inch high-res curved monitor with 2560x1080 resolutions and 178° wide viewing angle provide a full-fledged audio-visual entertaining and gaming experience. It equips dynamic stand design composed by various triangle elements and armor-shaped layer with black dot pattern. The powerful accent color highlight and crafted hairline brush express the truly high-tech and sci-fi image. Inspired by futuristic spaceship, there are various concrete angles and overlapping triangles appearing in different perspectives of the Predator Z301C to create a sharp and dynamic visual effect and to convey an aggressive message. Also, the masculine stand is composed by various triangle elements, creating a great contrast with the smooth curved display. The concrete-angle design with powerful confident linear elements of rear give a super sleek and high performance image. The extreme-narrow frame provides the maximum viewing area in minimum dimension. The cable management hole helps users to organize accessory cables easily and neatly. It can be tilted from -5° to 35° and reached 150 mm up and down for providing the most comfortable viewing angles to users."
The screen offers a 4ms G2G response time, 3000:1 contrast ratio, 100% sRGB coverage and 178/178 viewing angles. We would expect to see DisplayPort and HDMI inputs. There are also 2x 7W DTS speakers included. The design looks to be similar to that of the Z35. Currently there is no mention of a release date.
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This screen may have a little ghosting so I would happily run this @120hz to resolve that problem.
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So this. I am fed up to the back teeth with IPS/TN washed out blacks and terrible colour because of the wishy washy black/contrast level.
This monitor may not be the ultimate solution but it's far better than the above as far as I'm concerned for making graphics pretty again like back in the CRT days.
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although I use TN now, I used IPS. Both are crap in terms of blacks, but for gaming I'm afraid TN is better(from personal point of view). Especially black equalizer feature in games helps a lot. And no more IPS glow...that thing make me nuts...
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Good grief, my 4-year-old 1920x1200 HannsG TN panel murders my old 20" Sony Trinitron sort-of-flatscreen CRT...


And as far as making 30" monitors that do 2560x1080 I think that's purely nuts...why increase the width resolution to a nice number for 30" while leaving height constrained to a paltry 1080P? Give me 2560x1600/1440P and now we are talking...and I agree with HH completely..."200Hz" sounds like they pulled the number out of their collective posterior. Got to be some kind of marketing pablum...
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Good grief, my 4-year-old 1920x1200 HannsG TN panel murders my old 20" Sony Trinitron sort-of-flatscreen CRT...


And as far as making 30" monitors that do 2560x1080 I think that's purely nuts...why increase the width resolution to a nice number for 30" while leaving height constrained to a paltry 1080P? Give me 2560x1600/1440P and now we are talking...and I agree with HH completely..."200Hz" sounds like they pulled the number out of their collective posterior. Got to be some kind of marketing pablum...
Would sound just fine example if Nvidia 3dvision was still being advanced?

100hz an eye would then make awesome 3d sauce . Just seems silly when stereoscopic concerns are far from dead considering the billions invested in vr. Just plain silly
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It's not like you have to run it at 200hz tho, I still run my 144hz screens at 120hz most of the time as my eyes seem to prefer multiples of 60, no clue why, but I suppose 200hz is more of a future proof thing but really by the time cpu's and gpu's are capable of pushing games to 200 fps with all the bells and whistles there'll be better screens out there anyway and as others have mentioned the res here isn't anything special.