Hands-On Video Preview With Acer Predator X34 Curved G-SYNC Monitor Is Pure Gaming Glory

One of the first times we laid eyes on a curved monitor in the flesh was back at CES 2015 where Dell was showing off this 34-inch bad boy to the masses. Since then curved monitors have been cropping up all over the place, and even a few curved all-in-ones have made a showing here in Q4. Acer recently stepped up with its Predator line of displays including the 34-inch curvaceous Predator X34 that we immediately sat-up and took note of. The Predator X34 is not only a 34-inch curved panel targeted at gamers with refresh rate overclocking up to 100Hz, but it also comes with two flavors of Adaptive Refresh Rate (ARR) technology - either NVIDIA G-SYNC or AMD FreeSync.
The G-SYNC enabled model sports a 100Hz overclock setting while the FreeSync version tops out at 75Hz. Marco has a great rundown of G-SYNC technology here and we've got some discussion on FreeSync here as well, but in a nutshell, the technology synchronizes pixel refresh of a monitor as frames are rendered on a GPU, for tear-free, jitter-free smooth gaming performance. It's one of those things you have to see for yourself to appreciate. The experience is that much better. Combine ARR with a big, curved high refresh rate panel and you're looking at pure gaming geek glory, so we were  eager to check out the 100Hz-capable G-SYNC driven Predator X34 beast.

We've been working with a Predator X34 G-SYNC variant for the past week plus and have a quick hands on video preview tease here. Feast your eyes on this apex predator panel that can pretty much do it all, in addition to bringing the gaming beat-down wrapped around you slightly for maximum peripheral pleasure.