Acer launches massive 21:9 37.5" curved QHD gaming monitor with FreeSync support

[William Gayde]

Acer has announced that their new XR382CQK monitor is officially available for sale in the U.S. The ultrawide monitor sports a 3840x1600 resolution and measures a huge 37.5 inches diagonally. Complementing the vast amount of screen real estate, the display also has a 2300R curve and a 75Hz refresh rate.

Response time at 5ms is slightly slower than many gaming monitors, but given the monitor size and resolution, it's more than adequate. Behind the scenes is a FreeSync capable display driver to help match the screen's refresh rate with the GPU frame rate output to reduce tearing.

The panel itself has narrow bezels and provides viewing angles of nearly 180 degrees both horizontally and vertically. Acer claims the XR38CQK delivers on the color department with 100% sRGB coverage.

The stand offers tilt, swivel, and height adjustments built right into the aggressive and futuristic looking frame. The monitor comes with HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort 1.2, a 4-port USB3.0 hub, and a 5Gbps USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-C (wow, that's a mouthful) port.

Like nearly all gaming monitors, there are plenty of fancy display settings to adjust like backlight flicker, low blue-light mode, low-dimming technologies, and more. To no one's surprise, the monitor also features various lighting effects that can be adjusted through the OSD menu.

The monitor -- if 38" is something you can still call a monitor -- doesn't come cheap. At $1,300 it's one of the more expensive gaming monitors on the market, but it sure does look like a stunning display.

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[Experimentongod]

No G-Sync and probably no 100Hz overclock support like the X34. Not a "true" gaming monitor imho, I'd say it's more of a "hybrid".

By the way you forgot to mention it's an IPS panel, but that should be a given for the price

 

[Tibeardius]

Correction. It's 3840x1600.

 

[Raytrace3D]

Just for anyone interested, until Feb 6, you can get 2 Dell U3415W 34" UtraSharp Curved displays for the same price ($1299) due to a "Buy one get one 50% off" deal... 64" of pure heaven.

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=210-ADTR

My pair will be on order this week...

 

[Eric Mozzone]

People need to stop with this "freesync" bologna.

 

[Uncle Al]

LOL .... people willing to pay $1,300 for a single monitor??? I need to go buy stock in that company!

 

[amstech]

LOL .... people willing to pay $1,300 for a single monitor??? I need to go buy stock in that company!

Porsche, Lamborghini and Bugatti seem to be doing just fine.
Point being, if its nice enough consumers will come.

Just for anyone interested, until Feb 6, you can get 2 Dell U3415W 34" UtraSharp Curved displays for the same price ($1299) due to a "Buy one get one 50% off" deal... 64" of pure heaven.
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=210-ADTR
My pair will be on order this week...

For gaming IMO split screens sucks.
I've tried it a few times now and I can't get over the bezels separating the image, no matter how thin. Gimme a big single and call me old school.

 

[Makson]

It is almost impossible to see a movie satisfactorily in a fron row seat on a massive screen.
Same with gaming and COMMON SENSE instead of being conned by BIG TV makers. What is it with 'gamers screens', I played Mario Bros on a small screen, thoroughly enjoyed it....a gamers HUGE screen in the rear yard, then sit on a roof 100 feet away ONLY PLAYING COMPUTER GAMES, it seems that human minds of gamers is shrinking inexorably !!

 

[Raytrace3D]

Porsche, Lamborghini and Bugatti seem to be doing just fine.
Point being, if its nice enough consumers will come.


For gaming IMO split screens sucks.
I've tried it a few times now and I can't get over the bezels separating the image, no matter how thin. Gimme a big single and call me old school.

I totally agree. Back in the day I used to game across 3 x 24" screens for a while, but that doesn't work great unless it's a racing sim. I was just saying if you wanted a better deal than just one monitor. I personally only game on one monitor now (LG 34" or my Dell 30" - depending on the game). I mostly use my monitors for work though (software developer).

 

[Makson]

Porsche, Lamborghini and Bugatti seem to be doing just fine.
Point being, if its nice enough consumers will come.[/quote]

IF it's affordable the miniscule amount of wealthy people in the world will come, look and possibly buy.
Then it comes to a want or a need, if it's a want and affordable, when the bigger, better, bells and whistles
are on the newly released product, then the want starts again, although again not needed.
How many of those who want and buy consider the products' basic ingredients sources diminishing and land-fill sites
rapidly filling.

 

[SirChocula]

No G-Sync and probably no 100Hz overclock support like the X34. Not a "true" gaming monitor imho, I'd say it's more of a "hybrid".

By the way you forgot to mention it's an IPS panel, but that should be a given for the price

While I agree on the 100hz refresh rate, it does have Freesync. I would consider it a gaming monitor...one for AMD and not Nvidia users.

 

[Jahara21]

Correction. It's 3840x1600.

Ah. Ok. I was trying to figure out if it was actually like 21:10 or something.