Acer - Nitro 27" Mini LED UHD 160Hz 1ms FreeSync Gaming Monitor with HDR1000 (DisplayPort, HDMI) - Black

I'll start this off by saying if you want a Mini LED 4k 144hz+ monitor get this one! This uses the same panel as another brands mini LED monitor, but this one uses an OEM lighting matrix and not the open cell design and the other brand is hardly ever in stock! And sure the chinese made ones may have 1000+ lighting zones but those are cheap looking and use cheap build materials. If recycled DeLorean's is your thing power to ya! Also If you ever needed support with warranty, I would not trust those brands. With Acer at least you can assure you will get decent customer support. This monitor is built with nice textured plastics and the base of the stand is metal. The overall design of the monitor and RGB implementation is very nice and not over the top gamer looking like the others Imo. My only complaint with the physical aspect of the monitor as others have pointed out, is the OSD buttons are a bit slow and clunky. But what they did not mention is Acer has a display widget to control some of your most used basic settings like picture quality and brightness straight from Windows. Besides, if your like me, you'll set it up once and leave it, no need to keep changing settings. The OSD itself is not the greatest, but it gets the job done. Some of the settings are hidden like changing 144hz to 160hz, Max brightness and changing the ambient light color modes on the back RGB strip, so just look around at all the options. Picture quality is superb! Colors pop ands are vibrant, the Mini LED's makes blacks look deep, 4k is nice and crisp and 160hz is super smooth to navigate. Someone said the HDR is not bright? Let me tell you it is blinding! Idk if that person does not have it enabled in Windows and the OSD or what but its too bright at times when viewing HDR videos and games. The Mini LEDS do have a little of a halo effect if its dark in the room or the screen is black with white text, but its not much worse then my MBP 14 with 2000+ lighting zones. Also image looks washes if you view from the side, but I always sit in front of my screen. Overall, yeah its not perfect but at the price this is the best monitor with these specs atm.

What a great monitor this is and for $549 when on sale it is a steal! I always go with LG but I decided to give this a shot and I am not disappointed. The picture quality is awesome, especially when playing newer games. Very minimal glow unless you're looking for it. Hooking it up to your PlayStation at first you might not be so impressed but once you change the settings it's a whole different story. I turned OFF the HDR on my PlayStation and turned it on in the monitor settings to AUTO. Max brightness is ON and after just reduce it to 78. Super sharpness is off as everything nowadays is 1080p to 4k so no need for artificial sharpness. The UI settings are a bit outdated but how many times are you going to be changing them? Overall the colors are spot on, nothing oversaturated and very sharp images. Highly, recommend and worth the shot!

I've been having the hardest time trying to figure out if I should get one of the new OLED 27in monitors or this. I got the LG OLED and while it was beautiful the matte finish and lack of brightness led me to return it. This monitor preforms (to me) 95% as good as that OLED, except I have piece of mind with regard to burn-in. Blacks looks great in HDR thanks to the FALD, and the brightness makes everything pop to a level that will make you forget about OLED. This is also a 4k monitor vs all the current OLEDs being 2k so images inherently look better. *In extreme cases of contrast there is minimal blooming as you can see from the picture of the kettle, not enough for me to justify 300+ more for the 2k oled alternatives. The only few bad things I can say about it are the OSD is complete garbage and an absolute hassle to deal with, also the VESA mount is circular on the back and I couldn't get my arm mount to fit it. If you're having a hard time deciding between this and the OLED models, I would suggest this over that unless you can get the OLED on a good sale and with a warranty to protect yourself from burn in.