Currently thinking to decide which one of the best monitor acer xv240yp or aoc 24g2 which have similar price range. I also want some thoughts about acer xv240yp owner, about the monitor itself. Does overdrive can be change when you enable g-sync?

https://www.acer.com/ac/en/MY/content/model/UM.QV0SM.P01

IPS full HD panel with AMD Free Sync plus 144Hz, good for gaming with AMD GPU

Acer nitro xv240yp uses the same ips panel with 144Hz but features adjustable height and swivel stand

i have vg270p.
gsync works in overdrive. you can pick which ever mode.
the only problem is the monitor doesn't sleep after the 15 minutes of inactivity i set with display port on, the backlight doesn't turn off. dp is necessary for gsync with nvidia. hdmi works fine.

both r quite similar, color accuracy i personally prefer Acer XV240YP

refer to this review about AOC 24G2
Click here

I just bought this VX240YP monitor from shopee and it will arrive soon. I will review it here after I played with it. Hopefully it is worth the upgrade from my curve 60fps samsung monitor lol. I'm tired of ghosting and blurry movements from a VA panel, that's why I opt to buy a flat panel because I found curve panel is just a gimmick that covers the flaw of VA panel. IPS still the best panel despite the light bleeding or greyish blacks because it has little to no ghosting and colour reproduction is most accurate.

My Acer XV240YP has arrived and I have tested it for 3 days already. As a 165hz ips monitor, I find that it's price is tremendously cheap compared to it's performance. The design looks minimalist, with large round base, thin bezels (not the thinnest, just average-thin), and it has got a swivel stand that allows to adjust the monitor's height, turn 360°, rotate to 180°, and also tilt. The cable ports are at the bottom behind the monitor but there's no way of hiding the cables, so if you have ocd, better not get this monitor.

Colour-wise, out of the box the monitor will automatically set WARM as it's colour temperature setting and this can be switched to either normal (still quite warm), cool (whiter and bluish) and user manual set. I found that none is of my preference so I thought about setting manual colour temps, but as soon as I enabled hdr, I was literally mind blown. Everything just appear hugely contrasted and in high definition colour with auto colour set. Warmer white on cooler white background will appear to be of very different colour with hdr switched on, and if hdr is switched off, whatever manual brightness or colour settings I did won't be as good. (when monitor HDR enabled, non of the presets/ manual picture and colour settings can be selected due to auto colour configuration. But with HDR enabled the colours for me is the best)

Black level is also adjustable, but IPS panel won't be as good as amoled in terms of black and colour saturation. I found that this monitor is nearly (95% similar) as white, blue and red compared to amoled panel, but green and black is pretty different when compared side by side. Green appear lighter (and yellowish) in this monitor, and black very slightly greyish or glowing. With hdr switched on I found that black becomes darker and glowing is reduced significantly. But green still appear lighter and less saturated even after manually adjusted. So just ignore this as this is actually the inevitable weakness of an ips panel.

This is a gaming monitor, so of course it has an overdrive software system to improve gaming performance. At normal overdrive settings I was able to get a about 5.6ms mprt at 165hz which is ok, because my curved 60hz samsung monitor only got 10.6ms mprt at 60hz max. I've seen a RM2k monitors did much worse. Overdrive like in any other monitor is actually just a software boost tho, I don't prefer to switch it on extreme due to it will cause ghosting. If overdrive is set to extreme, this monitor will disable freesync/ gsync.. this is still a bug/ bummer that it inherited from it's older brother, the VG240YP. But extreme overdrive is still shit anyway. (update: this bug can be updated by just installing Acer display widget, where after that freesync/ gsync can be enabled with overdrive set to extreme)

When gaming with this monitor, I found no issue with response time, sync, framerates and everything (I'm using gtx 1070ti btw). I was able to switch gsync on using displayport cable provided and it works flawlessly so far. HDMI do not support gsync, only freesync. But one problem to note. I had to unplugged and replugged in the displayport cable more than 5 times, switched off and on pc and monitor, due to that the monitor did not detected any signal coming from the displayport. Initially I thought that I got a faulty dp cable, but it turns out I just need to replug the cable several times so that the pins are perfectly aligned.. this issue is pretty common with dp cables btw.

Lastly, my final thoughts about this monitor is, if you are looking for the most budget friendly 165hz ips monitor, this is it. I bought this monitor for only RM650, cheapest I found compared to original price from Acer store at RM699. It will become cheaper as the model gets older though. But I bought this only after 2 months it was launched in Malaysia. The reason why I bought this monitor in the first place is because I found no other ips 144hz/165hz monitor at this price range. This is by far the cheapest in it's class famously branded monitor. I have tried the AOC G242U monitor but I dislike how purplish the monitor colour temperature looks, even tho the overdrive system setting in AOC is better than Acer. Plus, the AOC 24G2U is pricier by about RM200 and stocks is also very scarce.

This post has been edited by shahbiq: Apr 20 2020, 07:46 PM

it disables freesync only when in extreme overdrive mode? what about the other overdrive modes? it will be disabled too?

This post has been edited by alca94: Mar 18 2020, 08:03 PM

Are you using windows 10? If you are how were you able to get HDR to work properly? The colors appear washed out when I enable 'Play HDR games and apps'.

This post has been edited by zedetach: Mar 25 2020, 07:45 PM

what cable did you use while turning on HDR?
does freesync work with extreme overdrive? i heard from someone on reddit said it did work but, this user claimed it didn't

This is astonishing. During my earlier review, I mentioned that freesync will be disabled whenever overdrive is set to extreme. But after I downloaded acer display widget, this somehow updated my monitor software or something, and now with extreme overdrive setting, I can still enabled freesync/ gsync, but only when VRB mode turned OFF (another acer overdrive features that put strobes of black images in between frames that drastically reduces blurriness/ ghosting but dims the screen by 30-50% quite horrendously which still appear dim even in dark room). However, the difference that I see with normal and extreme overdrive is only very slightly improvement with blurriness reduction, but everything appears even brighter with extreme overdrive on.


Yup, I'm using Windows 10. Mate, enabling HDR in windows 10 setting will for sure cause colours to appear washed out for any non HDR images, which means that anything other than HDR videos/ images will appear washed out and dull. Windows 10 HDR should only be enabled when viewing a HDR content, because any fonts or whatsoever are not HDR. When I watch HDR videos with Windows 10 HDR mode enabled, images just appear so well contrasted and depth of field is improved so much that I can differ which one is darker and brighter although it is basically the same red coloured paint, where with windows 10 HDR switch OFF, I see like red paint appear all equally red, with no apparent lighting effect/ contrast..


This is astonishing. During my earlier review, I mentioned that freesync will be disabled whenever overdrive is set to extreme. But after I downloaded acer display widget, this somehow updated my monitor software or something, and now with extreme overdrive setting, I can still enabled freesync/ gsync, but only when VRB mode turned OFF (another acer overdrive features that put strobes of black images in between frames that drastically reduces blurriness/ ghosting but dims the screen by 30-50% quite horrendously which still appear dim even in dark room). However, the difference that I see with normal and extreme overdrive is only very slightly improvement with blurriness reduction, but everything appears even brighter with extreme overdrive on.
The cable that I used is the displayport cable that comes with the monitor in the box. Should be any 1.2 displayport cable will give the same result because I've tested it with my spare DP cables.

This post has been edited by shahbiq: Apr 20 2020, 07:22 PM

In order to fully enjoy true HDR content, there are 2 things that will need to be enabled which are Windows 10 HDR mode and the monitor HDR mode. When Windows 10 HDR is disabled but with Monitor HDR enabled I can see everything is bright, crisp and satisfying to my preference although I am still not seeing any HDR effect, it's the colour of the pictures that meets my preferences. Choosing any preset picture and colour settings, or setting my own custom picture and colour preference, won't be as good as monitor HDR mode enabled. When monitor HDR mode enabled you basically can't choose any preset or custom picture/colour profile settings. This is what I mentioned in my earlier review. When monitor HDR mode enabled, this does not enabled HDR codecs in any HDR video content, unless windows 10 HDR mode is enabled. Hence, if I need to watch any HDR videos, I just need to go enable windows 10 HDR mode.

But when both windows 10 and monitor HDR mode enabled, everything except HDR content will appear dull and washed out because they are non HDR codecs. Anything non HDR will appear like that. So, if you are not watching any HDR videos/ content, just disabled windows 10 HDR mode while still enable monitor HDR mode.

hw did you do that? i've installed acer display widget but, the OSD still greyed out my OD setting

This post has been edited by alca94: Apr 23 2020, 08:09 PM

even so you won't be fully enjoy HDR content on xv240yp. you won't even enjoy HDR in the slightest.
1. the HDR advertisement on most gaming monitors are a gimmick as it only allows HDR input (what your monitor receives from OS and GPU) but couldn't properly display HDR output (what you'll see) and relies on software simulation
2. this monitor has a peak brightness of 250 nits, HDR content needs at least 400 nits which is the barest minimum, when the optimal peak brightness value is 800 nits, and the best at >1000 nits.
3. xv240yp is an IPS monitor without local dimming, which means that its contrast ratio is mediocre at best and can't display proper deep blacks like VA panels with QLED filter (a.k.a. QLED display) and OLED panels.
4. xv240yp covers standard sRGB space and is 6-bit + FRC color depth, where HDR content requires a bare minimum of 90% DCI-P3 a.k.a. wide gamut and this monitor cannot achieve it.

This post has been edited by lolzcalvin: Apr 24 2020, 12:52 PM

Even the very high end HDR monitors still barely beat a proper TV in terms of HDR (we are talking about monitors that cost more than some OLED TVs, BTW)

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Apr 24 2020, 04:41 PM

true, some high end HDR "gaming" monitors only have limited dimmable zones (typically 384 zones like Asus PG27UQ which is filthy expensive about 11k to 12k) compared to OLED TVs that don't need any local dimming feat at all, and some QLED panels have enough contrast ratio (6000:1 and above) to compensate with the need of local dimming to enjoy actual HDR experience.

there are good improvements on newer high end lineups however, such as Acer Predator X35 actually able to display proper and actual HDR content with >1000 nits brightness and has 500+ dimmable zones, and actually more than a lot of mid-range TVs (even Samsung Q80T is using 50 zones only, and Q90T at 400+).

it is a bit different when we talk about professional monitors, such as the new Asus ProArt displays using miniLED technology raking up 1100+ zones. these monitors have better HDR contents than most TVs, minus the TV-specific processors.

none of these would win the actual deepest black (a.k.a. no light) OLED displays provide though, plus without the halo artifact, and cheaper as well (at least on 55 inches, LG C9 costs only about 6-7k, while 35 inches Acer X35 costs 8k, and ASUS ones are overpriced). we'll be waiting for microLED and see

This post has been edited by lolzcalvin: Apr 24 2020, 06:15 PM

Hi bro, I am actually planning to buy this monitor through Shoppee with the solid price of RM689. Can i ask you where you got it from with that price (RM650)?
and also I am wondering whether this monitor supports 144hz over HDMI cable because I want to connect this monitor with my laptop (MSI GF63 8RD) and it doesnt have a DisplayPort or Thunderbolt type-c. Well it has a type-c port but i am sure it doesnt support display (only for file transfer). My GPU is the GTX 1050ti Max q btw.

UNBOXING ACER NITRO XV240YP 144HZ/165HZ IPS MONITOR : https://youtu.be/heqc1fYtfSY

Hi, is this really a G-Sync compatible monitor?

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