Should I RMA my X34?

i have similir blleed on mine too..admitedly its not as bad as some of the 2k screens i had running at 165hz..its a lot of cash for minor prob but its there..did u get urs to OC to 100hz??

thats great did u use the dp cable that came with the monitor? i can only get 95hz..what gpu are using..i have gtx 1080 which hould be more than enough to poer the monitor to 100hz..so frustrating..im prob gonna rma it and get an asus out of rutration..itsa top of the line so should get our money worth..who did u buy urs from and did they eccept the rma for the light beed?

The light areas of the screen are related to IPS glow. IPS glow is a panel characteristic that is caused by the angle of vision when viewing the screen. This is due to the pixel structure of IPS panels. The curved screen makes this more pronounced.

Additional information about IPS glow can also be found on 3rd party websites such as the following:

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/acer_predator_x34.htm

Simple rule - if it disappear at long (> 2-3m) perfectly straight distance, its glow. Bleed does not disappear even when looking perfectly straight (yes, glow caused by angle).

But really, it does not matter how you call it. Monitor with massive blotch of light on background that should be dark (or, at least, uniform dark grey) - is a defective and/or bad quality monitor. You don't need to argue of semantics how to call the defect

I beleive some are better than others - but they often just trade corner for splotch in some other place along edge.

It looks like diffuser sheet is just not precise enough (and Acer does not try /and/or/can't make it precise), so it each one has "random undulations", and for some specimens these look better - and on *very* rare ones it just happens to be quite precise curve so almost perfect uniformity (but these probably 1 in 10 ratio or less).

Yes, I was through nightmare of buying modern monitor myself recently (went through 3), and investigated situation quite throroughly. Asus is not really any different, same panel, same issues. Only costs more so you may as well just save the money.

For me most disappointing thing was not that quality did not match cost, but simply because it was *impossible to get guaranteed quality*, even if you are willing to pay 2x times more (and I've even investigated lot of so called "professional" ones).

I've looked many in shops, friend's office (graphics/gaming), trawled tons of feedback, videos, you name it.

And then tried to actually buy - personally wen't through 1 x Z35 and 2x XB321HK. Latest I've kept - mainly because it was *just acceptable* and best I could reasonably get - but by no means perfect.

These 34-inchers I've decided against straight away, they among worst in quality variance - probably because curve makes it harder to keep diffuser uniform and IPS makes it very visible.

One of the reason I didn't keep Z35 (even while really wanted to) was because 1800 curve is just too much - everything looks bow-tied. Another reason was horrendous black smearing (and acer clocked it to 200Hz, yeah right, panel can't even manage 60Hz without bad blur sometimes).

But at least with VA diffuser uniformity does not matter that much - you can see clouding, but you have to really struggle to, unlike on IPS.

You may try exchanging until you find a better one, or your patience runs out - don't give up yet