 When I tweeted a picture of just the box of the Acer B326HK, I was surprised to see that I had responses right away from folks telling me that they were already sitting with a finger on the trigger waiting for my review to let them know if it was good or not, and they were planning to buy it. However it happened, Acer has some hype around their 4K monitors these days. Oh, and by the way, for the gamers out there, we've got an AMD value 4K gaming rig build blog coming out that investigates just how hard it is to drive mainstream and competitive games at this resolution, so don't miss that, or this general use review of what I think is the 4K monitor that a lot of people have been waiting for. Ensure swift victory with Corsair's highly responsive lightweight gaming mouse, the Sabre RGB. Click now to learn more. 4K non-TN monitors like the PQ321Q from ASUS have been available for over a year now, but that one, even at half of its introductory price, is $1,500 and a two-tile display to boot. Not the most elegant solution, especially for gamers. And UHD TN monitors, while available at great prices like $600-ish, and in some cases, I've actually got reviews of a few interesting ones here, here, and here, offering very competitive performance, 4TN monitors are still TN monitors. So a lot of you have been waiting for an IPS 4K monitor with the improved text readability, viewing angles, and color fidelity that comes with that. Well, here's a pretty darn impressive looking option. Let's take a run at the physical overview and specs of the B326HK, shall we? The stand is actually surprisingly solid considering it has an 8 kilo 32 inch panel sitting on top of it, and features swivel, tilt, and height adjust, but no pivot, although that's pretty uncommon on a monitor of this size. The base has a textured surface finish that actually confused me until I started absentmindedly piling things on it and I noticed that they didn't roll off. Touche Acer. And it also features Acer's trademark paperclip magnet thing. If you don't like the stand though, the panels got VESA compatible mounting holes at the back, so you can use a third-party option or wall mount the sucker. Since we're looking at the back, we might as well have a quick look at the I.O. Aside from a power input, the uplink in two of the ports for the built-in USB 3 hub, the other two are on the left side by the way, and a headphone passthrough, I would normally expect to see a display port input and an HDMI input or maybe two, but instead I was pleasantly surprised. You get HDMI with MHL, full-size display port, mini display port, great for hooking up your laptop without any adapters, and what? Dual-link DVI? It only supports running at up to 30 Hz without manual overrides at 4K, but it's a handy thing to have in a pinch for older computers. Acer could have knocked my socks completely off with better out-of-the-box support for waking from sleep on a Mac and 60 Hz Ultra HD HDMI 2.0, but this is still a really strong offering. On to the panel itself. What a pleasure this thing is to use. At a pixel density of 137 ppi, about 27% more than a 27-inch 1440p monitor, it is amazing. What a difference. A nice high-contrast panel makes to the usability of this product compared to other UHD monitors that I've tried. The extra four diagonal inches is definitely helpful. Most of what I've used is in the 27-inch size range, but I was still shocked to find myself actually able to use this beast without scaling quite comfortably in Windows 7. And based on this Newegg review, it looks like I'm not the only one. Now my eyes are pretty good, but they're not perfect, so it seems like the nearly imperceptible IPS glow, higher contrast even when viewing at an angle, something that's bound to happen more often than you'd think with a display this large, and flicker-free backlight helps enormously when reading or working on it. It's not perfect though. Mine did have a bit of a hot spot of backlight bleed in the bottom right corner, although it's the kind of thing that I only noticed because I went looking for it, so I could tell you guys about it. And there is a little bit of a bluish color shift at more extreme angles if you move horizontally. Again though, not something I noticed using the monitor like a normal person. Speaking of using the monitor like a normal person, I do have some thoughts on the truly not very normal 32-inch monitor size in general. The last time I used something this big as a daily driver was the BenQ BL-3200PT, a VA2560x1440 affair that was a compelling offering at the time, if you felt like you wanted the pixel density of a 24-inch 1080p monitor, but much, much larger. Brandon uses it every day for video editing and loves it, but that's not for me. I don't find such a large panel particularly comfortable to use. I mean, you really need to move your head to look from one corner to the opposite one. So for me, the only way to justify such a large screen would be if I get more screen real estate to spread things out, something that can't be achieved if you scale screen elements within your applications or Windows itself, especially given how poorly all of that stuff works. So that is what stood out to me about using the B326HK, the legitimate benefit of using it. More sharpness is nice, and once in a while I do catch myself sitting in front of the 217 PPI 5K iMac Retina that I've been using lately marveling at how fine the image is, but from a productivity perspective, nothing beats firing up an awesome window management app like DisplayFusion or AquaSnap and spreading out your work over an immense area so you can see more at once, something this panel is the first to allow me to do at 4K. I really, really like this monitor, but it could still improve. The on-screen display isn't great to navigate, and while it offers six-axis color adjustments for the custom picture profile, sRGB mode for designers who want accuracy above all else, and reasonably robust picture-in-picture and picture-by-picture functionality, it's a little tedious to manually select an input instead of just waiting for the auto-detect to cycle through them, and there's no control over pixel overdrive, something that many gamers like to be able to adjust. The good news is that compared to other IPS monitors that I've used in the past, the default setting for the B326HK for pixel overdrive is actually really solid with almost no visible overdrive artifacts and very minimal motion blur or ghost trails behind moving objects. It's still a 60Hz display though, and going from the 144Hz ROG Swift that I've been using on my gaming rig was a bit of a kick in the teeth, but after grounding myself by throwing an older 60Hz monitor on my desk for a more fair comparison, I'm perfectly happy with the responsiveness of the B326HK for gaming, even though I couldn't find my stupid Leo Bodnar thing to actually measure it. Which leaves us with just the conclusion. Should you buy this monitor? I still have the same personal feelings that I've had for a while now about 21x9 monitors, and I'm not going to rehash all of that here, but for me the answer is not quite. But not everyone has any desire for an ultra-wide, and if you want Ultra HD for more seamless support in applications and games, pixel perfect playback of UHD video content, or any of the other numerous reasons that you might prefer it, this monitor is a great choice. Unless you're a gamer, maybe. Well hold the phone Linus, I thought you said that its gaming performance was perfectly happiness inducing or something along those lines. I did, and it is, so I need to give kudos to Acer for making one seriously kick butt display at a great price, but gamers need to see what's around the corner, what's going to be announced with FreeSync or G-Sync support in the coming weeks before they can make a properly educated decision on whether or not this is THE UHD monitor of choice, even if right now it actually kind of looks that way. 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