An Impressive Mini LED 4K Gaming Monitor! Acer X32 FP Review

The Acer Predator X32 FP is a 32" 160Hz 4K Mini LED gaming monitor with DisplayHDR 1000 and HDMI 2.1. Find out how it performs by watching my review!

4K Alternatives:
Philips Evnia 32M2N6800M: Best value 4K gaming monitor (32" 144hz 4K Mini LED)

ViewSonic XG321UG: My favourite 144Hz 4K gaming monitor (32" 4K 144Hz IPS Mini LED)

Samsung Odyssey Neo G8: Excellent refresh rate but can be problematic (32” 4K 240Hz VA Mini LED)

Asus PG32UQ: HDMI 2.1 capabilities with HDR600 (32” 4K 144Hz IPS)

AOC U28G2XU: 'Cheap' 28" 144Hz 4K but only HDR400 and HDMI 2.0

HP Omen 27u: Affordable 27" 144Hz 4K with HDMI 2.1

Philips Evnia 42M2N8900: Best large-sized OLED (41.54" 138Hz 4K)

1440p alternatives (indirect competitors):
AOC Q27G3XMN: Phenomenal HDR performance on a budget (180Hz 1440p Mini LED)

Philips Evnia 27M2N8500: My favourite gaming monitor (26.5" 360Hz 1440p)

Philips Evnia 34M2C8600: My favourite ultrawide OLED gaming monitor (34” 175Hz 1440p)

AOC AG276QZD: My favourite WOLED (26.5" 240Hz 1440p)

AOC AG274QS: Best 1440p eSports monitor (300Hz IPS)

AOC AG274QG: AG274QS sibling with more local dimming zones & a G-Sync module

Samsung Odyssey G7: The best 1440p 240Hz VA monitor
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Video timestamps:
Specs: 00:00
Gaming performance: 00:40
G-Sync & HDR: 02:17
Philips Monitors: 04:47
Console gaming: 05:25
Image quality: 07:26
Brightness & uniformity: 09:23
Design & features: 10:37
Verdict: 13:18

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Video timestamps:

Specs: 00:00
Gaming performance: 00:40
G-Sync & HDR: 02:17
Philips Monitors: 04:47
Console gaming: 05:25
Image quality: 07:26
Brightness & uniformity: 09:23
Design & features: 10:37
Verdict: 13:18

[bigbangerz]

32” 4K is where its at, light at end of the monitor tunnel finally :)

[DrakonR]

These miniLEDs are just going to get better and better. My LG C1 is a great TV, but it doesn't have the HDR impact as my 85" X95K miniLED.

[PCMonitors]

It's indeed a very interesting monitor. Was nice to see your take on it! 🙂

[keponen]

Is it gsync certified? Hope you test the cheaper Acer xv275up3 MiniLED too

[Im_Behind_You]

Why did Phillips sponsor a video on it's seemingly better-in-every-way competitor?

[CrazyMarc]

Does the amd free sync Pro also work with an Nvidia card, a 4090?

[puviol]

Wich one do you think is better this one or BENQ EX3210U 32.

[sblantipodi]

I'm pretty tired of all the needed attentions to stop my OLED monitor from burn in. I use the monitor for work and gaming and I use 10 hours a day. Burn in is something that happen on my screen and having all that "anti burn in features" enabled running every 4 hours is simply a deal breaker for me. At the end I bought this MiniLED monitor and I consider it the best gaming and all round alternative to OLED. When FALD is active the contrast difference with the OLED is not that much and I like the added brightness in the daylight scenes. I think that this kind of monitors should be advertised better because they are the way to go for people that doesn't use monitors like a TV only (gaming and films).

[nogamenolife]

Is there noticeable fan noise from this?

[callmeflorz]

What would be your choice of 32” monitor for 500ish$?

[medivhh]

I think its time to buy a Radeon Card for freesync testing my guy.

[stormr]

AOC Agon PRO AG274QG or AOC AGON Gaming - AG275QZN . Can you please comment which one has better image quality and colors?

[Weissrolf]

My X32 FP suffers from massive dropouts when VRR is combined with DSC while connected to a 2070 Super via DP1.4a. One user on a forum also reported these while others have not been able to reproduce them (using 30 and 40 series cards). The Asus PG32uqxR (using the same panel) did not suffer from this on the same connection. I will get a 2nd X32 FP in a few days to compare.
It's noteworthy nowadays that the bulky chassis with many venting holes may sound very clicky and hollow when the buttons are used, but in return the X32 FP uses no fan and stays quite in all situations. The Asus uses a constantly humming fan and even emits high frequency coil whine when HDR is used in combination with local dimming. So even without Nvidia GSync module having no fan seems to be rather special for high brightness monitors.
Unfortunately there are vertical "scanlines" visible at lower refresh-rates, starting as high as 120 Hz and becoming much more pronounced towards 60 Hz, even more so in HDR mode.
You have to watch out when using a third party DDC/CI application to control brightness. If this is done in HDR mode then the monitor switches to User mode and drops brightness below SDR brightness. Furthermore my unit (not reproducible by others) drops brightness very considerably (from 172 W power usage to 93 W) within 30 seconds when I set brightness to 97-100 in HDR mode. It does not happen at 96 or lower, though.
Panel lottery on my unit is about the worst draw I ever had with any monitor. The Asus using the same panel already wasn't too good (especially in the upper left corner), but my X32 is worse in all the same places and then adds additional bleeding areas on top of that.
IPS glow is quite nicely subdued on this panel (both Acer and Asus showing the same characteristics). Instead of a pronounced whitish sheen you rather get a much darker blueish-cyan or reddish one, depending on viewing direction/angles.
Local dimming is very dark biased, especially compared to the Asus using the same panel. This helps prevent light halos, but leaves many scenes too dark. And curiously there are dark halos (inverse) around color-shifted halos (where grays change color temperature when dimmed). So especially on darker solid colored/gray areas this looks rather ugly, but other mini LED monitors also seem to suffer from these shifts (there were no dark halos around these on the Asus, though).