Acer Nitro 27-inch WQHD PC Gaming IPS Monitor
Unpacking
Please check that the following items are present when you unpack the box, and save the packing materials in case you need to ship or transport the monitor in the future.
Attaching the Base
Note: Remove the monitor and monitor base from its packaging. Carefully place the monitor face-down on a stable surface — use a cloth to avoid scratching the screen
Height Adjustment
After pressing the top of the monitor then you can adjust the height of the monitor
Tilt
Please see the illustration below for an example of the tilt range. Only at the highest point can 20 degrees of recline be offered for the angle of elevation
Swivel
With the built-in pedestal, you can swivel the monitor for the most comfortable viewing angle.
Monitor Pivot
Before rotating the display, lift it to the top position and then push it back to the utmost degree. Rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise until the monitor stops at ±90°.
Connecting the adapter and the AC Power cord
- Check first to ensure that your power cord is the correct type required for your area.
- The monitor has a universal power supply that allows operation in either 100/120 V AC or 220/240 V AC voltage ranges. No user adjustment is required.
- Plug one end of the AC power cord to the Adapter, and plug the other end into an AC outlet.
- For units using 120 V AC: Use a UL-listed cord set, type SVT wire and plug rated 10 A/125 V.
- For units using 220/240 V AC: Use a cord set consisting of H05VV-F cord and plug rated 10 A/250 V. The cord set should have the appropriate safety approvals for the country in which the equipment will be installed.
Power saving
The monitor will be driven into “Power Saving” mode by the control signal from the display controller, as indicated by the amber-color power LED
The power-saving states will be kept until a control signal has been detected or the keyboard or mouse is activated. The recovery time from the Active OFF state back to the ON state is around 3 seconds.
Display Data Channel (DDC)
To make installation easier, so long as your system supports the DDC protocol, the monitor can plug and play. The DDC is a communication protocol through which the monitor automatically informs the host system about its capabilities; for example, supported resolutions and corresponding timing. The monitor supports the DDC2B standard
20-pin color display signal cable
19-pin color display signal cable
Standard timing table
Installation
- Turn off your computer and unplug your computer’s power cord.
- Connect the signal cable to the HDMI (optional) and /or DP (optional) input socket of the monitor, and the HDMI (optional) and /or DP (optional) output socket of the graphics card on the computer. Then tighten the thumbscrews on the signal cable connector.
- Connect the USB Cable(Optional). Connect the USB 3.0 cable to the port for fast charge. Connect the USB 3.0 cable to port.
- Insert the monitor power cable into the power port at the back of the monitor.
- Plug the power cords of your computer and your monitor into a nearby electrical outlet.
User Controls
External controls
Free Sync (HDMI/DP):
It can allow a Free Sync supported graphics source to dynamically adjust display refresh rate based on typical content frame rates for power efficient, virtually stutter free and low-latency display update.
Using the Shortcut Menu
The OSD (On Screen Display) can be used to adjust the settings of your LCD monitor. Press the MENU key to open the OSD. You can use the OSD to adjust the picture quality, OSD position, and general settings. For advanced settings, please refer to the following page:
Main page
Hot key1 (default: Standard mode)
To choose game mode(G1, G2, G3) which user-defined profile to use or scenario mode (User, Standard, ECO, Graphics, HDR)
Hot key2 (default: Brightness)
Open the Brightness control and select your preferred brightness setting. When you are done, press the joystick to quit cthe urrent page and store
Selecting the input
Open the Input control and select HDMI1(2.0), HDMI2(2.0), DP, or Auto Source. When you are done, press the joystick to exit the current page and store
Main menu
- Press the MENU key to open the OSD.
- Toggle the joystick to up or down to select Picture from the OSD. Toggle to the right to navigate to the element you wish to adjust, and press the joystick to enter it.
- Toggle the joystick to the left or right to adjust the sliding scales. Information Hot Key: Show Monitor Information and Reset control function. Modes Hot Key: To change the Modes Hot Key menu. Exit Hot Key X: To exit the current page and store.
Picture
- Press the MENU key to open the OSD.
- Toggle the joystick up or down to select Picture from the OSD. Then, toggle to the right to navigate to the element you wish to adjust and press the joystick to enter it.
- Toggle to the left or right to adjust the sliding scales.
- The Picture menu can be used to adjust the Brightness, Contrast, Black Boost, Blue Light, ACM, and Super Sharpness.
- Brightness: Adjust the brightness from 0 to 100
- Contrast: Adjust the contrast from 0 to 100.
- Black Boost: Adjust the black level from 0 to 10. Enhances shadows by increasing the brightness without changing lighter shades.
- Blue Light: Filters out blue light to protect your eyes by adjusting how much blue light is shown — 80%, 70%, 60%, or 50%
- ACM: Turn ACM on or off
- HDR: can control off and auto, the default is off, set to auto will automatically detect and deal with the HDR signal
- Super Sharpness: Turn the Super Sharpness On or Off. Super Sharpness technology can simulate high-resolution images by boosting the pixel density of the original source to make images sharper and clearer
Color
- Press the MENU key to open the OSD.
- Toggle the joystick to up or down to select Color from the OSD. Then, toggle to the right to navigate to the element you wish to adjust and press the joystick to enter it.
- Toggle to the left or right to adjust the sliding scales.
- Gamma mode allows you to adjust the luminance tone. The default value is 2.2 (standard value for Windows).
- Color temperature: The Default is warm. You can choose Cool, Normal, Warm, Blue light or User.
- Modes: To choose scenario mode.
- Color Space: You can choose sRGB, Rec.709, EBU, DCI, SMPTE-, ,C and Standard
- CIE 1931 positive and negative error of 0.05, (“HDR” according to the current Panel to fine-tune).
- Color Space = HDR, the Modes = HDR, Picture page HDR = Auto.
- The signal content is SDR, the brightness can to adjusted, but the content is HDR, the brightness is fixed at 100, and gray out is unavailable.
- Modes = (Action/Racing/Sports/User/Standard/ECO/Graphic) is selected; the color space is auto set to “Standard”.
- Color space = (sRGB/Rec.709/EBU/DCI/SMPTE-C), The Modes = Standard, and parameters can be adjusted and saved as shareable values.
- Color Space = (sRGB/Rec.709/HDR/EBU/DCI/SMPTE-C). If to adjust the parameter is adjusted, the Modes will not jump to User mode, except Color Space = Standard.
- Color Space = (sRGB/Rec.709/HDR/EBU/DCI/SMPTE-C), 6-Axis Hue & Saturate is grayed out and unavailable.
- Color Space = (sRGB/Rec.709/HDR/EBU/DCI/SMPTE-C), Grayscale Mode is grayed out and unavailable
- Grayscale Mode: To choose Grayscale mode.
- 6-axis Hue: Adjust the red, green, blue, yellow, magenta, and cyan hue.
- 6-axis Saturate: Adjust the red, green, blue, yellow, agent,a and cyan saturation
Audio
- Press the MENU key to open the OSD.
- Toggle the joystick to the up or down to select Audio from the OSD. Then toggle to the right to navigate to the element you wish to adjust and press the joystick to enter it.
- Toggle to the left or right to adjust the sliding scales.
- Volume: Adjust the volume
- Mute: To choose mute on/off
Gaming
- Press the MENU key to open the OSD.
- Toggle the joystick to the up or down to select Gaming from the OSD. Then toggle to the right to navigate to the element you wish to adjust and press the joystick to enter it.
- Toggle to the left or right to control functions.
- Over Drive: Select Off, Normal or Extreme.
- Free Sync: To control support Free Sync or not, default is On.
- Refresh rate num: Display the panel’s current refresh rate on the screen
- VRB: To choose whether to support dynamic picture more cleaner control, default is Off
- Ultra-Low Latency: Set to On to speed up the processing time of the display switching process.
- Aim point: Show an Aim point on the screen for shooting games.
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