Dell P2217H vs Acer Predator XB271H bmiprz

The Dell P2217H offers good gaming experience for a general purpose display in this price range because of its reasonably low input lag and good motion handling capabilities.

The monitor feels responsive because of its input lag of 9.8 ms. Only gaming monitors in this price range outperform such result.

Motion looks reasonably clear because only tiny traces follow fast-moving objects on the screen. The monitor's pixels need only six milliseconds to change their color, which reduces motion blur.

This monitor doesn't put additional stress on your eyes as its backlight doesn't flicker. This is important as monitor flickering is one of the leading causes of eye fatigue.

You can leave the monitor on for long periods without having to worry about pixel damage because the Dell P2217H does not have any problems related to image retention.

You won't have any trouble setting this monitor according to the needs of your workspace since the Dell P2217H supports all of the necessary ergonomic adjustments. Additionally, you can easily change its orientation from landscape to portrait, and vice versa.

You can charge external USB devices and connect them to a computer using the monitor's USB 3.0 hub.

The hub consists of four downstream ports that are used for connecting peripherals and a single upstream port that connects the hub to a computer.

The monitor's contrast ratio, peak brightness, color accuracy, and gamma are on par with what the majority of competitors in this price range offer.

The monitor's IPS panel displays good-looking picture, with bright and saturated colors, reasonably deep blacks, and lifelike intermediate mid-tones. The colors pop thanks to the monitor's peak brightness of 250 nits. Dark scenes look pretty as the monitor's native contrast ratio of 1147:1 is high enough to make the IPS panel display good-looking blacks. The intermediate tones are well balanced as the monitor's gamma of 2.18 is only 1% away from the ideal value.

Additionally, color inaccuracies are very hard to spot because of its average color error dE of only 3.2.

While it does not excel in any aspect, the Dell P2217H has enough versatility to be a decent general purpose monitor. It features good picture quality and excellent connectivity, combined with an impressive range of ergonomic adjustments.

The monitor is also suitable for occasional, non-competitive gaming since its input lag and pixel response time are low enough to grant reasonably smooth and responsive gaming experience.

Compared to the QHD monitors present in this price range, the Acer XB271H puts noticeably less strain on your computer because it has fewer pixels for your GPU to run.

You can charge external USB devices or connect them to your computer using four of the monitor's downstream USB 3.0 ports.

The backlight of this monitor doesn't flicker as the Acer XB271H uses a DC signal to dim its backlight. Backlight flickering is one of the main causes of eye fatigue while working with monitors.

Getting the best possible viewing angles is not a problem with this monitor because it supports the necessary ergonomic adjustments including tilt, swivel, height, and even pivot.

You can increase the monitor's native refresh rate from 144 Hz to 170 Hz using the overclocking feature in the monitor's OSD menu.

The Acer Predator XB271H has an amazingly low input lag of only 4.6 ms, which makes it one of the most responsive gaming monitors in its price range.

The input lag of a monitor shows how much time it needs to process a frame generated by a computer's graphics card.

The Acer Predator XB271H makes the motion appear clear and free of artificial motion blur and ghosting effects, as the monitor combines fast full pixel response time with Acer's ULMB feature and the panel's high refresh rate.

Motion blur is eliminated as each panel's pixel can change its color fast enough to prevent the fast-moving objects from leaving traces. It is possible because of the monitor's full pixel response time of 1 ms.

Ghosting is reduced to a minimum by the aid of Acer's ULMB feature, which strobes the monitor's backlights and makes it behave like CRT monitors.

Finally, as the monitor's high native refresh rate ensures smooth and fluid motion by updating the monitor's image 144 times a second.

Even though the monitor's picture quality doesn't excel in any aspect, it still performs similarly to the majority of gaming monitors in this price range.

The monitor displays average-looking images with mediocre dark scenes and reasonably luminous colors. The dark scenes look average as the monitor's native contrast ratio of 1000:1 is not high enough to make its blacks appear natural. However, the colors look vivid thanks to the monitor's peak brightness of 300 nits.

G-Sync eliminates stutter and vertical screen tearing as it allows the monitor to synchronize its refresh rate to the framerate of your video card.

The Acer Predator XB271H supports G-Sync in the 20-170 Hz range.

The Acer Predator XB271H is one of the fastest gaming monitors in its price range; it offers responsive and lag-free gaming experience at a stunning 170 Hz refresh rate.