With the growing market of notebooks and all kinds of gamer products, Acer took advantage of its space already demarcated in this segment to show the world a monitor with more compact body, response time arriving in 2 milliseconds and brings a very important detail in times of pandemic: Full HD webcam with microphone and that is embedded in the top of the product.
If you have an AMD video card you can still take advantage of FreeSync by displaying uncut images in its nearly 24 inches. Is it worth investing your rich money in this monitor? And the Full HD experience, is it worth while saving pixels? I’m André Fogaça and I’ve spent the last few weeks with the Acer Nitro VG240Y D as my monitor to answer all this in the next paragraphs.
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Design and connections
Every gamer product always shouts its thread everywhere when it comes to design, but on this monitor Acer preferred to adopt a less obvious look. Yes, it has the base in red color and more closed angles in the curves, but that’s all. Looking ahead, the Acer Nitro VG240Y D is basically a traditional monitor that can look good even at the home office desk.
The same goes for the back. There are no RGB lights, nothing in this sense and this more sober choice can also have a footprint within the cost of this model. It is sold as an economical version for the less moneyed gamer, but who still wants good response in a game that begins to be more serious.
The connections are all at the back and facing down, with audio input and output on dedicated P2 ports, VGA port, an HDMI, another DisplayPort and a USB. This USB port does not offer another one by consuming such a connection on your desktop or notebook and serves only to make the front camera work.
It sits on top, embedded in the body and has a mechanical adjustment to turn the sensor down. The lens covers a lot of the environment and an LED indicates that it is in use, it is the basicfor those who are in study meetings, work or even streaming with games. It just moved me to the absence of a USB output on the same monitor, especially in my use on a notebook that doesn’t have as many ports.
Closing the outside, the monitor has also built-in speakers that fulfill the basics for this type of component: bass practically does not exist, but the set breaks a branch when the user wants to show something with sound to someone nearby. It’s not a problem like it is with height adjustment, which doesn’t exist.
The monitor only allows you to move in one direction to the screen and this control is limited. Fortunately the holes for a bracket in the VESA standard are present.
