You can bag yourself a 32-inch, curved OLED right now for only $630

For most, a 4K gaming monitor is overkill. Trust me (or feel free to judge me), I have a 4K OLED at home and most of the indie darlings I play look just as stunning at 1440p. But if you’re serious about 4K gaming and have the kit inside your rig to make a serious go of it—well, I’m guessing your funds are feeling a little depleted, and you’d probably appreciate a good deal on a gaming monitor.

To be upfront, the Acer Predator X32 is a curved, older generation OLED. Typically, that means you’re looking at a slightly less face-melting brightness of around 250 nits for this type of QD-OLED in terms of full-screen brightness. This particular bad boy boasts up to 1,000 nits within a 3% window, so solitary points of in-game brightness—like a light bulb in a dark room or a far off bonfire—will still be faithfully rendered, which is what makes this an excellent HDR panel. Besides, the headline here is that you’re getting a 32-inch 4K OLED for only $630 from Amazon.

On top of a 0.03 ms response time, the Acer Predator X32 also enjoys a 240 Hz refresh rate. So, if your gaming PC can keep up with 4K gaming, then you’re also looking at a fairly responsive screen to go along with it. Esports fiends may cry out for something speedier still, but that’s why the sickos tend to go with much lower resolution TN panels. If competitive esports is not the name of your game, the Acer Predator X32 has plenty to offer.

As the X32 is an older OLED, you won’t be getting the new RGB stripe subpixel layout enjoyed by Samsung and LG’s latest panels. Though font-fringing isn’t so much of an issue at the pixel pitch of a 32-inch 4K display, so it’s not something you will hugely miss. Many modern gaming OLEDs tend to feature some font fringing because they use the subpixel layout of TVs, but characters in and out of game are crisply rendered here. That’s good news should you need to spend just as much of time staring at documents as you do blasting back the demon horde.

The older generation of QD-OLED, however, does mean colour accuracy may be smidge off, with this older generation of OLEDs known for being a bit warm in terms of colour temperature. QD-OLEDs specifically are also known for having a slight purple tinge to them under brightly lit environments. Mind you, if you struggle to tell the difference between a duck egg blue and a maritime teal, then maybe the disappointing colour precision will be neither here nor there for you. Even as an older OLED, you’re still getting those deep, true blacks thanks to HDR Black 400.

Mind you, with only 250 nits to play with, the fiery pits of hell will tend to look a little dull all the same. The problem can be exacerbated should you set this OLED in an uncharacteristically well lit gamer den; unfortunately, the finish on this screen tends to reflect a lot of ambient light, creating some unsightly glare and sapping the depth of those true blacks.

But let’s talk about that 1700R curve. It won’t be for everyone—much less all desk set ups—but for some, it offers an immersive gaming experience. If you’ve got the space for it, it’s also meant to be fairly easy to adjust in terms of tilt angle and height. If you’re in a side-by-side gamer arrangement, it’s also easy enough to swivel this screen around for your player two. Any movement on my cluttered desk would absolutely take down about five different Miku Hatsune figurines, though.