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Many professional-grade monitors eschew any sense of styling to ensure the utmost in image quality. However, with the PE320QK, Acer has done what it can to make for a smart looking display that could grace any desk.
The main uplift is the use of a low-profile bezel that immediately gives the display a certain slimness. However, it is a risky move as low-profile bezels tend to be more prone to backlight bleed, which would immediately damage the professional credentials of this monitor.
Thankfully, though, there’s no evidence of this on our review sample, and it seems likely, given that each display is calibrated before leaving the factory, that any such imperfections would be stamped out before the monitor was shipped.
Elsewhere the styling is a nice combination of muted matt black plastics and a dark metallic tone to the top of the stand’s base. If it’s possible for a massive 32-inch monitor to look sleek, the PE320QK manages it.
On a more practical note, the included stand offers all the adjustment you’d expect, with 115mm of height adjustment (up to a total of 600mm), -5° to 20° tilt, 90° of rotation and it can pivot into a portrait mode in both directions. The stand is also very sturdy and all the adjustments are reassuringly smooth.
For connectivity you get one DisplayPort 1.2 and two HDMI 2.0 ports. Next to these inputs is a USB Type-C port, which is something we’ve seldom seen before on a monitor. However, this doesn’t serve any particularly exciting purpose. It’s simply the uplink connection for the four normal USB 3.1 ports. Two of these are next to the other connections on the back and two are on the side, where they’re easy to reach.
Finishing things off on the connectivity front are a headphone jack and of course the power connection. The monitor uses an internal power supply, so this is just a standard “kettle” lead socket, rather than a proprietary connection that requires a power brick; there’s also proper hardware power switch next to it.
As for the display itself, it’s 31.5-inches from corner to corner and has a 3,840 x 2,160 pixel resolution, for a pixel density of 140ppi. This is high enough that you’ll need to use Windows’ scaling tool to make things a more readable size. This defaults to 150%, which gives you an effective resolution of 2,880 x 1,620 and pixel density of 110ppi.
