F.E.A.R. is a brilliant test because it really taxes a monitors ability to differentiate between shades of grey and black. On poor monitors, dark colours all bleed together, making it almost impossible to distinguish characters from the backgrounds. The effect is what I like to call the 'Counter-Strike Contrast Conundrum', where it becomes impossible to spot Counter-Terrorists in dark areas of maps such as Aztec on a poor monitor.

Thankfully, the Ferrari monitor looked brilliant, even outperforming our reference Viewsonic VX924 when it came to the black differential. This is a monitor you can happily play games on, especially since ghosting was also non-existent.

Lost in Translation is a great DVD to run through any display. The film contains a mixture of high-contrast scenes with some great gaudy colour, and also has some very subtlety coloured scenes which can look washed out on bad monitors. The Acer was pretty good in this test, although didn't manage to deal with the subtler elements quite so well.

Viewing angle was average-to-good. As with many displays, it suffered more on the up-down range than the left-right range. This means that you should be able to get a couple of mates around it to game, but is especially unfortunate given the lack of height adjustment.