Acer V6 Series V246HL bd 24" Black

The Acer V246HL bd is a bare-bones 24-inch 1080p office monitor with DVI and VGA only. It's dim, the colors are weak, and connectivity is nearly the worst we've seen. At USD 125 it's a decent budget beater, but anything more is overpaying.

You get a 60Hz refresh rate and a 5ms response time, which is fine for documents and web browsing but will make any fast-paced game feel mushy. The 250 nits of brightness is workable in a dim office but struggles near windows. Color support is 8-bit with 16.7 million colors, which sounds impressive until you realize the panel's color accuracy sits in the bottom 16th percentile. The 100,000,000:1 contrast ratio is one of those dynamic contrast marketing numbers that doesn't mean much in real use.

Stacked against something like the Dell S2725QC, this Acer looks ancient. The Dell gives you 4K, USB-C, and a bigger screen. The LG UltraGear 27G810A-B and MSI MAG 272QPW QD-OLED are in a completely different universe for gaming and color. Even the ASUS TUF Gaming VG34VQL1B offers ultrawide immersion and high refresh rates. The Acer's only real advantage is price, and only when you find it at the bottom of that USD 125 to USD 285 range.

Pricing is all over the place. US listings range from USD 125 to USD 285, and that's a huge spread for a monitor this old. At the low end, it's a reasonable budget pick for a second screen or basic office setup. At the high end, you're getting fleeced. There's also a CAD 724 listing in Canada which is frankly absurd for this hardware. If you're buying, hunt for the cheapest US listing and don't pay a cent more.

The Acer V246HL bd is a 24-inch 1080p office monitor that's been around the block. It's basic, it's cheap, and it does the job if your job is spreadsheets and email. No frills, no gaming chops, just a straightforward LCD panel with DVI and VGA ports.

Our database puts this thing near the bottom of the barrel for modern monitors. Display quality lands in the bottom third, connectivity is almost dead last, and performance is nothing to write home about. But for a used office workhorse, it might still make sense if the price is right.

Skip this if you need HDMI or DisplayPort, because you'll be buying adapters immediately. Skip it if you do any color-sensitive work, the panel just can't keep up. And definitely skip it if you're a gamer, 60Hz with no adaptive sync is a recipe for screen tearing and frustration. Anyone with a modern laptop that only outputs USB-C or HDMI should look elsewhere too.

This monitor is for someone who needs a basic display and nothing more. Office workers, reception desks, point-of-sale setups, or anyone building a cheap multi-monitor rig for productivity. If you just need pixels on a screen and you can grab it for around USD 125, it's a fine beater monitor. Just don't expect it to impress anyone.