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Alienware AW2725Q 27" 4K 240Hz QD-OLED Gaming Monitor $977.02 Delivered @ Dell
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$933.06 via EDU Store. Decent. Tempted but I don't have money :)
ask centerlink.
They don't pay me. And work won't give me a raise. :(
Oled panels are gonna have competition if the upcoming miniled monitors are any good.
We've been saying and hoping for years and years, I'll believe it when i see it
The LG C4 OLED is on another level.
240hz > 120hz
42'' > 27''
Completely differently use cases; and as someone who used a 42 C2 for 2 years (and still has one as a secondary screen) it is honestly way too big for a PC monitor. It's also very easy to notice upscaling artifacts at that PPI.
@Vinodra: Really down to the size of your desk - there's no such things as too big, just need more room to push it back. I vastly prefer it over 27 and 32
@cille745: If you are having to push it back for it to be usable, you may as well just use a smaller screen closer to you at that point. I have a massive desk and even if its over a meter from me I still prefer a 27" panel up closer.
Its really down to preference, one is not objectivley better than the other, (outside of PPI and refresh rate)
The advantages for upscalers like DLSS also are massive on a smaller screen. Which unfortunatley is the reality we live in if you want to get close to 144hz or 240hz at 4k even on an RTX 5090.
I do still use my C2 42" (It just sits next to my PC monitor) for my PS5, as I can comfortably lie down on my bed and game, but for my PC, 27" all the way.
@Vinodra: Fair enough - There just isn’t anything smaller that doesn’t have a bunch of compromises for image quality at the moment otherwise I’d consider getting a 32
42" 4k = 105 PPI
27" 4k = 163 PPI
level down?
Which level bro
Same number of pixels means it's just a matter of how close it is to your face.
I'd get the extra warranty. I had to return one after 6 weeks, it had a faint vertical line from top to bottom, panel defect.
Replacement was delivered fast, just have to jump through the hoops.
What were the benefits that you felt the extra warranty got you above the standard warranty and ACL?
ACL is a law - it needs to be enforced by a court order to be effective.
But is usually enforced by a threat from the customer
Wow if only this was 32” I’d buy instantly
I think anyone would, 32" won't be that cheap yet.
S3225QC
That’s IPS
Try again.
I was looking at this monitor but it only has 2 ports on it. 1 HDMI and 1 USB C to DP port.
The Dell S3225QC
4K is a waste at 27”
Some people specifically ask for this resolution at 27", it's niche, but some people want it.
They ask for it purely because “4K better” when ultimately it’s not worth the massive performance trade off when compared to 1440p at the same size, especially for such a negligible difference in fidelity.
In my humble opinion, of course.
Not everyone games on 27” 4K… for office work it’s the ducks nuts
@babyyodathethird: People can do more than one thing. I will be doing both on it (WFH). Yeah, OLED isn’t ideal for productivity, and 4K is not ideal at this size for gaming, but this is the best compromise of both worlds for me. Hopefully I’ll get a little more than 3 years out of it without being too badly affected by burn in. But at this price it’s much cheaper than getting a mini LED even if I do have to replace it in 3 years.
@babyyodathethird: Oh def agree with you there but my comment was more around the point/questioning at why use 4K res at 27”
27” 4 k is great for office work from home unless you have executive size desk.
yeah I'm one of them.
Jensen Huang disagree
4K is excellent at 27”
I like my 27” 4K screens I use for work. Text is nice and sharp. I had 32” 4K and had to get rid of it (the colour shifts being VA panel were bad and text was not sharp enough for me). Also just felt too big for me personally where 2 x 27” with one in portrait is perfect.
Was two big for you, so you went and got 54" of screens instead?
not sure why the negs, I agree - trade off to run games at 4k and at 27inch is silly ….
I get the impression a lot of people want these so they can have good text clarity for work AND have a pretty killer gaming monitor - if you use DLSS and upscale from 1440p the performance hit isn't terrible.
1440p OLED's are kinda ass for text clarity
1440p OLED's are kinda ass for text clarity
Do you mean for any monitor over 27"?
Bought this on sale in March.
Screen is amazing, almost looks like a sheet of paper, big upgrade in text clarity from previous 1440p 27”.
However I had to return it as the screen stopped powering on, I think it kept going into deep sleep, but had to power cycle for >1 hour for it to occasionally work. Dell were very easy to work with
This code also works on Alienware 32 4K QD-OLED Gaming Monitor - AW3225QF and brings price to $1511.55 with delivery. Think it's been cheaper before though
Meh, its been $1200 before.
Still waiting on the Asus PG27UCDM to drop in price because at double the price of the Alienware its hard to justify.
As noted by @Matthew xxl on the previous deal:
This has forced DSC (display stream compression), which means no DLDSR and a delay in alt tabbing out of fullscreen as well as reduced colour gradients.
The MSI brand have full bandwidth ports (only supported by 5xxx series cards)
The asus brand, has slightly better HDR, and it has a BFI mode @ 120hz. as well as VRR flicker reduction features.Dell generally has a great calibration however, so you often get a SRGB mode that looks the least vibrant, yet by far has the best skin tones for colour critical work and movies. Its also good for games once you adjust.
and by @ThoseDeafMutes:
The difference in price is surprisingly large in Australia. The Alienware is ~40% cheaper than the ASUS here, but in the United States it's only 20% cheaper.
They've saved money in 2 places versus the other vendors:
Doesn't have DisplayPort 2.1 Only a basic 15w USB-C port instead of a high bandwidth one with KVM functionalityThe ASUS (but not the MSI or others) has a unique advantage in that it has a custom extra burn-in protection that you can enable, where it uses a proximity sensor to judge when you've moved away from your PC and turns the display off until you return.
For a 20% discount, the Alienware is still a contender, but for a 40% discount in RRP plus a 10% off coupon code, IMO it's the obvious winner for most people.
I thought the DLDSR was actually due to the GPU, not DSC? Hardware Unboxed discussed it in a video and I believe DLDSR should work for 50 series. Not sure about delays in alt tabbing or colour banding. Hopefully not, but I guess I will see! Either way, as you said/quoted, at this price difference it’s a fair trade off!
Yeah, it's a great monitor for the price, hence my + vote even though I'm not buying. Honestly, if it didn't have forced DSC, and especially if it had DP2.1 I'd grab it immediately, even if it cost an extra $100. For me though, I can't justify paying that much more than my current monitor and having several areas be more lacking.
Bought this at $1020 about a month ago. Used with a 9070xt. Good monitor, no complaints. Definitely worth the price.
I have a 9070XT as well. How does this card perform in 4K? Can it maintain a consistent 70–80 FPS (with upscaling)? In my opinion, that feels much smoother than 60 FPS, even if it's just for a single-player game. Also, what do you do with games that don't support FSR? Do you use OptiScaler?"
The only 2025 game I play is MH Wilds. It does 70-80fps with FSR on high. The rest of the games I play run at 70-80 natively on high. It’s definitely firmly in 4k native med-high territory, and 4k high-ultra with FSR Q.
Thanks for the reply. very informative.
Student discount works too by the way. I just ordered mine for $933.06
Just be aware that EOTF is somewhat borked on this monitor and we're still waiting for Dell to release a firmware update to fix this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/comments/1ju9xjv/alienw…
https://i.rtings.com/assets/products/1zsNrtXR/dell-alienware…
https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/dell/alienware-aw2725…
"Its PQ EOTF tracking is off, as most content is brighter than intended, which results in raised blacks in some scenes. Because it has a slow roll-off before the peak brightness, it doesn't let all highlights get the brightest possible. If you prefer a sharper cut-off at the peak brightness, you can enable Console Mode, which you can only do over HDMI, and enable Source Tone Map." - from RTINGS.com
The Alienware 32 inch model isn't affected by this stuffed up EOTF issue
I think this one has fan cooling
Man if only this came out last year. I've pulled the trigger on the AW3225QF. Basically this exact monitor but at 32 inches, but personally as someone accustomed to 27'', i prefer 4k at 27'' than 32 inch. Ever so slightly too big.
Hey guys, new to monitors. Looking to spend $1500-$1800 on a monitor - would the AW3225QF be good (or wait for sales) - will need to buy within the next month.
Basically will be used for work. Sigh, years ago I'd have gotten this to play crysis 2 but now sadly my life has been taken up by kids. Also have started to go slowly blind hence the need for a nicer monitor.
If you’re mainly doing work OLED is not the move unfortunately due to burn in and low brightness. It’s okay for work, I’m getting this one to do probably 60% work, but mainly I want it for gaming. If you are doing majority work it is definitely better to get an IPS. Even for my use case it’s probably not the smartest move, but I just really wanted to try it for this price.
For you I would look at the Dell U3225QE
Don't get any of the OLED/QD-OLED monitors if it's just for work and, and work means reading text.
You also don't need to spend anywhere near that much but if you want to - but you could consider one of those massive 5k ultrawide IPS if you value work area, or one of the high DPI 27" 5K IPS if you value text legibility.
Have any ozbargainers actually gotten one of these (from this deal)? I ordered mine pretty much as soon as this deal was posted, but it was delayed by over a week, and now I’m still waiting for any update on tracking info as it’s meant to arrive tomorrow. Looks like they oversold (possibly a lot?) considering how good the deal is compared to any competitors. But with that said, they’re still offering it for sale on the website?
Currently in the same issue, supposed to arrive 29th May, delayed 9th June, still hasnt been posted.
Delayed again to june 27 LMAO what a joke. Refunding and spending the extra 200$
Extra $200 where?
@benrowe91: Picked up a g81sf yesterday after cancelling my order. 1150 from JW comps: cash+voucher+ bit of haggling. Fantastic experience so far!
UPDATE: Received the monitor yesterday. Still a bit miffed about the repeated delays — Dell support kept giving me different dates than what was listed on the order status page — but it turns out they were just relaying what the supplier told them. To be fair, I did get a couple of unprompted updates too, so while it felt like I was getting the runaround at one point, everything ended up arriving exactly when they said it would (eventually).
The monitor itself is excellent as expected. Super lightweight (I’ll need to adjust my monitor arm — it keeps floating to the top), and I couldn’t spot a single dead pixel despite some very intentional pixel peeping. The uniformity is fantastic, blacks are perfect, and motion blur is basically non-existent.
Interestingly, I can see some colour fringing on text and horizontal UI elements (but not vertical ones). Thought I was imagining it, but a quick check of the subpixel layout confirmed it. Still, it looks noticeably better than standard ClearType on a 1440p panel to my eyes, so it’s a non-issue. Also surprisingly bright — had to drop it below 50% to hit my usual 250-nit target. I haven’t calibrated it yet — so I’m just matching my other monitor by eye.
Gaming-wise, I need to drop a DLSS tier to match the framerates I was getting at 1440p, but the bump in pixel density and the OLED quality absolutely make up for it. Even if I’m stuck running DLSS in everything at this res from now on, I think it’s a worthwhile tradeoff.
Cyberpunk runs around 200fps with DLSS Performance and MFG on 4*. I know MFG gets a lot of flak, but at this resolution, the artefacts are minimal — mostly in the usual suspects like transparent text on holograms etc. (this is actually noticeably worse than DLSS Quality). But overall better than DLSS Quality at 1440p for my use.
Now to put it through the real test: finishing off some revisions on a research paper before I can dive back into games. Realistically, I’ll probably get some burn-in within the warranty period — OLED is kind of dumb for my use case — but curiosity got the better of me. I guess I’ll be a case study!
What was your previous monitor and what GPU are you using?
AW2721DW and an RTX 5080 (I know they’re a terrible deal, but I was severely overdue for an upgrade).
The previous monitor was still fantastic outside of HDR, this was definitely not the smartest purchase I’ve made. In games that make use of HDR it feels like an enormous leap. In games like Expedition 33 the difference is much smaller. Blacks are of course much nicer, but my previous monitor still looks very nice too.
Ordered 24/05, expected delivery 29/05, received notification day before that saying it was delayed til 9/06 or 10/06. And another email today saying its delayed til 27/06. What a joke
Ordered last night, posted today. Thanks OP!
Ordered Tuesday just gone, expected delivery on this Monday
back in the day , in 2014, ips 27inch used to be $1200. Shud be cheaper with edu discount.