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The PC market seems to be driven by the gamers and the word on the gamers street is that it's all about latency. I actually like extra wide displays. There are

by mrtksn 5y ago

The PC market seems to be driven by the gamers and the word on the gamers street is that it's all about latency. I actually like extra wide displays. There are few interesting options like that but the rest seems to be dominated by low color, low resolution, low latency stuff.

raydev 5y ago
> it's all about latency. Not just latency, but framerate too. I wanted to build a gaming PC that would double as a Windows dev machine, so I wanted more pixels than 1080p. Even with my 3090, I can only reasonably do 1440p @ 240Hz, and even then I lose some frames on Fortnite with graphics settings turned down. 4k was out. Thankfully Alienware makes a very nice 1440p 240Hz monitor.
- Dracophoenix 5y ago
  Do you mean the AW2721D from 2020? If so, I was looking to purchase one myself. How color accurate is the screen? How well does it handle HDR? Does it ever get blurry? If you've ever tried run Linux, either bare or VM, did it handle dpi correctly?
  - raydev 5y ago
    That's the correct model. I haven't tested for color accuracy or HDR. No Linux. Does not get "blurry" while I'm gaming. My only recent comparisons are my new 16" M1 MBP and my 1440p Dell U2719 monitor (provided by work). Colors are wildly better than the Dell (of course) and it seems close to the MBP, although the MBP looks better out of the box of course. At time of purchase, the only viable 240Hz 1440p options were this Alienware or the Samsung Odyssey G7. The Alienware offered better latency, and it was 40% off on the Dell website for some reason, so that's the one I went with. TFTCentral does pretty thorough reviews, they seem to like the Alienware. https://tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_alienware_aw2721d https://tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_alienware_aw2721d
smileybarry 5y ago
Once you get used to low-latency or high-refresh-rate displays, you can't not notice the subtle mouse cursor drag of a "early days" 4K display (had one at work), or the teeny delay of (most) Dell monitors. Honestly considered at asome point just asking work to get me a high-Hz display.

by mrtksn 5y ago

raydev 5y ago

> it's all about latency. Not just latency, but framerate too. I wanted to build a gaming PC that would double as a Windows dev machine, so I wanted more pixels than 1080p. Even with my 3090, I can only reasonably do 1440p @ 240Hz, and even then I lose some frames on Fortnite with graphics settings turned down. 4k was out. Thankfully Alienware makes a very nice 1440p 240Hz monitor.

Dracophoenix 5y ago
Do you mean the AW2721D from 2020? If so, I was looking to purchase one myself. How color accurate is the screen? How well does it handle HDR? Does it ever get blurry? If you've ever tried run Linux, either bare or VM, did it handle dpi correctly?
- raydev 5y ago
  That's the correct model. I haven't tested for color accuracy or HDR. No Linux. Does not get "blurry" while I'm gaming. My only recent comparisons are my new 16" M1 MBP and my 1440p Dell U2719 monitor (provided by work). Colors are wildly better than the Dell (of course) and it seems close to the MBP, although the MBP looks better out of the box of course. At time of purchase, the only viable 240Hz 1440p options were this Alienware or the Samsung Odyssey G7. The Alienware offered better latency, and it was 40% off on the Dell website for some reason, so that's the one I went with. TFTCentral does pretty thorough reviews, they seem to like the Alienware. https://tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_alienware_aw2721d https://tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_alienware_aw2721d

smileybarry 5y ago

Once you get used to low-latency or high-refresh-rate displays, you can't not notice the subtle mouse cursor drag of a "early days" 4K display (had one at work), or the teeny delay of (most) Dell monitors. Honestly considered at asome point just asking work to get me a high-Hz display.