Dell S2716DG - Dells first G-sync

Gibbo · 20 Apr 2016 at 09:44

Rusty0611 said:
Gibbo is going ham on these! Now £379.99. I've ordered one

Its an error, but we shall honour the orders placed, the price goes up today in a few hours.

Nasher · 20 Apr 2016 at 09:51

If only I could un-see the inversion lines on these monitors

torN · 20 Apr 2016 at 10:03

After months of watching the monitor market and holding off on buying another new monitor (purchased a Dell U2414H awhile ago) I have finally gone for this Dell S2716DG.

I was really keen on a gaming ISP, but after seeing the issues I was put off and didn't want the trouble of having to return a possible faulty monitor.

I cannot wait to get this new Dell and have a play with it ,and I can use my U2414H as a second monitor that will replace my very old Viewsonic 21' TFT monitor (I purchased this monitor after Battlefield 2 came out, it has served me well!).

I will post screenshots and a tiny review if I remember.

dragos1977 · 20 Apr 2016 at 13:07

Give us your first impressions mate and don't forget pictures along with it.

torN · 20 Apr 2016 at 13:58

I will do! It will be interesting to compare the Dell S2716DG to the U2414H ISP.

Are there any 'must do's' when setting this new monitor up?

dragos1977 · 20 Apr 2016 at 15:22

get tft profile and i think disable power save mode or dp will never work.

ChrisLandin · 20 Apr 2016 at 15:29

Can someone lint the tft profile please?

D3K · 20 Apr 2016 at 16:12

Ordered at the cheaper price. I decided the extra connectivity options would be very much worth it, since the asus only has DP.

dragos1977 · 20 Apr 2016 at 16:26

you can try these....

Nvidia Control Panel>Adjust desktop color settings:
Brightness-50%
Contrast-50%
Gamma-0.60%
Digital vibrance-70%
Hue-0
CLICK APPLY

DELL Monitor settings:
Brightness-26%
Contrast-75%
Color>Custom Color:
R-97%
G-99%
B-96%

arty · 20 Apr 2016 at 17:45

I've just taken delivery of one of these, and have weird and obvious display corruption in Windows when the refresh rate is above 60hz (e.g. what look like double-height pixels, making the text look chunky and all 80s, weird). Could this be down to a faulty cable? I'm using the bundled DisplayPort one.

EDIT - Super-enormous terrible photo trying to show the problem here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/e7o96v0fvwapb5s/2016-04-20 17.46.28.jpg?dl=0

Deo_volente · 20 Apr 2016 at 17:49

ChrisLandin said:
Can someone lint the tft profile please?

It's here mate, just scroll to the relevant one. Also if you keep scrolling down on that page it tells you how to install it.

Deo_volente · 20 Apr 2016 at 17:59

arty said:
I've just taken delivery of one of these, and have weird and obvious display corruption in Windows when the refresh rate is above 60hz (e.g. what look like double-height pixels, making the text look chunky and all 80s, weird). Could this be down to a faulty cable? I'm using the bundled DisplayPort one.

EDIT - Super-enormous terrible photo trying to show the problem here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/e7o96v0fvwapb5s/2016-04-20 17.46.28.jpg?dl=0

Looks weird mate. Almost like it's not at native res. Got latest drivers for your card etc ?

arty · 20 Apr 2016 at 18:07

Deo_volente said:
Looks weird mate. Almost like it's not at native res. Got latest drivers for your card etc ?

Yeah, pretty much the first thing I checked. I wondered if it was drivers too. in games I haven't noticed any problems, but maybe that's just because my games aren't really text-heavy

EDIT - Okay, spoke too soon - getting loads of flickering now too. I'm going to see if I can get another cable tomorrow and try it, as I don't have another unfortunately.

ChrisLandin · 20 Apr 2016 at 19:22

Deo_volente said:
It's here mate, just scroll to the relevant one. Also if you keep scrolling down on that page it tells you how to install it.

G

Cheers buddy

Deo_volente · 20 Apr 2016 at 19:42

arty said:
Yeah, pretty much the first thing I checked. I wondered if it was drivers too. in games I haven't noticed any problems, but maybe that's just because my games aren't really text-heavy

EDIT - Okay, spoke too soon - getting loads of flickering now too. I'm going to see if I can get another cable tomorrow and try it, as I don't have another unfortunately.

Grr,hopefully a new cable sorts it

dasBOT · 21 Apr 2016 at 08:22

saving money for this one

arty · 21 Apr 2016 at 14:47

Deo_volente said:
Grr,hopefully a new cable sorts it

Unfortunately it made no difference, so now I need to deal with Dell directly. Wish me luck!

Deo_volente · 21 Apr 2016 at 16:41

arty said:
Unfortunately it made no difference, so now I need to deal with Dell directly. Wish me luck!

Ah that sucks, dell should sort you out though. Heard they are are pretty good to deal with.

Twirlywoos · 21 Apr 2016 at 17:26

When it comes to Customer Service you are in good hands with Dell. Just mention you don't want a refurb as replacement.

torN · 21 Apr 2016 at 18:51

ITS AMAZING!

Got mine today, just set it up and wow! will post screenshots sat!

However I had a EU plug and not a UK one

[UPDATE]

Regarding the EU plug, I spoke to OCUK via Live Chat and they have sent me a new UK plug (1.8 meters) and I should get it tomorrow. Excellent service as always!

[/UPDATE]