Dell S2716DG - Dells first G-sync

Upgrade · 5 Aug 2016 at 14:29

Wtf.. I ordered yesterday at 4:38 pm and phoned OCUK to ask for tomorrow delivery, but he said that the cut off is final, yet I get an email to say it's getting delivered in the next hour.

Amazing!

Rroff · 5 Aug 2016 at 14:41

^^ Hopefully does turn up for you. Think I left it a bit late and mine won't turn up until Monday. My ROG Swift is pretty much dead and couldn't stomach going back to my XL2420T so running my Dell U2913WM overclocked to 75Hz with Fast Sync - missing the extra vertical resolution but seems to be surprisingly better than 60Hz in games. (Hopefully I don't kill it with the higher refresh rate or that will be yet another monitor purchase this month :S).

Upgrade · 5 Aug 2016 at 15:13

Yeah, it arrived

so surprised it arrived so quickly. Not sure if I should fiddle with the settings or leave them as default. They seem fine at default, but I guess it's just what I'm used to.. we'll see

Rroff · 5 Aug 2016 at 15:23

If its like most of the Dell and Asus ones I've seen with this panel they definitely benefit from dropping the gamma to around 0.86-0.92 in your GPU control panel - though maybe Dell have now sorted the default gamma curve dunno.

pcfarrar · 5 Aug 2016 at 17:46

Upgrade said:
Yeah, it arrived so surprised it arrived so quickly. Not sure if I should fiddle with the settings or leave them as default. They seem fine at default, but I guess it's just what I'm used to.. we'll see

Had a quick test of mine, only thing I've done is lower the brightness so far. Star Wars battlefront is a lot better with G-Sync! Can't see any problems with the panel, no backlight bleed or dead pixels. It's very good for a TN panel almost at IPS level.

Upgrade · 5 Aug 2016 at 23:43

I'm really confused as to how everyone is wanting the brightness lower.

I'm trying to follow the profiles people are using and they're saying like ~30% brightness, but it seems really dark to me? 100% brightness is a lot better.

Not sure what I should be using ;/

Upgrade · 6 Aug 2016 at 00:40

Just turned my pc off and noticed a dead pixels, aww. Tiny black dot, grrrr.

pcfarrar · 6 Aug 2016 at 13:28

Upgrade said:
Just turned my pc off and noticed a dead pixels, aww. Tiny black dot, grrrr.

That's unlucky, mine is perfect and I'm really pleased with it.

Upgrade · 6 Aug 2016 at 15:19

pcfarrar said:
That's unlucky, mine is perfect and I'm really pleased with it.

Upon further inspection, there's a black dead pixel and 2x white dead pixels.

Not sure if I should return it and get my money back or not.

Legoman · 6 Aug 2016 at 19:03

Upgrade said:
Upon further inspection, there's a black dead pixel and 2x white dead pixels.

Not sure if I should return it and get my money back or not.

Where on the screen are they?

Upgrade · 6 Aug 2016 at 19:55

Legoman said:
Where on the screen are they?

Black one is at the top, white is an inch or 2 below and then the other white dead pixel is bottom right-ish.

Dave2150 · 7 Aug 2016 at 13:44

Has anyone here owned or tried both this Dell monitor and the BenQ XL2730Z? I'm wondering what the difference is, as far as I can tell they are extremely similar (both 1440P, 144Hz, 8bit TN, one is freesync one is gsync etc). Thanks.

Upgrade · 7 Aug 2016 at 14:03

I assume it all comes down to whether or not you have an nvidia/amd card.

Legoman · 7 Aug 2016 at 16:11

Upgrade said:
Black one is at the top, white is an inch or 2 below and then the other white dead pixel is bottom right-ish.

Don't think I could tolerate that

Upgrade · 7 Aug 2016 at 17:04

Legoman said:
Don't think I could tolerate that

yeah... I made a thread in Customer Service to see if I can get a new replacement, or if I need to buy another one/refund the current one.

Xinn · 8 Aug 2016 at 11:48

Are we likely to see these back down to around £400 any time soon (up to Christmas), would like to pick up another couple but I suppose the £ will need to improve somewhat before we see those prices again?

Upgrade · 8 Aug 2016 at 13:46

OCUK is making me go through Dell to get a replacement new monitor, even though I've had it for 3 days

Rroff · 8 Aug 2016 at 14:24

Xinn said:
Are we likely to see these back down to around £400 any time soon (up to Christmas), would like to pick up another couple but I suppose the £ will need to improve somewhat before we see those prices again?

Always a chance with Black Friday. Though sadly we don't seem to get them quite like the epic one of 2013.

pcfarrar · 8 Aug 2016 at 14:51

Upgrade said:
OCUK is making me go through Dell to get a replacement new monitor, even though I've had it for 3 days

It's got the Dell Advanced Exchange warranty so you normally get a replacement next working day.

Marky · 8 Aug 2016 at 14:58

Upgrade said:
Upon further inspection, there's a black dead pixel and 2x white dead pixels.

Not sure if I should return it and get my money back or not.

That's a damn shame man

Hope you can get it replaced soon!