Alienware announces the AW2725DF and AW3225QF (worlds first 4k 240hz and worlds first 1440p 360hz QD-OLED monitors - launches January 2024)

Guest2 said:
Is there any way to have HDR automatically enable when its found reliable HDR content? - I mean instead of having to select HDR on the monitor first (or is that what Smart HDR does?) and then having to enable HDR in Windows too.


Black text on white background is certainly noticable. It appears almost like it has a green 'haze' to my eyes. Sharpness is excellent and gaming (even just SDR) looks fantastic especially at 4k hitting ~200fps.
The text might be a deal breaker for me. I'll see how I get on in the next couple of weeks whilst the return window is open.
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You shouldn't have to enable HDR on the monitor, just toggle HDR on in Windows by pressing Windows key + alt + B before launching a game and then make sure HDR is enabled in game.
Don't use HDR in Windows, looking awful!
 
SpudMaster said:
You shouldn't have to enable HDR on the monitor, just toggle HDR on in Windows by pressing Windows key + alt + B before launching a game and then make sure HDR is enabled in game.
Don't use HDR in Windows, looking awful!
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Win Alt and B doesnt work for me. Does it need Game mode, Game bar or anything like that? (I turned it all off long ago)
 
TNA said:
FTFY :D
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Are you talking about Recall?

chaparral said:
Reminds me of the people that wouldn’t move on from windows XP :cry:
Then you have the people which wouldn’t move on from windows 7

Now it windows 10 :D
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Made sense with XP and 7, I hung onto XP with dear life, no way I was touching Vista. 8 was also bad. 11 isn't great, neither was 10 but it's not as bad as a lot of people try to make out.

Windows 10 support ends in October so people might as well make the jump.
 
Sad to say after a week i've decided to return my AW3225QF.
It's a shame as its a great monitor which gaming is fantastic on it but reading text, forums and even text in games has started giving me eye strain and slight headaches. I can last all day on 2 x 24" old HP monitors coding and writing but notice immediately when looking at the OLED.

Excellent screen in perfect condition, no defects at all however I immediately noticed a green haze on text and white windows on dark backgrounds.I have tried to ignore this but over the past week I have started to get headaches and eye strain.
It's most noticable after using a standard work monitor then at the end of the day looking at the OLED. I believe this is due to the triangular pixel layout of QD OLED. Please let me know asap if Dell intend to sell an RGB OLED 240hz panel. Thanks

Hopefully a similar panel comes along that has 'normal' RBG pixel layout that doesnt have green / purple haze or give me eye strain. I guess my eyes are way more sensitive than others to the fringing and general 'look' of OLED.
 
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Guest2 said:
Sad to say after a week i've decided to return my AW3225QF.
It's a shame as its a great monitor which gaming is fantastic on it but reading text, forums and even text in games has started giving me eye strain and slight headaches. I can last all day on 2 x 24" old HP monitors coding and writing but notice immediately when looking at the OLED.

Excellent screen in perfect condition, no defects at all however I immediately noticed a green haze on text and white windows on dark backgrounds.I have tried to ignore this but over the past week I have started to get headaches and eye strain.
It's most noticable after using a standard work monitor then at the end of the day looking at the OLED. I believe this is due to the triangular pixel layout of QD OLED. Please let me know asap if Dell intend to sell an RGB OLED 240hz panel. Thanks

Hopefully a similar panel comes along that has 'normal' RBG pixel layout that doesnt have green / purple haze or give me eye strain. I guess my eyes are way more sensitive than others to the fringing and general 'look' of OLED.
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Welcome to the 'QD-OLED causes eyestrain' club. There are literally dozens of us.

It's a bit annoying as the range of available QD-OLEDs is fantastic, particularly the new 27" models - but I'm now using one of the WOLED panels (4k 240hz) and have zero eye strain issues/headaches at all. I found that I could limit the impact of eye strain with the QD-OLED panel by having the windows scale slightly higher (125% at 1440p or 150% at 4k) and by using creator sRGB mode on the Alienware models to try and clamp the colour space to a more typical 'reference' which definitely helped.

Potentially worth trying that to see how you get on?

LG do have a regular RGB 1440p OLED on their roadmap for the end of this year - so it'll be interesting to see how that turns out.
 
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It is weird the way eyes work, same way with me being super sensitive to vrr flicker which most people don't notice.

I came from a iiyama ips 34" 1440 and found the switch to the 34" 1440 aw34 much better for me, think it was a combo of the iiyama having a heavy matte coating and then producing more blue light which didn't help, my eyes felt so much less fatigued by the end of the day with the aw34. AW32 is better than the aw34 due to ppi and 3rd gen.
 
t2na said:
Welcome to the 'QD-OLED causes eyestrain' club. There are literally dozens of us.

It's a bit annoying as the range of available QD-OLEDs is fantastic, particularly the new 27" models - but I'm now using one of the WOLED panels (4k 240hz) and have zero eye strain issues/headaches at all. I found that I could limit the impact of eye strain with the QD-OLED panel by having the windows scale slightly higher (125% at 1440p or 150% at 4k) and by using creator sRGB mode on the Alienware models to try and clamp the colour space to a more typical 'reference' which definitely helped.

Potentially worth trying that to see how you get on?

LG do have a regular RGB 1440p OLED on their roadmap for the end of this year - so it'll be interesting to see how that turns out.
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I have my aw32 on creator, colour adjusted at 150% and a 27' 1440p at 100% to the side, it's been easy to adjust to the new monitor. I work from home 3 days a week, often pouring over code and network config, visio and various other applications which require some focus - no eye strain or additional headaches so far.
 
t2na said:
Welcome to the 'QD-OLED causes eyestrain' club. There are literally dozens of us.

It's a bit annoying as the range of available QD-OLEDs is fantastic, particularly the new 27" models - but I'm now using one of the WOLED panels (4k 240hz) and have zero eye strain issues/headaches at all. I found that I could limit the impact of eye strain with the QD-OLED panel by having the windows scale slightly higher (125% at 1440p or 150% at 4k) and by using creator sRGB mode on the Alienware models to try and clamp the colour space to a more typical 'reference' which definitely helped.

Potentially worth trying that to see how you get on?

LG do have a regular RGB 1440p OLED on their roadmap for the end of this year - so it'll be interesting to see how that turns out.
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Yeh, I tried 4k 100%, 125% and 150%.
I tried these settings - https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gamin...enware_aw3225qf_best_settings_no_abl_uniform/
Didnt like them so tried Creator, sRGB on here but also set brightness down to 26 (43 I found too bright)


I'll certainly be interested in a regular RGB OLED panel, but would probably need to be 3440 x 1440 or 4k. I havent used 1440p since maybe 2014
 
I have no eye strain with QD-OLED FWIW. Long as you use better cleartype tuner to fix the text fringe, everything else is great.
 
mrk said:
I have no eye strain with QD-OLED FWIW. Long as you use better cleartype tuner to fix the text fringe, everything else is great.
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Tried cleartype tuner. Still eye strain for me. My girlfriend has bad eyes and even noticed the text in game was green at the top ‘CALL OF DUTY’ in block white.
I coukd see similar, but on everything.

Ill jump to oled in future when its progressed or if micro led is a thing in a few years time.
 
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i was thinking of getting on of these on recent deals but all eye strain put me off. Is there another type of oled that would be better for anyone that gets it with the dell?
 
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i was thinking of getting on of these on recent deals but all eye strain put me off. Is there another type of oled that would be better for anyone that gets it with the dell?
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You had oled / the dell qd oled too and got eye strain?

I think gen 4 oled has a different, non triangular pixel layout but not available until later this year.

Edit - Maybe this -

ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDP

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The ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDP is a 32-inch, 4k gaming monitor with a 240Hz refresh rate. However, it also has a special mode that increases its refresh rate t...
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RGWB pixel layout
 
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