alienware AW3418DW Availability in the UK?

revollucion · 23 Jul 2018 at 21:12

LiE said:
Does anyone find the top 2cm of the monitor are slightly darker than the rest? noticeable on a pure weight background.

No Not Really

Stu · 24 Jul 2018 at 10:58

belcebuu said:
is there a way to ask Dell for a replacement and keep the best of 2 ?

It's been about 8 years since I had to use Dell replacement, I recall asking them a similar question and was told no. From (hazy) memory, even though you have 2 monitors for a day between the new one being delivered and the old one returned, I recall they tracked the serial numbers and might get upset if you sent the wrong one back...

RIZZEE · 24 Jul 2018 at 14:01

After nearly two weeks of utter **** my monitor is finally being delivered. Said they'd refund me 5% of the monitor as a sorry.

23/07/18 19:00 WWI - LUTTERWORTH MERGE ITEMS PICKED.
23/07/18 18:25 PLAN COMMITTED NOTE.
23/07/18 13:05 MARCONI UNIT DELIVERY.
23/07/18 13:01 EMF DEPARTED MANU.FACILITY

ETA says today but have a feeling it'll come tomorrow.

Gux · 24 Jul 2018 at 17:29

RIZZEE said:
After nearly two weeks of utter **** my monitor is finally being delivered. Said they'd refund me 5% of the monitor as a sorry.

ETA says today but have a feeling it'll come tomorrow.

I ordered mine on the 21st and the expected delivery date is today, but the package hasn't even been shipped according to dell webpage.

If it doesn't come by friday this week, I am cancelling and getting something else.

Looking around on the internet and on this topic, the amount of pathetic delivery service from dell is a joke.

I am suprised you haven't cancelled your order. Clearly dell are lieing since this has been happening for years. This appears to dell standard service

ChrisD. · 24 Jul 2018 at 17:32

Shocking stories here. My X34P arrived about 15 hours after I’d ordered it.

Gux · 24 Jul 2018 at 17:44

ChrisD. said:
Shocking stories here. My X34P arrived about 15 hours after I’d ordered it.

It's not just here. A quick google search will tell you that Dell is misleading their customers in order to take their cash. And it's been happening for years.

Like I said if it isn't delivered by Friday, I am taking my money somewhere else. Going to vote with my wallet and will not be bought out by Dell giving some extra warranty or 5% cashback. There's plenty of competitors with monitors they can actually deliver on time.

revollucion · 25 Jul 2018 at 02:22

RIZZEE said:
After nearly two weeks of utter **** my monitor is finally being delivered. Said they'd refund me 5% of the monitor as a sorry.

ETA says today but have a feeling it'll come tomorrow.

Ya Man. U getting there

revollucion · 25 Jul 2018 at 02:25

My monitor when delivered last week was delivered two days later then it should.. I have got email from Dell with apology. I asked for refund if possible.. yesterday morning I recieved email which comfirmed my refund of 7% from total item value (£639) was approved.

Happy days

I like Dell for this.

JediFragger · 25 Jul 2018 at 04:06

Nice!! It's a good few beer tokens at the very least! Enjoy the UW goodness boys :cool:

RIZZEE · 25 Jul 2018 at 09:20

Tracking has changed since the 23rd/what I posted above. Took two weeks to ship, hopefully, it won't take another two just to deliver

K20Evo · 25 Jul 2018 at 10:14

Tried to get the best price from the this morning on the AW3418 too and the best they'll do is £1,057. Trying to get them to budge but they wont move.
He did say they revise the prices every Thursday though

RIZZEE · 26 Jul 2018 at 19:30

FINALLY HAVE MY MONITOR. Good lord, this this is huge, already purchased an arm for it.

120Hz no problem so far, looking at profiles to get this thing ready.

belcebuu · 26 Jul 2018 at 19:58

RIZZEE said:
FINALLY HAVE MY MONITOR. Good lord, this this is huge, already purchased an arm for it.

120Hz no problem so far, looking at profiles to get this thing ready.

Which arm ?? I am thinking about using an arm, the distance between the wall and this thing is massive, hopefully with an arm i can put it closer to the wall

Wilkeh · 26 Jul 2018 at 21:48

Ok, so at first I thought the backlight bleed was minimal, however it appears to have gotten slightly worse. What's your thoughts on this, mainly the bottom corners...

Stu · 26 Jul 2018 at 22:08

Does the BLB look very different depending on the angle of the camera? I also find that BLB looks worse in a photo compared to the naked eye. What brightness is the monitor set to?

belcebuu · 26 Jul 2018 at 22:25

Wilkeh said:
Ok, so at first I thought the backlight bleed was minimal, however it appears to have gotten slightly worse. What's your thoughts on this, mainly the bottom corners...

Mine is very similar

https://imgur.com/a/eFLV8ZB

Calneon · 26 Jul 2018 at 23:23

Mine is very similar too. Bottom corners are worst. Brightness is on 80%. Honestly it's worse than I'd want when you're paying £800 but everything else about the monitor is so great I'm not too bothered. You don't notice it 99% of the time, though when you do it's a bit distracting.

I haven't done any calibration on it, what's the standard process?

Stu · 27 Jul 2018 at 00:34

Start by turning brightness down to approximately 37%.

Calneon · 27 Jul 2018 at 09:01

Stu said:
Start by turning brightness down to approximately 37%.

Feels way too dark? Especially during the day.

D3K · 27 Jul 2018 at 09:12

revollucion said:
Listen its happening because your screen is only 120hz limited. Everytime you go with your FPS over this number (120h you will get it...

You can turn on vsync on in game or use FPS limiter and set it to 118 for example.

I'm aware of the requirements for g-sync to work correctly, I've had 3 monitors

Every game I play has the fps set to just under 120.
The tearing is very slight, most people wouldn't notice it.