Good Looking light gaming work 32@ + monitor

Randall8686 · 16 Feb 2025 at 23:10

Hi All

This is going to hurt a lot of people here but I have gone over to Mac. Mainly beacause my workflow just works better on it. (still have my PC but it lays dorment) I am now finding myself gaming on my docked macbook pro (surprised how well it actually games) However im after a really vivid monitor ideally 4K to do graphic design work on. So colour accuracy is not important more sharpness and vivid colours. I also spend way too much time in spreadsheets so OLED and screenburn?

any advice welcome still using my donkeys old PG348 ultra wide. Im wondering if 32" is also going to seem small after 34" ultrawide?

Demon · 25 Feb 2025 at 22:02

I've just got work to order me 2 of the new Dell 32" U3225QE, these have a thunderbolt hub built in with 140W of charging, loads of USB/Ethernet etc, 120Hz (with VRR), daisy chainable and the new IPS Black panels which are the cream of the crop for IPS..
I'm coming from a 34" Ultrawide in work, and the 32" is slightly larger overall screen real-estate, its taller, but slightly narrower,

Visual TV Size Comparison : 34 inch 21x9 display vs 32 inch 16x9 display

Visual size comparison of a 34 inch 21x9 display vs 32 inch 16x9 display

www.displaywars.com

Its built for eye care, with ambient light sensor, 120hz and all the latest good stuff to reduce eye strain, so perfect of productivity and its sharp, vibrant and pretty decent on more than supporting all the colour spaces you'd need..

Pricey at £950 RRP, about £875 with discount through work.. the Thunderbolt hub equivalent from Dell is £300!

[edit]Mac and scaling on 4k might be an issue, you might want to look at a 5k screen unless MAC has ‘fixed’ it’s scaling ‘issues’

ik9000 · Monday at 18:18

Demon said:
I've just got work to order me 2 of the new Dell 32" U3225QE, these have a thunderbolt hub built in with 140W of charging, loads of USB/Ethernet etc, 120Hz (with VRR), daisy chainable and the new IPS Black panels which are the cream of the crop for IPS..
I'm coming from a 34" Ultrawide in work, and the 32" is slightly larger overall screen real-estate, its taller, but slightly narrower,

Visual TV Size Comparison : 34 inch 21x9 display vs 32 inch 16x9 display

Visual size comparison of a 34 inch 21x9 display vs 32 inch 16x9 display

www.displaywars.com

Its built for eye care, with ambient light sensor, 120hz and all the latest good stuff to reduce eye strain, so perfect of productivity and its sharp, vibrant and pretty decent on more than supporting all the colour spaces you'd need..

Pricey at £950 RRP, about £875 with discount through work.. the Thunderbolt hub equivalent from Dell is £300!

[edit]Mac and scaling on 4k might be an issue, you might want to look at a 5k screen unless MAC has ‘fixed’ it’s scaling ‘issues’

I wish my work would pay for some for me!! Did these arrive? How are you finding them? I'm about to hit go on a pair of these myself.

The weakness in them raised by reviews online seems to be no backlight zones and concerns about overshoot/ghosting.

Have you tried any gaming in them? I'd get them for work primarily but be nice to know if they can handle the odd weekend FPS session for the rare times I actually get 5 minutes to myself.

Have you tried using a colorimeter calibration tool on them?

Demon · Monday at 19:55

ik9000 said:
I wish my work would pay for some for me!! Did these arrive? How are you finding them? I'm about to hit go on a pair of these myself.

The weakness in them raised by reviews online seems to be no backlight zones and concerns about overshoot/ghosting.

Have you tried any gaming in them? I'd get them for work primarily but be nice to know if they can handle the odd weekend FPS session for the rare times I actually get 5 minutes to myself.

Have you tried using a colorimeter calibration tool on them?

They arrived on 28th Feb @ 4:30 so stayed a bit late unpacking and setting them up!

I've only been using them as office monitors, and as that, they work really well.. In fact, hands down the best office monitor I've had to date, I can be at the PC for 8 hours a day (with breaks) and as much as I'd love OLED in the office, I have no qualms about abusing these with static content all day long.

Colour wise they are superb out the box, I've not reached for the i1 Display Pro yet, as I tried soft proofing in sRGB mode (using the display manager to try the very cool 'sync monitors with window color profile' and 'sync windows with monitors color profile' options and found them pretty much spot on.. considering their massive gamut, I have no doubt they'll calibrate superbly should I need to.

As for gaming, it's IPS, so minor ghosting but nothing that would stop me playing games, I used to get by with the Acer XR382CQK ultrawide which was 14ms black to white response time, and the U3225QE is immeasurably better.. it's not OLED though! I'd wait for objective reviews, RTings has a unit they are testing..

I hope better review sources get their hands on these, it will be interesting, subjectively I'm very happy but the only improvements I think I could get would all point me at OLED and despite having that tech at home, work is a different animal of leaving documents open statically for hours on end..

ik9000 · Monday at 20:07

Demon said:
They arrived on 28th Feb @ 4:30 so stayed a bit late unpacking and setting them up!

I've only been using them as office monitors, and as that, they work really well.. In fact, hands down the best office monitor I've had to date, I can be at the PC for 8 hours a day (with breaks) and as much as I'd love OLED in the office, I have no qualms about abusing these with static content all day long.

Colour wise they are superb out the box, I've not reached for the i1 Display Pro yet, as I tried soft proofing in sRGB mode (using the display manager to try the very cool 'sync monitors with window color profile' and 'sync windows with monitors color profile' options and found them pretty much spot on.. considering their massive gamut, I have no doubt they'll calibrate superbly should I need to.

As for gaming, it's IPS, so minor ghosting but nothing that would stop me playing games, I used to get by with the Acer XR382CQK ultrawide which was 14ms black to white response time, and the U3225QE is immeasurably better.. it's not OLED though! I'd wait for objective reviews, RTings has a unit they are testing..

I hope better review sources get their hands on these, it will be interesting, subjectively I'm very happy but the only improvements I think I could get would all point me at OLED and despite having that tech at home, work is a different animal of leaving documents open statically for hours on end..

Thanks for the reply, and yeah I quite agree, I often have the same software menus etc open for hours at a time, day after day. I really don't want to pay £1k for a monitor just to get burn-in.