New Dell IPS S2721DGF 165hz gaming monitor

B@Th*nG · 29 Jan 2021 at 08:55

Managed to sort it out. probably totally wrong but it looks right to my eyes. It's removed that slight blueing on the whites, which was impossible to get out with the gain correction because the steps were too great, and get rid of the white glare. My settings:

- Brightness 47
- Contrast 61

- Gain all 100.

- turn red saturation down to 46

Enable Custom Color in Radeon Software and..

- Set Color Temperature Control to 6400.

- Set Saturation to 97

the_chez · 29 Jan 2021 at 09:45

Personally I've used tecless (https://youtu.be/4IHsHZx-Bb8) ICC profile from which I've configured for my personal taste two profiles. One for desktop and one for FPS/Games use.

B@Th*nG · 29 Jan 2021 at 09:46

the_chez said:
Personally I've used tecless (https://youtu.be/4IHsHZx-Bb8) ICC profile from which I've configured for my personal taste two profiles. One for desktop and one for FPS/Games use.

i tried that, still made my whites blue

topgun06 · 29 Jan 2021 at 14:28

I'm currently looking for a monitor and so have naturally come across this one.

But despite it seemingly being very popular there are a worrying number of people reporting issues with all sorts of things, colours, receiving returned models with defects, requiring calibration, some are happy, some are disappointed.

Is this "normal" nowadays? I've not bought a monitor for 12 years

B@Th*nG · 29 Jan 2021 at 14:55

topgun06 said:
I'm currently looking for a monitor and so have naturally come across this one.

But despite it seemingly being very popular there are a worrying number of people reporting issues with all sorts of things, colours, receiving returned models with defects, requiring calibration, some are happy, some are disappointed.

Is this "normal" nowadays? I've not bought a monitor for 12 years

games, yes! office work, nah..

shuffle · 30 Jan 2021 at 01:00

topgun06 said:
I'm currently looking for a monitor and so have naturally come across this one.

But despite it seemingly being very popular there are a worrying number of people reporting issues with all sorts of things, colours, receiving returned models with defects, requiring calibration, some are happy, some are disappointed.

Is this "normal" nowadays? I've not bought a monitor for 12 years

it’s hard to get hold of one of these monitors too it seems ? No stock on a few obvious sites including oc

chrcoluk · 30 Jan 2021 at 09:41

Some dude on reddit said is no monitor supply issues in UK, I giggled.

slipd · 30 Jan 2021 at 23:52

This monitor ticks a lot, if not all my boxes too, are they out of production now then - in under a year? What are the alternatives?

peahead · 31 Jan 2021 at 01:04

slipd said:
This monitor ticks a lot, if not all my boxes too, are they out of production now then - in under a year? What are the alternatives?

Check out the MSI MAG274QRF-QD and the LG 27GL850-B

https://uk.msi.com/Monitor/Optix-MAG274QRF-QD

https://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/lg-27GL850

Kreeeee · 31 Jan 2021 at 12:05

B@Th*nG said:
i tried that, still made my whites blue

You have to set it up for your specific monitor. Using other people's color profiles or settings is useless.

Mazzah · 31 Jan 2021 at 14:34

peahead said:
Check out the MSI MAG274QRF-QD and the LG 27GL850-B

https://uk.msi.com/Monitor/Optix-MAG274QRF-QD

https://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/lg-27GL850

I can't find the MAG274QRF-QD for sale at a reasonable price anywhere in the UK yet. Do you happen to know of somewhere that stocks this monitor.
I've put an order in for the Dell but tbh, would rather have the MSI but simply can't find it.

willhub · 31 Jan 2021 at 18:30

Anyone getting flicker in game? I had it in cities skylines and it stopped by lowering to 60hz, but in FS2020 nothing seems to stop it, not sure what's causing this annoying flicker?

B@Th*nG · 1 Feb 2021 at 21:27

i've noticed that the bottom left corner has a lot more glow than the rest of the monitor. is this normal?

qqmoo · 3 Feb 2021 at 14:06

B@Th*nG said:
i've noticed that the bottom left corner has a lot more glow than the rest of the monitor. is this normal?

does this warrant a return? I've ordered one as well and is worried about the glow/bleed.

willhub · 3 Feb 2021 at 15:31

It's an IPS panel, that's normal, not really a reason for a return, IPS is well known for "IPS Glow"

Smiffy-UK · 3 Feb 2021 at 16:01

Mine has that glow. Just not that bad. That does seem a lot of glow. Maybe others can post? If I get around to it I'll upload my monitor glow too.

B@Th*nG · 3 Feb 2021 at 16:14

willhub said:
It's an IPS panel, that's normal, not really a reason for a return, IPS is well known for "IPS Glow"

it's not so much that the glow is there, it's that the bottom left hand side is way worse than the rest.

qqmoo said:
does this warrant a return? I've ordered one as well and is worried about the glow/bleed.

I'm speaking to Dell about it tonight so i'll let you know what they say.

qqmoo · 3 Feb 2021 at 16:32

mine got delivered today having placed the order on Monday. eta from Dell is in March but somehow the item turned up mysteriously. overall quality is great and surprised to see HDMI and Displayport cable included in the package. Upgrading from a BenQ XL2420T i can see this is very worthwhile. IPS glow is present and bottom left corner is worse than the rest of the screen area but not as severe as B@Th*nG's. Let us know how it goes with the Dell aftersales.

mattyfez · 3 Feb 2021 at 18:09

The IPS glow is more apparent when the screen is in a black/standby state.

You can't tell when you're actually using the screen when gaming or watchin videos.
Also mobile phone cameras make it look much wore than what it atually is in use.

mattyfez · 3 Feb 2021 at 19:01

chrcoluk said:
Some dude on reddit said is no monitor supply issues in UK, I giggled.

The dude on reditt hasn'y taken into acount brexit. Or Covid.