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anyone got an Alienware AW3225QF? (self.pcmasterrace)

submitted 4 months ago by Embarrassingskidmark to c/pcmasterrace

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I'm thinking of upgrading my old 75hz qhd monitor for the Alienware oled 4k 240hz AW3225QF. However, I'm using an RTX3070 right now & don't want to upgrade until the release of the 5070. Does anyone have the Alienware already who can speak to how it looks with games running at qhd resolutions on the 4k screen?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have an Acer XV275K P3, a Mini-LED 4k 160hz monitor, and I'd say it looks pretty good. If games have FSR 2, like Baldur's Gate 3, then I can run them at 1080p and they still look pretty nice.

There is a noticeable difference between running 1440p and 4k, but I'm not sure how that compares to native 1440p since I've never had one. It doesn't look terrible I'd say. I only have an RX 7600 so on games like Doom Eternal I play at 1080p which still looks pretty good. Forza Horizon 5 looks and runs great at 4k though.

I'd say honestly going to a good HDR monitor is a bigger difference than running games at higher resolutions. It looks really nice, mine is MiniLED not an oled, so dark scenes can look weird sometimes (mainly in movies, not games), but the benefit is it can get really bright. And the colors are incredible. HDR doesn't have any performance impact as well, and SDR content will also look better simply because you have a nice monitor.

[–] Embarrassingskidmark 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks for such a well thought out reply!

[–] filister 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

With all due respect the Acer that you have is far inferior compared to the Alienware in terms of image quality. Not to mention that it has only 576 dimming zones. The only place it shines is the maximum brightness, but I would still pick the Alienware any day, especially if it is for only gaming.

If I am not wrong the OLEDs have a problem with the text clarity and if you are planning to use it for programming or crunching numbers on a spreadsheet table, the Acer would probably be a better choice. That and the risk of burn in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, it probably looks quite a lot better. This one doesn't look great in dark scenes, and I can see how per-pixel dimming would be a big improvement even in brighter scenes. But this one looks a lot better than my old TN monitor at least, and I just did not want to worry about burn-in or brightness degradation. I'm also a CS student so I do a decent bit of programming, and I got it for a crazy deal from Best Buy for $550, while the Alienware looks to be around $1000.

In terms of brightness, I used to run my old monitor at the lowest possible, but now I kinda wish this one could get even brighter than it is lol.

Now that I've gotten a taste of true HDR though, I can see how an oled would fix quite a few issues with this one. Thinking about it now I think I might rather have a 1440p oled than this 4k MiniLED, HDR just makes that big of an impact. Although most of the time this one looks pretty good. I was just hoping this would last me a while until MicroLED or something actually came out.