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anyone got an Alienware AW3225QF?
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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.
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.