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What's the benefit of Alienware AW2518H 25" gaming monitor?
Hello everyone,
I bought an Alienware R8 and AW2518H 25" monitor for my children to play games. The reason I bought this expensive monitor (my monitors are all half of that price) is I thought it would be better for gaming -- as I read that higher the refresh rate the better for games.
I've watched my kids playing games on it -- but honestly, I don't see anything better than my almost 10 years old 20", 23" 60Hz monitors. Actually, for text, the old monitors are better and I hardly see any pixels on them, but on this Alienware 25", I could see pixels/lines.
I read that this type of monitor shines for FPS type games -- what kind of games will it really show its true value? So far, I am not impressed at all.
May be I need to tune something? Or any suggestion on games that will take advantages of this type of monitor?
Thanks.
speedstep
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July 10th, 2019 04:00
Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Defiance, World of warcraft is not on steam.
Epic pulled Metro Exodus from steam so they have their own installer now.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/224600/Defiance/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/22370/Fallout_3_Game_of_the_Year_Edition/
speedstep
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July 9th, 2019 09:00
Higher refresh rate does not make for faster GPU FPS.
You need a GPU to play games and the AW2518H requires a very expensive GPU to run it properly.
Tesla1856
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July 9th, 2019 09:00
The G-SYNC tech is what makes it expensive. If you have a Nvidia video card, you can enable that feature.
While TN Panels can reach higher frequencies, for all around use (including education and productivity) , most people (including myself) prefer a matte IPS Panel (like on the Dell UltraSharp series).
Yes, they game just fine ... at 1440p I see no “tearing” in 3D games. FPS is good and playable.
But main attraction of IPS is better image, viewing angles, and better color.
kkim2019
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July 9th, 2019 20:00
Would anyone please suggest a game (from steam) that would show the difference for this monitor?
I just hope I didn't wasted my money on this monitor. I could have gotten bigger size monitor for the same price but since this is for gaming and some 3D work (my early teen kids are also using blender), I thought investing on good gaming monitor was a good decision.
Kids have notebooks for productivity software -- so this machine is mainly for gaming (and some 3d work). Please suggest a good game, so I don't feel like I wasted my money. :-)
Thanks.
kkim2019
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July 9th, 2019 20:00
Thanks for the comments.
The Alienware R8 machine I got for my son is i5 CPU + 16GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660Ti with 6GB GDDR6, with 850 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply.
I think I got the right H/W for good gaming -- and G-sync is enabled.
You're right, on my workstation (about 6 yo, Dell T-series with Xeon+64GB ECC RAM), I have Dell UltraSharp and really old HP monitor -- text on them look a lot better. (I do programming on this workstation so mostly just text.) I ran a few steam games on this workstation too, to compare how better this Alienware monitor is -- but so far, those games I tested -- I failed to see much difference.
My workstation is old with old graphics cards (3 cards for CUDA; two quadro series and a tesla) -- so definitely 1660Ti is newer and faster.
When a lot of objects are on the screen, Alienware computer is better, but screen quality? Not so sure.
Tesla1856
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July 9th, 2019 22:00
As I said, that price for a 25 incher is because of G-SYNC and Alienware LED lights.
We were playing a lot of Fallout-4 a while back ... real smooth on my Aurora-R6 and Nvidia GTX-1070. So, newer than that I guess ... hot and heavy and effects turned-up Ultra elite :Star:
If this machine is to be used for 3D and Blender ... doesn’t this increase the requirements and over-rides the use-case away from just playing games ? If so, I think you could have done better.
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July 10th, 2019 10:00
Thanks for the list of the games. I will get one and try.
kkim2019
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July 10th, 2019 10:00
I understand why it’s expensive. Just don’t see the benefits of it.
As I said, it’s mainly for gaming but some 3d(blender) work. Since it’s not complex 3d, this is fine.