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27" Dell S2721DGF 1440p 165Hz FreeSync IPS Gaming Monitor + $50 Dell ePromo Gift Card for
$329.99. 2.5% Slickdeals Cashback is available for this store (
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Specs:
- Resolution: 2560x1440
- Refresh Rate:
- 144Hz with HDMI
- 165HZ with DisplayPort
- Response Time: 1ms GtG
- Panel Type: IPS
- Brightness: 400 cd/m²
- FreeSync Premium Pro + G-Sync Compatible
- Viewing Angles: 178° V / 178° H
- VESA: 100x100mm
- Ports:
- 2x HDMI 2.0
- 1x DisplayPort 1.4
- 1x Audio Out
- 4x USB 3.0 (Downstream)
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It also ranks better in gaming on rtings than the Dell, as well.
https://www.rtings.com/monitor/re...l/s2721dgf
https://www.rtings.com/monitor/re...abyte/m27q
You should only be buying from Dell if you have some other way to lower the price even further than the $260 Gigabyte M27Q.
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Read the thread and the rtings review on the text clarity, it's a non-issue being overblown out of proportions. If you have a BestBuy/Microcenter near you, go to one and see if the text is somehow illegible/blurry on an actual display model before buying. I did this and had to double take and ask a Microcenter rep if the display model was indeed an M27Q, and they confirmed it was after scanning the label. I also checked if the cleartype BGR setting was enabled (literally the first screen when setting up cleartype, left is RGB and right is BGR, although Microsoft doesn't go outright and say that's what the choice is) and it wasn't, so I enabled it to compare the difference, and you'd have to literally be pixel-peeping every letter just to note a difference in clarity. I cannot imagine someone paying ~27% more just for "yeah, i think maybe the diagonal line in the capital N looks little a little bit better". I imagine 90% of users in a side-by-side comparison wouldn't be able to easily spot any difference.
If you can get the Dell monitor for $270 (or less, and many people have been stacking GC, Amex offers, and more successfully!), sure, if slightly maybe better font blending is worth $10 to you, go ahead. At $330 vs $260, it's not even a contest at which one is the better purchase. They're both 165/170hz IPS 27" displays. They'd look 99% identical after a calibration that fixes any out-of-box oversaturation/white balance issues.
Sub-Pixel Layout
BGR
Update 02/12/21: We tested text clarity with a MacBook running on Big Sur. It appears that macOS doesn't use sub-pixel dimming in any of the apps we tested, which includes Safari, TextEdit, Notes, Finder, and Chrome. This means that blurry text isn't caused by the BGR sub-pixel layout. We've added some photos below.
Update 01/25/2021: We've retested the monitor to further investigate the BGR sub-pixel layout's effect on text clarity. In most instances, text clarity is minimally impacted and shouldn't be an issue for most people. If it is, you can mount the monitor upside down, although there are some drawbacks as it increases input lag and causes G-SYNC to not work properly. We've also included more photos to show how text looks like at 100% and 125% scaling, with and without ClearType, and with the monitor upside down.
The Gigabyte M27Q has good text clarity. Windows ClearType (top photo) makes diagonal lines look better, like on the R and N. It uses a BGR sub-pixel layout, which doesn't affect image quality, but it can cause blurry text, especially in programs that aren't affected by ClearType. That said, the difference in text clarity between RGB and BGR isn't very noticeable at native scaling unless you're actively looking for it, so it shouldn't be an issue for most people.
Read the thread and the rtings review on the text clarity, it's a non-issue being overblown out of proportions. If you have a BestBuy/Microcenter near you, go to one and see if the text is somehow illegible/blurry on an actual display model before buying. I did this and had to double take and ask a Microcenter rep if the display model was indeed an M27Q, and they confirmed it was after scanning the label. I also checked if the cleartype BGR setting was enabled (literally the first screen when setting up cleartype, left is RGB and right is BGR, although Microsoft doesn't go outright and say that's what the choice is) and it wasn't, so I enabled it to compare the difference, and you'd have to literally be pixel-peeping every letter just to note a difference in clarity. I cannot imagine someone paying ~27% more just for "yeah, i think maybe the diagonal line in the capital N looks little a little bit better". I imagine 90% of users in a side-by-side comparison wouldn't be able to easily spot any difference.
If you can get the Dell monitor for $270 (or less, and many people have been stacking GC, Amex offers, and more successfully!), sure, if slightly maybe better font blending is worth $10 to you, go ahead. At $330 vs $260, it's not even a contest at which one is the better purchase. They're both 165/170hz IPS 27" displays. They'd look 99% identical after a calibration that fixes any out-of-box oversaturation/white balance issues.
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It also ranks better in gaming on rtings than the Dell, as well.
https://www.rtings.com/monitor/re...l/s2721dgf [rtings.com]
https://www.rtings.com/monitor/re...abyte/m27q [rtings.com]
You should only be buying from Dell if you have some other way to lower the price even further than the $260 Gigabyte M27Q.
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