expiredadaptec posted Apr 06, 2026 06:02 PM
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expiredadaptec posted Apr 06, 2026 06:02 PM
New Dell 4K QD-OLED Monitor S3225QC $349.99 Coupon Price on Amazon YMMV
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Beautiful image (I believe it's a Samsung panel) but the Dell firmware and drivers are extremely buggy, are not user friendly, have some very annoying issues with Windows 11 "Power & Sleep" settings, and have probable conflicts with other PC display drivers. See below for more details:
After a "Turn screen off" timeout occurs, this display can prevent Windows 11 from turning on ANY displays currently connected to your PC. This requires you to either unplug and re-plug ALL the displays currently connected or to reset the PC and loose any unsaved work.
It also has issues going into and coming out of "Windows Sleep Mode". It will sometimes not turn off the "pixel refresh" it does while Windows is in sleep mode and the screen is on standby. This means after you turn your PC back on, your screen will be cycling through brightly colored screens every second or so "Red, Green, Blue and White" and you will need to manually turn the monitor off and on again to fix this.
And speaking of the "Pixel Refresh", this screen requires it with every 4 hours of use (this is standard and is also on my other QD-OLED display) but it WONT TELL YOU WHEN IT'S REQUIRED. No pop-up, nothing! My MSI screen FORCES the pixel refresh after 4 hours of continual use, but Dell assumes every user is going to have the screen in standby mode within every 4 hours of use or so and assumes no-one will use the display to stream more than 4 hours of video at a time. you need to manually check and run the the pixel refresh from the OSD menu (this usually takes about 3-5 minutes), and instead of turning back on when it finishes, it simply powers off and requires you to baby sit the screen and manually turn it back on when it's done.
I recommend waiting until Dell releases firmware to address these issues, or play it real safe and wait until another revision of this Display is made next year.
Dell really dropped the ball on this one.
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Also 250 nits brightness in SDR.
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