Alienware AW2725DF: What Real Users Actually Think

I'm in an extremely frustrating situation regarding this monitor. Last month it had a hell of a sale on Dell's website. I bought it and it arrived a few days later with what looked like bubbles between the panel and the top layer of glass. I started a service ticket and they sent me a replacement. The replacement however was an open box, clearly refurb model in a box that was delivered beat up and ripped open.

It's still a monitor not a magical portal to other dimensions. People have unreasonable expectations. Is oled great? Yes. Should even a non gamer be able to tell the diff between 144 vs and 360hz oled? Yes. But if you expected some pixies flying around giving you blow jobs while you play, then obviously that's too high of expectations

Least OLED monitors are getting cheaper while everything else sky rockets

everytime i see this monitor, i can't forget 400$ price xD

I got an OLED Alienware monitor and it came with multiple dead pixels. I returned it and never got a refund. Called them several times every day for weeks and said the refund was 'coming'. Had to contact my credit card company for a chargeback and finally got it back. Got banned from buying from dell anymore, but fuck them, I'm never buying another dell product in my life.

Yes it's GORGEOUS and deep black if you went with Dell/MSI/Alienware especially when you play cinematic games such like RDR2, Ghost of Tsushima, Cyberpunk etc etc. It's way too damn neat to go back to IPS.

I had this experience, making the same kind of switch to this exact monitor from a VA panel. Smearing is gone, colours are better, full deep OLED blacks, HDR/incredible point brightness. 360hz is noticeably smoother than 120hz.

Still can't believe i got this for 400 months ago. Great pricing error, or whatever that was.

Not as good of a 'deal' as the Costco MSI oled but this 360hz model (and other 360hz qd-oleds) generally goes down to $600 on sales so $549.99 is lower than the usual I've seen. You can get further discounts with education discount + cashback stacking which makes it a more enticing deal if you're after the higher refresh rate

Highly recommended to check these oled monitors out in person if you have that option even if it's 50mins drive one way. These 1440p oleds might not be what you think they are from your typical LG, Sony oled tv you seen in costco. To me they are not worth the premium after checking them out in person at microcenter.

It's a very good monitor for competitive games. It feels super smooth and very damn fast for reaction scenarios. I feel like I get an advantage on CS2. But yeah, dell sucks and I don't think they're gonna release firmware updates for it anymore

This monitor is amazing.. worth every penny

Ive had this for about 8 months now and I still wake up everyday excited turning it on. Its amazing

I got the AW2724DF and ran into the same thing. Dead bright sub pixel and so I exchanged it. First replacement literally had a dent in the screen and some dried residue on the screen. Hell, the settings weren't even reset on it from the last guy. I asked specifically for a new one and I was again sent a refurb. I kept that one because it actually worked and was clean with no issues. But very annoyed to say the least.

I have a matte and a glossy monitor side by side and the main thing I notice is that the glossy monitor appears way dirtier than the matte monitor. Everything that gets on the surface sticks out compared to matte.

I've had mine for just over a year now, played a TON of cs2 and path of exile 2 on it, totally satisfied. I like my monitors really bright and I'm using mine at 88% brightness. After about 3500 hours of usage, there is 0 hint of burn in. A pointer if you may, if you plan on using it for cs2/other fps games where visibility matters, use creator-srgb (standard crushes the blacks a little bit)

Great monitor. I love this thing so much. Compression by DSC isn't really noticeable… so the only realistic concern for wanting to disable DSC is if you want to use DSR/DLDSR without a 50 series nvidia card. Alienware's srgb gamma 2.2 in the creator mode is piecewise, not true gamma 2.2. This causes crushed blacks (and washed out colors). I clamped my srgb via novideo_srgb to remedy this and haven't noticed any issues at all.

I bought the AW2725DF coming from a 27" Samsung G7 240Hz (VA panel). I did not see much of a 'wow!' factor going from 240Hz to 360Hz. And the image and inky blacks on the AW2725DF did indeed look better than on my G7. But the VA panel on my G7 had a high enough contrast ratio that I wasn't too sure if dropping $900 for the 'upgrade' to a better 27" was worth it.

The m3b104 firmware for this monitor finally made the Peak 1000 HDR mode somewhat usable for me. Still wish this was under $500 base price, but if you can stack the $100 Amex cashback and Rakuten cashback on top, it's got a place even in the current 1440p OLED lineup. The firmware also fixed the weird gamma curve from before

I have the AW2725DF myself and I love it

It's good, but the srgb gamma 2.2 is not accurate, looks more like gamma 2. I contacted dell about srgb gamma 2.2 issue, but they are not even trying to fix it, instead offered a refurbished monitor (when my monitor was only 2 months old???) Dell support is non existent, no updates for this monitor.

Unfortunately if I could take it back, I probably wouldn't have purchased this one. Having a super odd issue where toggling on/off HDR can sometimes cause the DP signal to drop, hard crashing the entire computer. Need to hold the power button down to turn it off and reboot. Doesn't always do it. Can't predict it. From what I have researched online it seems this is kind of common? Yet no one has been able to fix it.

I just got it and I love it, got it for a steal off marketplace. Blacks are awesome and it's also such a good gaming monitor, I would highly recommend it if you can get a good price second hand.

Alienware, MSI and Asus are the holy trinity of QD-OLED monitors. You can't really go wrong with any of them, to be honest.

I've had pretty good luck with Dell direct and this one came well packaged. Very happy with the monitor, but if you have an issue I suggest going straight to refund.

I own it for 1 week and the most noticeable improve is the smoother and clear gaming experience at same FPS. If you can reach 360hz it's amazing experience. BUT I don't think is worth it at all — it's better in all ways over my previous IPS 1440p but it cost 4 times more. It's like a Ferrari, it's better than your car but you don't need it at all at that price.

I had this monitor for a week, the AW 360hz almost felt too fast on CS2, probably just needed more time with it. All in all, it was a fantastic monitor. The Advanced Hardware Exchange with 3Y Burn-in Warranty that no one else even comes close to in the RMA process... definitely a STRONG consideration.

Have had great experience with mine!

I'm sure the gamma profile in SRGB mode is fucked up just like the AW3225QF. It's supposed to be 2.2 but it's not. Also adjusting the gamma manually is bugged out. It doesn't work like it's supposed to and the newest firmware did not fix it.

I got the MSI last week from Costco and it has really bad coil whine when displaying dark content. I'm returning it and just ordered the AW with the 10% sign up bonus making it $450 pre tax which was only $30 more than the MSI.

Literally have tried upgrading from this monitor and just keep going back to it. Alienware or bust

I just got this monitor through Amazon Prime deals and HOLY SHIT! Playing Cyberpunk 2077 on this monitor with HDR and ray tracing and the difference is night and day compare to my previous LCD monitor. It turns out I have been wasting my 3080Ti.

I absolutely love mine! Admittedly I don't have experience with any other OLED though, this was my first. Now I've ruined myself and can never go back.

I have it and it's great, no complaints. 1440p 360hz is amazing imo and the sweet spot for me and my hardware. I never found much value in 4k gaming personally as I play competitive games. Even for more eye candy single player games this is really good. Currently playing ff15 on it and the hdr is amazing

I have the aw2725df for a few months now, i love it. I can never go back to anything else ever.

I've had this monitor for a couple of weeks now and it's pretty amazing. It's the best experience I've ever had playing FPS games. Doom, Trepang 2 and the Halo games at 360hz OLED is the biggest 'next gen' feeling I've had since upgrading to 1440p a few years ago.

I got it right when it released and it kicks my 144hz 1080p tn panel's ass, I'd go for it. Also its about 300 bucks cheaper than when i got it right now.

I also went from G7 to AW2725DF since I thought OLED is the thing now. Low response time and motion clarity were undeniable but in the end I just didn't like the look of it. My performance dropped a lot in FPS games since I couldn't see enemies and my eyes just didn't get used to the OLED. Also VRR flicker was insane. I switched back to G7 and now I'm happy as ever.

The 27in model still has this issue on its current firmware. 2.2 is wash out and lifted even in comparison to 2.0. You either have to run 2.0 or 2.4 for it to look right. Only issue I have with this model but it's a big one considering creator mode is the only mode that clamps the color space to srgb at the moment.

Be warned - Alienware's 2025 QD-OLEDs (minus the 3425DW) all are susceptible to the black screen issue which appears to be very common and is not fixable via software/firmware update. Many people reported the issues with RTX 4000 series cards as well and MacBooks over HDMI, which pretty thoroughly ruled out it being an issue with RTX 5000 series cards exclusively.

I had the Phillips and returned it and bought the Alienware today. I found out the Phillips doesn't have burn in warranty — I contacted their support twice and they basically said the website is wrong and there is no warranty for burn in. Get the Alienware.

I tested both the DF for about 8 hours and ended up sticking with the D. My eyes couldn't tell the difference in colors between the two on their respective settings. Maybe the difference is there, but I truly can't tell. I think the difference between 360hz and 280hz is ever so slightly noticeable. I would just go with whatever is cheaper if you're interested in the D or DF. I've been loving mine.

Yeah Dell is kinda not great with this. It took 3 replacements for me to get one that didn't have a problem. 1st came with a cracked screen. The second one's configure nub under the monitor didn't work. Third one finally didn't have any issues. But yes, all were refurbed and came in a generic box.