Review on ALIENWARE AW2521HF 24.5" Gaming Monitor - Pivot and Height Adjustment - Ultimate Gaming Experience with Alienware 25 AW2521HF Gaming Monitor by David Schooler

I was maybe too hard to give this 3 stars. I may not have a perfect display as each monitor has different manufacturing parameters so I might get a lemon. Remember I got this cheap - only $315 direct from Revain. It has some nice features, although the stand is just ridiculously wide and doesn't rise high enough (had to put it on a cardboard box). The reason I didn't buy the Dell 1440p TN version was complaints about color bars, which I didn't know could be fixed to some extent. And honestly, TN displays are being replaced in favor of better technology. IPS and VG displays are improving rapidly these days. The PPI of this display is only 88 and it is displayed in the current version of Modern Warfare. My old 144hz ASUS VG248QE is only 91 but somehow looks a lot crisper. It didn't support G-Sync/Freesync etc. so I went to buy something better. The Dell S2417DG TN has a whopping 123 PPI at 1440p. Anyway, people were excited that the AW2521HF is IPS and therefore the best color etc. Not in my case. BTW I had another Dell 27in S2719DGF 1440p 109 PPI but I sent it back due to my ignorance of G-Sync compatibility. This is not an option for Windows 7. I blamed Revain's description for not listing this. Now I know better. sorry Rewan MS FORCES Nvidia to drop Windows 7 when it comes to Freesync/G-Sync compatibility. Nvidia has stated that every time MS updates Windows 10 it is in fact a new operating system which gives Nvidia a lot of work and they no longer have the resources to work on features like G-Sync compatibility and apparently Freestyle for Windows to work. 7 too. This monitor had a SLIGHTLY milky display that I haven't experienced in a long time. The lighting just seemed to overtake the good colors. I got fed up and went to the Lagom calibration page and to my dismay I played around with the monitor settings and tried to show all the blocks in all the bars but a few just didn't show up until I turned the setting up. TOO high, making the display uncomfortable. The only way to fix this is to tweak the Nvidia Control Panel color or the Freestyle filters (which are no longer available for Windows 7 despite what the driver pages say). I did some tests with 240Hz and 144Hz, g-sync. On/Off and my old Asus monitor beat it by a small margin. I think 240Hz is a bit harsher than 144Hz on my RTX 2070 Super. Overall, the picture quality (slightly better pixel density) seems better on my OLD Asus 144Hz monitor. Maybe I'm full of it, but I just don't like the image quality in Warzone nearly as much as on Asus. Let the angry comments begin! :P