Dell 240Hz Gaming Monitor 24.5 Inch Full HD Monitor with IPS Technology, Antiglare Screen, Dark Metallic Grey - S2522HG

Ultimately decided to return this monitor as I found a dead pixel after few weeks of use. However this is a good monitor for a decent price. An issue I had with it was that it didnt properly size the picture with HDMI connection (it would stretch 16:9 to 21:9), it only worked with DP, I believe this to be a software / driver issue as my new ultrawide monitor has no issues with this functionality.

I recently tried using my 40-inch television as a monitor, and it was awful. The image was larger, true, and it offered some benefits, but the resolution, the pixel density, as well as number of colors, was not there. Plus, it was actually a little too large, like watching a movie in the front row. If you’re eyeballing your big TV and wondering how well it will work as a monitor, don’t try it. It will only be good for playing videos on the computer. I needed a real monitor, but I needed one larger than my original monitor. So once again, there I was shopping on Amazon. I settled on this one because of the size and the resolution. So many monitors these days have a max of 1080p. I remember way back in the early 2000s, my monitors going higher than that. At least, I think. Well, 2560 x 1440 is what the doctor ordered. This is not merely a gamer’s monitor. It is an animator’s monitor, at a higher resolution. Acres and acres of screen so that I don’t really need to have two monitors any longer. I love it. It’s just on the edge of being too large. The look and feel of the monitor is quality. This thing is serious. After a year of an ONN monitor that I didn’t really like because it didn’t have proper contrast, and a second Dell monitor that was slightly smaller, old, and dying, I was finally back to quality. It’s almost frightening because my animations look so much better now that I hope the final product looks as good to people who see my work. The reason I use two monitors at work and at home is because there’s not enough room on one screen for all my tools. Generally, increasing the monitor size doesn’t help, because only so much information can fit on a screen. But in this case, the screen is bigger AND the resolution is higher, so more information can indeed be placed on the screen. I no longer need two monitors! I have my two work monitors and this huge Dell monitor. Well, honestly, there’s not much more room left on my desk for a second personal monitor anyway. I’ve only included one screen shot to impress upon you the amount of information that can be squeezed onto the screen. On a 1080p monitor, and perhaps on a 1440p monitor, but smaller, the screenshot will look crowded, but it’s perfectly comfortable now. Normally, I always have the timeline at the bottom hidden, because it takes up too much room, and I need the viewport larger. Here, everything is comfortable, and my old eyes have no problem seeing all the information. I’m also finding that I don’t tend to go on full screen as much on YouTube, but I will probably end up switching to the dark mode, because all that white can be blinding. It’s a bright monitor, and it’s a dark monitor. The contrast is excellent. I would buy this monitor again in a heartbeat. I almost talked my daughter into buying the replacement that I was going to send back, but she just has no room for it until she moves. Speaking of replacement, I had a rocky start though. This speaks nothing to the quality control of the hardware itself. The original monitor was just left in my driveway by USPS, just minutes before a sketchy guy came to buy my car. If the neighbor’s dog hadn’t barked, I wouldn’t have stepped out to see the box… left just ten feet from an unused doorbell. But here comes the real rockiness and it sort of embarrasses me because I’m a tech guy. I’m NOT that customer who calls tech support because he forgot to plug in a device. I swear, I’m not that guy! The first monitor arrived with no instructions, and I couldn’t turn it on. I checked cables, and power strips. Amazon offered only general advice for idiots on connecting a monitor and (choking) making sure it’s on. And, this is also key, it was in the box upside down. Remember! This is my alibi. A simple instruction manual or quick start guide would have shown me the nearly invisible power button on the bottom right. And now that I think of it, that power button is in the same place, invisible, on my two newest TVs, though there is a RED LIGHT to alert you that there is the button. The red light goes away when the TVs are on. This monitor has no such illumination of the power button. It only lights up when it’s ON, not off. But all I had was a warranty slip, and the power button was all but hidden on the bottom. I tried every permutation of the prominent unlabeled buttons on the back, and nothing. I thought that the first monitor was dead and called in for a replacement. The replacement came, and by sheer chance, as I tilted the properly packaged one out of the box, there was the faint gray power button! It was literally the FIRST THING I SAW! The replacement came with a no-words uni-language hieroglyphics quick guide for setup that was missing in the first one, that also had a callout for the power button. My heart sank. I went back and checked the original. There was the power button! It had worked all along. There was nothing wrong with it. The final hieroglyphic showed a disc and a hardcover book and a webpage and a down arrow. I checked with Indiana Jones, and he told me that this cryptic message meant to download the user guide from dell.com/s2722dgm for further information. Dell spent a ton of money on more than adequate packaging for this monitor. A whole tree died to deliver it. It came with an extra HDMI cable, which was nice. I would have traded the shiny box, which I’m just going to toss out, for maybe one more 8.5x11 sheet of paper to get me up and running. There was also plenty of white space on the outside of the box for all the info I needed. Just a picture of the power button, because when you look at the back of the monitor, the joystick button makes you think it MUST be the power button. Poor packaging ended up costing Dell and Amazon. How I wish I had gone ahead and googled an online manual, but I was so depressed that it didn’t work that I just waited on the replacement. But the next debacle is all my fault. I thought that the replacement was defective. I couldn’t insert the HDMI into the HDMI 1. The problem was my orientation. I had my head upside down, looking, and then righted myself, my mind inverted left and right, and I was trying to insert into the display port and not the HDMI port. I used HDMI 2 and loved it. So, when I returned the perfectly fine replacement, I mentioned that the HDMI 1 was damaged, when it wasn’t. Some guy at the Amazon returns department is going to call me an idiot. One had to be returned, so it wasn’t a real issue. But overall, I love this monitor. I’m spoiled to it, and don’t want to go back to regular monitors. It shouldn’t be called a gaming monitor. It’s a workstation monitor. Love it to death.

f youre looking for a high-quality gaming monitor that also doubles as a work monitor, you might want to check out this 1800R curved gaming monitor. It has a 21:9 aspect ratio and a 178° viewing angle, which means you can see every detail. With a WQHD curved monitor screen that provides a resolution of 3440 x 1440 on a 34-inch panel, youll get exceptional clarity that will take your gaming experience to the next level. For the work, at first using an HDMI with my MacBook Air was a disaster as it showing the content blurry and distorted. However, once I connected the monitor through the DPI port, it was amazing. Extremely clear! This monitor has a 144Hz refresh rate, so youll be able to see fast-moving visuals with impressive clarity, allowing for faster reaction times. It also has AMD FreeSync premium technology, which means youll be able to stay engaged during battle with swift, responsive, stutter-free gameplay. The tilt and rise options provides many combination of height and angle adjustment giving you maximum comfort, even during extended periods. I particularly loved that it literally took my 5 minutes to hook up. Unlike many other monitors, there were no tools required and the entire stand setup took less than 30 seconds! This is an amaizng feat and I cant thank Dell enough for thinking about the user friendliness of this design. Overall, this 1800R curved gaming monitor is an excellent choice for gamers who want an immersive and high-performing monitor. Whether youre an esports competitor or a casual gamer, this monitor can keep up with you, so dont hesitate to add it to your gaming setup or work setup or both!

It’s being good to work in different screens. Hard to do programing because the 1440 is not sharp enough. For gaming is pretty good(I could only get 100fps). Is being difficult to adjust everything to work in different games and systems but when you get it to work it is worthy.

I recently tried using my 40-inch television as a monitor, and it was awful. The image was larger, true, and it offered some benefits, but the resolution, the pixel density, as well as number of colors, was not there. Plus, it was actually a little too large, like watching a movie in the front row. If you’re eyeballing your big TV and wondering how well it will work as a monitor, don’t try it. It will only be good for playing videos on the computer. I needed a real monitor, but I needed one larger than my original monitor. So once again, there I was shopping on Amazon. I settled on this one because of the size and the resolution. So many monitors these days have a max of 1080p. I remember way back in the early 2000s, my monitors going higher than that. At least, I think. Well, 2560 x 1440 is what the doctor ordered. This is not merely a gamer’s monitor. It is an animator’s monitor, at a higher resolution. Acres and acres of screen so that I don’t really need to have two monitors any longer. I love it. It’s just on the edge of being too large. The look and feel of the monitor is quality. This thing is serious. After a year of an ONN monitor that I didn’t really like because it didn’t have proper contrast, and a second Dell monitor that was slightly smaller, old, and dying, I was finally back to quality. It’s almost frightening because my animations look so much better now that I hope the final product looks as good to people who see my work. The reason I use two monitors at work and at home is because there’s not enough room on one screen for all my tools. Generally, increasing the monitor size doesn’t help, because only so much information can fit on a screen. But in this case, the screen is bigger AND the resolution is higher, so more information can indeed be placed on the screen. I no longer need two monitors! I have my two work monitors and this huge Dell monitor. Well, honestly, there’s not much more room left on my desk for a second personal monitor anyway. I’ve only included one screen shot to impress upon you the amount of information that can be squeezed onto the screen. On a 1080p monitor, and perhaps on a 1440p monitor, but smaller, the screenshot will look crowded, but it’s perfectly comfortable now. Normally, I always have the timeline at the bottom hidden, because it takes up too much room, and I need the viewport larger. Here, everything is comfortable, and my old eyes have no problem seeing all the information. I’m also finding that I don’t tend to go on full screen as much on YouTube, but I will probably end up switching to the dark mode, because all that white can be blinding. It’s a bright monitor, and it’s a dark monitor. The contrast is excellent. I would buy this monitor again in a heartbeat. I almost talked my daughter into buying the replacement that I was going to send back, but she just has no room for it until she moves. Speaking of replacement, I had a rocky start though. This speaks nothing to the quality control of the hardware itself. The original monitor was just left in my driveway by USPS, just minutes before a sketchy guy came to buy my car. If the neighbor’s dog hadn’t barked, I wouldn’t have stepped out to see the box… left just ten feet from an unused doorbell. But here comes the real rockiness and it sort of embarrasses me because I’m a tech guy. I’m NOT that customer who calls tech support because he forgot to plug in a device. I swear, I’m not that guy! The first monitor arrived with no instructions, and I couldn’t turn it on. I checked cables, and power strips. Amazon offered only general advice for idiots on connecting a monitor and (choking) making sure it’s on. And, this is also key, it was in the box upside down. Remember! This is my alibi. A simple instruction manual or quick start guide would have shown me the nearly invisible power button on the bottom right. And now that I think of it, that power button is in the same place, invisible, on my two newest TVs, though there is a RED LIGHT to alert you that there is the button. The red light goes away when the TVs are on. This monitor has no such illumination of the power button. It only lights up when it’s ON, not off. But all I had was a warranty slip, and the power button was all but hidden on the bottom. I tried every permutation of the prominent unlabeled buttons on the back, and nothing. I thought that the first monitor was dead and called in for a replacement. The replacement came, and by sheer chance, as I tilted the properly packaged one out of the box, there was the faint gray power button! It was literally the FIRST THING I SAW! The replacement came with a no-words uni-language hieroglyphics quick guide for setup that was missing in the first one, that also had a callout for the power button. My heart sank. I went back and checked the original. There was the power button! It had worked all along. There was nothing wrong with it. The final hieroglyphic showed a disc and a hardcover book and a webpage and a down arrow. I checked with Indiana Jones, and he told me that this cryptic message meant to download the user guide from dell.com/s2722dgm for further information. Dell spent a ton of money on more than adequate packaging for this monitor. A whole tree died to deliver it. It came with an extra HDMI cable, which was nice. I would have traded the shiny box, which I’m just going to toss out, for maybe one more 8.5x11 sheet of paper to get me up and running. There was also plenty of white space on the outside of the box for all the info I needed. Just a picture of the power button, because when you look at the back of the monitor, the joystick button makes you think it MUST be the power button. Poor packaging ended up costing Dell and Amazon. How I wish I had gone ahead and googled an online manual, but I was so depressed that it didn’t work that I just waited on the replacement. But the next debacle is all my fault. I thought that the replacement was defective. I couldn’t insert the HDMI into the HDMI 1. The problem was my orientation. I had my head upside down, looking, and then righted myself, my mind inverted left and right, and I was trying to insert into the display port and not the HDMI port. I used HDMI 2 and loved it. So, when I returned the perfectly fine replacement, I mentioned that the HDMI 1 was damaged, when it wasn’t. Some guy at the Amazon returns department is going to call me an idiot. One had to be returned, so it wasn’t a real issue. But overall, I love this monitor. I’m spoiled to it, and don’t want to go back to regular monitors. It shouldn’t be called a gaming monitor. It’s a workstation monitor. Love it to death.

As the headline states I am very impressed with the quality of this thing. The freesync works well with minor flicker if you go out of range but thats with any VA panel. If youre in range with smooth a smooth frame rate the freesync works great. The image quality is amazing, excellent contrast and the brightness is plenty for me measured at some 500 nits on rtings website. The backlight bleed is very minimal so thats crucial for me. It gives a wow effect for sure. Its pretty heavy and bulky so be careful handling this puppy. Its a very solid construct. The base of the stand is heavy which makes me feel like its strong and of quality. It went together like a breeze and when I first started the game I was blown away. Theres a driver to download and install. I did a calibration test through a series of images just eye balling it and it looked spot on perfect. I didnt have to change anything really out of the box. Im not sure if the driver set it up where it needs to be or what but Id suggest the driver on Dells website. Its easy to find on google. Thanks for this amazing product Dell! I sent back that AOC 27 and got this one. This thing is MUCH better but also more expensive.

For context, I am coming from a Dell S2721DGF 27 1440p 165Hz IPS Freesync/Gsync monitor to this Dell S3422DWG 34 1440pUW 144Hz VA Freesync monitor. My plan had been to at some point move from 1440p to 4k once I upgraded from my RX6800, but after seeing some stuff on Ultrawides, I decided that even though its not really a step up in resolution from 1440p (except side to side), going Ultrawide would make more of a difference for me in games and on the desktop than just an increase in resolution like 4k. Sure, 4k would look sharper, but Id still be having the same game experience, while with Ultrawide I actually see more on the screen. 1440p Ultrawide is also easier to run than 4k, so thats another benefit, and I dont sit so close to the monitor that I can see any issue with 1440p not being sharp enough. In any case, as far as the monitor goes, I am very happy with it. Im not sure I can comment on the VA panel not being as vibrant as my old IPS panel, while I did have the old IPS one configured and just have the VA set to one of the color modes, I am not seeing anything that makes me think, Man, my old IPS monitor looked better than this... As far as ghosting, I havent noticed any with the monitor set to Super Fast mode, testing in various games (CP2077, Witcher 3, NFS Unbound, SWJ: Survivor, RDR2, Tiny Tinas Wonderlands). I have had to turn down some game settings here and there to try and maintain my FPS, but that is something I knew would happen considering I moved from 2560x1440 to 3440x1440 without making a GPU upgrade. I am also loving the lack of backlight bleed on the VA panel. When the screen goes dark the black levels are just darker than on my old IPS panel, and when the screen goes dark for loading screens or things like that, I no longer have brighter spots in the corners or edges, its all uniform. I love that. (not as dark as OLED obviously, but I also dont have to worry about burn in) I included shots of the black uniformity test between the two Dell monitors from Rtings as an example of what Im talking about. I also dont have any issues with the viewing angles. Even when I stand off to the side I can still see whats on the monitor fine, and when I sit in front of the monitor as I always do when actually using my computer, I have not seen any issues with poor viewing angles during regular use. As a whole, the gaming experience does feel more immersive with the wider natural field of view (in some games like SWJ: Survivor I actually had to reduce the FOV settings because it was getting too stretched on the far edges). I am getting used to the monitors slight curve on the desktop, which I dont see the benefit of for everyday use, but in game I dont notice the curve at all, and for all I know it might actually be helping with the wide view immersion in that situation. Overall Im very happy with my decision to go ultrawide with this VA panel, especially since with at least this specific monitor I am not noticing the drawbacks people at times complain about with VA panels with this monitor, ghosting, poor viewing angles and the colors not being as good as IPS. Im sure if I had a way to measure colors, response times and ghosting and all the other stuff Id see a difference (I know there is some just by looking at the RTings reviews), but to my eye when in use I see no problems.

ive had this monitor for little over a year now and i have 0 complaints, honestly great buy :D

I love Dell products so this is a hard review to write. But, I am just so disappointed with this monitor. The display was never stellar, but it seemed to be OK for what I needed. As I began using it with Linux, however, it fought me tooth and nail for compatibility (something Ive never experienced with Dell in the past). Between a lack of documentation at Dell (which admittedly does not profess Linux compatability) and an unusual lack of even forum support for dealing with resolution issues on this model, it was a nightmare of tweaking and holding my breath. It should NOT be this hard to get a monitor to play nice with LInux. The button controls are awful, ridiculously UN-intuitive and their integration with what you can set/change from the desktop is just not up to snuff. It seems to me monitor vendors need to make up their minds about whether they want their devices to be plug-and play or annoyingly customizeable only through advanced manual dexterity. I bought this is October of 2022 and I am literally throwing it out today in February of 2023 because the screen is apparently broken. Ive had a lot of monitors over the years and this is a first - Ive never had a screen break on me. I use my tech a lot, but am not by any stretch of the imagination physically hard on it. I had a curved monitor once before and found it fragile but it NEVER broke on me - in fact I gifted it to a business associate during COVID and they are still enjoying it. The entire right side is of the screen is taken over with spider webs and the bottom half is like someone added a gray overlap on top of the screen. I am assuming constant use of the button controls must have stressed the screen, but who knows as this point. I have a couple HP monitors I will replace this one with and manage with dual screens instead of a single curved display - cheaper and FAR more manageable.

Perfect all-rounder monitor for gaming and productivity. For $200 this monitor is an absolute steal I suggest you get it now before its gone, I would even go as far as to say it is a great monitor for sub $300 price range. A great 240hz FHD monitor with up and downstream USB 3.2, with plenty of connectivity and a VESA mount. Most definitely a great bang for your buck jack of all trades monitor. I would jump on this deal if you dont mind getting a monitor under 27. It was exactly was I was looking for.