Alienware’s 240Hz gaming displays are agency favourites right here at RPS, so it’s positively a trigger for celebration once we can slice £100 off one in all them. This time round, it’s the AW2521HF on supply, which is the flashy Freesync successor to the superb AW2518HF, and you may at the moment choose it up for £330 over on Dell’s deals site.
As effectively as that pretty excessive 240Hz refresh price, the Alienware AW2521HF has a 1920×1080 decision and a flat IPS panel, so colors accuracy ought to be prime notch. It’s additionally one in all AMD’s FreeSync Premium shows, which suggests you additionally get AMD’s low body price compensation tech along with its typical variable refresh price tech for tremendous clean, tear-free gaming.
In case you’re unfamiliar with AMD’s LFC tech, this improves how a monitor performs under their minimal body price threshold. Normally, a Freesync monitor’s variable refresh price tech solely kicks in at round 48fps or above, however LFC helps to make games really feel clean regardless of the body price. It does this by successfully duplicating the variety of frames being proven onscreen when the body price drops too low, bringing 30fps as much as 60fps, for instance, making them really feel a lot nearer to the kind of expertise you’ll get on one in all Nvidia’s G-Sync shows.
Even higher, it’s been absolutely licensed by Nvidia as a G-Sync Compatible monitor, too, so Nvidia graphics card house owners will nonetheless be capable to make the most of all that variable refresh price goodness as AMD GPU house owners.
More importantly, it has a 1ms response time, which is fairly quick for an IPS show and makes it an excellent choose for professional avid gamers the place each cut up second counts. It has two HDMI inputs and one DisplayPort, plus three USB3 ports for all of your peripherals, and it additionally comes with Alienware’s rainbow-tastic AlienFX lighting system to essentially gentle up your gaming desk.
Drawbacks? Well, you’ll want a fairly highly effective graphics card to get essentially the most from that 240Hz refresh price should you’re dead-set on enjoying games at prime notch settings, however even when your GPU isn’t fairly as much as the duty of operating games at 240fps simply but, then a minimum of you’ve bought loads of headroom to develop into it while you subsequent improve.
Of course, £330 continues to be a good chunk of change for any gaming monitor – particularly while you evaluate it to a few of our different best gaming monitor picks such because the sub-£200 AOC 24G2U, which has a 144Hz refresh price. And when you’ve got no curiosity (or likelihood) in changing into a event degree gamer, then the 240Hz refresh price might be overkill. In which case, you must seek the advice of our Gaming monitor deals web page earlier than getting into your bank card quantity anyplace.
