Alienware Rounds Out Its Monitor Lines With Cheaper Options and More

Not everyone is comfortable paying a lot for a gaming monitor, no matter how pretty the picture or fast the screen. To attract gaming monitor buyers who are in love with OLED but don't want to spend Alienware's normally upscale prices, the company's taking it down a notch, starting with its 27-inch AW2725D, a 2,560x1,440-pixel 280Hz display that's expected to hit about $550 -- pretty low for its class -- when it ships this summer. The company also revealed that the the AW2725Q, announced at CES as one of the displays incorporating a new 27-inch 240Hz 4K panel (older 4K QD-OLEDs were 32 inches) is now shipping for $900. The monitor doesn't support DisplayPort 2.1 and uses Display Stream Compression for HDR, which is disappointing, as is its DisplayHDR True Black 400 certification, which means it isn't too bright. But its HDMI 2.1 supports 4K (via FRL, which increases the bandwidth to enable higher refresh rates in 4K) and variable refresh to connect to a console (and PC). The Alienwar ... Read full article.