I don't need it... - 500Hz Alienware AW2524HF

With the rise of Esports, monitors have had to get better FAST, and Alienware's new AW2524HF is bringing 500Hz gameplay down to a more accessible price. With some features missing from its older brother, will Plouffe find this to be worth the wait?

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Pretty much the fastest
0:47 Unboxing
2:56 Design and stand adjustments
4:39 Does FPS Matter?
5:07 Buttons and IO
5:43 Sponsor - Nord Security
6:35 Setup and LABS colour accuracy results
7:55 Frame time and ghosting issues
10:29 Playing at 500Hz in CS:GO
12:06 HDR thoughts in Doom Eternal
13:40 Pricing and overall thoughts
14:54 Outro

[phero]

He waited longer than I thought he would to mention that he has an Alienware monitor.

[Robin-ougg]

The reason for the ghosting is that the pixel response time is an average of 2 ms on this monitor. This means the color transitioning isn’t as fast as the images it wants to display! The asus 540 hz doesnt have this issue

Like for everyone to see only altruistic intention here

[Techieninja]

Something that would be really cool see would be 500 HZ OLED

[brokawmike]

Vsync has nothing to do with ghosting, the overdrive settings help with that. Doing monitor review unboxings talking about ghosting without even covering the overdrive settings is disingenuous

[EverythingA]

It makes no sense that HDMI 2.1 would be bottlenecked to 240 Hz at 1080P. HDMI 2.1 spec is capable of 1080 at 480 Hz.

1080p at 240 is HDMI 2.0 spec
Makes you wonder why they even bothered with adding that port! They could’ve saved some money

DP 1.4 spec is 32.4Gbps
HDMI 2.1 spec is 48Gbps

Did they just completely butcher the implementation?

[allligatoahr]

i wonder if the jump from 144 to 500hz is also as mindblowing and NOTICABLY smoother as 60 to 144hz.

[jadenedaj]

I think a 240hz 24inch 1080p OLED would be better.. Shame they dont make OLED so small :/

[california]

I got AW2723DF and I'm very satisfied, Alienware makes very decent monitors. Honestly I can't see any difference between my 165hz laptop screen so I turned 280hz OC off. Also everything is great, safe packing, build quality, power supply is bulit in, cable management, coat is a little glossy, borders almost dont exist, it's update-able due to usb connection. It feels like the monitor for next 10 years. There are some things that I can't make use of like 2x audio outputs or outside usb ports which will only look good with wireless mouse/keyboard dongle. Also headphone hanger is unusable, monitor tilts left if you dont have very light headphones, but that's not a big deal anyway.

[dots]

putting a 500hz monitor into black frame insertion mode would make an insane clarity monitor at 225hz equivelent.

[djvidual]

No mentioning of any overdrive mode for the pixels to improve the response times?

[cuerex]

virtual reality displays already disputed the topic quite good. motion-to-photon-based display lag is the most important factor for snappyness and blur in a display

[timtim]

"Here at LTT we're very sorry for our mistakes. But do you know who isn't sorry? Our sponsor for this video"

[CBEX]

This monitor would benefit heavily from Nvidia ULMB sync, but since it doesn't have the module it's never gonna happen. If it does support at least some kind of strobing, testing that, or at least mentioning that would be nice, probably better than looking at 450 nits HDR without FALD. Also since you don't do monitors anywhere else but here, at least some basic measurments from your labs (like measuring at least the native panel response times, without any overdrive to see what kind of panel are we really working with here) would add great value to the video. Another question, what about overdrive ? Pretty sure you will have to switch between various overdrive settings to get the best experience with that kind of VRR range.

[lrmcatspaw]

I am assuming the Panel does not hit the pixel shifting in the window to have no ghosting so 500Hz is not really gonna feel good at all.

[TheSirGoreaxe]

LOL, I just realized. I think HDR would be wasted on me. That discussion about how the whole screen brightens up without the HDR, basically describes my life with astigmatism.

[thefire]

5:27 i think one of the displayport metal bits around the connector is bent.

[antoniohagopian]

What is the point of such a fast refresh rate when the pixels don't actually switch fast enough.

[Kidney]

Plouffe talking monitors is one of my favorite categories of youtube

[obsidian....]

"This was worth waiting for" - original title
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"I don't need this" - new title

[jeffreyparker]

I like how he mentions that a pro gamer might be improved by the 500hz refresh rate, yet there is an LTT video that strongly indicates that is not the case.