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Mar 25, 2025 09:01 PM By Stryprod

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Coil whine. MacOS compatibility -daisy chain w thunderbolt and display port and hdmi —- does it maintain resolution, 120hz, VRR, and HDR Light bleed

I’m very interested to know about the coil whine. I cannot tolerate such noises, much less knowing these monitors cost a fortune.

Jan 30, 2025 03:58 AM By malak

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hope dell does not mess up this one; it looks very promising

yes. fingers crossed! I’m waiting for the 31.5" version, the U3225QE.

Feb 01, 2025 01:39 AM By JohnSawyer

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I’m also eager to see the U3225QE, so hopefully a store somewhat near me will have one on display soon after it’s released. I’m curious what you mean by “120Hz (although I believe it will be a slow panel, as my U2724DE, independently of the supported input refresh rate).” Wouldn’t this negate the whole purpose of a 120 Hz refresh rate, if the display panel itself doesn’t refresh at that rate? I’m skeptical whether Dell would do that, at least with this upcoming monitor.

Hi! One thing is the supported refresh rate (input) the screen controller can handle, the other is the response time of the panel. All the reviews of IPS black screens (even those that are 120Hz such as the U4025QW and the U3425WE) that I’ve seen, especially in this rtings website, always show slow panel response times. While the input is 120Hz, with big color changes between consecutive frames, such as fast moving objects, the screen will seem blurry and will not have time to accurately represent each individual frame. The output will be like an average of consecutive frames (e.g., if a pixel is quickly switching from white to black, the output will never be a white of black, but something in between).

From my experience with my U2724DE, which has a 120Hz IPS black screen, you definitely feel the difference to a 60Hz screen, as it fills much more smooth when scrolling documents, websites, and even when opening the start menu. Nevertheless, during fast movements, the representation of the fast moving objects will be blurry. For office use this does not bother me at all. It seems similar to the slow response time of my old VA Samsung P2380M monitor, and it never bothered me since I don’t game.

You are right that it seems strange that a 120Hz screen is unable to fully update the pixels to the target color. For example, the U3425WE (https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/dell/u3425we) isn’t even able to keep up with 60Hz (51% frame compliance), much less with 120Hz (22% frame compliance). But in the end, the real experience is still good with a butter smooth screen, and when you are actually working (mostly static content) it will still be a accurate screen. But forget about hardcore gaming with fast moving games. For that, I believe only fast OLED screens would be truly adequate.

Let us hope that this model lives up to the expectations! I believe the official launch date is the 25th of February, and I’m waiting to buy one for the office.

Key improvements over its predecessor:

• Much Better anti-glare, rejecting much more ambient light resulting in reduced reflections (the U3223QE was a disaster).
• Better contrast with Enhanced IPS Black (3000:1 -> the typical level of a VA).
• Better eye protection - reduced blue light, ambient light sensor, and 120Hz (although I believe it will be a slow panel, as my U2724DE, independently of the supported input refresh rate).
• Much better integrated dock, now with TB4, better pop-out front USB ports, Better PD, TB4 daisy chaining, and 2.5GbE Ethernet.

I’m waiting for it for a very long time now. I have a U2724DE at home with a similar dock and I really like it. I also own a Samsung P2380M (VA) with native 3000:1, and nothing I’ve tried beats it in contrast apart from OLED panels.

I hope that the rtings team buys one to check if this new dell monitor comes close to VAs in reality.

Very interested to know the performance of this IPS Black pannel, more focused on productivity. It also has a 2.5Gbit/s Ethernet port!Planning on buying one. This size may be the sweet spot between a 34" ultrawide (e.g. U3423) and a 40" ultrawide (which does not have, yet, IPS black pannels. The reviews I have seen so far report a brightness between only ~245nits when using normal image mode, but that can go up to ~360nits when in custom RGB. This may make a huge difference, when working close to big windows.