Customer Ratings & Reviews

Excellent Friday for gaming people who needs a good monitor for gaming

The picture quality is amazing I love it very happy

Awesome gaming monitor with great price! I bought this monitor for my son and he's loving it. With 240hz rate, he's winning more Fornite rounds. Going from 144hz HP to this monitor makes a huge difference. I was skeptical about being able to tell the difference between 144hz to 240hz, and I was dead wrong. I would definitely recommend this monitor when it's on sale.

Love this monitor. Price was great and using it every day.

Highly recommend to buy this monitor for gaming 240hz.

Great for gaming. Best monitor for the price you pay for.

Great for gaming. Good picture. Resolution is excellent.

High quality!!! And the price is the best thing! Go and buy it!

Great for gaming, my son loves it! Response time is awesome.

My gamer friends out there this is the one you want!!

Awesome gaming monitor, that really adds to any game experience.

Took advantage of Deal of the day sale. Great Gaming monitor.

Picked this up open box for less than $400 and man, this thing is crisp! I had originally purchased a 144hz MSI gaming monitor but returned that and purchased this as the color clarity and sharpness is a lot better. I dont have enough computing power to play at the full 240hz but playing at 120fps is definitely super smooth!

Would definitely recommend to anyone wanting a high refresh rate monitor at a lower price than average. I bought this open box and it came in perfect, with great packaging. Used it for about a week and LOVE it! Very sturdy build and the picture quality is as advertised. Use mostly for school work and gaming (lol and fortnite).

Very happy. Only issues is be prepared that although an HDMI is provided, to get the full benefits of the display you need to purchase a display cable. Also the base is clunky and takes a lot of real estate on the desk. Fortunately, I got is on sale that made it a very good value.

This is the same monitor that Ninja uses, so my expectations were definitely met!! I feel/play like Ninja now lol, I’ve had like 300+ wins since getting this monitor. 10/10 recommend

Thought it was the one that had led in the back but it’s not, but it’s srill nice.

First monitor I ever bought and it’s great for gaming. Super high refresh rate and pro tip : this is fully compatible with g-sync so you don’t need the other version (:

This monitor brings gaming to a new level with how fast it is. A true gamer will notice the difference between this monitor and other monitors of different speeds.

Bearing the Alienware brand, the AW2518HF monitor is squarely targeted at PC gamers - particularly those with AMD graphics cards, due to the support for the FreeSync adaptive v-sync technology. While the high refresh rate and low response time will still be better for gaming on an Nvidia video card than a general-purpose monitor, there's another version of this monitor that features the similar G-Sync technology suitable for use with a Nvidia card. With a supported graphics card, the AW2518HF's featureset really comes together to deliver ghosting- and tearing-free gameplay with maximum possible framerate. For general PC usage, this monitor still works well (with the caveat about the screen resolution mentioned below). For anyone not interested in using this for gaming, however, I think a display with an IPS panel would be much better. IPS panels can't deliver as high of a refresh rate, but are superior in terms of viewing angle and color reproduction. On the bright side, the inclusion of FreeSync on the AW2518HF rather than G-Sync keeps the price a little bit lower so there is not so much of a price penalty for a function that only a subset of PC users will be able to use. The build quality of the AW2518HF is top-notch. The stand feels extremely robust, and articulates to a pretty wide range of angles. There is a built-in slot for cables on the stand, and a plastic shield that clips onto the back of the monitor to keep the cables neatly streamlined. There's a convenient USB 3 hub built into the monitor, and headphone jack. The built-in settings menu is pretty nice, with several quick-presets for various game modes and the ability to customize the functions assigned to some of the quick-access buttons. In actual gameplay, I did not see any ghosting thanks to the low response time. The FreeSync technology appears to meet expectations - I disabled v-sync in all games I played with this monitor, and didn't notice any tearing at all. If you're a gamer, and safely committed to a particular brand of video cards, I think it's safe to say that a monitor with FreeSync or G-Sync (to match the video card) is a very nice upgrade. One slight disappointment about this monitor is that Alienware did not push the resolution a little higher to 1440p. In the 25-inch and above sizes, I actually prefer a higher resolution. 1080p is sufficient and does perform better when playing games, so I can't really fault the logic behind this choice. However, it seems inevitable that 1440p will become a mainstream resolution for PC gaming in the near future (as a stepping stone to true 4K), and it would be nice if this monitor was future-proofed a bit for that. For something in the 21- or 22-inch range, I would have no issue with 1080p. While it would be great to also have G-Sync in the same monitor to future-proof it against any future video card upgrade, I don't view the lack of G-Sync in a FreeSync monitor too critically since it does keep the cost down a bit. That difference is prompting me to give the AW2518HF the full 5-star rating, unlike my review of this monitor's G-Sync-supporting sibling, the AW2518H. All in all, this monitor aims to be a great gaming monitor by providing extremely fast refreshes and adaptive sync (with a compatible video card), and it does just that. The build quality and usability are also excellent. Non-gamers would probably be happier with a higher resolution and/or IPS display for the same price (or less). PC gamers with AMD cards will have few complaints about this one, however, if they're looking for a premium monitor.