While it does not excel in any aspect, the Dell P2217H has enough versatility to be a decent general purpose monitor. It features good picture quality and excellent connectivity, combined with an impressive range of ergonomic adjustments.
The monitor is also suitable for occasional, non-competitive gaming since its input lag and pixel response time are low enough to grant reasonably smooth and responsive gaming experience.
You can charge external USB devices and connect them to a computer using the monitor's USB 3.0 hub.
The hub consists of four downstream ports that are used for connecting peripherals and a single upstream port that connects the hub to a computer.
You’ll have no trouble setting this monitor according to the needs of your workspace since the Dell P2217H supports all the vital ergonomic adjustments. Additionally, you can easily change its orientation from landscape to portrait, and vice versa.
You need to calibrate this monitor to achieve the best color accuracy. Fortunately, the calibration procedure of the Dell P2217H is straightforward, and all the ICC color profiles are available on the Internet.
You won't need any specialized equipment to calibrate the Dell P2217H.
The monitor doesn't look good in a dark room because its panel cannot fully absorb the monitor's backlight, which makes some areas on the screen look ununiform.
Such problem is common among the monitors in this price range.
You can leave the monitor on for long periods without having to worry about pixel damage because the Dell P2217H does not have any problems related to image retention.
This monitor doesn't put additional stress on your eyes as its backlight doesn't flicker.
Monitor's flickering is one of the leading causes of eye fatigue.
The Dell P2217H offers good gaming experience for a general purpose display in this price range because of its reasonably low input lag and good motion handling capabilities.
The monitor feels responsive because of its input lag of 9.8 ms. Only the gaming monitors in this price range outperform such result.
The motion looks reasonably clear because only tiny traces follow fast-moving objects on the screen. Such smoothness of motion is produced as the monitor's pixels need only six milliseconds to change their color, which reduces the motion blur effect.
The monitor's contrast ratio, peak brightness, color accuracy, and gamma are on par with what the majority of competitors in this price range offer.
The monitor's IPS panel displays good-looking picture, with bright and saturated colors, reasonably deep blacks, and lifelike intermediate mid-tones. The colors look good and pop thanks to the monitor's peak brightness of 250 nits. Dark scenes look pretty as the monitor's native contrast ratio of 1147:1 is high enough to make the IPS panel display good-looking blacks. The intermediate tones are well balanced as the monitor's gamma of 2.18 is only 1% away from the ideal value.
Additionally, the Dell P2217H's color inaccuracies are very hard to spot because its average color error dE is only 3.2.
The Dell P2217H is not the right tool for color-critical applications because it supports only 92.7% of the sRBG color space.
The sRBG is the default color space for web applications, SDR media, and standard Windows environment.
While the response time on TN panels is much quicker which allows for the 144hz there is a downside of colors being a bit washed out compared to IPS displays.
This display features a very fast refresh rate of 144Hz (144 times per second). This allows for extremely fluent gameplay and is a major improvement over regular 60Hz displays.
You can use 27 inch screen size of the monitor and adjust it accordingly. The monitor features built-in options to change the monitor view and switch between nine different screen sizes and aspect ratios.
With a response time of just 1ms, the AOC G2770PQU is one of the fastest monitors on the market. Ideal for fast-paced gaming situations such as first person shooters.
If you just buy largest that you can afford, due to ruthless marketing, there're plenty of models that may look great with their big size and affordable price, but you'll end up with one or more of following: low contrast, flickering, glow sleeping or many other possible problems that'll wreck you eyes on prolonged usage (typical for programming).