Dell 240Hz Gaming Monitor 24.5 Inch Full HD Monitor with IPS Technology, Antiglare Screen, Dark Metallic Grey - S2522HG

So Luckily i got this on a discount on black Friday. Note this is a1440p Monitor with a high refresh rate of 165MHz. Which is a better refresh rate for gaming then a 4K monitor. That being said this is a great monitor. BUT considering the cost..... this is NOT an HDR monitor. Why that is important is this is High Dynamic Range. Which is different from Pixels. HDR 10 or High Dynamic makes black and whites better and really showcases light and shadows better. Without it, most screens will have either a gray or kind of washed out color to it. For $300 dollars you can get similarly priced monitors with 1440p and HDR for the same cost such as the MSI 32inch curved monitor. Which is also larger then this. This is already 1 year old and there are better monitors out there for almost the same price. Get one that is 32inch curved, 1440p, and with HDR. Just not this one.

This is my first curved monitor and I like it. I dont use it for games, but it works great for my everyday work station.

first of all i wanted a ultrawide because i play games watch youtube and browse web. i thought instead of having multiple monitors it would be more simple to just have one wide monitor for multiple tabs open. i mean i literally could play a game on one side of the screen and watch twitch on the other. at the same time! here’s the thing tho: after a while i realized that it is much more enjoyable and functional to just have 2 monitors. one on the side that can have a tab open to look back to. in all honestly it was cool for first couple weeks but after a while it became very cumbersome to have such a wide screen. and also games don’t quite run correctly when they are in a window mode, at least for me it seems my framerate was suffering and vrr suffered and would glitch like bad. i have a nvidia 3080 btw. i read on reviews that this monitor doesn’t work well with gsync and honestly it doesn’t tbh i saw a lot of flickering ngl. i know it could be on me not having setting perfect but if ur someone who plug n play could b an issue for u too… especially when playing games windowed ok so going off that topic, basically when i first unboxed this monster of a monitor i was coming from a 24” 60hz 1080 dell glossy screen finish monitor. and i was blown away. just putting this screen in front of you without even turning it on is really cool. the curve and ultra wide size is no joke. it’s like putting vr goggles on for first time. it genuinely feels like ur driving a race car simulation set up where u are fully immersed. now i wanna say as cool as this is. after the first couple weeks it genuinely became more of a cumbersome aspect than a cool one. i mean u remember getting your first console or your first car and after a few weeks instead of being happy u own it every day u complain about little things or just get used to it? ya everything is like that but this is even further to where i considered returning it. i mean i couldn’t tell why i didn’t like it but looking back now i realize it’s that when we use our eyes to see things most of the time we keep our eyes straight and move our head. we aren’t chameleons where we move our eyes all around. ik this sounds funny but it’s true. i found that even tho i had a huge wide screen i never really saw it. our peripheral vision is genuine but it’s not good enough for this use case. i found that instead of enjoying the wider screen. i was more unsatisfied with the lack of height of the screen, because hear me out: when our eyes are straight forward we are going to see the top and bottom of the screen more than the left and right side. so i started wishing that i actually had a taller screen. now i took it upon myself to do research and i found a website that compares screen sizes. it turns out that a 34” 21:9 ultrawide monitor is the exact same height of screen as a 27” 16:9 normal size monitor. now you might not be able to understand what i’m saying but it’s like taking a medium size monitor such as 27” and all u do is pull the sides out. it basically means that the ratio is no longer balanced. although the immersion was great with the curved wide screen. i started thinking it would be much more enjoyable to have a curved “normal” screen such as a 32” 16:9 or even a 27” 16:9. now when i compared a 32” 16:9 monitor to a 27” 16:9 and 34” 21:9 on the website, it turns out a 16:9 32” is taller in height screen wise than both of the other two, while the horizontal length is in between those 2. again, a 27” 16:9 and 34 21:9 monitor have the exact same screen height. just different width. so what i’m getting to is that if you want a “big immersive experience”... i do not recommend buying a 34” 21:9 monitor. i just don’t. i recommend buying a 16:9 monitor. either get a curved 27” 16:9 or a curved OR flat 32” (or bigger...) now i want to talk about gaming. i came from 1080p 60hz 24” dell monitor so i thought i would be way better at my favorite games like fortnite and rocket league and etc. but the weirdest thing was that somehow i was worse. i finally realized why. it’s because when you have such a big screen you can’t actually see everything that’s shown on the screen at once. ironically the small size of the 24 was making me play competitive games better. go figure. ya sure the immersion of the 34 was great. i mean playing fortnite in ultrawide for first time was like logan paul putting his color blind glasses on for the first time. i was questioning my entire life, “how have i never tried this before?”, i kept asking myself. now as enjoyable as this was, it was equally and extensively more impractical. think of it this way: the reason i wanted ultrawide for gaming was not just immersion for playing story games like the witcher or gta or whatever. no, i wanted it for a competitive advantage. quite frankly i wanted to “cheat”. when u have more horizontal space on a screen it means u can literally see more of the game around you. now i thought this would help me, obviously. i thought that when i was behind a wall in fortnite or whatever game, that i could peak around the corner without the enemy seeing me and i could basically just screen peak everywhere. well let me just keep it real, it doesn’t actually help you in any way. imagine in a 15 minute match i may peak around a corner in fortnite like 1 or 2 times, i just never actually found myself using this “feature”. and when i did i didn’t think it actually resulted in me “winning the fight” or having a real advantage. but not just that. i actually found it may diminish my skill and experience. for example, i found myself being more lazy in the game. it required less input from me to look around. but this is not smart because instead of having good spacial awareness and flicking your mouse side by side to see what’s to your left and right i could see it all at the same time. but what this means is that you’re essentially multi tasking. and we should all know by now multi tasking is essentially doing multiple tasks with little to no success. i was overwhelmed with on screen input and found myself playing worse somehow. i realize now that it’s better to have a smaller screen to be able to focus on the whole screen at one time (instead of a small portion of a big screen) so that you can concentrate much better and therefor execute tasks to fruition even though it might not look as cool or immersive. now i know it’s better to swipe your view point by way of your mouse or joystick than with your head/eyes. the amount of time it takes to look to the left or right of screen with your head or eyes is longer and more cumbersome than if u had a smaller 16:9 screen and just moved your mouse (or controller) to the left or right to see what’s next to you. now ik i might sound crazy or i’m making a stretch but that is genuinely my thoughts on why i play worse. (even with higher refresh rate 144hz) even after i got my aw2721d and gigabyte m27x 1440p 27” 240hz monitor, i realized that i play a little better and am more focused on a 24” size because of the small size. now i’m not saying it’s worth going 1080p just to have a small screen. let’s be real 1440p is a lot better for story games battle royals n desktop use so u might as well be at 27 and get used to the size. but i mean still the smaller the better. now imagine going 34” now the next reasons why i loved this monitor were also it’s biggest downfall. when compared to my ips 24” 60hz 1080p monitor, i was impressed, to say least, of the black levels. just when i had spotify open on my desktop the black parts of the tab were actually so black it looked like a void and when i moved the spotify tab over to the ips panel all i could see is grey black. this va panel ruined standard ips for me lol. it really made a difference back to back. not just a little better but it made it more enjoyable to just use the pc. i loved it. and even though va panels supposedly don’t “pop” the same as ips as far as colors i would say i almost think it’s possible they pop more because of the sheer level of contrast. a red color might be more red on a ips. but compared to light grey black levels, a bright red looks meh. whereas compared to deep black levels, a medium red would look bright and punchy, do you understand at all? and also i’d like to mention. The colors also looked really good. i didn’t notice it was “va” or anything like that. i wouldn’t complain about the colors of this va once i had the right settings on it. i think va blacks are worth it. but here’s the problem. now va has bad viewing angles right? and i didn’t know exactly what it meant till i tried it. when ips panel is not exactly on center with your vision what happens is that u see ips glow or backlight bleed where basically the dark parts of the corners become a lot lighter when viewing from sides. this is annoying but it doesn’t affect the actual colors. now if you don’t view a va panel from directly head on perfect center it’s the actual colors that are affected. it’s literally like they got washed out like chalk on the sidewalk. i can’t stress enough how big of an impact this makes. on ips it’s a gripe, an annoyance, whereas on va it’s a down right issue, it’s a legitimate deal breaker. and i mean that. now you might think, well why wouldn’t i be looking straight at my screen? if i’m looking the correct way the va panel won’t matter. i’m sorry but even i was corrected here. you see because the monitor is not small like 24 inches the edges become off axis from your straight line of sight. now this is why va panels are curved. so that it corrects the line of vision to go straight to your eyes. now here’s the good and bad. yea it does work and it pushes the edges to be straight to your eyes from the middle of screen to the very side. and yeah it makes a immersive cockpit feel. but here’s the downside. you not only have to be looking from straight on, you have to be an exact distance away from the monitor for there to be no off axis viewing of the corners. now what does this mean? basically this monitor has a curve. some are 1000 some are 1500 this is 1800. now u might think it’s smart it’s not as crazy of a curve of 1000 but here’s the problem. i found that i had to sit back away from the monitor from a distance farther than i actually wanted to. when you are looking at the monitor from close up it really surrounds you and gives a great feeling of being in a cockpit or a simulation right?. well once u back up a foot or two what happens is now you see the top and bottom of the screen. now ur looking at a wide screen instead of looking into a wide screen. and it just doesn’t work. it diminishes the whole experience. and hear me out, this is where the vertical height of the screen really stands out as a weak point. it’s just not tall enough. it’s not a good ratio and i’m sorry to ultrawide lovers out there. but if you want an ultrawide 21:9 monitor this means to me that you HAVE to go ips. (so that you can sit in close to the monitor) i’m serious. the viewing angles are a deal breaker here. i found myself playing chill fun games even like age of empires but kept being disappointed and distracted by how all sides of the screen had these bland and dead colors. imagine red being brown. that’s what it’s like and it RUINS the ultrawide. i mean why on earth are you buying a 21:9 screen so that you can have more horizontal screen, and then that extra screen is rendered useless and cumbersome because it’s washed out because you want to sit closer to be immersed into the screen? sure you can sit farther back or put it on a monitor arm and keep it far away… but for me to essentially be strapped into one exact seating position feels really limiting. it feels like you’re just not getting what u paid for, it sucks quite frankly. i’m sorry. now i haven’t tried them yet, but i think something like a 1000r curve 32” or 27” 16:9 for a VA panel could actually work. this is because the sides won’t. e as wide as the 21:9 and it is chore strongly curved inward for you to be able to sit closer. but again, i haven’t tried it so i can’t say. now also let me get to next point. those deep black level lovers out there such as myself there is hope for us. now i recently got two 1440p 240hz ips 27” monitors from gigabyte and alienware. and no joke as much as i like them, as good as they are, they’re terrible grey level blacks and ips glow and ips back light bleed ruin these displays. now i don’t wanna be super gloomy but it’s a genuine issue. and i don’t hear enough people talk about it. reviews online basically dismiss it as just a “side affect” of ips technology. and u know what. we don’t have to accept it. the same way we don’t HAVE to accept matte screen finishes. so even tho the va black levels made a great picture quality, the sheer size of the sides of the monitor became cumbersome, not only for every day use of browsing the web but of playing games. i felt like it took up too much of the desk for just casual browsing and then when i wanted to take advantage during games it just made me play worse and i noticed the corner colors washed out a lot. so i would think regularly about how i’d rather have a taller display and a secondary monitor on the side. i also started thinking about 4k because i could notice the pixel density a lot on this 1440p display. on a 34” screen 1440p is just not enough. so over time i started to dislike the dell 34” 21:9 more and more and then one day fate took it’s turn. all jokes aside, there was an earthquake where i live.a very strong one that shook everything in the whole house. the earthquake was genuinely so strong it shook and knocked over my dell 34” uktrawide monitor…. idk what it hit but it hit something… and now half the screen is literally shattered. not physically but internally somehow. when i turn the screen on it has red and green lines going horizontally across the screen and 1/4 the left side of the screen is cut off and amd turned to static like an old tv lol. so this really was a blessing and a curse. i lost $400 :( but it also gave me an excuse to get a new monitor.. which i was excited for! now here’s my recommendations for everyone reading: if u swear by 21:9 ultrawide and u don’t really care what i say or u want to try it for yourself. go for it. really go for it. but i strongly encourage you not to get this one. please just get an ips ultrawide. or a va with a stronger curve. because this screen is so wide the viewing angle issue is much more of an issue than a smaller screen and this 1800r curve isn’t strong enough to fix it. maybe a 1500r curve would be enough but i haven’t tested it, like on the new coolermaster 34” ultrawide VA has 1500r curve but honestly i’d guess it’s probably pretty similar. i’d go ips for 21:9 so u can really sit in your display. now i personally wouldn’t even recommend that because i think you’re better off getting a curved 27 or 32” 16:9 monitor for immersion but that’s just me. or u can get a big flat display like the 40” innocn, however it’s only 1440p and let’s be honest at 32” or above you really do need 4k. and to that you should probably have a rtx 3080 if u want to run 4k 144hz. so u can go 4k if u play easy to run games or mostly use your monitor for media consumption. (unless u have an expensive graphics card go crazy) (but also u can always run a 4k monitor on 1440p for games). so pick what u want, live your life king. now if u are like me. u play games u watch movies. even for spotify lol, u know deep blacks are worth it… but u don’t know what size to get? i would recommend u look at mini led ips. now oled is out there and va is out there. but from what i’ve researched 2023 is the year for mini led. there is innocn 4k 27 and 32 m2v. they will give u black levels and ips quality. there is cooler master gp27q which will give u mini led 1440p 27 ips and gp27u gives you 4k 27 ips. and then ktc has a 27” 1440p va and 4k ips 27” monitor. the ktc 27” 4k mini led is the same one that’s in coolermaster gp27u. ok now i wanna say if u only care about gaming. like u wanna have best advantage in cod or fortnite or valorant go with a 24” and at that point u have to stick with 1080p but it’s worth it. u can get the zowie 2566 360hz or the 2546 240hz or acer nitro 390hz or even a viewsonic 31 something 240hz is really good for backlight strobing and u will play best on those. but if u want what i want and that’s more height than a 27” u have only one choice. 32”. it’s big. i know it’s a lot. but go 32” and go 4k. go mini led. ips 144hz and u can’t go wrong. i know it’s a lot of money. but innocn 32 m2v is $850 on amazon right now. that’s what i went with. i haven’t received it yet. but i’m genuinely confident it’s the answer. now if money is an issue… if u don’t have $900. if u have $500 go with a 1440p 27” monitor. don’t bother with 240hz. just get a curved va or get a mini led for the black levels. the coolermaster gp27q is $500 and will give u an insane hdr experience. the ktc is $500 and va so i would be weary of it for the viewing angles. now if u only have like $300. u can get the viewsonic 240hz ips or the acer nitro 390hz ips for between $250-350. and if u want ultrawide go for the va coolermaster 34 if the 1500r curve works better or just get an lg ips. anyways i know it’s long review and i’ve never done it before but i wanted to warn u. even as cool as ultrawide is. it’s just not worth it. get your “dream” monitor. and then put a cheap 24” 1080p monitor next to it. i mean seriously. having 2 is better than 1, i promise. honestly what i could recommend is u could even get a gorgeous display like a 1440p 27” mini led for $500 for story games and youtube/movies as your main, and then get a 24” 1080p 240-360hz for $300 for your second which can obliterate first person shooters and you would have the ultimate setup. i just got the 32” 4k innocn m2v because after using an ultrawide 1440p 144hz dell 21:9 34” i was so impressed by how massive it was, i fell in love. but then i fell out of love because of the quirks and impracticality the 21:9 format presented. but then after trying to switch to 27” 1440p 240hz ips for getting the “most competitive edge” because i play games i’m not the best but i enjoy winning and i wanted to have most smooth experience and best chance to win. but after thoroughly testing 240hz vs 144hz i swear to you there is a very hard time telling any difference. if i was shroud i would need 240. but i’m not and never will be. i would rather get deep inky blacks and better picture quality to enjoy my monitor when i’m not playing games 50% time. and after using 27” i felt like it was harder to be as competitive in games as my 24”. even tho the 24” is only 60hz being able to get right up to screen and still see every part of screen helps a lot for vision and reaction. and 27” felt like i was goldilocks didnt fit quite right. it is nice don’t get me wrong. it’s bigger than 24 and it’s 1440p but i felt like i am missing something. i can never quite get the viewing distance right. its not mini led and it’s either too far away and looks small or it’s up to my face and i can’t see corners of screen and they get washed out from ips glow. so this leads to what i believe to be the cure to my disease. if i go 4k 32” 16:9 144hz. i will get the added height of screen over both 27 and 34 21:9 sizes which i wanted. and i won’t have to be looking side to side and it will have 138ppi clarity because of the 4k while maintaining 144hz and i can then lay back in my bed and watch movies and youtube because it’s basically a tv at 32 inches. idk if you guys forgot but 32” used to be a normal size for tvs btw. and with the mini led tech it is darker than a va panel. i mean i hope i’m not wrong once i get this thing in the mail. but i hope i could help steer u guys in a better direction. peace and love your best self, j

product came new, as expected, perfect monitor for competitive gaming, and is solid as a rock

I recently tried using my 40-inch television as a monitor, and it was awful. The image was larger, true, and it offered some benefits, but the resolution, the pixel density, as well as number of colors, was not there. Plus, it was actually a little too large, like watching a movie in the front row. If you’re eyeballing your big TV and wondering how well it will work as a monitor, don’t try it. It will only be good for playing videos on the computer. I needed a real monitor, but I needed one larger than my original monitor. So once again, there I was shopping on Amazon. I settled on this one because of the size and the resolution. So many monitors these days have a max of 1080p. I remember way back in the early 2000s, my monitors going higher than that. At least, I think. Well, 2560 x 1440 is what the doctor ordered. This is not merely a gamer’s monitor. It is an animator’s monitor, at a higher resolution. Acres and acres of screen so that I don’t really need to have two monitors any longer. I love it. It’s just on the edge of being too large. The look and feel of the monitor is quality. This thing is serious. After a year of an ONN monitor that I didn’t really like because it didn’t have proper contrast, and a second Dell monitor that was slightly smaller, old, and dying, I was finally back to quality. It’s almost frightening because my animations look so much better now that I hope the final product looks as good to people who see my work. The reason I use two monitors at work and at home is because there’s not enough room on one screen for all my tools. Generally, increasing the monitor size doesn’t help, because only so much information can fit on a screen. But in this case, the screen is bigger AND the resolution is higher, so more information can indeed be placed on the screen. I no longer need two monitors! I have my two work monitors and this huge Dell monitor. Well, honestly, there’s not much more room left on my desk for a second personal monitor anyway. I’ve only included one screen shot to impress upon you the amount of information that can be squeezed onto the screen. On a 1080p monitor, and perhaps on a 1440p monitor, but smaller, the screenshot will look crowded, but it’s perfectly comfortable now. Normally, I always have the timeline at the bottom hidden, because it takes up too much room, and I need the viewport larger. Here, everything is comfortable, and my old eyes have no problem seeing all the information. I’m also finding that I don’t tend to go on full screen as much on YouTube, but I will probably end up switching to the dark mode, because all that white can be blinding. It’s a bright monitor, and it’s a dark monitor. The contrast is excellent. I would buy this monitor again in a heartbeat. I almost talked my daughter into buying the replacement that I was going to send back, but she just has no room for it until she moves. Speaking of replacement, I had a rocky start though. This speaks nothing to the quality control of the hardware itself. The original monitor was just left in my driveway by USPS, just minutes before a sketchy guy came to buy my car. If the neighbor’s dog hadn’t barked, I wouldn’t have stepped out to see the box… left just ten feet from an unused doorbell. But here comes the real rockiness and it sort of embarrasses me because I’m a tech guy. I’m NOT that customer who calls tech support because he forgot to plug in a device. I swear, I’m not that guy! The first monitor arrived with no instructions, and I couldn’t turn it on. I checked cables, and power strips. Amazon offered only general advice for idiots on connecting a monitor and (choking) making sure it’s on. And, this is also key, it was in the box upside down. Remember! This is my alibi. A simple instruction manual or quick start guide would have shown me the nearly invisible power button on the bottom right. And now that I think of it, that power button is in the same place, invisible, on my two newest TVs, though there is a RED LIGHT to alert you that there is the button. The red light goes away when the TVs are on. This monitor has no such illumination of the power button. It only lights up when it’s ON, not off. But all I had was a warranty slip, and the power button was all but hidden on the bottom. I tried every permutation of the prominent unlabeled buttons on the back, and nothing. I thought that the first monitor was dead and called in for a replacement. The replacement came, and by sheer chance, as I tilted the properly packaged one out of the box, there was the faint gray power button! It was literally the FIRST THING I SAW! The replacement came with a no-words uni-language hieroglyphics quick guide for setup that was missing in the first one, that also had a callout for the power button. My heart sank. I went back and checked the original. There was the power button! It had worked all along. There was nothing wrong with it. The final hieroglyphic showed a disc and a hardcover book and a webpage and a down arrow. I checked with Indiana Jones, and he told me that this cryptic message meant to download the user guide from dell.com/s2722dgm for further information. Dell spent a ton of money on more than adequate packaging for this monitor. A whole tree died to deliver it. It came with an extra HDMI cable, which was nice. I would have traded the shiny box, which I’m just going to toss out, for maybe one more 8.5x11 sheet of paper to get me up and running. There was also plenty of white space on the outside of the box for all the info I needed. Just a picture of the power button, because when you look at the back of the monitor, the joystick button makes you think it MUST be the power button. Poor packaging ended up costing Dell and Amazon. How I wish I had gone ahead and googled an online manual, but I was so depressed that it didn’t work that I just waited on the replacement. But the next debacle is all my fault. I thought that the replacement was defective. I couldn’t insert the HDMI into the HDMI 1. The problem was my orientation. I had my head upside down, looking, and then righted myself, my mind inverted left and right, and I was trying to insert into the display port and not the HDMI port. I used HDMI 2 and loved it. So, when I returned the perfectly fine replacement, I mentioned that the HDMI 1 was damaged, when it wasn’t. Some guy at the Amazon returns department is going to call me an idiot. One had to be returned, so it wasn’t a real issue. But overall, I love this monitor. I’m spoiled to it, and don’t want to go back to regular monitors. It shouldn’t be called a gaming monitor. It’s a workstation monitor. Love it to death.

I like it and will keep it but a heads up I noted a difference from my old 4k monitor which was only 24 inches and standard ratio. I like the imersivness but with some games I miss the 4k

So this monitor looks great! It plays games really well and has great color/saturation/brightness/etc. HOWEVER, I have some complaints. I ordered this monitor to replace an older Spectre one that was starting to get lines at the bottom. When I ordered it the first time I plugged it in and it looked great. Played some games and had fun with it. My PC fell asleep while I was afk and when I came back to wake it up, boom, the dreaded lines and a dead pixel popped up. This was the SAME DAY I had just gotten it. So I changed the DP cable to see if it was that and nope, it was in fact the monitor. I ordered a replacement and it arrived the next day. Im currently using this new replacement monitor and when I took it out of the box I had a few more issues. I ordered a new DP cable just in case and swapped it out beforehand. When I loaded up a game it started showing a bit of back flashing so I researched and finally saw it could be the NIVIDIA G-Sync. Turned that off and boom no more back flickering. Also would recommend turning down the sharpness as it can make some text look a bit pixeled. All in all its a great monitor for the price and looks awesome for games. If youre using it for 144hz make sure to have a Display Port cable or it will not get the max framerate. Also if you have some back flickering try turning off your NIVIDIA G-Sync. If youre willing to deal with a bit of issues its worth buying.

Nice display. Works perfectly with my MacBook Air m1

If youre looking for a curved monitor for gaming, great color, fast response times and high refresh rates look no further!

First I will say that Im going off of Prime. The shipping is becoming to problematic with drivers taking hours breaks when youre next in delivery. The guy literally drive past my house and Im still waiting on the replacement to be delivered 5 hours later. This is not the first time this has happened, so were ending Prime as we order mostly tech. We can get this shipped to the Best Buy store or ordered for pickup and waste less time waiting for delivery to avoid stolen packages. That way we can just go get them when were ready, instead of sitting around half the day waiting for a delivery time in flux. Im doubting this will even get delivered tonight, so Im probably going to be doing the same thing tomorrow. --- As for the panel itself. Its a fine build quality. The colors are nice. The brightness is nice. However, the marketing is misleading as you will not get great results if you try to run this panel as Extremely Fast. There will be overshoot. It will be noticeable. So, forget about 1ms G-to-G response times. Youre going to be running 2 at best. My panel had multiple bright pixels in the panel. I had to queue up an exchange immediately. One Im sometimes good with, depending on location, but mine had like 3-4, and with any dark picture on the screen, they become VERY noticeable. The USB ports are a nice touch, and the varied placement is great. Works well with FreeSync and GSync. There are drivers at the Dell Website which installs the correct display profile for Windows. The unit ships with both a DP and HDMI cable. Not sure why they didnt put speakers in them. Sometimes I dont feel like wearing a headset (fatigue, etc.). At this price point... thats a curious omission. EDIT: Replacement monitor arrived with no dead or bright pixels. Household agrees we can let Amazon Prime go and just order our tech for Store Delivery with Best Buy. Allows us to get packages without staying up until 9-10PM when we have to be up for 5-6AM.