

More importantly, the game played very smoothly on Dell's display. My time with Grand Theft Auto V showed the value of having a 1440p monitor, as I could see in vivid detail everything from the stitching on my character's ski mask to the footprints I left on a snowy street. With a rich, 24-inch, 2560 x 1440 screen and up to a 165-Hz refresh rate, Dell's monitor was vibrant, smooth and generally a joy to play games on. You can also program these buttons to give you quick access to brightness and contrast, or to let you instantly switch between HDMI and DisplayPort inputs. I'm a fan of the monitor's two programmable shortcut keys, which, by default, let you adjust volume and quickly flip through display modes. Dell's white-and-black main menu is a lot cleaner than what I've seen on most gaming displays, and it didn't take me very long to figure out how to do basic things like adjust brightness, change inputs and fiddle with response times. Fortunately, the monitor's on-screen interface is very intuitive. I often found myself having to press twice just to register an input. You navigate Dell's display using four physical buttons, which were far too stiff and small for my liking.
