Alienware's $350 QD-OLED Gaming Monitor Nixes Everything for a Pretty Screen

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Gizmodo may earn an affiliate commission. Out of all the companies to drop a good deal in gaming gear, I never expected it to be Alienware. Here’s the long and short of Alienware’s new AW2726DM gaming monitor: 27-inch QD-OLED with 1440p resolution and a 240Hz refresh rate. All that for $350. Alienware shaved off practically everything it could to get this monitor down to this price point. For the unfamiliar, QD-OLED, or quantum dot OLED, offers premium screen quality, rich colors, and deep contrast. They also often cost a chunk of change, especially for a max refresh rate of 240Hz. The AW2726DM’s QD-OLED panel is indeed a beautiful sight to behold, but you’ll give up so many quality-of-life features to get it this cheap. You will struggle to find any other QD-OLED monitor for this cheap. It feels every bit that price. The AW2726DM sports large bezels, though not nearly as thick as the borders on the Apple Studio Display XDR, which has some of the thickest bezels of any monitor in 2026. There is no physical swivel action without rotating the entire screen