Hey guys, hope you like the video! If you have any questions, or if there is something else you'd like to know about this monitor, please ask! 😊 (Also, I wrote AD3423DW instead of AW3423DW at 0:10 ... monitor names are tiresome 😅)
What are your thoughts on using this for working from home with a lot of Excel and Word type of work loads? Is it good for text and fine details? Thank you, great review.
Can I get a comparison of these two things: In Division 2 on my Acer Predator X27 Pbmiphzx, when you're in a sewer and come out, the HDR going from dark to the daylight outside is literally eye blinding? It's not as pronounced on my C1, but I would still love to see/know how that reacts.
Finally, an actual review of the monitor. Much appreciated! The fact that we are finally getting monitors with this image fidelity/performance is the most exciting. IMO monitors are 20 years behind considering all the advancements in technology elsewhere but this feels like the floodgates will finally open
There is a sRGB (and P3) option in creator mode, but only if you use it in SDR. Great review though. Edit: wanted to mention the pixel refresher is similar to what LG OLED TV's run when they are turned off, the warning on this is just notifying the user of the process, it will still do it automatically when the panel goes into standby (that's what's happening when the green light flashes). Even if you push the 'do not notify me again' button when it prompts (which you should imo, the popup doesn't serve any purpose other than to warn you that it needs to be powered at all times), it still runs its pixel refreshing when it goes into standby mode if it's been on for 4+ hours, which can be interrupted if need be as well. Once you click the do not notify button however, it becomes a completely seamless, background experience, like any other monitor (just as long as you leave it plugged in of course). Also, on the topic of burn in, the most important thing I think most should keep in mind with this new panel tech is not so much the changes to its construction (though those are notable), but the 3 year standard warranty that specifically covers burn in. Even LG does not have the confidence after all these years to specifically mention such a thing in their warranties, and there are not many success stories from users that have gotten burn in on LG sets as far as getting a free replacement go. That alone made this the easy choice vs LG OLED's for monitor use for me, and I will personally be making the most of this panel due to the warranty alone.
It doesn't need to have pixel refresher. It is scientifically impossible for QD-OLED to get burn in, QD layer prevents it completely. Nah, it won't if you disable it. It has nothing to do with notification, you can disable it. lol. Yeah, who the hell unplug monitor nowadays, anyway? xd What? LG provides 2 years warranty that includes burn in already. More so 5 years on the G1 for having Evo Panel. lmao. What with users that have gotten burn in on LG sets as far as getting a free replacement go? Ofc, it is. It has a frigging 0.5 ms boi. xd
@@YavNe quantum dot color filter shouldn't have anything to do with oleds burning in or not. Oleds burn in due to them being organic. The colors will fade over time. What makes QD-OLED better in this case is that all of the OLEDs are blue, so they are more likely to wear down at an even rate, which makes burn-in less likely/noticeable (even though the image overall will get slightly dimmer). In theory, QD-OLEDs should require less energy to reach the same brightness levels as traditional WRGB OLEDs due to the QD color filter absorbing very little light from the OLEDs, unlike the traditional color filter on a WRGB display. Unfortunately, blue OLEDs are the highest energy, thus they wear down much quicker than green or red OLEDs, so I'm sure there are drawbacks. Samsung's QNED, or quantum nanorod LEDs, technology is inorganic, and will eventually replace the blue OLED backplane of the QD-OLED display. That's the end goal of this tech, but that's still likely years away.
Another great review. It's nice seeing videos that go into details with technical specs and compare them to the competition instead of only relying on strictly subjective opinions like some of the bigger channels get away with. It'll be interesting to see where QD OLED goes from here; I'd personally love a 32" 16:9 display. Keep up the excellent work.
Yep I think 38" 3440x1600 ultrawide or 32" 4k (curved) would be more optimal and with at least typeC and more modern ports. Happy to see monitor tech progressing to some degree though.
Thats why i love this channel. All the "things you SHOULD know" which many other channels skip over. Seems pretty limited on the I/O so great to know the specs and clearly explained limitations, not just thrown out how many of each it has. Another great video, thanks Nada.
i hate ultrawide for gaming, necessary information on the sides of the UI too far away, kept having to turn my head instead of it being in my peripherals
@@whiskizyo2067 Nothing random about it, you keep the same 16:9 parameters if that's what you prefer. Lots of games support this, others have mods that enable it.
Finally a reviewer that asked for a 38" model. Thank you; i love ultrawides but i really don't want to go to super ultrawide for a lot of reasons including many games just not being geared towards that resolution yet. The 38" Ultrawides are an almost perfect in between thanks to that bump in vertical res and the actual height increase. Pure perfection would be when LG finally decides to give us a gaming variant of one of those new 40" Curved 4K ultrawides; but we don't really have proper GPUs for those just yet so that makes sense.
Right. For programming/CAD, I'd rather prefer a curved 38" 1600p version (perfect size and pixel pitch, from physiologic pov), or a curved 40" 2160p (scaled).
34 inch is like the ultrawide version of a 27 inch monitor while 38 inch is the ultrawide version of a 32 inch monitor. The current super ultrawides are nice but I feel like they could have some more height of a 32 inch monitor, but then you'd face the same issue again, so yeah I think regular ultrawides are still awesome.
The fact that an Alienware product with just released display tech doesn't cost an ungodly amount of money is amazing. Now that Samsung has entered the Oled display/tv game, we should hopefully see both regular Oled and Qdoled prices go down to reasonable levels Sub $1000 maybe by next year?
Probably it will cost less than $1000 but Alienware (like other OLED panels) is truely better than the best LCD in ultrawide HDR dark scenes. In bright scenes it's still worse (there is a video with that comparison) even compared to Samsung Odyssey G7.
If you like dark/horror games, you can wait a drop in price for QD-OLED. If you like different genres of games, mini led is a better choice, HDR will be much brighter and vivid.
@@drunkhusband6257 Haven't you seen HDR in a proper HDR TV or display? Obviously you tried HDR by using a bad display and yes, on 8 bit edge led panel HDR can be worse than SDR. Right now only OLED/QD-OLED (mostly dark scenes: True Black HDR400/500 standard, the true HDR1000 is still not possible on such a technology) and mini led panels (at least 500 or better 1000 local dimming zones for bright scenes and relatively dark ones: HDR 1000/1400 standard) can demonatrate a true HDR. Watch these technologies to judge. The true HDR TVs and displays are not cheap, like more a premium segment of the market. The true HDR is much better than SDR.
I own this monitor and am happy to answer any questions to the best of my ability. If you're going to use it for mostly content consumption and gaming, it's a must buy. I also do office work on mine and shut the monitor off when not in use as well as a screensaver. I've had it for nearly two months and have not experienced burn in either.
Did you have any issues with scratches on your screen from the shipping process? Reddit has a bunch of posts of the bubble wrap scratching the screen, tho Dell supposedly has fixed this issue. I have ordered one and it's coming at the end of August. Honestly, my only reservation is me wanting it to be 38...just for that little bit more vertical screen space that it offers. I have a regular 27 inch now, but it's starting to show it's age. Think it's time to go ultra wide. :)
As always your review are the bests I can find on TH-cam…for example: I watched some reviews of the same monitor and nobody mentioned the 8 bit limitation of the display port! Best tech channel for me!
Omg I have been waiting for this to be reviewed on TH-cam and I am so glad it was by one of my favorite reviewer's! Thank you so much for the detailed look
Linus was really impressed by this panel and so am I. I might buy it at some point Edit regarding Burn-In: According to Linus they offer a 3-year warranty that includes burn-ins. Which is a really important information
@@xmastarx Thats my point actually, famous influencer can claim anything but people like you would easily accept and defend that claim without question. I rest my case.
Thanks for the review. To make the response times test more meaningful, please show it ranked against other monitors like you did with the input lag. Everyone's test methodology and tooling is different for response time, so it really doesn't tell us anything unless it's shown relative to other monitors tested in the exact same way. Thanks!
Bear in mind that their response times test tool is still pretty new (4:09), so there's not whole lot of data to compare to. But good point when such data becomes more available 😊
Great review. I’ve watched other videos about this monitor but yours was the only video that touched on certain key points such as the difference in refresh rate between 8 bit and 10 bit color
Thanks for this! I'm pretty much sold on QD-OLED and waiting for Samsung & Sony to release theirs soon, so I've been chewing through QD-OLED content. Great review per usual!
Best review on this monitor I have seen. I'm glad you highlight the limitations of them picking DP 1.4 and HDMI 2.0. I have been saying the same thing. I will be waiting for the next generation of these monitors that work better with the new NVIDIA GPUs that will support DP 2.0 (which should come with higher supported refresh rates).
@@erikhendrickson59 probably for the sake of lowering the price. If they went with newer gSync Ultimate panel it might drive the price up a tad more and made it less affordable
Just to clarify, LG uses WRGB panels which at the time of writing have a LOT of issues with VRR flicker, crushed blacks and poor near black gamma performance when the refresh rate of the monitor is below the 120hz threshold. This creates horrible grey areas where black should be, but only affects the panel when the FPS of the game is fairly low. This QD-OLED panel should have none of these near black gamma issues, nor should it have VRR flicker. This makes it significantly better for gaming than the LG C series TVs, at least for PC gaming.
Yep, and I can confirm after ~1 week of playing around and testing this thing myself, it has no VRR gamma issues at all. One big thing to keep in mind, on top of the warranty, when choosing between this and an LG OLED.
Thank you for confirming that. Although I believe that the gamma flicker in VRR was fixed by the GSYNC module, which every other OLED lacked. I would love for it to not be the case, as QD-OLED TVs will not have GSYNC modules, at least for the foreseeable future
@@Oshadorin while that is not a documented function of the module, it's possible it did...though some confirmation would be great. I guess we may find out though, if the QD OLED TV's lack the module yet still have the issue.
@@Oshadorin I was under the impression that the Near black gamma issues were a limitation of the WRGB panel that LG uses, thats what Vincent at HDTV-test surmises anyway. A gsync module should not be required to fix issues with VRR, which is an entirely separate standard to Gsync anyway.
Wish this had come out before i bought my AW3821DW last yr. I mean, i can't walk away from 38" now, but man the contrast and colors from OLED are tempting.
If you're planning to buy this monitor, make sure you have the latest firmware since it's not user updatable. I have two (one on v3 and one on v5), the v3 firmware has a bunch of issues which is pretty annoying. You can still send it back to the manufacturer if you're fine waiting a few weeks for an update / shipping risk.
I just bought this used for 3months monitor for $500 it's absolutely amazing and I had a LG 27inch OLED but man this is so great. Also, fantastic review I pretty much agree with everything here.
Great review! This looks like an excellent monitor and the G-Sync model seems to mitigate LG OLED’s greatest weakness. (Raised blacks, VRR flicker/gamma shifting) If I didn’t already own a LG CX I’d definitely consider purchasing this Alienware display.
At last, a genuine OLED gaming monitor! This monitor is suposed to be released in UK on 22nd March, so I've decided that when it is I'm going to buy one for myself. I will be running this panel on a 3080Ti which hopefuly will provide more than enough juice to run all current gaming titles on Ultra, of course, with a QD Oled the first game to try has got to be Cyberpunk with maximum ray tracing enabled! As always, another great review from you, big thanks! :-)
Great video as always but at 9:38 there is a wrong statement, the panel of G9 is not manufactured by Samsung Display. Indeed, Samsung Display has stopped the LCD production in 2020 and the G9 (manufactured by Samsung Electronics and not Samsung Display) has a display manufactured by Innolux. I completely agree with you about the shame of the G9 Monitor (I had returned 3), but it is mandatory be able to understand when an issue is due to the Monitor (e.g., firmware etc) instead of the panel itself. From this point of view Samsung (as Samsung Display) has a huge know-how on the both R&D and fabrication of display especially regarding the OLED panel, therefore its AMOLED display represent the state of the art of the true OLED not OLED with LCD (LG) and its QD-OLED. Furthermore the efficiency is NOT releted to the power wall efficency but to the Luminance vs Current efficiency of the single OLED that is a completly different story. Therefore, I will buy the Alienware Monitor and not the coming QD-OLED Samsung G8 monitor, that for now represent the best of the display and monitor manufacturing (despite some minor issue).
it's nice to see technology moving forward, I've been using older AW3418DW for almost 5 years by now, 34" 3440x1440 is just perfect and is an end-game for reasonably big desk setup, higher refresh rates are nice, but with new games being very demanding, and old games (like Skyrim) not supporting either ultrawide aspect ratio or high refresh rates >60Hz, there's no hurry investing into such good display which still has so many compromises
I really want a 38" 1600p ultrawide QD-OLED or a 40" 4k QD-OLED. It's so cool, but I use my monitor more for work (I know that increases risk of burn in, I'm fine being an early adopter) than for gaming and I really want more workspace to justify replacing my Dell 34" 1440p ultrawide.
@@TechTesters Would be perfect. I don't console game on my PC monitor, so that size would be pretty ideal. 40" 4k would work, but it's just not as nice for PC gaming and work.
@@davepianist84 I personally wouldn't expect more than a 50% difference (especially if you look at LG and Alienware's other 34 1440 and 38 1600 monitors), so we'd be looking at around $1800 to $2000. That puts it into Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 territory but presumably without all of the problems and not super-ultrawide. Maybe we'd get lucky and they'd price it more agressively. Many industry people were expecting this monitor to be a good bit higher than $1300. They haven't announced a 38 1600 version, but maybe Samsung will decide to cut some out of their mother glass intended for 40 inch 4k panels next year. For instance, if they can get 8 40" 4k panels out of one mother glass, they can instead get 4 40" panels and 5 38 inch 1600p panels or 10 38" 1600p panels. (I don't know their actual motherglass size). Quick sketch of what that looks like: imgur.com/a/0r7LGQw 40" 4K on the left and 38 inch 1600 p on the right. 2160p at 19.6 inches tall is around 1600p (plus a bit extra) if they cut them to a little less than 15 inches tall (38 diagonally).
@@melmagallon6233 yeah I dont use HDMI but the DP is an issue. Means you cannot have native res + native hz with its 10bit HDR. Why have 10bit HDR capability but not have the ports to properly support products specs.
@@liquidsunshine697 I think she mis-spoke actually and the monitor is displayport 1.4a, even though that's not that much better. This is actually the highest end displayport connection you can get today. I agree the monitor branding is a bit mis-leading. It really should be marketed as a 144hz display that can be overclocked to 175hz. That's pretty standard fare for high end ultrawides at this resolution. I have an LG with those exact specs.
@@melmagallon6233 Eh, it's not an overclock though, it's a native display mode. More of an alternative for those that are fine with chroma subsampling or no HDR for whatever game they happen to be playing. Better to have than not imo, though I myself will be sticking to 144 in all but a few esports games.
Prob the best review I’ve seen for this monitor. I’m impressed and subbed. Now, I really wanna get this monitor for the OLED, but I really like the size of the 38’ non OLED Alienware version. I’m in the mood to replace my Samsung G77 and having a hard time deciding as they r both the same price. But I feel 34’ is too thin.. ugh. Just like you said, wish they made a 38’ OLED version NOW lol
I don't know of a single monitor that has speakers that aren't awful. I personally think all monitors should stop having them for a cheaper cost. No one actually uses them, lets be honest.
As much as I would love this for productivity and gaming here and there, the possibility of burn just makes it too hard for me. I personally need that peace of mind/don't want to constantly think about it.
Thats fair, but did you see the guy who tried to burn-in the nintendo switch? Even after 3600 hours of on-screen time with all tech disabled the screen still didnt burn-in. I think that burn-in is a old issue, only happening to people who dont care about their displays, abusing them. I own a LG C9 and after 2 years its still flawless!
I have the proart 32 in and the color is unreal. I have a 3090 but even then it struggles with some games and I love the color on this monitor. Might have to get it.
An online article in the German computer magazine ct reports a huge problem with Samsung's QD-OLED technology. Maybe you should take a look at the color fringing on high-contrast edges. They advise against buying monitors with this pixel technology.
I really enjoy your videos Miss I follow you a lot and your knowledge on PC Tech is extremely helpful, thank you so much, and by the way this monitor I am purchasing next month🙂
This panel is super nice, but there’s some things about the monitor as a whole that make it a deal breaker at $1300. If you had to dell premiere and got it for $1k, it’s definitely worth it.
I saw another review where they criticised that all high-contrast edges are displayed with colour fringing due to the pixel arrangement in triangles (like in text). Did you encounter this too?
PS: I can make out the colour fringing even in your video (when you enlarge the white browser window to show the dimming at 7:47), hard to overlook, tbh...
@@Indpendent01 The reason is the pixel arrangement: A pixel consists of three subpixels with the colors red, blue and green as usual, but they are arranged in a triangle instead of in a row. The red and blue subpixels are at the bottom, and only the green one is at the top center. The black spaces are quite large and every second row of subpixels can only display green, the other rows lack the green part. (source heise online)
I wish they'd make a standard 16:9 1440p oled monitor. I'm not really interested in ultrawide and werw not there with 4K gpu's yet to get proper high fps 4k gaming. Oh well. Nice review nonetheless 👌
just wanted to add that in pc mode on the LG C1, with HDR disabled, you wont get much (if any) ABL. It lowers the brightness , like this monitor, to prevent burn in. Ive found it to work very well when using alot of all-white screens. (like using two maximized word docs) Note: ASBL (a different thing) will still kick in unless you disable it in the service menu.
yeah the ABSL is driving me nuts on my C1 - I came here to see if this one has ABSL but cant figure that out yet. edit: With all lights off in my room, I turned down my OLED pixel brightness to 0 and ABSL still managed to dim it under 0!!!!!! reeeeeeee
So I am wondering how compatible it is with some media. For example, if I stream a marvel movie on Disney plus will the movie play in full screen with black bars or no black bars?
It'll have black bars on the sides if you're playing it from a streaming site, but there are browser extensions like UltraWideo that will adapt the content to the 21:9 aspect ratio.
@TechTesters Amazing review. I really appreciated the fact that you were kind enough to showcase the whole monitor out of the box on plain view. It helped me gauge how much volume this monitor would take on my desk. 🤙🏼 Subbed Question! If I'm interested in the 21:9 aspect ratio in PC gaming, would you recommend THIS or the Odyssey G9?
The price is amazing, although still expensive compared to OLED tvs.. but in monitor land the price is considered cheap for the brand new panel. Sadly the ancient connectivity ports are kept in place.. both LG and Alienware seem to use 1 DP and 2 old HDMI ports. Purely because of this I'll have to wait for a monitor with DP + HDMI 2.1 + USB-C with PD. This way I can connect my laptop and desktop perfectly. Such a shame that a wonderful panel is crippled by ancient ports, it's only marketed for gamers with the mere 1 DP port. Shame. Another giant disadvantage is the pixel layout for productivity, text looks bad on this. I'll wait for a second generation.
Its baffling to me that they spent this much time and effort making a monitor like this and being first to market, to have it be tripped up by not using HDMI 2.1 lol. The amount of money they saved doing this must be so miniscule, cant imagine it was worth it, especially when other options will release over the next couple years and probably have this one seem like a lesser product by comparison
@@PantsaBear what's the point of hdmi 2.1 when display port will get you higher refresh rate ? Hdmi 2.1 mainly makes sense if you are playing on a 16:9 screen. Hdmi 2.1 bandwidth will get u 120hz for next gen consoles which does not run well on 21:9 or ultrawide aspect ratio.
@@aquaman5464 Hdmi 2.1 got 48gbps bandwidth which is 50% more than dp. Ypu could push 8k at 12 bit with hdr in it at 60fps which is few times more than 4k 120. It wont get you higher fps because it got lower bandwidth.
Loving this panel soooo much 🥰🥰🥰🎉🎉🎉! Awesome review Nada 🥰👍! As an owner of the previous model AW 3420DW same specs with a high quality and excellent S-RGB/P3/Adobe RGB calibration and purchasing it about 2+ years ago on an awesome sale … I’m very satisfied with the port selection, resolution, viewing angles, build quality, G-Sync module and colour representation of my Alienware products … including my 360hz 1080p screen and would easily recommend their monitors to anyone! 🥰👍🎉🥳🤩
Since it can only do 10bit in 144hz mode I'd love to see it tested at that refresh rate too, mostly for response times but I'm curious what else 144hz refresh would affect.
FINALLY OLEDs on PC at high refresh. I'm emotional, but i'm olso disappointed to ports limits and the 1440p 34" seems too low for a "definitive" 21:9 gaming monitor.
There is slight text fringing but it is a nonissue if you're not seated very close to the monitor. I do office work and look at spreadsheets on my regularly and sit about three feet away, text looks good. Definitely use cleartype if you're on Windows.
Great video! I am trying to decide between this monitor and the LG C2. The display would be paired with a 4090. My PC is primarily for gaming, but I am a video editor and I do work from home on occasion. Which option do you think would be better? I agree, a 38" option would be great!
Hard to say! I use a 38” ultrawide for both gaming and editing and that works great. I find the 48” oled i have here too tall for comfort. On the other hand I think 3440x1440p is too little for editing constantly. So its a personal choice. Im personally waiting for a 38” 1600p version before swapping over to oled/qd-oled.
The one thing that kills it for me is that customers are not allowed to upgrade the firmware and Dell will not send you another one unless you have a defective unit. So if you're going to buy one wait till the firmware has gone through several revisions. Otherwise wait for Samsung Odyssey G8 QD-OLED, which is what I may do.
What do you think about the idea to make short explanation videos for certain terms like ghosting, input lag or even QLED etc. where you explain the terms so that everyone understands them (with examples)?
The fact that the first gaming OLED monitor is ultrawide should really show game devs/publishers that it's a technology to be taken seriously. There's still so many games releasing without ultrawide support (or worse, in Vert-), and there's still companies (Blizzard) that not only removed ultrawide support from their games (Blizzard), but consider it 'cheating' (Blizzard). People just want to enjoy content at their monitors native aspect ratio/resolution, and games that don't support it are a quick uninstall/refund and major disappointment to anyone looking forward to playing them (also 60FPS capped games when you're used to HFR). As someone who's struggled with motion blur, IPS glow and backlight bleed ever since switching from a CRT around 2010 (yes, I used a CRT that long), OLED has been on my wishlist for a very, very long time. If this monitor comes to Amazon (return policy), I might order it immediately despite still not having a GPU capable of running my current 3440x1440 monitor at its 144Hz refresh rate in any modern game. Having the ability to play dark games again without any side effects is a dream needing to come true. That HDR brightness adjusting thing is gonna annoy the hell out of me though. Hopefully future OLED HDR monitors will minimize or fully negate that problem. Waiting sucks, but holding off until Lovelace's release is probably the smarter option.
To be fair, these are apparently ultrawides because that was the most effective/efficient way to cut the panels from the mother glass. Might help the 21:9 support cause though.
@@drunkhusband6257 The most popular and highest rated game of 2022 so far has no ultrawide support (and is caped at 60fps for that matter). That should speak volumes.
@@AceStrife It speaks volumes of people jumping on a popularity bandwagon and people playing on consoles. Halo Infinite was super popular on launch and now it's almost dead. Popularity doesn't make a good game sorry, hell fortnite is one of the most popular games for shits sake
It is already down in price here in the Uk BUT there's a newer model out without g-sync ultimate and it's all black wich looks better imo however the price this is going for if you can find any in stock is fairly good given how good the specs are.
Wonder how burn in will factor for work tasks. I like to have one monitor to rule them all, gaming and work. I might go for the Alienware 38 inch IPS panel, 3840x1600 is a nice little bump.
Just got the "F" version of this panel yesterday, had to do some research because HDR was not available for anything I tried. however was able to get it working and this panel is beautiful 😍 just waiting for the proper firmware update so you don't gotta do the weird workaround I'd say main "downgrade" from my 27" odyssey G7 is the lower refresh rate, but overall it's soooo much better that I'm perfectly fine with that
I'm happy to see a monitor severely lacking drawbacks. Hopefully in a year or two the yields will be better and we can get some nice cheap 16x9 or 16x10 panels without the curves.
If you have seen a monitor with curves it's not that serious lol 1800r is the perfect curve and it's literally like a flat panel without breaking your neck
@@redclaw72666 I think it's more the case of using multiple monitors together. Having a curved display impacts that quite a lot, and stacking ultrawides together is not really feasible for most people.
Surprisingly good review. Are you a gamer or is this a whole studio team? Takes actual knowledge of the business to simultaneously understand that this is both the best money can buy right now but also not quite the best it can be yet. Smart pointing out the port limitations and that it is not really suitable for console too
Hey guys, hope you like the video! If you have any questions, or if there is something else you'd like to know about this monitor, please ask! 😊
(Also, I wrote AD3423DW instead of AW3423DW at 0:10 ... monitor names are tiresome 😅)
Thanks for this one, I am waiting for it here in Europe, is it already available to purchase or do we have to wait longer?
What are your thoughts on using this for working from home with a lot of Excel and Word type of work loads? Is it good for text and fine details? Thank you, great review.
Can I get a comparison of these two things: In Division 2 on my Acer Predator X27 Pbmiphzx, when you're in a sewer and come out, the HDR going from dark to the daylight outside is literally eye blinding? It's not as pronounced on my C1, but I would still love to see/know how that reacts.
Can we get some videos on pc speaker and break them down by price. Also is they are good for music
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Thanks for the review! Did you find that the colors were an upgrade over the traditional lg oled?
Finally, an actual review of the monitor. Much appreciated! The fact that we are finally getting monitors with this image fidelity/performance is the most exciting. IMO monitors are 20 years behind considering all the advancements in technology elsewhere but this feels like the floodgates will finally open
Not sure if you are being hyperbolic on purpose but 20 years is a really long time in technology...we are definitely not that far behind for monitors
@@samgoff5289 I'm exaggerating 😂 To each his own but the last good panels we had IMO were CRT's.
Well now were at number 1 depending on the type of content u consume
Idk, some monitors are so potent that even the most powerful of GPUs can't run games at what the monitor is capable of
@@Astral_Incarnate true for resolution and framerate. But OP isn’t talking about these two factors.
I'm glad OSRTT is helpful for you! I've got some more bug fixes and tweaks on the way which will hopefully make it easier and more reliable!
There is a sRGB (and P3) option in creator mode, but only if you use it in SDR. Great review though.
Edit: wanted to mention the pixel refresher is similar to what LG OLED TV's run when they are turned off, the warning on this is just notifying the user of the process, it will still do it automatically when the panel goes into standby (that's what's happening when the green light flashes). Even if you push the 'do not notify me again' button when it prompts (which you should imo, the popup doesn't serve any purpose other than to warn you that it needs to be powered at all times), it still runs its pixel refreshing when it goes into standby mode if it's been on for 4+ hours, which can be interrupted if need be as well.
Once you click the do not notify button however, it becomes a completely seamless, background experience, like any other monitor (just as long as you leave it plugged in of course).
Also, on the topic of burn in, the most important thing I think most should keep in mind with this new panel tech is not so much the changes to its construction (though those are notable), but the 3 year standard warranty that specifically covers burn in. Even LG does not have the confidence after all these years to specifically mention such a thing in their warranties, and there are not many success stories from users that have gotten burn in on LG sets as far as getting a free replacement go. That alone made this the easy choice vs LG OLED's for monitor use for me, and I will personally be making the most of this panel due to the warranty alone.
It doesn't need to have pixel refresher. It is scientifically impossible for QD-OLED to get burn in, QD layer prevents it completely. Nah, it won't if you disable it. It has nothing to do with notification, you can disable it. lol.
Yeah, who the hell unplug monitor nowadays, anyway? xd
What? LG provides 2 years warranty that includes burn in already. More so 5 years on the G1 for having Evo Panel. lmao. What with users that have gotten burn in on LG sets as far as getting a free replacement go? Ofc, it is. It has a frigging 0.5 ms boi. xd
@@YavNe quantum dot color filter shouldn't have anything to do with oleds burning in or not. Oleds burn in due to them being organic. The colors will fade over time. What makes QD-OLED better in this case is that all of the OLEDs are blue, so they are more likely to wear down at an even rate, which makes burn-in less likely/noticeable (even though the image overall will get slightly dimmer).
In theory, QD-OLEDs should require less energy to reach the same brightness levels as traditional WRGB OLEDs due to the QD color filter absorbing very little light from the OLEDs, unlike the traditional color filter on a WRGB display.
Unfortunately, blue OLEDs are the highest energy, thus they wear down much quicker than green or red OLEDs, so I'm sure there are drawbacks.
Samsung's QNED, or quantum nanorod LEDs, technology is inorganic, and will eventually replace the blue OLED backplane of the QD-OLED display. That's the end goal of this tech, but that's still likely years away.
@@YavNe Literally everything you just said is wrong. Congrats.
@@YavNe We could only dream. But no... Markus covered quite nicely.
@@YavNe someone dumb as hell LMAO let alone hella misinformed
Another great review. It's nice seeing videos that go into details with technical specs and compare them to the competition instead of only relying on strictly subjective opinions like some of the bigger channels get away with. It'll be interesting to see where QD OLED goes from here; I'd personally love a 32" 16:9 display.
Keep up the excellent work.
Yep I think 38" 3440x1600 ultrawide or 32" 4k (curved) would be more optimal and with at least typeC and more modern ports. Happy to see monitor tech progressing to some degree though.
Thats why i love this channel. All the "things you SHOULD know" which many other channels skip over. Seems pretty limited on the I/O so great to know the specs and clearly explained limitations, not just thrown out how many of each it has. Another great video, thanks Nada.
Once you go ultrawide it's difficult to go back. I suppose the same is also true for OLED, actual great contrast is no-go to go back from.
I dumped ultrawide for OLED. This is the best of both worlds!
i hate ultrawide for gaming, necessary information on the sides of the UI too far away, kept having to turn my head instead of it being in my peripherals
@@whiskizyo2067 The UI doesn't have to be on the sides of the screen.
@@HeloisGevit so randomly centered around the middle of the screen?
@@whiskizyo2067 Nothing random about it, you keep the same 16:9 parameters if that's what you prefer. Lots of games support this, others have mods that enable it.
Finally a reviewer that asked for a 38" model. Thank you; i love ultrawides but i really don't want to go to super ultrawide for a lot of reasons including many games just not being geared towards that resolution yet. The 38" Ultrawides are an almost perfect in between thanks to that bump in vertical res and the actual height increase. Pure perfection would be when LG finally decides to give us a gaming variant of one of those new 40" Curved 4K ultrawides; but we don't really have proper GPUs for those just yet so that makes sense.
Yea, 1440p is the only reason I personally won't buy this, I just need more workspace. (And I bought a great monitor not too long ago)
Right. For programming/CAD, I'd rather prefer a curved 38" 1600p version (perfect size and pixel pitch, from physiologic pov), or a curved 40" 2160p (scaled).
34 inch is like the ultrawide version of a 27 inch monitor while 38 inch is the ultrawide version of a 32 inch monitor. The current super ultrawides are nice but I feel like they could have some more height of a 32 inch monitor, but then you'd face the same issue again, so yeah I think regular ultrawides are still awesome.
@@zorqis dude 38" is TV territory
Buy the C1 42" if you want 16:9 and more height. Also play scaled in window mode / borderless.
The fact that an Alienware product with just released display tech doesn't cost an ungodly amount of money is amazing.
Now that Samsung has entered the Oled display/tv game, we should hopefully see both regular Oled and Qdoled prices go down to reasonable levels
Sub $1000 maybe by next year?
Probably it will cost less than $1000 but Alienware (like other OLED panels) is truely better than the best LCD in ultrawide HDR dark scenes. In bright scenes it's still worse (there is a video with that comparison) even compared to Samsung Odyssey G7.
Samsung literally makes the panel for the Alienware.......
If you like dark/horror games, you can wait a drop in price for QD-OLED. If you like different genres of games, mini led is a better choice, HDR will be much brighter and vivid.
@@socialreport999 HDR looks like ass anyways, leave it off.......always.
@@drunkhusband6257 Haven't you seen HDR in a proper HDR TV or display? Obviously you tried HDR by using a bad display and yes, on 8 bit edge led panel HDR can be worse than SDR. Right now only OLED/QD-OLED (mostly dark scenes: True Black HDR400/500 standard, the true HDR1000 is still not possible on such a technology) and mini led panels (at least 500 or better 1000 local dimming zones for bright scenes and relatively dark ones: HDR 1000/1400 standard) can demonatrate a true HDR. Watch these technologies to judge. The true HDR TVs and displays are not cheap, like more a premium segment of the market.
The true HDR is much better than SDR.
I've watched several reviews of this monitor. Your review is just perfect, covers everything I'm interested in.
did you end buying it?
I own this monitor and am happy to answer any questions to the best of my ability. If you're going to use it for mostly content consumption and gaming, it's a must buy. I also do office work on mine and shut the monitor off when not in use as well as a screensaver. I've had it for nearly two months and have not experienced burn in either.
Did you have any issues with scratches on your screen from the shipping process? Reddit has a bunch of posts of the bubble wrap scratching the screen, tho Dell supposedly has fixed this issue. I have ordered one and it's coming at the end of August. Honestly, my only reservation is me wanting it to be 38...just for that little bit more vertical screen space that it offers.
I have a regular 27 inch now, but it's starting to show it's age. Think it's time to go ultra wide. :)
@@xmastarx How is the monitor working?
Really appreciate the upfront honesty on the connection inputs. Everyone fawns over this so its easy to miss a huge factor like that. Thanks!
Nice you guys are one of the first to do a proper long review on this next-gen monitor.
As always your review are the bests I can find on TH-cam…for example: I watched some reviews of the same monitor and nobody mentioned the 8 bit limitation of the display port! Best tech channel for me!
Omg I have been waiting for this to be reviewed on TH-cam and I am so glad it was by one of my favorite reviewer's! Thank you so much for the detailed look
Linus was really impressed by this panel and so am I. I might buy it at some point
Edit regarding Burn-In: According to Linus they offer a 3-year warranty that includes burn-ins. Which is a really important information
Not just Lionel, anybody would be impressed if the monitor was offered to them for FREE.
At least in Japan, the 3 Year Warranty is an extra ~$60. Still, that's a small price to pay if you are worried.
@@RiemsAI I don't think he got his free. Also, I think he can afford thousands of these, so I guess your point remains. :)
@@xmastarx Thats my point actually, famous influencer can claim anything but people like you would easily accept and defend that claim without question.
I rest my case.
@@RiemsAI they legally have you tell you if it's sponsored, it wasn't sponsored.
I'm glad I snagged it for 1500$AUD. I can't wait for it come in May - I have never used OLEDS before so I'm very excited. Thanks for great review.
isn't it already out? aren't people ordering it in the US? What's taking the rest of the world so long?
@@Phoenix_1991 the nature of global logistics, i wouldn't worry about it
@@MyndZero dell was offering business vouchers/coupons - shaved a cool 850$ off :)
Thank you Nada, another great review! Very thorough without going over the top.
Thanks for the review. To make the response times test more meaningful, please show it ranked against other monitors like you did with the input lag. Everyone's test methodology and tooling is different for response time, so it really doesn't tell us anything unless it's shown relative to other monitors tested in the exact same way. Thanks!
Bear in mind that their response times test tool is still pretty new (4:09), so there's not whole lot of data to compare to. But good point when such data becomes more available 😊
@@ShardCollector yeah I guess it's not going to help us until they go and test some well-known monitors as a benchmark
This will 100% happen as soon as I have a few nice ones to fill a graph with!
@@TechTesters great to hear! I'll subscribe because there's not enough reviewers out there who do serious response time testing
Great review. I’ve watched other videos about this monitor but yours was the only video that touched on certain key points such as the difference in refresh rate between 8 bit and 10 bit color
After such a long time... returning to this channel... still proves that the narrative and facts are quite complete. Thanks for a good review
Thanks for this! I'm pretty much sold on QD-OLED and waiting for Samsung & Sony to release theirs soon, so I've been chewing through QD-OLED content. Great review per usual!
Best review on this monitor I have seen. I'm glad you highlight the limitations of them picking DP 1.4 and HDMI 2.0. I have been saying the same thing. I will be waiting for the next generation of these monitors that work better with the new NVIDIA GPUs that will support DP 2.0 (which should come with higher supported refresh rates).
What a weird choice for AlienWare to have made....
@@erikhendrickson59 probably for the sake of lowering the price. If they went with newer gSync Ultimate panel it might drive the price up a tad more and made it less affordable
Just to clarify, LG uses WRGB panels which at the time of writing have a LOT of issues with VRR flicker, crushed blacks and poor near black gamma performance when the refresh rate of the monitor is below the 120hz threshold. This creates horrible grey areas where black should be, but only affects the panel when the FPS of the game is fairly low.
This QD-OLED panel should have none of these near black gamma issues, nor should it have VRR flicker. This makes it significantly better for gaming than the LG C series TVs, at least for PC gaming.
Yep, and I can confirm after ~1 week of playing around and testing this thing myself, it has no VRR gamma issues at all. One big thing to keep in mind, on top of the warranty, when choosing between this and an LG OLED.
Thank you for confirming that. Although I believe that the gamma flicker in VRR was fixed by the GSYNC module, which every other OLED lacked. I would love for it to not be the case, as QD-OLED TVs will not have GSYNC modules, at least for the foreseeable future
@@Oshadorin while that is not a documented function of the module, it's possible it did...though some confirmation would be great.
I guess we may find out though, if the QD OLED TV's lack the module yet still have the issue.
@@soulshot96 Yeah, as soon as the Sony A95K releases, we'll know for sure.
@@Oshadorin I was under the impression that the Near black gamma issues were a limitation of the WRGB panel that LG uses, thats what Vincent at HDTV-test surmises anyway.
A gsync module should not be required to fix issues with VRR, which is an entirely separate standard to Gsync anyway.
You are the only one that has a deep COLOR explanation. Thank you very much!
Yay! for Response time testing! Thanks for that.
I just purchased the Alienware AW3821DW and I love it. My next monitor will definitely be OLED in a few years.
Wish this had come out before i bought my AW3821DW last yr. I mean, i can't walk away from 38" now, but man the contrast and colors from OLED are tempting.
Yes. 38” OLED 144hz+ and wuhd(2160) would be a dream 🙌🏻
If you're planning to buy this monitor, make sure you have the latest firmware since it's not user updatable. I have two (one on v3 and one on v5), the v3 firmware has a bunch of issues which is pretty annoying. You can still send it back to the manufacturer if you're fine waiting a few weeks for an update / shipping risk.
I just bought this used for 3months monitor for $500 it's absolutely amazing and I had a LG 27inch OLED but man this is so great. Also, fantastic review I pretty much agree with everything here.
Great review! This looks like an excellent monitor and the G-Sync model seems to mitigate LG OLED’s greatest weakness. (Raised blacks, VRR flicker/gamma shifting)
If I didn’t already own a LG CX I’d definitely consider purchasing this Alienware display.
Ultra wide aspect is it’s biggest negative.
@@meteor1522 no it doesn't lol, you don't own one your opinion is revoked
At last, a genuine OLED gaming monitor!
This monitor is suposed to be released in UK on 22nd March, so I've decided that when it is I'm going to buy one for myself.
I will be running this panel on a 3080Ti which hopefuly will provide more than enough juice to run all current gaming titles on Ultra, of course, with a QD Oled the first game to try has got to be Cyberpunk with maximum ray tracing enabled!
As always, another great review from you, big thanks! :-)
First review I've ever seen completely - very informative.
Great video as always but at 9:38 there is a wrong statement, the panel of G9 is not manufactured by Samsung Display. Indeed, Samsung Display has stopped the LCD production in 2020 and the G9 (manufactured by Samsung Electronics and not Samsung Display) has a display manufactured by Innolux.
I completely agree with you about the shame of the G9 Monitor (I had returned 3), but it is mandatory be able to understand when an issue is due to the Monitor (e.g., firmware etc) instead of the panel itself. From this point of view Samsung (as Samsung Display) has a huge know-how on the both R&D and fabrication of display especially regarding the OLED panel, therefore its AMOLED display represent the state of the art of the true OLED not OLED with LCD (LG) and its QD-OLED.
Furthermore the efficiency is NOT releted to the power wall efficency but to the Luminance vs Current efficiency of the single OLED that is a completly different story.
Therefore, I will buy the Alienware Monitor and not the coming QD-OLED Samsung G8 monitor, that for now represent the best of the display and monitor manufacturing (despite some minor issue).
Most comprehensive review by far for this monitor thank you
it's nice to see technology moving forward,
I've been using older AW3418DW for almost 5 years by now, 34" 3440x1440 is just perfect and is an end-game for reasonably big desk setup,
higher refresh rates are nice, but with new games being very demanding, and old games (like Skyrim) not supporting either ultrawide aspect ratio or high refresh rates >60Hz, there's no hurry investing into such good display which still has so many compromises
Just ordered this. Won't get it till June 20th, can't wait!
that wallpaper is beautiful, where can i find it ?
Thanks again Nada for this great review! I bought mine today since I was tired of waiting for the 38" model. :)
Hope you enjoy it!
I really want a 38" 1600p ultrawide QD-OLED or a 40" 4k QD-OLED. It's so cool, but I use my monitor more for work (I know that increases risk of burn in, I'm fine being an early adopter) than for gaming and I really want more workspace to justify replacing my Dell 34" 1440p ultrawide.
If they launch a 38" 1600p ultrawide I'm buying it right away. I agree, this performs really well, but I personally still want some more pixels.
You know how much they'd ask for that do you? I'd say $2000+ maybe even $2500
@@TechTesters Would be perfect. I don't console game on my PC monitor, so that size would be pretty ideal. 40" 4k would work, but it's just not as nice for PC gaming and work.
@@davepianist84 sounds about right considering the LCD versions are about $1800+ range
@@davepianist84 I personally wouldn't expect more than a 50% difference (especially if you look at LG and Alienware's other 34 1440 and 38 1600 monitors), so we'd be looking at around $1800 to $2000. That puts it into Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 territory but presumably without all of the problems and not super-ultrawide. Maybe we'd get lucky and they'd price it more agressively. Many industry people were expecting this monitor to be a good bit higher than $1300.
They haven't announced a 38 1600 version, but maybe Samsung will decide to cut some out of their mother glass intended for 40 inch 4k panels next year. For instance, if they can get 8 40" 4k panels out of one mother glass, they can instead get 4 40" panels and 5 38 inch 1600p panels or 10 38" 1600p panels. (I don't know their actual motherglass size). Quick sketch of what that looks like: imgur.com/a/0r7LGQw 40" 4K on the left and 38 inch 1600 p on the right. 2160p at 19.6 inches tall is around 1600p (plus a bit extra) if they cut them to a little less than 15 inches tall (38 diagonally).
Fantastic review! Thanks a bunch. Now if only I could get one. Delivery dates in Canada are estimated to be in July.
wow how can they not have the right versions of HDMI and DPI! You're amazing for pointing this out. Thats so infuriating they flubbed on that.
As far as HDMI, it doesn't matter. The consoles don't support ultrawide anyway. For a PC, people will use the displayport.
@@melmagallon6233 yeah I dont use HDMI but the DP is an issue. Means you cannot have native res + native hz with its 10bit HDR. Why have 10bit HDR capability but not have the ports to properly support products specs.
@@liquidsunshine697 so what is the maximum limits of DP 1.4?
@@liquidsunshine697 I think she mis-spoke actually and the monitor is displayport 1.4a, even though that's not that much better. This is actually the highest end displayport connection you can get today. I agree the monitor branding is a bit mis-leading. It really should be marketed as a 144hz display that can be overclocked to 175hz. That's pretty standard fare for high end ultrawides at this resolution. I have an LG with those exact specs.
@@melmagallon6233 Eh, it's not an overclock though, it's a native display mode. More of an alternative for those that are fine with chroma subsampling or no HDR for whatever game they happen to be playing.
Better to have than not imo, though I myself will be sticking to 144 in all but a few esports games.
Prob the best review I’ve seen for this monitor. I’m impressed and subbed. Now, I really wanna get this monitor for the OLED, but I really like the size of the 38’ non OLED Alienware version. I’m in the mood to replace my Samsung G77 and having a hard time deciding as they r both the same price. But I feel 34’ is too thin.. ugh. Just like you said, wish they made a 38’ OLED version NOW lol
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Great Review. I have you on my list of must watch monitor reviews before I buy a new display.
I've heard that high-contrast edges should be quite colorful. Didn't you have this problem?
Cool. I check in once in a while with your monitor reviews and this one seems like a step up :) That's nice to see.
My favorite youtuber, with one of the most exiting products of 2022 to me. great combination
I don't know of a single monitor that has speakers that aren't awful. I personally think all monitors should stop having them for a cheaper cost. No one actually uses them, lets be honest.
i used mine for about 2 years it’s not bad but i’ll live
As much as I would love this for productivity and gaming here and there, the possibility of burn just makes it too hard for me.
I personally need that peace of mind/don't want to constantly think about it.
Thats fair, but did you see the guy who tried to burn-in the nintendo switch?
Even after 3600 hours of on-screen time with all tech disabled the screen still didnt burn-in.
I think that burn-in is a old issue, only happening to people who dont care about their displays, abusing them.
I own a LG C9 and after 2 years its still flawless!
The monitor in this video is NOT using an older G-sync module. it is using the CURRENT module which does not yet support hdmi 2.1.
I have the proart 32 in and the color is unreal. I have a 3090 but even then it struggles with some games and I love the color on this monitor. Might have to get it.
going from lcd to oled is always a big upgrade
Thank you for all the info you gave us!
An online article in the German computer magazine ct reports a huge problem with Samsung's QD-OLED technology. Maybe you should take a look at the color fringing on high-contrast edges. They advise against buying monitors with this pixel technology.
You know this would be excellent for coding and gaming, which is what i want in a monitor. I've wanted an OLED monitor for ages and it's finally here!
Amazing review! Thank you 🙏 I need that wallpaper by the way!!!
I really enjoy your videos Miss I follow you a lot and your knowledge on PC Tech is extremely helpful, thank you so much, and by the way this monitor I am purchasing next month🙂
Thank you! And enjoy it, it really is a lovely monitor.
Somebody needs to make an OLED monitor which does the oled anti-burn-in pixel refreshing _as_ the screensaver when you're inactive.
This panel is super nice, but there’s some things about the monitor as a whole that make it a deal breaker at $1300. If you had to dell premiere and got it for $1k, it’s definitely worth it.
I saw another review where they criticised that all high-contrast edges are displayed with colour fringing due to the pixel arrangement in triangles (like in text). Did you encounter this too?
PS: I can make out the colour fringing even in your video (when you enlarge the white browser window to show the dimming at 7:47), hard to overlook, tbh...
@@korbensc7218 i dont understand this issue, do you have a link to explain it? I use my C1 to read text a lot so it could be a dealbreaker for me
@@Indpendent01 The reason is the pixel arrangement: A pixel consists of three subpixels with the colors red, blue and green as usual, but they are arranged in a triangle instead of in a row. The red and blue subpixels are at the bottom, and only the green one is at the top center. The black spaces are quite large and every second row of subpixels can only display green, the other rows lack the green part. (source heise online)
I'm excited to see this review blow up! 😁
I wish they'd make a standard 16:9 1440p oled monitor. I'm not really interested in ultrawide and werw not there with 4K gpu's yet to get proper high fps 4k gaming.
Oh well.
Nice review nonetheless 👌
Copped and played Diablo 4 all weekend it’s a beauty
just wanted to add that in pc mode on the LG C1, with HDR disabled, you wont get much (if any) ABL. It lowers the brightness , like this monitor, to prevent burn in. Ive found it to work very well when using alot of all-white screens. (like using two maximized word docs) Note: ASBL (a different thing) will still kick in unless you disable it in the service menu.
yeah the ABSL is driving me nuts on my C1 - I came here to see if this one has ABSL but cant figure that out yet.
edit: With all lights off in my room, I turned down my OLED pixel brightness to 0 and ABSL still managed to dim it under 0!!!!!! reeeeeeee
@@Indpendent01 it does. Most oleds will have it to try to reduce burn in risk.
@@Indpendent01 I haven't noticed any ASBL on my AW3423DW, and I've been using it for work and play for almost 2 weeks now.
@@soulshot96 sweet, thanks! does it have any PiP options?
@@Indpendent01 Nope.
So I am wondering how compatible it is with some media. For example, if I stream a marvel movie on Disney plus will the movie play in full screen with black bars or no black bars?
It'll have black bars on the sides if you're playing it from a streaming site, but there are browser extensions like UltraWideo that will adapt the content to the 21:9 aspect ratio.
@@pk.002 thank you much.
You are the best, thanks for a very good review 🙏🏻
@TechTesters Amazing review. I really appreciated the fact that you were kind enough to showcase the whole monitor out of the box on plain view. It helped me gauge how much volume this monitor would take on my desk. 🤙🏼
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Question!
If I'm interested in the 21:9 aspect ratio in PC gaming, would you recommend THIS or the Odyssey G9?
The price is amazing, although still expensive compared to OLED tvs.. but in monitor land the price is considered cheap for the brand new panel.
Sadly the ancient connectivity ports are kept in place.. both LG and Alienware seem to use 1 DP and 2 old HDMI ports.
Purely because of this I'll have to wait for a monitor with DP + HDMI 2.1 + USB-C with PD. This way I can connect my laptop and desktop perfectly.
Such a shame that a wonderful panel is crippled by ancient ports, it's only marketed for gamers with the mere 1 DP port. Shame.
Another giant disadvantage is the pixel layout for productivity, text looks bad on this. I'll wait for a second generation.
Its baffling to me that they spent this much time and effort making a monitor like this and being first to market, to have it be tripped up by not using HDMI 2.1 lol. The amount of money they saved doing this must be so miniscule, cant imagine it was worth it, especially when other options will release over the next couple years and probably have this one seem like a lesser product by comparison
@@PantsaBear what's the point of hdmi 2.1 when display port will get you higher refresh rate ? Hdmi 2.1 mainly makes sense if you are playing on a 16:9 screen. Hdmi 2.1 bandwidth will get u 120hz for next gen consoles which does not run well on 21:9 or ultrawide aspect ratio.
@@aquaman5464 Hdmi 2.1 got 48gbps bandwidth which is 50% more than dp. Ypu could push 8k at 12 bit with hdr in it at 60fps which is few times more than 4k 120. It wont get you higher fps because it got lower bandwidth.
@@wadimek116 yes you are correct!! But this monitor is only 1440p why do we need hdmi 2.1 here ?
@@aquaman5464 Why not. We could push the 175hz with hdr then. With dp we already hit limitations
Loving this panel soooo much 🥰🥰🥰🎉🎉🎉! Awesome review Nada 🥰👍! As an owner of the previous model AW 3420DW same specs with a high quality and excellent S-RGB/P3/Adobe RGB calibration and purchasing it about 2+ years ago on an awesome sale … I’m very satisfied with the port selection, resolution, viewing angles, build quality, G-Sync module and colour representation of my Alienware products … including my 360hz 1080p screen and would easily recommend their monitors to anyone! 🥰👍🎉🥳🤩
I bought m32u after i watched your review on it. Very good monitor worth every pennies.
To my knowledge, the Neo G9 does not use a Samsung LCD panel, but, if I remember right, a China Star Optoelectronics panel.
They gave me one, had no idea what it was until I watched and liked this video Techtesters yes!!!!👍😅
Since it can only do 10bit in 144hz mode I'd love to see it tested at that refresh rate too, mostly for response times but I'm curious what else 144hz refresh would affect.
Pretty sure it can do 10bit in regular 60Hz, etc., as well.
@@shiruba2004 144hz and under*
Can I get this in a non curved version.
FINALLY OLEDs on PC at high refresh. I'm emotional, but i'm olso disappointed to ports limits and the 1440p 34" seems too low for a "definitive" 21:9 gaming monitor.
How is the text clarity? I am interested to buy it for programming and gaming.
Same here
There is slight text fringing but it is a nonissue if you're not seated very close to the monitor. I do office work and look at spreadsheets on my regularly and sit about three feet away, text looks good. Definitely use cleartype if you're on Windows.
Great video! I am trying to decide between this monitor and the LG C2. The display would be paired with a 4090. My PC is primarily for gaming, but I am a video editor and I do work from home on occasion. Which option do you think would be better? I agree, a 38" option would be great!
Hard to say! I use a 38” ultrawide for both gaming and editing and that works great. I find the 48” oled i have here too tall for comfort.
On the other hand I think 3440x1440p is too little for editing constantly.
So its a personal choice. Im personally waiting for a 38” 1600p version before swapping over to oled/qd-oled.
The one thing that kills it for me is that customers are not allowed to upgrade the firmware and Dell will not send you another one unless you have a defective unit. So if you're going to buy one wait till the firmware has gone through several revisions. Otherwise wait for Samsung Odyssey G8 QD-OLED, which is what I may do.
What do you think about the idea to make short explanation videos for certain terms like ghosting, input lag or even QLED etc. where you explain the terms so that everyone understands them (with examples)?
Great job as always! :)
Hey, loving your videos!... can you please review the Dell G3223Q?
Thanks a lot for the review! Could you please check if it supports FreeSync? Some of nvidia's chips do support AMD cards and some do not...
Yeah, hopefully it supports freesync premium pro.
You do not need HDMI 2.1 on this type of monitor. Your PC will gladly use DP while any other console you have connected will run in 16:9.
Do you have the link for the background picture you were using on that monitor? It looks really nice and has tons of colors and contrast. Thanks!
I've just put a link in the follow-up video!
+1 for 38". I bought one of the LG 38" and there's no going back
27 flat 1440P is my sweet spot for monitor i hope they will release it in the future to replace my nano ips one
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The fact that the first gaming OLED monitor is ultrawide should really show game devs/publishers that it's a technology to be taken seriously.
There's still so many games releasing without ultrawide support (or worse, in Vert-), and there's still companies (Blizzard) that not only removed ultrawide support from their games (Blizzard), but consider it 'cheating' (Blizzard). People just want to enjoy content at their monitors native aspect ratio/resolution, and games that don't support it are a quick uninstall/refund and major disappointment to anyone looking forward to playing them (also 60FPS capped games when you're used to HFR).
As someone who's struggled with motion blur, IPS glow and backlight bleed ever since switching from a CRT around 2010 (yes, I used a CRT that long), OLED has been on my wishlist for a very, very long time. If this monitor comes to Amazon (return policy), I might order it immediately despite still not having a GPU capable of running my current 3440x1440 monitor at its 144Hz refresh rate in any modern game. Having the ability to play dark games again without any side effects is a dream needing to come true.
That HDR brightness adjusting thing is gonna annoy the hell out of me though. Hopefully future OLED HDR monitors will minimize or fully negate that problem. Waiting sucks, but holding off until Lovelace's release is probably the smarter option.
To be fair, these are apparently ultrawides because that was the most effective/efficient way to cut the panels from the mother glass.
Might help the 21:9 support cause though.
There are hardly any new games without ultrawide support
@@drunkhusband6257 The most popular and highest rated game of 2022 so far has no ultrawide support (and is caped at 60fps for that matter).
That should speak volumes.
@@AceStrife It speaks volumes of people jumping on a popularity bandwagon and people playing on consoles. Halo Infinite was super popular on launch and now it's almost dead. Popularity doesn't make a good game sorry, hell fortnite is one of the most popular games for shits sake
It is already down in price here in the Uk BUT there's a newer model out without g-sync ultimate and it's all black wich looks better imo however the price this is going for if you can find any in stock is fairly good given how good the specs are.
Thanks for the review. Think I'll get the 42 LG Oled which should be sub 1000 euros in a few months.
Wow this is a really good review!
Great video! I note your comment about waiting for a 3840x1600 model. How likely do you think it will be that we will get one?
Yes I would consider upgrading from my 38GN950 if Alienware makes a 38" model.
I'm waiting for a flat 4k QD-OLED, but I don't think there's anything in the pipeline as of yet. Oh well. :(
Wonder how burn in will factor for work tasks. I like to have one monitor to rule them all, gaming and work. I might go for the Alienware 38 inch IPS panel, 3840x1600 is a nice little bump.
Just got the "F" version of this panel yesterday, had to do some research because HDR was not available for anything I tried. however was able to get it working and this panel is beautiful 😍
just waiting for the proper firmware update so you don't gotta do the weird workaround
I'd say main "downgrade" from my 27" odyssey G7 is the lower refresh rate, but overall it's soooo much better that I'm perfectly fine with that
I'm happy to see a monitor severely lacking drawbacks.
Hopefully in a year or two the yields will be better and we can get some nice cheap 16x9 or 16x10 panels without the curves.
If you have seen a monitor with curves it's not that serious lol 1800r is the perfect curve and it's literally like a flat panel without breaking your neck
@@redclaw72666 It's literally like a flat panel... With a curve in it.
@@redclaw72666 I think it's more the case of using multiple monitors together. Having a curved display impacts that quite a lot, and stacking ultrawides together is not really feasible for most people.
Im waiting for a 4K 32" QD OLED display where the monitor is not made by Samsung due to their horrible quality control.
@@derptyderp5287 you don't notice it idiot if you own one, your opinion is beyond irrelevant
Surprisingly good review. Are you a gamer or is this a whole studio team? Takes actual knowledge of the business to simultaneously understand that this is both the best money can buy right now but also not quite the best it can be yet. Smart pointing out the port limitations and that it is not really suitable for console too
Very complete review, good job!
hey zeazonic is back!! great review as usual. is there any fans in the monitor like the Lg 38..?