Alienware AW3423DW 34 Inch WQHD (3440x1440) 21:9 1800R Curved Gaming Monitor, 175Hz, QD OLED, 0.1ms, NVIDIA G-SYNC Ultimate, 99.3% DCI-P3, HDR400, DisplayPort, 2x HDMI, 5x USB, 3 Year Warranty

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These are wider than you get from any LCD panel technology, and you also avoid any issues like pale ‘IPS glow’ you get from that common LCD panel type. As a feature it feels a bit unnecessary too, moving a few pixels is not going to make a massive difference to most static images anyway. G2G response time (realistic on OLED), 1 million:1 static contrast ratio (realistic on OLED), 250 cd/m 2 brightness, 178/178 viewing angles, 1. The On Screen Display (OSD) is controlled via a single joystick in the middle of the bottom edge of the screen. These are things you don’t need to worry about with a typical desktop monitor but it’s always in the back of your mind when using an OLED screen.

If you’re already an Xbox Live Gold and/or Game Pass for Console/PC member, any days remaining in your membership(s) will be converted to Ultimate using a conversion ratio. However, now that the colour space of the screen is much closer to the target colour space of DCI-P3 the colour accuracy of those colours is much better, with a dE average of 2. For content creators and game developers who require precise color-critical work, the new Creator Mode feature was designed for you.

now which was very good, although some of the shades were a bit less accurate due to that slight under-coverage of the sRGB space. Greyscale dE – this graph tracks the accuracy of each greyscale shade measured from 0 (black) to 100 (white). If Alienware's 34 QD-OLED can deliver on performance, it solves many problems of previous ultrawides at this spec tier, while also setting a new bar for build quality and branding in the process.

We also provide the white point colour temperature and its deviance from 6500k, as this is particularly important when viewing lots of white background and office content. This is further accentuated by the semi-glossy screen coating which helps the blacks look deep but may be impacted by your room lighting conditions as discussed below. Blacks look inky and deep (subject to your ambient light conditions discussed more below), and you get excellent local contrast between different areas of an image.With a very wide gamut in operation, sRGB colours measured in the top right hand graph are not accurate at all, with a dE average of 4. And with ComfortView Plus, you can game longer, thanks to an always on, built-in low-blue light screen technology that reduces blue light emissions without impacting colour accuracy. And while we haven't been able to get a C-model LG OLED in for ourselves to test against, we do have the previous Alienware 55 OLED as a launching point of comparison, which is all but confirmed to have used the same LG panel inside.

Generally HDR is supposed to take full control of the OSD color settings away from the user, given that HDR metadata will be telling the monitor what kind of color scheme it should display, in reductive terms.

I wasn't outright disappointed by the Alienware 34's performance in video, but I wasn't as bowled over as I was hoping for, either. In daytime viewing or with light sources in certain places though the blacks do get impacted a bit and you lose some of that contrast visually. The Alienware 34 Curved QD-OLED Gaming Monitor is engineered to avoid burn-in caused by items appearing onscreen for long periods of time.

That can be distracting and annoying when you want to use a screen like that as a desktop monitor though where the average picture level (APL) doesn’t change that often, and something we commented on when we reviewed the LG C2 recently. When a screen is fully glossy it can make it pretty problematic for typical office and desktop environments where you can get obvious mirror-like reflections, especially from windows and lights. We won't bog down this already long review with any further technical details (this primer will handle the heavy lifting there), but just know that Alienware thought of that before launching the 34. Among these features is the all-new AlienVision—four custom hardware-based overlays designed to enhance your visual experience in real-time based on actual gameplay.

Dell want to provide you some reassurance around this situation though and offer “a 3-year Advanced Exchange Service so that if a replacement becomes necessary, it will be shipped to you the next business day during your 3-year Limited Hardware Warranty.