Alienware AW3423DW QD OLED Gaming
Is this monitor and why is it special well essentially this is the next generation of gaming screens that at the time of filming is oceans away from everything else on the market the reason for this is all down to the quantum dot oled panel and it's used here in an ultra wide form factor with a resolution of 3440x1440 unlike traditional panels that rely on light filters the qd oled panel produces large amounts of bright blue lights before the quantum dots convert this into the color that you then see on screen this means the colors can be more accurate with a wider gamut offer that's really useful for video production or photo work but more importantly for hdr gaming this also results in less light loss which gives a hugely impactful high demand range image that's brighter than we've seen before it still won't be quite as bright as the very best tvs that pack a mini led backlight in but here's the thing with an oled while this only goes up to 1 000 nits of peak brightness you get properly true black pixels that just look incredible whereas if you go for an lcd with a mini led backlight while it can get brighter you're always going to have some tiny little zones of dimming that just never look quite as good as an oled panel there is a slight quirk on the implementation of this though as unlike on most gaming monitors you've actually got a semi-gloss finish to contend with here now don't get me wrong the image looks all the better for it but on a 34 inch curved ultrawide monitor obviously is gonna pick up a lot of reflections if you're not careful about where you put it it's absolutely fine for my very dark studio but next to a window probably a questionable choice obviously the form factor of this absolutely isn't anything new but in case you haven't tried it before in my opinion it's the pure sweet spot of pc gaming not only because it does fill your vision a little bit more you can actually use it for gaming rather than having two screens where you'd have to pick one but because when you compare this to 4k it is actually a lot easier to drive obviously a beefy graphics card is still absolutely required for the best performance but i find it's ideal for all sorts of gaming regardless of whether that's casual bits of age of empires or planet zoo aaa monsters like cyberpunk 2077 and even properly competitive gaming in apex legends and gaming is no doubt where this thing is absolutely mega not only because it's oled but also because it runs at a freaking 175 hertz it is a proper double whammy as the high refresh rate lowers the latency and brings you way more connected to the game than a 60 hertz panel could ever dream of but also thanks to the measly 0.1 millisecond response time of oled motion blur is absurdly low here combine that with a minuscule amount of input lag and you've got a champion of a gaming monitor there if you're moving fast enough this is only 175 hertz after all if we're at 360 this may be a completely different story but the motion blur that is present is massively reduced and it just looks a whole lot cleaner this does bring us to a little bit of a bummer though as i do need a correct mistake that i made in my original unboxing of this because sadly this monitor does not support it definitely doesn't support anything this monitor does not support display stream compression which means if you want to use this in full 10-bit color you have to use this at 144 hertz or lower if you set this to 175 it will go to 8bit with dithering that i don't think is going to be noticeable to anybody obviously if you're creative you can just drop this down to 120 anyways divisible by 60 that's what i personally would use i don't think it's an issue but obviously technically speaking it is a limitation with this display 10-bit color it is definitely an interesting one because there are actually two modes you can choose from on this display you've got hdr 400 true black that's properly certified and then an unofficial hdr 1000. there's a toggle that you can use within the monitor menu system that does this on the fly you're not going gonna have to close your games to cycle between the two and it does appear that all it does really is change the tone mapping and the way that brightness is displayed on the actual display both modes do get extremely punchy way more than you'd expect from an oled which i guess is the point of qd oled but hdr 1000 definitely seems to give you a lot more detail in the bright highlights i would actually go as far to say that cyberpunk in the 1000 mode looks the best i've ever seen this game absolutely hands down as the contrast the color volume and the brights just look absolutely mesmerizing again it isn't the absolute brightest image that i've ever seen but as every pixel is the exact color and brightness that it's supposed to be the image is just staggeringly good it is a properly perfect image. there is a lot of capability in this display with 99 of dci p3 and 94 of adobe rgb covered in my tests but you should be aware that it did need some calibration to get it looking the most accurate there is also a creator's srgb mode but it didn't seem to quite cover the full srgb colour space which i thought was perhaps a little bit odd there's also prop adjacent capability baked into this which is usual works a treat and reducing the stutter and tearing that you're going to see in games there's plenty of adjustments to the very sturdy stand including heigh adjust swivel and even a little bit of angle pivot and then in terms of inputs there's the display port that you're going to want to use and then hdmi 2.0 ports not 2.1 that are probably going to be used for console expansion so if you've got an xbox this is probably fine but playstation users notes you're going to be limited really to 1080p you should also be aware that there aren't any bacon speakers. gaming experience so you can get brilliant gaming displays that are 1440p 165 hertz there are also other brilliant monitors the alienware qdolid monitor is the best gaming monitor.
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