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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Luminance, black depth and contrast ratio (static) – measuring the brightness, black depth and resulting contrast ratio of the mode being tested, whether that is at default settings or later after calibration and profiling. There’s a lot of claims from Samsung about how QD-OLED will be less susceptible to burn-in and image retention than traditional OLED panels but that really remains to be proven as it’s a very new technology only now starting to appear in monitors and TV’s. The screen is really aimed at gaming and multimedia, and so if your primary uses are going to be for that kind of dynamic content you probably don’t need to worry too much. With an area brightness of 1 candela/square metre, the model meets the DisplayHDR True Black 400 standard. Previously at PCMag, I was a hardware analyst benchmarking and reviewing consumer gadgets and PC hardware such as desktop processors, GPUs, monitors, and internal storage.

As for traditional input lag (the amount of time between when a monitor receives a signal and the screen updates), we test that with an HDFury 4K Diva HDMI matrix.

The refresh rate is 175Hz natively over DisplayPort, and can reach up to 100Hz over HDMI at the native screen resolution (3440 x 1440). Secondly for typical desktop monitor usage and SDR content you’re not really going to notice any problems with the black depth or contrast ratio in daytime usage anyway. If issue is covered by warranty and not resolved remotely, technician or part will be dispatched, usually within 1-2 business days following completion of remote diagnosis. During my multiplayer games testing in Overwatch and Valorant, I found it easy and fast to line up my sniper shots with G-Sync Ultimate on board.

The AW3423DQ is Dell’s latest gaming monitor in their Alienware line-up, but it’s not just any monitor, this is their first OLED monitor. However, it should be said that in general, if you're playing a game where a 30Hz difference in refresh rate could actually change the leaderboard in your favor, the last thing on your mind is how much your enemy's blood color "pops" off the screen, right? Depending on where the gamma is too low or too high, it can have an impact on the image in certain ways. But it's only recently that OLED has meandered down the hall to the gaming den, and the growing world of panel types for gaming monitors. Experience Infinite Immersion, Speed Unleashed, Design Perfection, and Precision for Creators—Elevate Your Reality with Our Quantum Dot Masterpiece.

across a wide viewing angle, and colours are accurate out of the box with a factory calibration of Delta E less than 2.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). If you’re looking for one of the best gaming monitors and best curved monitors, you need the new Alienware AW3423DWF QD-OLED in your life. Witness graphics in motion with unparalleled clarity, giving you the edge for a faster in-game reaction time. Since then, the field of OLED monitors got a lot more competitive from 2020 to present, with LG's G-Sync-compatible "C" line of gaming-monitor/TV hybrids. Anything over dE 3 needs correcting and causes more obvious differences in appearance relative to what should be shown.

From a colour point of view you can see from the top left CIE diagram that the colour space of the display extended a long way beyond the standard sRGB reference colour space. In fact it has a 175Hz refresh rate which puts it beyond all high refresh rate OLED TV’s, and is combined with NVIDIA’s Native G-sync hardware module to support variable refresh rates (VRR), being certified under their ‘G-sync Ultimate’ scheme too. You can see the recommended OSD settings above, and then further corrections and mapping of the native wide gamut back to sRGB are taken care of at the profile level. Dell have also had the screen certified under the ‘ VESA DisplayHDR 400 True Black‘ scheme (not to be confused with the normal HDR 400 level), while also offering an additional mode which boasts a peak brightness of 1000 nits which is impressive for an OLED panel.

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.There is also good coverage of the Adobe RGB reference space, commonly used in the professional and photography sector.