I really appreciate you taking the time to produce a follow up video answering some of the pertinent questions from your community. It was done well, and with the same excellent production values I've come to expect as normal for your efforts.
As an owner of this panel for 4 months now my old complaint really is the daily panel refresh maintenance it needs which you can bypass but I’ve noticed the more you do, the next time it takes even longer to finish. Other than that, this is literally the best gaming monitor on the market period. The specs on paper don’t give it justice until you actually experience the monitor. It’s unreal!
I've been using the refresh maintenance as an indicator to take a break and stretch for 10 minutes. Of course I only play single player games right now so I can pause whenever I like, but I have turned this inconvenience into something positive for myself.
@@bowie707 “It's not a bug, it's a feature”. I thought the same. It's highly recommended to take a few minutes to break from time to time, to let the eyes relax, and also to stretch your body as you said.
Some more important information about 10bit 144Hz VS. 8bit 175Hz: TLDR: Color and gradient performance doesn't change between 8bit and 10bit on this monitor, so use 8bit 175Hz to unlock the full potential of the display. Vincent Teoh from "HDTV test" thouroughly tested both modes and the 8bit 175Hz mode didn't show any more banding/posteriziation than the 10bit 144Hz mode. That doesn't mean this is an 8bit only monitor, but that the dithering done by the GPU is enough to emulate 8bit + FRC (or 10bit if you want to call it that), so if you're using 144Hz mode you're limiting the monitor with only one advantage: Less noticeable flicker in games notorious for OLED flicker (which are extremely rare), but that has nothing to do with the bit depth and is only because of the lower refresh rate.
Except Vincent only tested with a Nvidia gpu. Nvidia generally compresses everything from game textures to the actual signal sent to the monitor. Which is why he can't see a difference. It would be keen on people to test the difference between 10bit and 8bit on an AMD gpu because AMD doesn't compress. I myself plan to test this myself but haven't gotten my hands on my monitor yet as it was delayed (like tftcentral and rtings, all waiting).
It can't be that 8 bit is similar to 10 bit color. The difference is quite noticable. Like 1080p vs 1440p (or a little bit less). Perhaps HDTV tested games with inner 8 bit color space, not true HDR or with AutoHDR function and he didn't that test properly (for example, he could download a compressed image). A true HDR game is different 8 bits vs 10 bits. It's like a movie to watch 8 bits vs 10 bits. It's easily perceived that there is a difference in a gradient (around 1 billion color gradations vs 16.5 millions and not to see that ?!). I can easily see that in movies. By the way, there is a HDTV video where he criticizes this panel 5 Reasons Why You SHOULDN'T Buy The Alienware QD-OLED Monitor.
Well, it's not for better gradient but for more colors. Otherwise you're not unlocking the full potential of "QD-OLED." You might as well go with OLED monitors with 240Hz refresh rate. lel. Why FRC? What does FRC have to do with that? How 8bit + FRC is being 10bit? lel. Nah, two advantages. Getting billion colors over 16 millions of colors. lel.
On the watching movies part, movies that have black bars on the top and bottom will sometimes not be present on an ultrawide and the picture will fill the entire monitor. It’s extremely immersive and awesome.
It all depends on how the movie is mastered. Some are mastered in true 21:9 and will span the whole monitor. Other movies are mastered with the black bars as part of the movie itself, and they cannot be removed.
Just to share my experience about the RMA situation: I bought the AW3423DW in China (One of the first regions to launch) on March 15th, and found a dead pixel on the lower portion of the screen. After contacting AW customer service, they said they would RMA the monitor and change a new one free of charge but the warehouse for parts and replacements is out of stock everywhere. And my RMA won't be fulfilled until the mid of June. If the defect was detrimental to my experience they would recommend I return the monitor within the free return period and buy a new one instead. Since there is only one dead pixel and not really noticeable in games I decide to keep the monitor and not deal with the hassle of returning and waiting for the new one to arrive. Definitely the best monitor for PC gaming right now in my opinion.
good decision. i purchased mine a week after you and will not be getting it until mid june. i will be furious if there is an issue with my monitor at that point.
@@andyfma123 I can keep using my monitor until their warehouse gets new replacement parts, and then the service guy should bring the replacement to me and take the defective parts away. That's what AW's CS told me.
@@dennistardio2203 they are good from my experience, I just regret the purchase of my current monitor. And have to wait months to receive my upgrade. I had an fan issue with my 3070 and they replaced it fast. No issues since.
Great questions! I'm planning to purchase this one for 80% gaming, and 20% productivity and I'm sold. Really can't help these types of "nitpick" questions at this pricepoint for a high-end monitor, but all understandable! Thank you very much for answering all those for us!
I think it would be nice to have the comments/tweets slightly bigger, it's a bit hard to see them on a phone without going fullscreen. Great video otherwise, happy to get more info on QD-Oled.
Thank you for this. It's rare that a new monitor makes a video like this neccessary, but you did the work and I think it was worth it! (btw. I kind of doubt that Dell can deliver on the next day repair promise since that's usually done by replacement afaik. And the monitor is sold out for months... :) )
The fan noise issue is said to be worse when using g-sync and HDR with high refresh games at the same time. As the fan is there to cool the g-sync module. So using a full white screen mite not show the worse case scenario for the fan issue.
Correct. I've been using a X27p for over 2 years and never heard the fan, but since Win11 had auto hdr, playing rather simple games at 4k 144hz and HDR made my monitor sound like a (loud) gpu
I have the Alienware AW2721D and at first the fan noise was quiet but it became louder over time to the point where it is annoying even on the desktop. Lesson learned: I will never buy a monitor with a fan again (and a motherboard with a chipset fan).
I don’t understand this nonsense about fan noise?? Gpu fans are insanely loud when they’re under load. Most people wear a headset. And you should t really be buying this for daily tasks office type stuff. It’s meant to be an incredible gaming monitor. The fan is needed to keep this power hog hungry.
I'm looking to upgrade my monitor and was searching for OLED issues, the moment I saw you have a video talking about it here I am... Thanks for always having updates and feedback for us... Love you!!!!
Thoroughly appreciate the indepth follow up review of this monitor, this will be the second time that I make a purchase based on info obtained from one of your reviews. I am pretty thorough when it comes to my research and I absolutely love the info I obtain from your reviews. Thank you so much, keep up the great work!
The fringing is real. But mostly unnoticeable unless you have severe OCD. Your alternative is to use an IPS panel with gray blacks or a smeary VA panel. I'll take the QLED thanks ;)
Thanks for addressing things reddit has been freaking out about! I've been using the monitor since March 7th for coding and gaming, and it's pretty great!
I checked this out in person, the Color Fringing is quite noticeable, more so than any other monitor i have seen. If you are using it for games or video not a big deal. HOWEVER, if do creative work like editing in Photoshop, light room or 3D modeling, those straight lines with color fringing are really going to stick out. It's not just text, it everything with a high contrast edge. My cheap $350 Asus ProArt monitor is miles more in visual quality than this $1,000 extra wide.
This definitely could well be my next monitor as I currently have their previous 34 inch ultra wide monitor and I really rate it. I took out a five year warranty with that monitor so it will give me some time to see whether consumers have any serious burn in issues.
Thank you Nada for including this Q&A. It really fleshes out some of the details that I was looking for. Great Job! Can't wait to see your next review. 😊
I have this monitor, I've been loving the heck out of it. I switched over from a 27 inch 1440x2560 144hz monitor. I didn't think I'd notice the difference but man I was wrong. This display is insane, I can't get over it, ive had it for about 2 weeks. I play competively fps and my KD has gone up. It is totally worth it. If anyone has any questions about it, go ahead and reply :)
Nice follow-up. Only input I have is the color difference of QD OLED v LG WOLED. In SDR content, the difference is quite small indeed. That said, in HDR there is a much more significant difference, since the brightness of the RGB subpixels is very limited on LG tech, and they use the white sub pixel to boost luminance to achieve a better HDR effect. This has the side effect of diluting/desaturating colors in HDR, so instead of getting brighter, richer color as brightness goes up, you actually get the opposite. This is also why LG OLED is suitable for SDR color grading, but not at all for HDR. QD OLED has no issue with this however, and that is one of it's biggest PQ strengths.
As this is new technology for monitors the amount of questions are understandable. OLED really is superior to LED and even MiniLED and cheaper than MiniLED too. I’ve been waiting for an OLED monitor ever since I bought my first OLED TV.
Slight correction here, you said that because it is an ultrawide that it wouldn't be as suited for movies. This is incorrect because cinematic aspect ratio movies (the vast majority as very few actually are presented in 16:9) will fill the 21:9 ultra wide screen and give you that full cinematic experience. On streaming sites some will force you with letterboxes to create a letterboxed 16:9 movie frame, but you you can easily bypass that by using a browser extension like Ultrawideo which allows you to set a keyboard shortcut to flick between scaling ratios when watching such streams. However, it is 16:9 content (basically the vast majority of TV shows) where an ultrawide is not suited as well because you get a 16:9 frame with pillarboxes left and right. But because this is an OLED, it doesn't matter as they are pitch black anyway. So all in all, an ultrawide OLED is perfectly fine and well suited for movies and even TV shows really.
Thanks for the mention of that addon; now I don't have to go hunting a torrent to watch a properly scaled movie because Amazon are idiots. Quality obviously won't be as good as a properly encoded 21:9 movie, but at least I don't have to do something illegal to consume content I legally have access to. But yeah, I dunno why it was stated that an ultrawide monitor wouldn't be good for watching movies; most are filmed in (essentially) 21:9 and scale perfectly on an ultrawide and are a much better experience. Running into a 16:9 film is uncommon, but boy do they feel worse (expectations + 24fps judder). UA-cam and anime and stuff is pretty much all 16:9 though, and personally I don't find those to be much of a bother. However, she did say "4k" specifically, not 16:9, so maybe it was implied that the 4K viewing experience is better on a 4K display because of scaling whackery trying to fit 3840x2160 into 3440x1440, which I definitely have struggled with, and oddly many 4K movies I've seen are in a 16:9 aspect ratio instead of something like 3840x1600 or 4096x1716. Either way, an ultrawide monitor is most definitely suited best for watching films; objectively.
@@AceStrife You could be right about the 4K on 21:9 in general but from my experience 4K scales really really well and there's loads of detail still. I have 3x 34" Ultrawide monitors (LG 34UM95-P which is the world's first 34" ultrawide, Huawei MateView GT and now this Dell QD-OLED) and all of them play 4K movies with excellent detail and motion that looks on par with the 65" LG OLED in the living room. Scaling for all intents and purposes is perfectly fine but it may well depend on what player you use to play back that 4K content in full screen. I use MPC-BE with the MPC Video Renderer, so scaling up (for 1080P movies) or down (for 4K movies) has never been a problem really. Btw a recent movie that has been filmed/mastered in 16:9 is Nightmare Alley. It comes in HDR and everything, but it is in 16:9, but as we are on Ultrawide, it's easy enough to just maximise to 21:9. I guess I have been living and breathing ultrawide ever since they hit the market all those years ago so have been through all the pros and cons and found ways around any issues that stuck by over the years, of which now are basically zero :p Glad the extension has helped btw!
Well I don't have this monitor yet, but I do have like a super-mega-ultrawide 48" 5K LCD monitor from Phillips, it's basically two monitors side by side in a single panel... and even the most wide-screen movies still have black bars on the left and right on that thing. (and since it's LCD, the glowing bleed is annoying).
@@shiruba2004 Pillarboxing. And yes, "super ultrawide", aka 32:9, will have serious pillarboxing in any video content; things just aren't filmed much wider than 21:9. And if you want to play an old 4:3 game, oh boy...
Hey Nada i am the one who asked for PWM on twitter. I would like to say that for me at least you are the best reviewer at the moment . Keep up the good work ! Greetings from Greece !
Dank je voor de review, je hebt mij geholpen met mijn vorige monitor en ik ben er blij mee. Zal voor deze gaan mocht het ooit weer leverbaar zijn! Verwachting eind september zegt Dell. 😁
I love this monitor. I had it for about a week and this monitor is by far the best monitor I had. Monitor is a beast it also works for consoles my ps5 plays beautifully at 1440p at 120hz
How well does FreeSync perform on this display with an AMD card? Any tearing or weird behavior below max refresh rate? Love the reviews. You're very professional in both presentation and vocal delivery :).
I would love to know this as well! Have an Area51m that’s gsync, but my desktop has an RX 6800 XT. Would like to know if I need to pull one of my 3080s out of the mines for this monitor
More about the color vs LG OLED: The reason why it looks better than conventional WOLED is not because is has a slightly bigger color GAMUT or slightly more brightness. It's mostly because it has a lot bigger color VOLUME. LG OLEDs cannot accurately display deep colors at a high brightness because they use an additional white subpixel to boost brighness, resulting in color washout when it's used. The QD-OLED panel is not restricted in this manner and can display deep and saturated colors all across the luminance range because it has one dedicated subpixel for each color and doesn't need the brightness boosting subpixel to get this bright.
That Corsair drive is what I have for my boot drive, it is FAST!!!! I used to start up the computer, go make coffee, take the dog out and come back and sit and drink coffee while waiting for boot up. With this drive I start computer, turn on coffee pot and login. Thinking of getting a 2nd to use for my games drive, speed them up a bit too.
Awesome coverage and understanding of the technology. This is a power user dream channel while being very clear for anyone to jump in and evaluate a given piece of tech.
I'm using it now and color fringing is SO OBVIOUS! I think everyone can notice it, just some people may be ok to live with it. I don't think I can so I'll return. If you play games/watch videos for 90% of the time that'll be ok(in fact, I still notice this in my game around all the high contract edges). But if you also using it for reading any text(like what you are doing now) for more than 10% of the time, I don't think this is for you. The text quality is like from a defective monitor.
Agreed, just got mine today, and coming from a decent 1080p IPS the fringing hit me like a slap in the face, I thought I had a defective monitor until I read that's how these monitors are supposed to work! Was going to use it for work where im looking at text 8 hours a day, but the fringing is a deal breaker. Just submitted my return request after only a few hours of owning it :(
Thank you so much for taking the time to make a follow-up video, this was immensely helpful in trying to make a decision about which monitor I want to upgrade to. Since you do recommend this one over the G9 Neo, that's an easy one :P Now I'm curious if this should be my next monitor or if it might be worth waiting for Samsung's own monitor of their panel with the Q8QNB... the only thing that gives me pause about this Alienware is the inclusion of HDMI 2.0 and that 10-bit is still limited to 144hz over DP1.4 - I wonder if Samsung might include more modern connections for the bandwidth requirements at 10-bit. If you do have any thoughts or recommendations regarding this, it would be wonderful and exceptionally kind of you to share them. Thanks once again for all the tremendous work!
June 22nd can't come soon enough. Been having issues with my Samsung Odyssey G7 since I got it less than a year ago ... Can't wait to get this beautiful monitor on my desk!
Really good answers to many questions other tech sites didn't touch upon. But there was no mention of HDMI ports which detract from the overall quality of the monitor.
I've had the alienware oled since this video was made. I do the maintenance and everything for it. Today i do a burn in test and the panel is absolutely ruined. Nearly half the screen in random spots is solid burn in. I don't even use hdr 1000. So for anyone wondering, oled may not be the way to go. The input lag is also very noticeable.
About subpixels fringing there can be used 3rd software Clear type or Free type , to adjust subpixels for texts on oleds. In a Windows 11 subpixel fringing are somehow addressed and adjusted by default.
A bit of topic: I think, a interesting question is: what do you prefer? One large screen? On large ultrawide screen? Or a dual display setting? I have two 27 inch displays and i think i like this setting more than one large screen for normal tasks like office, browsing or something like that. Sometimes i play on one display and watch a UA-cam on the other.
It's probably personal preference and can depend on what you do most (gaming, movies, work) and what resolution you prefer and how much desk space you have. A single screen probably suits most applications as there are plenty of tools to divide up the screen for work and some monitors allow for picture-in-picture modes. The problem with 2 monitors is always going to be the gap between them. I've never understood why anyone would play games on one screen and watch a movie on another at the same time - they must be very boring games. If I ever needed a website or video to show a walkthrough to help me with the game, I'd open it on a tablet or phone.
@@donkeysunited yes, i think you're right. I personally have another focus regarding playing and watching videos. I watch for example a UA-cam video (like a Podcast) and play sidebi. Therfore i play e.g. FIFA on an easy level. When i play skyrim, i can't watch a video, because i have to focus on the game.
I own this monitor. Main issues: you can see the red/blue pixel fringing on text at times in games. It can be bothersome, but I try to ignore it. Response times vary depending on the game. Dying Light 2 has terrible response time, for example. The image literally blurs when moving the mouse/stick. Other games must be better optimized. If there's a solution for low response times, I'd love to hear it. Yes, HDR Peak 1000 is dimmer than HDR 400 TrueBlack. Not sure which one is preferable in gaming. (No other drawbacks. I don't notice the fan noise. 175 hz FPS is great.) I went from a 4k panel to this and don't really miss the 4k. Is this monitory worth 1300? Just barely.
Regarding black smear… My LG CX OLED does have some black smear, but it’s almost never noticeable. One time I noticed it was while playing Minecraft, digging a tunnel when there was no torch light, so the whole screen was nearly black. I could see smear between some of the chunky pixels of the block textures. So if this monitor isn’t any worse, I wouldn’t worry about it. I also played quite a bit of VR with my OLED HTC Vive. The black smear was much more noticeable in VR.
The VRR flicker is a real issue on this monitor, every microstutter in frametime causes my screen to flicker. It's recommended to not use G-Sync at all on this monitor, since the pixel response time is so fast screen tearing isn't noticeable to begin with.
hi, I disagree that it'll be worse for watching movies. Most movies are in 21:9, a movie in 4k usually don't have the full 2160p height. In fact, I think ultrawide monitors are perfect for movies. 16:9 content might not scale up as perfectly, but those are getting fewer by each day, with anime and consoles being the main remaining areas, since even streaming content are shot in ultrawide aspect now.
the only good thing about dell products is if they break they will mail you a replacement and give you prepaid shipping label to mail your broken one back if its still under warranty. No CC charge hold or shipping costs to get a replacement. When I had to RMA an ACER Predator monitor I had to find a box and pay for the shipping just for them to diagnose it and it was still under warranty.
These monitors 100% experience burn in. Ive had one since launch and although the image quality and form factor are perfect for my mixed use of work and gaming, i can now clearly see horizonal lines from chrome windows in near grey colours, especially noticeable in sky boxes in games such as the resident evil 4 remake. This is despite being super careful to vary use and minimise task bars. I suspect over the next year or so people will start to realise oled is still oled and has an extremely limited life span before burn in occurs.
Just bought the samsung version of this monitor in the hope it would have lees issue wit color fringing, sadly it`s still terrible. Be warned every piece of text on a high contrast level will be affected . And you won`t get use to it because it shifts with viewing angle. Reviewers seem to be ignoring this flaw very much and it`s bad. The purple lines appear everywher around lines and letters, be warned. I`m returning mine because i cant work on it.
The text color fringing most likely has to do with Cleartype, but it can be disabled in OS settings. Greyscale antialiasing looks inferior than RBG, but it shouldn't end up in visible fringing.
@@finestPlugins Normally there's fringing also with classic RGB arrangement, perhaps it's more annoying here because it's partly vertical. But I'd think that the WRGB arrangement on LG's OLEDs would be more annoying than this.
Disabling cleartype doesn`t solve anything the fringing lines are everywhere on high contrast places and shift with viewing angle, be ware it gives you an headache. It`s unacceptable.
@@brugj03 It should at least partially solve it, better not assume anything about the pixel arrangement than assume the wrong pixel arrangement. But perhaps we're more used to horizontal fringing than vertical one, or perhaps it's because on an LCD they're 3 thin vertical rectangles and not square dots. Still better than WRGB or Pentile..
Your vids have always been more inclined to the tech side of presenting other then showing what you are talking about. That said, I think I will enjoy much more if the part concerning games was actually shown instead of talking about numbers and results.
I have had two of these monitors for just about a year now. The first had a dead sub-pixel which displayed a very bright red on any light colors. I received a replacement for free from Dell which ALSO had a dead sub-pixel. Dell support has since stopped responding to my support ticket and has not asked for either monitor back. My monitor is already showing signs of burn-in after one year of usage. These will absolutely have burn-in typical with OLED's. I work remotely and use this monitor for work, and after work for gaming. There is already burn in from Teams icons, Desktop icons, and Taskbar icons. They are minor and hard to notice, but they are there and continue to get worse over time. I can also say that the monitor is frustrating to use. With the auto pixel refresh enabled I was constantly getting messages in the middle of me working or gaming, and it will continue to perform the refresh unless you tell it otherwise. You would think it would just perform these after the monitor has been sleeping for 10-15 minutes, but instead it decides the best time is in the middle of you using it. I would often come back to my monitor completely blank because it decided it was time to perform a refresh while I was on lunch. The power LED is brighter than the surface of the sun and pulses constantly while the monitor is sleeping (I literally painted over it with liquid electric tape). Eco-mode is.. bad.. sometimes the monitor refuses to wake up after it sleeps. The fan in the monitor is pretty noisy sometimes when you're displaying bright content. The menu can ONLY be accessed while there is a signal from one of its inputs. I would love to run the pixel refresh, and panel refresh more often but it is very annoying if I forget to do it before turning off my computer. I have pretty much given up even using it at this point, but when I was using it on a daily basis it didn't improve the burn-in whatsoever. Just all around a bad experience, I will never buy Alienware/Dell again. I would not recommend this monitor, but I think I would pin the blame on Dell not the actual QDOLED Panel.
I also bought this model. This product has an HDMI 2.0 cord, but this only gives me 60Hz unless I drop the resolution to full HD. I bought a conversion cord to connect from Thunderbolt to the display port, and I got 120Hz at the maximum resolution. I would like the included cable to be HDMI 2.1.
4:40 - no, 5 ms reponse time IS NOT 1-2 frames per second worse than other monitors. If you have 90 FPS the rendering time is ~10 ms per frame. So you wont notice any difference.
HDR400 mode is basically made for windows use. Eg. as its capped at 400nits changing a white window size won't make drastic changes in brightness unlike in hdr1000. but those situations are few and far between.
Usually just better to turn on HDR when in games that use it (it automatically turns it on when selecting the option in the game anyway). Not sure why anyone would want to use HDR while doing general work in Windows, it's not meant for that.
I've purchased both Samsung's 32-inch Neo G8 and Alienware's QD-OLED 34-inch widescreen. Alienware's 34-inch QD-OLED really isn't 4k. It's a 2k widescreen (3440 x 1440) monitor. Samsung's 32-inch Neo G8 is true 4k (3840 x 2160). I've purchased Alienware for widescreen FPS games, Samsung for regular usage, and some FPS games. I don't want to beat up the Alienware monitor, and Samsung will update their software over time. I think the two together will be an extremely nice pair of monitors. 😁
@El Cactuar, the resolution of a 2k monitor, is 2048 (Length) x 1440 (Width). Alienware's QD-OLED is 3440 (Width) x 1440 (length). The 1440p is the standard for 2k monitors. Alienware states "34-inches" because they measured from the upper left to the lower right (bezel to bezel), which is 34-inches. The width gives you more room at a 2k resolution (extended 2k monitor). On the desktop, you just get more real estate to place Icons. In video games, the sides of the image is stretched (exaggerated), giving you larger viewing angles. It's supposed to give you this "realistic viewing angle" as if you're looking through your eyes and not the monitor, yet you're still looking through a monitor, which defeats the purpose of realism.
@El Cactuar, you have no understanding of what widescreen is... The profile dimensions tell you it's a 2k widescreen. The length is past the regular 2k measurements while maintaining the 2k height, which means it's a "widescreen." QD-OLED is how the image is displayed. It goes through two filters instead of one. It combines quantum dot (QD) and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology. That is not a measurement but how the image is displayed. On a side note, and just out of curiosity, I noticed you're using the term "y'all," which is southern country slang, and you call yourself "El Cactuar." Those two things make me think you're from Texas or Arizona. I went to Sheppard AFB and Luke AFB, and I've heard people use y'all as a slang term while serving.
@El Cactuar , you're right about the ultrawide. I'll thumb up your comments. So I'm guessing it's a 2k but an ultrawide 2k monitor? It's still a QD-OLED. I'll have the monitor soon. I'm wondering if games will keep heading towards ultrawide screens? It would be nice, given that gamers are moving towards ultrawide screens.
I was able to get my order in the short window it was available. Should be getting mine sometime this month. Currently using the PG35VQ. Which is what replaced the Samsung G7 that I was using for 6 months. I got tired of the monitor's issues.
Thanks for pointing out the most common questions nearly everyone have about this revolution, in my case: folor fringing. But at 60cms.. even my ips looks abit wierd for my eyes :D
I been using this monitor for a week now. I would like to say that issue exaggerating the text fringing is kind of nonsense because it is literally non-existent if you sit at normal viewing distance unless u stick your nose close to the monitor. Like seriously, iam very happy with this monitor and its the best of its kind so far. I been testing it with some HDR 4k ultrawide videos and it just blows my mind. You gotta see for yourself to believe it is all i can say. Totally worth every penny!
does anyone know if there is freesync/adaptive sync flickering when gaming between 48-59Hz using RADEON Gpus? many VA panels can suffer from this (specially monitors using older VA panels from Samsung like the ROG XG27v) & how good does it look across the refresh range? is there a review out there showing motion results at 60, 85, 100 & 120Hz? (like Tim from HWUB does, this is specially important info for those that play a variety of games like fighting games, single player graphically intensive games or any games that feature a FPS cap like Soulsborne games).
@@Raivo_K even adaptive sync flicker is fixed with the GSync module when using AMD GPUs? i thought it only fixed the pixel transitions but not backlight flicker itself, good to know. Thanks.
I can't answer your question about AMD cards, but I can tell you that when I tested The Medium (dark horror game that shows the VRR flicker issue on LG OLED very well), even down to 49hz/fps with this monitor and my 3090, there were no flickers/gamma issues. As long as the module performs the same with your AMD card, it should be fine.
I hope Samsung is working on the 42"/43" 4K QD-Monitor and 5K for 42"/43" is welcomed too. With that size pixel peeping would be about none, cause you have to sit a bit further to see the full monitor. @Techtester Great fast follow up 👍
I just bought this monitor, any idea what is the basic set up for desktop I should use and what are the recommendations? I am a noob at all this tech matters. Sincerely, I want to see how cyberpunk and witcher runs on this and how immersive it feels and I planning to play games like black myth wukong. I am super torn on buying R13 or R15, or should I build my own?
OLED dims over the years, at HDR 1000 vs HDR400 or more so SDR content. Would that not increase the strain on the QD-OLED reducing it's brightness over the years sooner?
I know of two people who claim to have already recieved their replacement unit but seems like there wasn't much stock for RMA because all the others have to wait a few months.
i'm a bit puzzle on the hdr slider in windows 11. Which is better for hdr content? higher slider or lower? the default is at 40 which makes my desktop really dark
Quick question. Which one do you think is best. This monitor or the new lg c2 42”. I use my PC mostly for gaming but I also watch the ocasional movie/tv show on it
I really appreciate you taking the time to produce a follow up video answering some of the pertinent questions from your community. It was done well, and with the same excellent production values I've come to expect as normal for your efforts.
As an owner of this panel for 4 months now my old complaint really is the daily panel refresh maintenance it needs which you can bypass but I’ve noticed the more you do, the next time it takes even longer to finish. Other than that, this is literally the best gaming monitor on the market period. The specs on paper don’t give it justice until you actually experience the monitor. It’s unreal!
I've been using the refresh maintenance as an indicator to take a break and stretch for 10 minutes. Of course I only play single player games right now so I can pause whenever I like, but I have turned this inconvenience into something positive for myself.
How do you make it do that?
@bowie707 ya it's like the timer on runescape that tells you to stop no life-ing for 5 minutes. Xd
I agree with this annoyance. No reviewers mentioned this.
@@bowie707 “It's not a bug, it's a feature”. I thought the same. It's highly recommended to take a few minutes to break from time to time, to let the eyes relax, and also to stretch your body as you said.
Some more important information about 10bit 144Hz VS. 8bit 175Hz:
TLDR:
Color and gradient performance doesn't change between 8bit and 10bit on this monitor, so use 8bit 175Hz to unlock the full potential of the display.
Vincent Teoh from "HDTV test" thouroughly tested both modes and the 8bit 175Hz mode didn't show any more banding/posteriziation than the 10bit 144Hz mode. That doesn't mean this is an 8bit only monitor, but that the dithering done by the GPU is enough to emulate 8bit + FRC (or 10bit if you want to call it that), so if you're using 144Hz mode you're limiting the monitor with only one advantage: Less noticeable flicker in games notorious for OLED flicker (which are extremely rare), but that has nothing to do with the bit depth and is only because of the lower refresh rate.
Except Vincent only tested with a Nvidia gpu. Nvidia generally compresses everything from game textures to the actual signal sent to the monitor. Which is why he can't see a difference. It would be keen on people to test the difference between 10bit and 8bit on an AMD gpu because AMD doesn't compress. I myself plan to test this myself but haven't gotten my hands on my monitor yet as it was delayed (like tftcentral and rtings, all waiting).
do you have link to vincents video thx
It can't be that 8 bit is similar to 10 bit color. The difference is quite noticable. Like 1080p vs 1440p (or a little bit less). Perhaps HDTV tested games with inner 8 bit color space, not true HDR or with AutoHDR function and he didn't that test properly (for example, he could download a compressed image). A true HDR game is different 8 bits vs 10 bits. It's like a movie to watch 8 bits vs 10 bits. It's easily perceived that there is a difference in a gradient (around 1 billion color gradations vs 16.5 millions and not to see that ?!). I can easily see that in movies. By the way, there is a HDTV video where he criticizes this panel 5 Reasons Why You SHOULDN'T Buy The Alienware QD-OLED Monitor.
Well, it's not for better gradient but for more colors. Otherwise you're not unlocking the full potential of "QD-OLED." You might as well go with OLED monitors with 240Hz refresh rate. lel. Why FRC? What does FRC have to do with that? How 8bit + FRC is being 10bit? lel. Nah, two advantages. Getting billion colors over 16 millions of colors. lel.
@@goblinphreak2132 DAMN AMD!!! But NVIDIA got better colors that they look compressed on AMD! ;D
On the watching movies part, movies that have black bars on the top and bottom will sometimes not be present on an ultrawide and the picture will fill the entire monitor. It’s extremely immersive and awesome.
It all depends on how the movie is mastered. Some are mastered in true 21:9 and will span the whole monitor. Other movies are mastered with the black bars as part of the movie itself, and they cannot be removed.
Just to share my experience about the RMA situation: I bought the AW3423DW in China (One of the first regions to launch) on March 15th, and found a dead pixel on the lower portion of the screen. After contacting AW customer service, they said they would RMA the monitor and change a new one free of charge but the warehouse for parts and replacements is out of stock everywhere. And my RMA won't be fulfilled until the mid of June. If the defect was detrimental to my experience they would recommend I return the monitor within the free return period and buy a new one instead. Since there is only one dead pixel and not really noticeable in games I decide to keep the monitor and not deal with the hassle of returning and waiting for the new one to arrive. Definitely the best monitor for PC gaming right now in my opinion.
good decision. i purchased mine a week after you and will not be getting it until mid june. i will be furious if there is an issue with my monitor at that point.
I had a similar issue, did they allow you to keep the monitor until the new one came in? Or did you have to send it in and wait?
@@andyfma123 I can keep using my monitor until their warehouse gets new replacement parts, and then the service guy should bring the replacement to me and take the defective parts away. That's what AW's CS told me.
That is nice to hear, the customer service is really good apparently.
@@dennistardio2203 they are good from my experience, I just regret the purchase of my current monitor. And have to wait months to receive my upgrade. I had an fan issue with my 3070 and they replaced it fast. No issues since.
Great questions!
I'm planning to purchase this one for 80% gaming, and 20% productivity and I'm sold. Really can't help these types of "nitpick" questions at this pricepoint for a high-end monitor, but all understandable! Thank you very much for answering all those for us!
I got my monitor today, watching this video on it. IT IS AMAZING!
I think it would be nice to have the comments/tweets slightly bigger, it's a bit hard to see them on a phone without going fullscreen. Great video otherwise, happy to get more info on QD-Oled.
Thank you for this. It's rare that a new monitor makes a video like this neccessary, but you did the work and I think it was worth it!
(btw. I kind of doubt that Dell can deliver on the next day repair promise since that's usually done by replacement afaik. And the monitor is sold out for months... :) )
A very excellent and nice review! Exactly what I as a consumer needs too now before a actual buy. BIG THANK YOU! 😊✨
The fan noise issue is said to be worse when using g-sync and HDR with high refresh games at the same time. As the fan is there to cool the g-sync module. So using a full white screen mite not show the worse case scenario for the fan issue.
Correct. I've been using a X27p for over 2 years and never heard the fan, but since Win11 had auto hdr, playing rather simple games at 4k 144hz and HDR made my monitor sound like a (loud) gpu
I have the Alienware AW2721D and at first the fan noise was quiet but it became louder over time to the point where it is annoying even on the desktop. Lesson learned: I will never buy a monitor with a fan again (and a motherboard with a chipset fan).
I don’t understand this nonsense about fan noise?? Gpu fans are insanely loud when they’re under load. Most people wear a headset. And you should t really be buying this for daily tasks office type stuff. It’s meant to be an incredible gaming monitor. The fan is needed to keep this power hog hungry.
I'm looking to upgrade my monitor and was searching for OLED issues, the moment I saw you have a video talking about it here I am... Thanks for always having updates and feedback for us... Love you!!!!
Thoroughly appreciate the indepth follow up review of this monitor, this will be the second time that I make a purchase based on info obtained from one of your reviews. I am pretty thorough when it comes to my research and I absolutely love the info I obtain from your reviews. Thank you so much, keep up the great work!
Happy to hear that, thank you!
The fringing is real. But mostly unnoticeable unless you have severe OCD. Your alternative is to use an IPS panel with gray blacks or a smeary VA panel. I'll take the QLED thanks ;)
Thanks for addressing things reddit has been freaking out about! I've been using the monitor since March 7th for coding and gaming, and it's pretty great!
Awesome video. Thank you so much for doing a follow up to answer community questions. Loving this channel.
5:27 This is actually a good and purposeful thing. Inserting black between each frame helps smooth out motion.
I checked this out in person, the Color Fringing is quite noticeable, more so than any other monitor i have seen. If you are using it for games or video not a big deal. HOWEVER, if do creative work like editing in Photoshop, light room or 3D modeling, those straight lines with color fringing are really going to stick out. It's not just text, it everything with a high contrast edge. My cheap $350 Asus ProArt monitor is miles more in visual quality than this $1,000 extra wide.
This definitely could well be my next monitor as I currently have their previous 34 inch ultra wide monitor and I really rate it. I took out a five year warranty with that monitor so it will give me some time to see whether consumers have any serious burn in issues.
Your channel is so good, among the best in its class. Really appreciative!
Glad you think so!
I honestly feel that your content is better than most other big channels out there.
Lady, you are awesome. Great information and insight.
Thank you Nada for including this Q&A. It really fleshes out some of the details that I was looking for. Great Job! Can't wait to see your next review. 😊
I have this monitor, I've been loving the heck out of it. I switched over from a 27 inch 1440x2560 144hz monitor. I didn't think I'd notice the difference but man I was wrong. This display is insane, I can't get over it, ive had it for about 2 weeks. I play competively fps and my KD has gone up. It is totally worth it. If anyone has any questions about it, go ahead and reply :)
Enjoy one of the best gaming monitors you can buy right now :P
is it good for someone doing 70 percent text reading and writing?
Excellent. Nice to see the level of technical competence in answering quite technical questions. Cheers!!
What an excellent review. Love the format. Question checklist with clear, concise answers and no fluff. Subbed.
Nice follow-up. Only input I have is the color difference of QD OLED v LG WOLED.
In SDR content, the difference is quite small indeed. That said, in HDR there is a much more significant difference, since the brightness of the RGB subpixels is very limited on LG tech, and they use the white sub pixel to boost luminance to achieve a better HDR effect. This has the side effect of diluting/desaturating colors in HDR, so instead of getting brighter, richer color as brightness goes up, you actually get the opposite. This is also why LG OLED is suitable for SDR color grading, but not at all for HDR.
QD OLED has no issue with this however, and that is one of it's biggest PQ strengths.
In rec.2020 it really soars
As this is new technology for monitors the amount of questions are understandable. OLED really is superior to LED and even MiniLED and cheaper than MiniLED too. I’ve been waiting for an OLED monitor ever since I bought my first OLED TV.
I'd prefer Miniled for now due to brightness and HDR. But it won't be too long till Oled matches it.
Slight correction here, you said that because it is an ultrawide that it wouldn't be as suited for movies. This is incorrect because cinematic aspect ratio movies (the vast majority as very few actually are presented in 16:9) will fill the 21:9 ultra wide screen and give you that full cinematic experience. On streaming sites some will force you with letterboxes to create a letterboxed 16:9 movie frame, but you you can easily bypass that by using a browser extension like Ultrawideo which allows you to set a keyboard shortcut to flick between scaling ratios when watching such streams.
However, it is 16:9 content (basically the vast majority of TV shows) where an ultrawide is not suited as well because you get a 16:9 frame with pillarboxes left and right. But because this is an OLED, it doesn't matter as they are pitch black anyway.
So all in all, an ultrawide OLED is perfectly fine and well suited for movies and even TV shows really.
Thanks for the mention of that addon; now I don't have to go hunting a torrent to watch a properly scaled movie because Amazon are idiots. Quality obviously won't be as good as a properly encoded 21:9 movie, but at least I don't have to do something illegal to consume content I legally have access to.
But yeah, I dunno why it was stated that an ultrawide monitor wouldn't be good for watching movies; most are filmed in (essentially) 21:9 and scale perfectly on an ultrawide and are a much better experience. Running into a 16:9 film is uncommon, but boy do they feel worse (expectations + 24fps judder).
UA-cam and anime and stuff is pretty much all 16:9 though, and personally I don't find those to be much of a bother.
However, she did say "4k" specifically, not 16:9, so maybe it was implied that the 4K viewing experience is better on a 4K display because of scaling whackery trying to fit 3840x2160 into 3440x1440, which I definitely have struggled with, and oddly many 4K movies I've seen are in a 16:9 aspect ratio instead of something like 3840x1600 or 4096x1716.
Either way, an ultrawide monitor is most definitely suited best for watching films; objectively.
@@AceStrife You could be right about the 4K on 21:9 in general but from my experience 4K scales really really well and there's loads of detail still. I have 3x 34" Ultrawide monitors (LG 34UM95-P which is the world's first 34" ultrawide, Huawei MateView GT and now this Dell QD-OLED) and all of them play 4K movies with excellent detail and motion that looks on par with the 65" LG OLED in the living room.
Scaling for all intents and purposes is perfectly fine but it may well depend on what player you use to play back that 4K content in full screen. I use MPC-BE with the MPC Video Renderer, so scaling up (for 1080P movies) or down (for 4K movies) has never been a problem really.
Btw a recent movie that has been filmed/mastered in 16:9 is Nightmare Alley. It comes in HDR and everything, but it is in 16:9, but as we are on Ultrawide, it's easy enough to just maximise to 21:9.
I guess I have been living and breathing ultrawide ever since they hit the market all those years ago so have been through all the pros and cons and found ways around any issues that stuck by over the years, of which now are basically zero :p
Glad the extension has helped btw!
Well I don't have this monitor yet, but I do have like a super-mega-ultrawide 48" 5K LCD monitor from Phillips, it's basically two monitors side by side in a single panel... and even the most wide-screen movies still have black bars on the left and right on that thing. (and since it's LCD, the glowing bleed is annoying).
@@shiruba2004 Pillarboxing.
And yes, "super ultrawide", aka 32:9, will have serious pillarboxing in any video content; things just aren't filmed much wider than 21:9.
And if you want to play an old 4:3 game, oh boy...
Hey Nada i am the one who asked for PWM on twitter. I would like to say that for me at least you are the best reviewer at the moment . Keep up the good work ! Greetings from Greece !
Dank je voor de review, je hebt mij geholpen met mijn vorige monitor en ik ben er blij mee. Zal voor deze gaan mocht het ooit weer leverbaar zijn! Verwachting eind september zegt Dell. 😁
1:19 I call Color Fringing the "TikTok logo effect" 😂
I love this monitor. I had it for about a week and this monitor is by far the best monitor I had. Monitor is a beast it also works for consoles my ps5 plays beautifully at 1440p at 120hz
How well does FreeSync perform on this display with an AMD card? Any tearing or weird behavior below max refresh rate? Love the reviews. You're very professional in both presentation and vocal delivery :).
I would love to know this as well!
Have an Area51m that’s gsync, but my desktop has an RX 6800 XT. Would like to know if I need to pull one of my 3080s out of the mines for this monitor
I don't think this monitor has freesync
@@Peterdeskater100 I found another video with a Radeon rx 6900xt and freesync premium works just fine with the g-sync module.
@@SwampyF4RT this is great!
I came for the wallpaper. It’s in the description.
Yassssssss.
More about the color vs LG OLED: The reason why it looks better than conventional WOLED is not because is has a slightly bigger color GAMUT or slightly more brightness. It's mostly because it has a lot bigger color VOLUME. LG OLEDs cannot accurately display deep colors at a high brightness because they use an additional white subpixel to boost brighness, resulting in color washout when it's used. The QD-OLED panel is not restricted in this manner and can display deep and saturated colors all across the luminance range because it has one dedicated subpixel for each color and doesn't need the brightness boosting subpixel to get this bright.
Quality review, like the attention to detail here with peoples extra queries
That Corsair drive is what I have for my boot drive, it is FAST!!!! I used to start up the computer, go make coffee, take the dog out and come back and sit and drink coffee while waiting for boot up. With this drive I start computer, turn on coffee pot and login. Thinking of getting a 2nd to use for my games drive, speed them up a bit too.
Awesome coverage and understanding of the technology. This is a power user dream channel while being very clear for anyone to jump in and evaluate a given piece of tech.
Glad you think so 😊
I'm using it now and color fringing is SO OBVIOUS!
I think everyone can notice it, just some people may be ok to live with it. I don't think I can so I'll return.
If you play games/watch videos for 90% of the time that'll be ok(in fact, I still notice this in my game around all the high contract edges). But if you also using it for reading any text(like what you are doing now) for more than 10% of the time, I don't think this is for you. The text quality is like from a defective monitor.
Agreed, just got mine today, and coming from a decent 1080p IPS the fringing hit me like a slap in the face, I thought I had a defective monitor until I read that's how these monitors are supposed to work! Was going to use it for work where im looking at text 8 hours a day, but the fringing is a deal breaker. Just submitted my return request after only a few hours of owning it :(
I have the samsung version and it`s bad. Don`t think you won`t notice because you will.
It`gives me a headache and returning asap.
Thank you so much for taking the time to make a follow-up video, this was immensely helpful in trying to make a decision about which monitor I want to upgrade to. Since you do recommend this one over the G9 Neo, that's an easy one :P Now I'm curious if this should be my next monitor or if it might be worth waiting for Samsung's own monitor of their panel with the Q8QNB... the only thing that gives me pause about this Alienware is the inclusion of HDMI 2.0 and that 10-bit is still limited to 144hz over DP1.4 - I wonder if Samsung might include more modern connections for the bandwidth requirements at 10-bit. If you do have any thoughts or recommendations regarding this, it would be wonderful and exceptionally kind of you to share them.
Thanks once again for all the tremendous work!
How soon do you want the monitor… if you want it any time in the next 6 months good luck getting the AW3423DW lol 🤣
Alienware lacks basic features for this price tag. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone!
@@whysoserious9635 you don't recommend a monitor you don't even have... and probably can't afford. Makes sense. Gtfo
@@mikerzisu9508 you're wrong, I have lg's OLED with is superior in connectivity and picture quality.
@@WillsB3 I ordered one last week, and is is scheduled to arrive on the April 20th. Not exactly overnight shipping, but less than a month anyway.
Nice video! Straight to the point and well informed. Thank you for answering these questions!
June 22nd can't come soon enough. Been having issues with my Samsung Odyssey G7 since I got it less than a year ago ... Can't wait to get this beautiful monitor on my desk!
Really good answers to many questions other tech sites didn't touch upon. But there was no mention of HDMI ports which detract from the overall quality of the monitor.
I did talk about that in the original review :)
@@TechTesters Oops, my bad. No excuse as I watched it. Guess I'm getting old. 👴
Thanks for the stellar work.
I've had the alienware oled since this video was made. I do the maintenance and everything for it. Today i do a burn in test and the panel is absolutely ruined. Nearly half the screen in random spots is solid burn in. I don't even use hdr 1000. So for anyone wondering, oled may not be the way to go. The input lag is also very noticeable.
About subpixels fringing there can be used 3rd software Clear type or Free type , to adjust subpixels for texts on oleds. In a Windows 11 subpixel fringing are somehow addressed and adjusted by default.
A bit of topic: I think, a interesting question is: what do you prefer? One large screen? On large ultrawide screen? Or a dual display setting? I have two 27 inch displays and i think i like this setting more than one large screen for normal tasks like office, browsing or something like that. Sometimes i play on one display and watch a UA-cam on the other.
It's probably personal preference and can depend on what you do most (gaming, movies, work) and what resolution you prefer and how much desk space you have. A single screen probably suits most applications as there are plenty of tools to divide up the screen for work and some monitors allow for picture-in-picture modes. The problem with 2 monitors is always going to be the gap between them.
I've never understood why anyone would play games on one screen and watch a movie on another at the same time - they must be very boring games. If I ever needed a website or video to show a walkthrough to help me with the game, I'd open it on a tablet or phone.
@@donkeysunited yes, i think you're right.
I personally have another focus regarding playing and watching videos. I watch for example a UA-cam video (like a Podcast) and play sidebi. Therfore i play e.g. FIFA on an easy level. When i play skyrim, i can't watch a video, because i have to focus on the game.
@@mirafu3481 Especially playing on a modded Survival mode where a single wolf could kill you :)
@@donkeysunited yes :D
I own this monitor. Main issues: you can see the red/blue pixel fringing on text at times in games. It can be bothersome, but I try to ignore it. Response times vary depending on the game. Dying Light 2 has terrible response time, for example. The image literally blurs when moving the mouse/stick. Other games must be better optimized. If there's a solution for low response times, I'd love to hear it. Yes, HDR Peak 1000 is dimmer than HDR 400 TrueBlack. Not sure which one is preferable in gaming. (No other drawbacks. I don't notice the fan noise. 175 hz FPS is great.) I went from a 4k panel to this and don't really miss the 4k. Is this monitory worth 1300? Just barely.
Regarding black smear… My LG CX OLED does have some black smear, but it’s almost never noticeable. One time I noticed it was while playing Minecraft, digging a tunnel when there was no torch light, so the whole screen was nearly black. I could see smear between some of the chunky pixels of the block textures. So if this monitor isn’t any worse, I wouldn’t worry about it.
I also played quite a bit of VR with my OLED HTC Vive. The black smear was much more noticeable in VR.
The VRR flicker is a real issue on this monitor, every microstutter in frametime causes my screen to flicker. It's recommended to not use G-Sync at all on this monitor, since the pixel response time is so fast screen tearing isn't noticeable to begin with.
hi, I disagree that it'll be worse for watching movies. Most movies are in 21:9, a movie in 4k usually don't have the full 2160p height. In fact, I think ultrawide monitors are perfect for movies. 16:9 content might not scale up as perfectly, but those are getting fewer by each day, with anime and consoles being the main remaining areas, since even streaming content are shot in ultrawide aspect now.
the only good thing about dell products is if they break they will mail you a replacement and give you prepaid shipping label to mail your broken one back if its still under warranty. No CC charge hold or shipping costs to get a replacement. When I had to RMA an ACER Predator monitor I had to find a box and pay for the shipping just for them to diagnose it and it was still under warranty.
These monitors 100% experience burn in. Ive had one since launch and although the image quality and form factor are perfect for my mixed use of work and gaming, i can now clearly see horizonal lines from chrome windows in near grey colours, especially noticeable in sky boxes in games such as the resident evil 4 remake. This is despite being super careful to vary use and minimise task bars. I suspect over the next year or so people will start to realise oled is still oled and has an extremely limited life span before burn in occurs.
Nada, or the Tech-tuber that will put all the others out off business x)
Great quality piece of information, thx
Thanks for the answers Nada! Also friendly reminder for everyone : 144 and 175hz is exactly the same!
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Just bought the samsung version of this monitor in the hope it would have lees issue wit color fringing, sadly it`s still terrible.
Be warned every piece of text on a high contrast level will be affected .
And you won`t get use to it because it shifts with viewing angle.
Reviewers seem to be ignoring this flaw very much and it`s bad. The purple lines appear everywher around lines and letters, be warned.
I`m returning mine because i cant work on it.
Nice video :) Just where is the wallpaper link? :D
Fixed!
Nice follow up information, just ordered one of these. Thanks. 😉
I've found that you need to turn off Chromatic Aberration in games, or dark areas can look terrible.
thank you for the great video you give the advice people need before they want to buy the monitor
The text color fringing most likely has to do with Cleartype, but it can be disabled in OS settings. Greyscale antialiasing looks inferior than RBG, but it shouldn't end up in visible fringing.
The fringes show up on all high contrast edges, not just on fonts though. Which means that you'd get it with grey scale AA as well.
@@finestPlugins Normally there's fringing also with classic RGB arrangement, perhaps it's more annoying here because it's partly vertical. But I'd think that the WRGB arrangement on LG's OLEDs would be more annoying than this.
Disabling cleartype doesn`t solve anything the fringing lines are everywhere on high contrast places and shift with viewing angle, be ware it gives you an headache.
It`s unacceptable.
@@brugj03 It should at least partially solve it, better not assume anything about the pixel arrangement than assume the wrong pixel arrangement. But perhaps we're more used to horizontal fringing than vertical one, or perhaps it's because on an LCD they're 3 thin vertical rectangles and not square dots.
Still better than WRGB or Pentile..
Your vids have always been more inclined to the tech side of presenting other then showing what you are talking about. That said, I think I will enjoy much more if the part concerning games was actually shown instead of talking about numbers and results.
Point taken!
Is it worth upgrading from Acer X27?
I can confirm, you look even better on an OLED display
Thanks for all the thorough information!
I have had two of these monitors for just about a year now. The first had a dead sub-pixel which displayed a very bright red on any light colors. I received a replacement for free from Dell which ALSO had a dead sub-pixel. Dell support has since stopped responding to my support ticket and has not asked for either monitor back.
My monitor is already showing signs of burn-in after one year of usage. These will absolutely have burn-in typical with OLED's. I work remotely and use this monitor for work, and after work for gaming. There is already burn in from Teams icons, Desktop icons, and Taskbar icons. They are minor and hard to notice, but they are there and continue to get worse over time.
I can also say that the monitor is frustrating to use. With the auto pixel refresh enabled I was constantly getting messages in the middle of me working or gaming, and it will continue to perform the refresh unless you tell it otherwise. You would think it would just perform these after the monitor has been sleeping for 10-15 minutes, but instead it decides the best time is in the middle of you using it.
I would often come back to my monitor completely blank because it decided it was time to perform a refresh while I was on lunch. The power LED is brighter than the surface of the sun and pulses constantly while the monitor is sleeping (I literally painted over it with liquid electric tape). Eco-mode is.. bad.. sometimes the monitor refuses to wake up after it sleeps. The fan in the monitor is pretty noisy sometimes when you're displaying bright content. The menu can ONLY be accessed while there is a signal from one of its inputs.
I would love to run the pixel refresh, and panel refresh more often but it is very annoying if I forget to do it before turning off my computer. I have pretty much given up even using it at this point, but when I was using it on a daily basis it didn't improve the burn-in whatsoever.
Just all around a bad experience, I will never buy Alienware/Dell again. I would not recommend this monitor, but I think I would pin the blame on Dell not the actual QDOLED Panel.
Blah blah blah. Nobody cares.
at 7.50 what was the question? WOLED vs QDOLED?
Finally oled monitors! The fan is accettable only if easily replaceable. Waiting for a 4K Flat 16:9 XD
I also bought this model. This product has an HDMI 2.0 cord, but this only gives me 60Hz unless I drop the resolution to full HD. I bought a conversion cord to connect from Thunderbolt to the display port, and I got 120Hz at the maximum resolution. I would like the included cable to be HDMI 2.1.
When im in HDR Mode, my stream in Discord is very bright. Is there a fix here other than going back to SDR when streaming?
Glad to hear it does't has any serius issue, but I wish a 27", I prefer more fps than more space.
4:40 - no, 5 ms reponse time IS NOT 1-2 frames per second worse than other monitors. If you have 90 FPS the rendering time is ~10 ms per frame. So you wont notice any difference.
This true? The only thing putting me off... I want to play CS on it
What about the comparison to a Samsung G8? It's their option to buy regarding QD OLED.
HDR400 mode is basically made for windows use. Eg. as its capped at 400nits changing a white window size won't make drastic changes in brightness unlike in hdr1000. but those situations are few and far between.
Usually just better to turn on HDR when in games that use it (it automatically turns it on when selecting the option in the game anyway). Not sure why anyone would want to use HDR while doing general work in Windows, it's not meant for that.
I've purchased both Samsung's 32-inch Neo G8 and Alienware's QD-OLED 34-inch widescreen. Alienware's 34-inch QD-OLED really isn't 4k. It's a 2k widescreen (3440 x 1440) monitor. Samsung's 32-inch Neo G8 is true 4k (3840 x 2160). I've purchased Alienware for widescreen FPS games, Samsung for regular usage, and some FPS games. I don't want to beat up the Alienware monitor, and Samsung will update their software over time.
I think the two together will be an extremely nice pair of monitors. 😁
@El Cactuar, the resolution of a 2k monitor, is 2048 (Length) x 1440 (Width). Alienware's QD-OLED is 3440 (Width) x 1440 (length). The 1440p is the standard for 2k monitors. Alienware states "34-inches" because they measured from the upper left to the lower right (bezel to bezel), which is 34-inches. The width gives you more room at a 2k resolution (extended 2k monitor). On the desktop, you just get more real estate to place Icons. In video games, the sides of the image is stretched (exaggerated), giving you larger viewing angles. It's supposed to give you this "realistic viewing angle" as if you're looking through your eyes and not the monitor, yet you're still looking through a monitor, which defeats the purpose of realism.
@El Cactuar, you have no understanding of what widescreen is... The profile dimensions tell you it's a 2k widescreen. The length is past the regular 2k measurements while maintaining the 2k height, which means it's a "widescreen."
QD-OLED is how the image is displayed. It goes through two filters instead of one. It combines quantum dot (QD) and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology. That is not a measurement but how the image is displayed.
On a side note, and just out of curiosity, I noticed you're using the term "y'all," which is southern country slang, and you call yourself "El Cactuar." Those two things make me think you're from Texas or Arizona. I went to Sheppard AFB and Luke AFB, and I've heard people use y'all as a slang term while serving.
@El Cactuar , you're right about the ultrawide. I'll thumb up your comments. So I'm guessing it's a 2k but an ultrawide 2k monitor? It's still a QD-OLED. I'll have the monitor soon. I'm wondering if games will keep heading towards ultrawide screens? It would be nice, given that gamers are moving towards ultrawide screens.
I was able to get my order in the short window it was available. Should be getting mine sometime this month. Currently using the PG35VQ. Which is what replaced the Samsung G7 that I was using for 6 months. I got tired of the monitor's issues.
Yeah not getting mine until June 15th :/
Really unfortunate
Update: Finallly got mine. Advise people to turn HDR off when using the desktop. .
Vrr Flicker is down to your cable not supporting the bandwidth of vrr at that refresh
Thanks for pointing out the most common questions nearly everyone have about this revolution, in my case: folor fringing. But at 60cms.. even my ips looks abit wierd for my eyes :D
I been using this monitor for a week now. I would like to say that issue exaggerating the text fringing is kind of nonsense because it is literally non-existent if you sit at normal viewing distance unless u stick your nose close to the monitor. Like seriously, iam very happy with this monitor and its the best of its kind so far. I been testing it with some HDR 4k ultrawide videos and it just blows my mind. You gotta see for yourself to believe it is all i can say. Totally worth every penny!
whats the fan noise, like from everyday usage, YT content with white pages, gaming etc? do you hear it when monitor is in idle but with screen on?
Pixel peeping. Never heard of it, love the word. Will try to use it in daily conversations.
Is the lack of polarization layer a part of the Lg panel or the Dell product?
soo beautiful
does anyone know if there is freesync/adaptive sync flickering when gaming between 48-59Hz using RADEON Gpus? many VA panels can suffer from this (specially monitors using older VA panels from Samsung like the ROG XG27v) & how good does it look across the refresh range?
is there a review out there showing motion results at 60, 85, 100 & 120Hz? (like Tim from HWUB does, this is specially important info for those that play a variety of games like fighting games, single player graphically intensive games or any games that feature a FPS cap like Soulsborne games).
I would guess no because it includes the G-Sync module that has variable overdrive that smooths out these things even at lower refreshrates.
@@Raivo_K even adaptive sync flicker is fixed with the GSync module when using AMD GPUs? i thought it only fixed the pixel transitions but not backlight flicker itself, good to know. Thanks.
I can't answer your question about AMD cards, but I can tell you that when I tested The Medium (dark horror game that shows the VRR flicker issue on LG OLED very well), even down to 49hz/fps with this monitor and my 3090, there were no flickers/gamma issues.
As long as the module performs the same with your AMD card, it should be fine.
I hope Samsung is working on the 42"/43" 4K QD-Monitor and 5K for 42"/43" is welcomed too.
With that size pixel peeping would be about none, cause you have to sit a bit further to see the full monitor.
@Techtester Great fast follow up 👍
Lol where's the wallpaper, not on the description
I just bought this monitor, any idea what is the basic set up for desktop I should use and what are the recommendations? I am a noob at all this tech matters. Sincerely, I want to see how cyberpunk and witcher runs on this and how immersive it feels and I planning to play games like black myth wukong. I am super torn on buying R13 or
R15, or should I build my own?
Do you foresee an Acer, Asus, or Samsung version with 10bit color at 175hz?
I heard that i was shortlisted "You have been shortlisted among our amazing winners for the ongoing giveaway!!!"
do you agree with HDTV TEST findings. he pointed out some issues he didn't like.
Here in Brazil, it's expected that they'll start shipping the monitor to customers in July. The wait is killing me.
How is the usability in a bright room? Reflections etc
YO SHE LOOKS SO GOOD IN OLED
How to align screen so its not shifted due to pixel shift
OLED dims over the years, at HDR 1000 vs HDR400 or more so SDR content. Would that not increase the strain on the QD-OLED reducing it's brightness over the years sooner?
Hard to say now, we'll find out in a few years I guess :(
We in UK can confirm that you have to wait months for replacement. Dell fucked up and left no backup stock for failed ones !!!
I know of two people who claim to have already recieved their replacement unit but seems like there wasn't much stock for RMA because all the others have to wait a few months.
i'm a bit puzzle on the hdr slider in windows 11. Which is better for hdr content? higher slider or lower? the default is at 40 which makes my desktop really dark
That was super helpful and it allayed several of my fears. Now if only Dell would send me the email saying it's shipped. 😅
getting flashed in csgo will feel like the real deal with this thing
Quick question. Which one do you think is best. This monitor or the new lg c2 42”. I use my PC mostly for gaming but I also watch the ocasional movie/tv show on it