a few months ago Samsung display gave us an early look at their unreleased
quantum dot OLED TVs and gaming monitors and we made a video telling you guys how
Blown Away we were by the image quality except there was one small problem that
video was sponsored so many of you accused us of being overly enthusiastic
well guess what this right here is the Alienware
aw3423dw it's 175 Hertz it's got HDR and
it's equipped with a brand new quantum dot OLED panel from Samsung display and
because James was the one who did that last video I get to experience this Tech
in the flesh for my very first time
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there's no time to waste so I'm all set up on this chair that we literally found
in the alley I'm at the new house so there's no furniture here yet and we're
gonna game on this bad boy what do we got for graphics horsepower here
a 30 90. perfect oh should we talk about
specs at all no no you just gotta get you got a game on it all right I'm gonna
try it
I've been so excited to try these ever since James came back from the early
sneak peek the first thing I'm going to do is change it from hdr400 True black
which is what you'd see on a typical OLED to HDR Peak 1000 that's right
theoretically it has all the advantages of OLED which means perfect blacks
but with a thousand nits Peak brightness
we're gonna set the game to 3440 by 1440 which is the native resolution of this
panel but while we're in the menu you guys probably noticed something g-sync
is enabled and this isn't just regular g-sync this is g-sync Ultimate so that
means we can have HDR and g-sync running at the same time
all the bells and whistles or I can already tell HDR is working even just in
the menu here we go here we go this is not as
glinty and hdre as I would have expected
yeah just normally you'd see like really
eye searing like specular highlights on the car and stuff like that it's just
not that okay this shaded house with the
lit sky behind it is like kind of a crazy amount of
dynamic range here like my eyes need to adjust to look from
one part of the scene to the other that's insane there's still a lot of
detail in here like when I look up into the sky with
the sun behind it I'm like oh and then I
look over here it's funny it really depends how the game is mastered in HDR
it seems like in Forza they were really going for a more muted
realistic HDR experience it is crazy how
photorealistic this game looks on an accurate display this thing will do 99.3
coverage of the DCI P3 color space and out of the factory we measured just a
Delta e of two in Creator mode using kelman so that's accurate enough for
pretty much professional work on a gaming display now we're in game
mode right now just not Creator mode because we want to run it in HDR 1000
but I was surprised
how not overdone Samsung made their game mode usually Samsung is the king of just
ridiculous vibrancy this looks great
how sure are you that the game supports HDR Microsoft hides HDR under screen
calibration okay we can decide how HDR
we're going here
well yeah I think so yeah
okay this looks freaking awesome
oh man love it I mean it won't make me good at
video games but boy does it ever look good
and wow I do not see any discernible
color shift that is insane it's more like uh like
looking at a picture almost like obviously it's self-emissive right
like it's illuminated but you could forget you're looking at a monitor
unreal it just looks awesome
like what else is there to say effects and explosions look awesome
of course we've seen Super Color accurate displays in the past that are
totally unsuitable for gaming but that is not the case here one of the other
big advantages of OLED is lightning fast
pixel response times and that's still true here Samsung claims 0.1
milliseconds gray to Gray and I can't see any discernible motion blur even
when whipping the camera around that's freaking awesome also pixel response
time is only part of the calculation you also need to factor in how much input
lag there is from the display's electronics and we managed about 16
milliseconds from click to photon with our NVIDIA ldat which is up there with
the best gaming displays no responsive it's just what are the
compromises what are the compromises find me one
honestly like the clarity feels almost strobing clear to me like
as I'm panning around there's just no blur now we should talk about Samsung's
brightness claims for a little bit here we did manage to hit their claimed 1 000
nits of peak brightness in a one or two percent window which doesn't sound like
a lot but in a scene like this would you really have more than one or two percent
of the screen that would actually be at Peak brightness you wouldn't even want
to look at something that's at a thousand nits across the entire display so it does fall off you see about 800
nits Peak brightness at 10 and then once
you make your way all the way to full screen it sits in the neighborhood of
280 nits which is a lot for this much of your field of
view it's very respectable compared to other devices out there and when you
factor in that it's got perfect blacks the perceived dynamic range is extremely
high man look at this suit all glow and yellow and stuff
Jake are you ordering one right now
here get your Shield back where's your Shield does it recharge yeah there we go
there we go watch this ah it looks so good
okay sorry I'm supposed to try a different game now oh this game looks so
good like Forza had that realism kind of
you know HDR effect but this is like whoa fantasy environment HDR you know
it's just different it hits different
all right we're in a much darker scene now but this is a really good
opportunity to talk about one of the big benefits of qdo-led which is much better
representations of red and yellow which
are traditionally really difficult to handle and you get mad it's going to be
hard to capture this on camera through your monitor but I I tell you guys the
gold doesn't look yellow like gold tends
to look on a normal display it looks it looks gold it looks shiny
is I don't think I've ever seen anything
quite like it and I should shoot it apparently oh
the thing about HDR is it's not about
just more FPS right which is what we think about in terms of what makes
something better for gaming it's about increasing the immersiveness and when a
game is mastered well in HDR
it's more realistic looking this looks and feels like I'm standing
in the room I have actually I have a confession to
make gamer confession I have never played an re game
disappointed like your eyes need to
adjust to perceive the difference
it doesn't let you jump up ladders this is one of those Kane's games
something to note though is that our RTX 3090 is working pretty freaking hard to
make this look this good we could even benefit from a 3090 TI upgrade get
subscribed by the way because we do have a review of that coming
here we go I missed one of them to shoot
okay are we close yeah
oh that's really close isn't it
oh stop I can't get rid of the menu
so we're in filmmaker mode on the LG TV
yeah you lose a ton of the detail here
but it's all there to be clear LG's oleds this is a C1
great viewing angles compared to anything that we had seen before but
this is next level it doesn't matter
where you are in the room now one of the TVs with this coming I
definitely want to see a TV with a proper filmmaker mode with this display Tech I feel like it could be even better
okay until now we've talked about some of the reasons the
aw3423dw looks so good but I'm sure you
guys want more depth it starts with the QD OLED panel from Samsung display which
works very differently from a typical white OLED or W OLED panel by starting
with blue light instead of white then they filter that blue light with inkjet
printed Quantum dots hence the QD in QD
OLED we've got another video explaining this more in depth that you can check
out here but basically by starting with a high frequency wave like blue across
the entire panel and then stepping that light down into red green or anything in
between through Quantum dots you lose very little light in contrast to the
current W OLED method which filters
colors rather than converting them and because there's no white subpixel colors
don't get washed out when you're trying to make them look brighter and because
we're being more efficient and not lose using light to color filters we're also
not driving the panel as hard so the Alienware qdl lid here does have a
manual and an automatic pixel or panel
refresher option but the tech has come so far that we're just not anywhere near
as afraid of burning as we used to be on top of that Dell is so confident in
Samsung's panels that they are offering a three year warranty that includes
burn-in now we're still waiting for some official statements from Samsung about
results from Factory testing but confidence is pretty high that you can
finally leave up your UI during a marathon gaming session and not worry
about it sticking around when it's time to watch a movie as for the rest of the monitor you can
put it either on the stand or on a standard base amount and it's got a
two-tone white and black plastic case with RGB Lighting on the back there's
lots of i o including this is really cool two USB ports on the bottom making
them way easier to reach than most monitors and there's a navigation nipple
down there for the on-screen display which has tons of Handy options and is
really easy to use it's got decent Cable Management through the stand and while
the inner and outer bezel leaves a little bit to be desired
they immediately stopped noticing it as soon as there was content up on the
screen there's also an acceptable level of pen swivel and tilt with the included
stand meaning that Alienware might have just made almost every other Ultra wide
1440p monitor irrelevant especially given the price it's 12.99 us
which is a lot of money but right now if
you look for similar specs with an IPS panel rather than a QD OLED
you're not going to find many at significantly cheaper prices this
34-inch Ultra gear from LG 1250. there's
a cheaper Ultra gear but it has way worse HDR uses regular IPS instead of
Nano IPS and it's only g-sync compatible not g-sync ultimate and that one's still
a thousand dollars so you have to ask yourself is cutie OLED worth spending an
extra 300 bucks it's not going to be in everyone's budget but we think that if
you're already in that kind of price range the answer is most definitely yes
and we're going to have this and these other displays linked down below so you
can make your own decision later now part of the reason the price is not
in the several thousand dollars category is the ability to get so many panels of
this size from one sheet of mother glass that's the name for the giant slabs of
glass that TVs and monitors are cut from we don't know exactly what Samsung
display is doing but at 2.5 by 2.2
meters you can fit 18 of this on a
single sheet instead of trying to cut a few out of the leftover glass from the
larger displays like 75 inches TVs now
Samsung is reporting some low yields on this Tech as low as 30 percent but since
so many screens are being cut from a single sheet once small defect doesn't
necessarily mean that one-sixth of your entire sheet is now garbage and as time
goes on and the yield rate increases a nice thing about it being so low is that
there's a lot of room for improvement so the price should come down even further
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lots of fun so it seems like easy answer if you're shopping for a display good
product good price All Things Considered so this is what you buy right
well yes but also no this is the first
cutie OLED gaming monitor on the market and while it seems great you're always
taking a bit of a risk with new tech there's also no real competition yet and
there are sure to be a plethora of qdo-led options in the not so distant
future we could see better prices or I
mean who knows maybe you just don't really like the design of the stand or the housing that Alienware has given us
here so jumping in now honestly looks like a goodbye to me but there are bound
to be more options to choose from if you have a bit of patience as for me my C10
is two generations old at this point so uh this is looking like a pretty good
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