what a time to be alive if you love PC
gaming don't get me wrong 40 series complete disappointment but monitors
they have been getting better and better and better in the last few years both in
terms of like panel technology as well as refresh rates and color gamut
coverage it's just insane today I've got
the aw 2723 DF sorry I've got to read it off
the Box because I absolutely hate monitor naming conventions and they're not always the easiest to remember but
at least with Alienware they kind of keep it similar like if you've probably heard me rattle off the
aw3423dw several times is the one I have at home it's a cutie Ola it's pretty
nice today we've got this guy and it is unfortunately not qdo-led it's IPS but
it's got a few tricks up its sleeve that I'm actually really excited to check out
for myself and show you guys so let's get it out of the box and take a look
it's 1440p 240 hertz fast IPS uh one millisecond
graded gray response time and it can go
up to 280 Hertz overclock it also covers
95 of the DC ip3 color space and comes
Factory calibrated which is great for anyone who actually cares about color
accuracy what's this it's an Alienware monitor
I like one what makes this one so special uh it does 240 or 280 Hertz it's
DCI P3 is like 95 coverage of that your
games will look so accurate okay they will but it's 650 dollars which for this
like a display with these specs that's actually pretty good we honestly thought
it would be more you're one of those people who doesn't put on these panel
covers and it drives me up the wall oh yeah I don't bother just do it here's
what I need the viewer to hold proof to account is that he's gonna put the back
panel on this because I'd say Alienware makes nice looking monitors sure and
they they need that just a little bit of help we don't need that don't listen to
him it's okay you're never gonna look behind your monitor unless you're set up
in like the middle of your room you're not going to look back there so I just
personally don't if you want a cable cover and make it real nice and tidy and
never look at it again by all means please feel free it does feel satisfying
when you actually stop and take the time to do that we've got the big Alienware
branding on the side you know it's a love it or hate it kind of relationship
it's funny me and David were just talking about this we uh grew up when
Alienware was actually pretty cool I grew up in like the boutique scene so
lots of like Voodoo PC back when I buy Power was really good but because I grew
up with it before they got bought out by Dell I've actually got like fond memories of Alienware I don't know horse
says he likes these I actually think they look pretty clean once they're all set up it's just a really Pure White
um stand and a white like panel we'll show you that in a sec what else is in
here we've got usbb
HDMI I think it's 2.0 doesn't have 2.1
but that's okay DisplayPort this is
what DisplayPort to DisplayPort mini that's what it looks like I don't know
if this guy has a power brick it looks like it oh no
we'll have to get our own C13 because as has happened many times in the past
unless we get some kind of converter in the Box I don't think this is going to
plug into any of our walls unfortunately and we're gonna do the old click it in
and then pull it out method which works wonders I highly
recommend if you're setting up a display try to do it that way it works really
well and you're not going to damage anything and all the packaging stays nicely here it's not curved it's a flat
panel but for 27 inches at 16 by nine that's totally okay yeah it's got this
really cool like 27 on the back here I like the little alien badge on the back
I think this is RGB there are two or three places that this has RGB on it so
that might be one of them I should have shown you guys this before I put it on
the stand while it was nice and flat but that's okay we've got our power plug
here USB B USB a right beside it and
another USB a I think there's a Kensington lock right here and then
we've got two HDMI 2.0 ports a DisplayPort 1.4 I almost missed this but
further along the bottom we've actually got two more USB a ports and then a
headphone jack on the bottom here which is actually a really big selling point
for me personally if I've got a hub let me put it on the bottom or on the side
somewhere that's really easy to plug in and out of it's got hydrogen assessment
all the way down all the way up and then it's got a bit of swivel actually it's
quite a bit of swivel to be honest that's pretty good it's got some tilt it's pretty honestly this thing's pretty
adjustable and it's got my favorite trick
you can do portrait mode with a 90 degree pivot it's also got a handy
little headphone hanger here click it in pull it out not bad it's not like the
most dirty yeah it's actually not bad here's the thing though like when are
you ever going to use this in portrait mode you can go both ways by the way which is really nice but I find it
hilarious like this is a 240 hertz display you are not going to use this in
portrait it's going to be wild the day where you turn this portrait because
it's it's literally now your secondary display because you've got something
better you know probably five years down the line or something but hey it's uh
it's a nice feature to have and even if you don't like the stand I'm pretty sure
it's vase unmountable it'd be crazy for them to not make it vase a mountable yep
100 by 100 vase amounts and then if you do want to stick it on the stand you've
got a ton of cable management options well it's one option really but it can
fit quite a few cables it just goes in this hole here and then right out the
bottom and out the back boom all right as for now uh oh I love that click it's
so satisfying we're just going to get this set up at our our sweet gaming rig
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of my monitor they're always like oh but they were brand new it's so ugly but I
mean how much do you really see like looking at this from here there's like a
little alien head down here okay and then sure if you look from the side yeah
it says Alienware there and there's an alien on the back we've got a power button on the bottom here lights up
that's always cool another thing I hadn't mentioned yet was this is g-sync
compatible and then it is also freesync premium Pro and look at the cable
management can you like look how good this looks looks pretty good all right
please if you're buying a nice monitor make sure to set it up right set it to
whatever refresh rate it can actually do don't like leave it at 60 or you're
probably gonna be disappointed we're gonna turn HDR on is it's Vasa certified
HDR 600 I don't think there's dimming zones so we'll see how good it does the
HDR and refresh rate already detected
the monitor correctly our refresh rate 60. oh baby 240. now it can do 280 it
says so on the box we're going to use our navigation to bolt to open the OSD
usually when it comes to overclock you have to actually enable the overclock
before it'll show up as an actual setting in Windows and we've got it
right here game overclock off oh I like this they've actually got a
number of options that are in between 280 and 240. if you go to enable 280 and
it doesn't quite work it's uh you know it crashes get flickers whatever
um boom go down to 270 see if that's more stable for you let's go to 280
because we're not messing around here wow
wow what else we got here we got response time fast super fast extreme
they do say on the box that it's one millisecond grader gray for extreme
settings so to be fair just on fast it's probably not going to be the fastest
response time so we'll go super fast we'll go in the middle uh this should do
600 nits Peak and I think they mentioned 450 and it's typical which is fine for
HDR we're going to crank it oh yeah let's see where the RGB is I so they
mentioned three zones and I can see them here and they're all set to the Alienware like kind of turquoise blue
color we've got it here on the alien head I love the 27. it's hilarious how I
mentioned you know we're just gonna put this up against a wall and that's why we're not putting the cable cover but
then I like the RGB on the back oh well whatever and then the bottom one
is probably like on the bottom of the display actually I can't find it it must be the
power LED which is where they've got that labeled as RGB oh and it does
10-bit okay so the only reason I saw 8-bit before is because it kicked us out
of HDR when we did our overclocking adjustments now that's all set back to
HDR on 280 Hertz and we're getting 10-bit color which is even better yeah
this thing just keeps impressing me especially at the like 650 price point
that's not bad let's watch some HDR content it's nothing impressive so far looks
okay we're not seeing any really weird tone mapping like we've seen on some
other displays so now it's really a matter of the local dimming and I don't
think they're zones so it's just single panel that's that 95 DCI P3 coverage it
really helps colors pop oh this is a good one
having trouble no just making sound oh does it look
prettier now oh I can really tell from this side yeah
you can really see it eh yeah huge difference
this is why I don't bother with these things oh wait we need to plug
in the USB but no but like that's the problem maybe
you do it a little shut it and forget it no no no no no right the first time yeah
and then it looks beautiful the rest of the time can I make a fingerprint like
it's not as bad as others we've seen where the whole thing turns into a
blurry field of green basically yeah admittedly though you're right it's not
the crispiest uh motion Clarity but man
the frame rate does feel good it looks really smooth yeah 280 maybe that's
where it is because I've had 240 before and I'm like yeah you know it's not that
much better than like 140. but I guess maybe once you go to 280 maybe like 300
or so it really starts to kick up but yeah you're right this is a little
blurry as I move around a little less clear than I'd like it to be it's almost
like cinematic though it's weird yeah it's a yeah I want to be clear it's not
the same kind of blur that we've complained about in terms of motion
Clarity on some displays where this is like we've turned on motion blur almost
it is really just the edges hey like I can actually make out like even this
logo up here PO5 or whatever it might be the game it might also be because we're
only in Faster instead of extreme is
where they're talking about that one millisecond graded gray I just don't like turning up the the motion response
too much like I don't like turning it up to extreme or whatever because you
usually end up with a lot of um inverse ghosting because they're trying to
overdrive it a little too hard that's pretty good like as much as like this
looks not the greatest you're never really gonna do that in a real world environment you're gonna flick right to
try to headshot someone and these are catching up like right away that's just
crisp like instantly so it's a little bit bad in between but that's okay I can
totally deal with that this looks pretty good though like that much shine there
and the Darkness around it yeah I will give this thing a pass in terms of HDR
it's not bad it's not like amazing if you get a bunch of dimming zones in here
it's probably better but you know what that is definitely acceptable you know
what for the UFO test I'm going to crank this up too extreme and there's also
preset modes we're in standard right now RPG Sports Creator whoa Creator's so dim
oh it's got a picture and picture and picture by picture for anyone who cares
about that I'm not crazy about it because I never use it but it's actually a really handy feature for those who
need it one thing I absolutely love is when you just go into the OSD it brings
up this top bar here that shows you a bunch of stuff like it shows me my mode that I'm in shows me that I'm in smart
HDR for desktop shows them in response time extreme and the dark stabilizer
stuff it's stuff that you often want to know quickly without having to go into
some kind of sub menu it's having some issues but it's pretty good for the most
part there's like no ghosting though
and no inverse ghosting I'm going to go to none because I find the Stars a
little distracting and I'm going to crank up the speed I want these to go
they're at 960 pixels per second let's basically double that cancel too fast
I'm crazy I'm crazy 1200. yeah there's a
little bit of a trail on the back end of the ship it's pretty crisp I'm pretty
sold yeah I don't know there's not a whole lot else to say it's a pretty
decent display for an actually not
inexpensive price 650 is still a lot of
money to a lot of people I totally understand that but if you want a 280
Hertz IPS display that does okay HDR
this might be the monitor for you now if you're really against Alienware and you
can't deal with the logo or The Branding or whatever feel free to just put it on
a vase amount this thing is not too thin but it will still fit on your wall
pretty nicely for those of you who are interested it's already available in I
think Japan and China and it's going to be available to the rest of the world on
October 6th so maybe by the time this video comes out you can just click buy
and check it out for yourself otherwise you might just have to wait a little
while I don't it's right here and I like it thanks for
watching that's ShortCircuit if you want to watch another fun ShortCircuit
maybe check out the zoom 65 that should be coming up sometime soon it's a really
nice keyboard not a monitor but another expensive hobby that I kind of have uh
yeah see you later