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i'm expecting a few things one i'm expecting extremely smooth animations provided that i've got the hardware to drive it which i do number two i'm expecting completely pitch black blacks i mean that's one of the key benefits of OLED is that every single pixel can be turned off individually and then finally the last thing i'm expecting is something that could be a huge decision factor for me alienware is claiming less than 0.5 millisecond pixel response times now in theory this has always been a benefit of OLED technology really fast pixel switching which eliminates or at least dramatically reduces that blurring or ghosting when you've got moving objects across the screen but it's something that really hasn't been focused on by a lot of the OLED uh display manufacturers up until now because they're just they're not really that uh dialed in to the gaming community neat so that's cool i guess that explains where the included vasa adapter goes so if you're more into using like a monitor ARM or whatever else you can get right into that but putting that there and then screwing that into whatever kind of you know wall or desk mount or whatever else it is that you want is if you're more into just setting it up on your desk you just slide this puppy in here uh we can have a look at the i o now so we've got a single usb 3 up link with four downlinks two of them are here we've also got optical audio out displayport 1.4 in and two HDMI 2.0 ports and then this is cool we've got this cable management ow okay well don't run your finger down it so this is how i'm planning to use it so i'm going to go ahead and pop these screws in whoops oh um shoot i guess you're supposed to do that one first oh man then over on this side we've got power in which is going to run through this cable channel which i will keep my fingers out of then when you've got all your cables managed you go ahead you pop this back on wow that is a nice magnetic backing i don't remember the last time i saw such an elegant monitor back cover back when they first showed this it wasn't clear exactly how NVIDIA's g-sync on freesync monitors thing was going to work and we didn't know if this was going to be a variable refresh rate display well it turns out it is it's freesync and as you know NVIDIA g-sync can be forced enabled on any freesync display so we definitely want to give that a shot but there is one big caveat this while it does feature 400 nitpeak brightness is not HDR certified so rather than installing it at my tv i think i'm going to take the product box literally did you really put a tv on your table uh it's not a tv it's a monitor it says on the box well the box doesn't fit in here it's big andy can you take an end yup what i wouldn't hold it by the top yeah i would yup i would support it by that okay good you good there might be an argument to be made for using a gigantic 4k display instead of a smaller one so i'm going to go ahead and take out my rog swift pg-35 whatever this is and we're going to pop that thing in its place i think i'm going to need to move my 3d printer well it passes the first challenge which is not encroaching on my wife's desk is your 3d printer living on my desk uh no i'll move that sorry i'm just doing something very important right now i have to play this game and see if i'm getting a competitive advantage from my new monitor and i thought this was interesting it's very unusual for monitor manufacturers to include such a long displayport cable but this one is a 10 foot cable because clearly alienware while they are marketing this as a monitor is just not really sure where people are going to deploy this thing that's why they include a remote with it now just like with the ASUS bfgd i already have some concerns about the remote uh because so far alienware doesn't appear to have done anything specific to integrate with logitech harmony and their remote doesn't have specific commands for like input one input two so um in the living room depending on your setup it might not end up making a ton of sense but um hey i mean at least you have something even if it doesn't perfectly integrate with like a super advanced setup oh there goes the built-in speakers so the Windows control panel knows what's wrong there we go all right cool so ycbcr-422 so 8-bit color they claim about 98 coverage of the dc ip3 color space not bad for a high refresh rate display so you've got all the usual sort of gaming image presets um personally i've always been partial to just you know standard the way the developer intended it there's a backlighting on the monitor that's kind of glowing off the wall it's cool i guess if you're into that sort of thing there are shortcut keys at the bottom of the monitor and you can reconfigure what you want them to do there is no option for pixel overdrive because theoretically the pixels are plenty fast enough on their own and we can do a quick sanity check for that and we are getting next to no smearing not bad well it don't do 144 okay it's just like 125. so it's not overclockable i've heard people make the argument to me before like hey Linus you know why bother going for an ultra wide monitor when you could just have the whole thing and then you could always just take your window and make it ultra wide or whatever okay so this is a chance to give the onboard speakers a shot i've certainly heard worse i will say this though zero complaints so far with respect to input lag and pixel response times that was crisp oh you know what anno got an update so one of my biggest complaints about anno up until now has actually been that you can't zoom out far enough particularly if you have a large monitor now i've got a really big monitor and they've updated it apparently to have a much greater zoom that was actually like a couple months ago but i haven't played it much in the last little bit okay here we go so it's an option under gameplay increased camera oh restart required okay fine further out that is so much better freaking awesome like you can really see enough of an island to actually make reasonable decisions but like this is the old limit like i can't even see enough of the island to make a decision about what kind of layout i want for it like it's stupid this is way better you can really see what you're doing we've got g-sync enabled and that is looking g-sync smooth i don't see any tearing like okay just to be clear guys these weird anomalies that you're seeing here those are an effective draw distance okay oh here we go actually i have juiced two hot import nights which i have never played but i specifically installed for an upcoming video make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss it where i'm gonna go through and play games that i have never played that are in my steam library i'm sure we can all relate to that i'd say comfortable distance for this one is a little closer than something like an rpg where you really need the context of everything that's going on around you all at once but not quite as close as something like anno where you're really doing things at your leisure and it's okay to be looking around here it's okay to have the peripheral vision filled up but it's more for immersion and less for actually looking at it like really you've got your eyes on the road so i'd say the distance that we're at right now is okay but i'd recommend a newer game that doesn't have crashing issues pc gaming it's just so easy i'd say to comfortably play a fast-paced FPS i'd need to be more than reasonable desk width away from this thing yeah i think this is the least compelling of the gaming experiences we've tried out today by a long shot yeah i can see how if you're prone to motion sickness too like this would be quite overwhelming for you what do you think david uh i think there's a reason pro shooter gamers play on 24 inch monitors yeah i'm with you dude now as for third-person adventure type games so let's just shadow the tomb raider here once again as long as you got a chair that can do this i don't really see the size as a as a huge problem from this distance i'm pretty comfortable but this game in particular definitely brings my attention back to the fact that this display does not support HDR this game in HDR looks amazing and the monitor i took off my desk to put this one here does support HDR and it's a totally totally different experience unfortunately this safe game is stuck at the beginning but yeah that's fine i do want to try their so-called smart HDR and see if that does anything for me though that's worthless so all that's fine and good but the one game that more than any other one i find just impossible to enjoy on anything other than a crt is this one and to be clear i understand that any game that was designed to be displayed with scan lines is never going to look great on a progressive display like this one but when it comes to the input leg i'm hoping that this will be the first time on anything other than a crt that i find this game playable oh boy oh boy it's been a while you can see there is a perceptible delay am i just being picky though so the conclusion for this one is a little bit complicated at 55 inches compared to how affordable 65-inch tvs are and how much more immersive that viewing experience is from a typical couch distance i don't see alienware's gaming display or monitor whatever you want to call it making a play for your living room anytime soon then when it comes to the desktop experience well it ranged from really really amazing all the way down to wow this isn't that playable and i almost feel like i would need an extension to my desk in order to be able to take in the information that's being bombarded at me so i don't really see a compelling use case for it there either where i see this display finding its ultimate niche though is somewhere like this sorry guys i'm totally blindsiding you with this i don't even know if david's gonna be able to fit in here with me the basement den or the upstairs playroom that is where alienware's gaming monitor really comes into its own because lacking HDR kind of kills it for me as a primary display for watching movies or for cinematic games but the image quality the input lag and the high refresh rate with no glitches that we encountered at least during our session with g-sync means that as a gaming display it's absolutely fantastic as long as you're willing to live without HDR which for me for a second display i absolutely would another reasonable place to deploy it would be somewhere like a dorm room where it can be used for everything from schoolwork to having a bunch of friends over and playing some overcooked too the problem with every scenario that i just pitched though is of course the price we're talking secondary displays for the den or the bedroom or something for a student and the OLED panel is kind of a killer at that point with that said even if this only applies to point zero zero percent of customers out there that's still a lot of gaming displays that they're going to move because quite frankly there is nothing else in the market quite like this and so from that perspective i think dell has absolutely hit it out of the park here i have no complaints as long as my use case for it makes sense speaking of things that make sense checking out our sponsor freshbooks freshbooks is the cloud-based accounting solution that's built for how you want to work and you can work anywhere with the freshbooks mobile app you can create professional looking invoices on the go you can snap pictures of your receipts so you don't lose them you'll never miss an update so you can see when a client has seen their invoice to put an end to the guessing games and you don't have to take my word for it guys because you can try freshbooks out for free for 30 days at the link in the video description so go check it out so thanks for watching guys if you liked this monitor you can check out the link to where to buy it in the video description and if you like this video you can check out my recent video where i looked at the pros and cons of ASUS's pg65u bfgd gaming display that's about the only thing i'd consider to be a straight up competitor for this but the price is higher it's bigger it's got HDR but the price is higher"}