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AW3425DW land on my desk. In fact, I requested to unbox this one specifically

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as soon as I saw the press release because guess what? It's 240 hertz. And

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the best part, unlike the original model that retailed at $1299, this one is

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$7.99. It's 800 bucks. You're getting 240 Hz

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3440x440p resolution in a roughly 34 in

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ultrawide display, but now it's faster.

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It's a little more color accurate, and it's so much cheaper. So, let's see what

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we get in the box. We've got the new stand from Alienware that I am head over

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heels in love with. We've got the other part of our stand. It's absolutely

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beautiful. Um, I just love how little of

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a footprint this thing has on your desk. Even though the square footage on it is

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probably bigger because it's not those two big legs poking out. It's just

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easier to put somewhere. I also just love the blue. That's a big problem for

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some people, you know, if it's not black or white. It's not going to match everything. But I'm a big blue fan and

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so this one really does it for me. Uh, what else do we got in here? We've got

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our C13 power cable, HDMI 2.1, because

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that's right. Unlike the previous version that only had 2.0, 0. This one's

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got full 2.1 HDMI spec. Then we've also got a USBB cable for connecting to our

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computer as well as finally our DisplayPort cable. One other minor complaint,

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it doesn't have DP 2.1. It is still DP 1.4. However, it's got a really cool

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feature where you can actually turn DSC on or off if you really want to. We'll

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get to that later. And then we also got this little box here. It's probably just got Yeah. some monitor cleaning cloth

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stuff. Be careful. These things are delicate. And you definitely only want

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to use distilled water. Be careful. You do all, you know, put it in, click,

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clack, pull it out of the box. 34 inch ultra wide is like, it's such a great

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size. It's still really easy to handle. It's not super heavy, and it still just

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gives you so much monitor real estate. And at 34 in 1440p ultrawide, you're

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still getting about 110 PPI, which is

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totally usable. Honestly, even sub 100 is okay, but you really want to be over

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100 for that nice clarity. Our little film here has been taken off and put

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back on because it's been tested. I'm going to take it off again so you don't

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have to see these

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boobles. It's like Rice Krispies. And I've done the thing I always forget to

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do with these curved displays. I want to keep it on the little stand so I can

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take a look at the IO cuz unfortunately unlike a flat display, I can't just put

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this on the table. So, one moment, please. As for IO, we've got our power

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connection here, and then a couple of HDMI 2.1 ports, DisplayPort, and our

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USBB port. And then below, what we're

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actually missing out on a little bit here is a lack of USBA ports, but where

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you lose a couple of USBA ports, they give you USBC. Take it or leave it. I

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would rather have the USBC. The only unfortunate thing about

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this is that the power delivery on it caps out at 15 watts. So, if you're the

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kind of person who wants to like park a laptop and have it charge while you use it with the monitor, it's not going to

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have enough juice for that. Sorry. You're going to have to get your power adapter. Click clock. Extract. Look at

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one-handed. I love large displays. They're great, but they're heavy.

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They're so hard to They're so hard to install yourself. Um, as for the stands

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capability, we've got some swivel. We've got height

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adjustment. You know, it can go up and down with some tilt. And then I've heard

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that it can pivot ever so slightly to the point where we're not calling it

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pivot. Oh yeah, it can. Wow. Okay. So,

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you're not going to go uh full 90 degrees or anything. But let's say for

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whatever reason this thing isn't level. You can just actually adjust it ever so

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slightly. It's also got some pretty good cable management. Nice and big open hole

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here to stick all your cables in. We're just going to plug some cables in and

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and welcomed to a like please select language thing. Tells me my service tag.

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I get a factory color report that is not

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here. Oh, there it is. Okay. Not really though. It just tells me that it'll tell

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me all of these things. Um, which I can find somewhere. So, that's cool though

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that it'll tell you in the OSD as you boot it up. Select yes to enable USB

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charging. Absolutely. Let me just look through the OSD here. It looks pretty

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standard. They've sharpened it up a little bit.

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PIP. If you're one of the dozens of people who use PIP or PBP, aka picturein

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picture or picture by picture on the regular, now it can do it. I'm pretty

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sure the original model could not do PIP. And I don't use it, but hey, I love

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it when I have got features uh that I'll never use, but I can brag about having

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pixel refresh, factory reset, self diagnosis, screen test.

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Oh, sick. This does come with a three-year warranty that covers image

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retention, by the way. But if you're ever worried about it, um, and you think

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you're driving it too hard and you maybe want to see if you should do a panel refresh or anything like that, uh, you

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can just pop a gray slide on here and look around for it. And you can also

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cycle through a bunch of different colors just to make sure it's all good

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to go. They've even got this little test pattern on here. You might be sensitive

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to color fringing on text. This is a good spot to check for that. Uh, it's a

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Gen two panel, so I don't think they had

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the big text upgrade uh with these ones, but I was never really sensitive to

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color fringing in the first place. A lot of people aren't. Uh, so take that as

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you will, and if it works out for you, it works out for you. If it doesn't, well, you know, maybe you just don't

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read a lot of text on this thing cuz it is primarily a gaming monitor. Looks

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pretty good just out of the box. But we're going to go up to our 240 hertz.

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I did plug in through HDMI 2.1 uh for two reasons. One, a graphics card

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supports it. And two, uh 2.1 is a little

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bit higher bandwidth than DisplayPort 1.4. Uh but you know, you might as well

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just use get that little bit of extra gigabit per second. And we're going to turn HDR on 10 bit color, baby. 465

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nits. That's because we're probably in true black 400 mode. And I don't want to

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be in that because I like a 1000 nits. I like my eyes to be seared. Uh, HDR 1000

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was actually one of our more color accurate modes as well. We'll get to

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testing and everything later on, but uh, this thing's really good. That's all I'm

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going to say for now. It's really good. I love the panel health indicator as

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well. I don't think that's new. Um, but I just it's a nice feature. I really I

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really like it. Bada bing, bada boom. HDR Peak 1000. One thing that is still

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missing, Dell, please, Alienware, please put speakers on this thing. I get that

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you've got like the lowest price out of everyone coming out with these monitors,

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but uh I just want some cheap speakers

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that I can use if I can't have headphones or anything. Uh so let's go.

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What the is this search results on

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YouTube? Tongue tongue tongue saw morning routine. Our HDR footage on a

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cutie OLED display. It just it looks stunning every

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time. There's Andrew there standing proudly by the cabin. whatever that

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thing may be. Uh, I love it. All the colors just pop beautifully and the

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vibrancy per pixel, mind you, because it's OLED, so each pixel is self-

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emissive. And so that's how you've got this like proper full black, full black,

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and then bunch of color here. It's really hard to explain this without having multiple like HDR versions of

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displays in front of me to be like, there's that one, there's that one, there's this one. Uh, but when you've

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got OLED with self-emissive pixels, it just is incredible. You're not going to

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get the bloom that mini LEDs got, and you're not going to get these weird like

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columns that some edge lit displays end up having with their like six zone HDR

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garbage. I recommended this monitor already to a friend of mine. So, Zach,

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if you're watching this video, I hope you're watching it on your brand new

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AW3425DW cuz uh it's good, but I know

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HDR footage looks good on this thing. What I want to know is is that 240 Hz

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refresh rate and lightning fast pixel response time. How's it going to game?

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So, let's pop our camera into 60 FPS. pop this up to 240 hertz and play some

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video games. I gotta say it looks great. We tested uh display

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latency and we got 2.4 milliseconds which is uh.3 over perfect. So, you

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know, it's pretty it's pretty good. It's pretty it's pretty fast. Um we've also

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tested just in case you're playing consoles, you want to hook up a PS5 to

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this thing, especially with that HDMI 2.1 port. Um we measured uh also very

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close to perfect or theoretical perfect at least. It's wild. Like, you know, I

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remember thinking, I'll never need anything more than 140 hertz or 120

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hertz and then you start playing like 240 Hz on the regular and you're like,

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man, I get it now. And I bet you, you know, in a few more years, I'll be like,

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yeah, 360 Hz is where it's at. How how did I ever deal with 240 Hz? It feels

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like garbage. And it's from any angle, too. Like, that's a huge thing about uh

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Q OLEDs is that the viewing angles are absolutely wild. like you can be at just

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about any point in the room and it's still going to look good. Um the

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eight00R curvature I still kind of wish Alienware would just make these things

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flat at 1800R it's like hardly anything and so it's I don't know is it even

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worth curving it? I'm not sure. Um but I would like to see either a more

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aggressive curve or just take it out completely at this point. As for all the

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syncs it's G-Sync compatible. It's got Fresync Premium Pro and it's even got

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Vas's adaptive sync. The embargo for this was yesterday and there's already

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one or two people out there who have them and there's a Reddit post about a

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guy who hears a bunch of coil wine on his. Um, I never heard any coil wine on

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my original

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one. The only coil wine I hear is the

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one coming from our GPU. And so if you can hear it, that sucks and you should

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probably try to return it or something because uh coil wine is annoying and you

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shouldn't have to deal with it on a regular basis. I'm really hoping that was just a guy who got a weird unit. It

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does happen. You know, not all of these units are going to be perfect. As for text fringing, let's take a look and see

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if we can still see it. Um, we should be able to. It should basically be the same

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sub pixel layout as the Gen 1 version, but you know, you might as well just

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take a little lookie poo, see if we can notice anything. I got a big notepad

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file on here. Uh, I got a bunch of text on it. And I'll be honest, I can see it

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if I look really closely, but it's not something that jumps out at me. Um,

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what's more noticeable, frankly, especially now that I'm used to a higher PPI monitor, is um the lack of PPI. I'm

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not going to do a whole DSC evaluation thing. I just want to like turn the

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setting on and off and take a look and see if it's easy at all. Uh, so let's

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try to find it in our OSD. Ah, display

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DSC on. Turn it off. As for color

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accuracy in SDR, we were a little worried at first because we measured an

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average of four. In Delta ETP, in Delta

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E 2000, we got an average of like 0.8.

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Um, so this thing is just great in SDR color accuracy. And then as for HDR

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color accuracy, I think we did measure something like 5.6 average delta E ITP

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for peak 10000 mode, which is still very good. It's It's just It's just the same

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thing from a couple of years ago, but better in basically every single way,

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including the price. I Yeah, you might sacrifice some USB

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ports. And I'm sure there's something out there that someone is going to be

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like, "Oh, well, what about this? How did you forget this?" I don't care. This

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thing is great. It's It's such a good monitor at such a good price. And I

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think that if you want an ultrawide um that you're not going to worry too much

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about when it comes to like image retention and stuff because it has a ton of built-in safety features like a big

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graphite layer um it's just it's so good. If this isn't

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exactly the one for you, don't worry. I'm sure that later this year we'll get

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more and more uh Gen 2 34in ultrawides

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coming out with CD OLED panels. You might not get every single feature that

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you're looking for in the exact monitor that you want, but they will have a

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bunch of different options like maybe they've got more uh power on the USB port for charging or uh you know, maybe

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there's a flat one or whatever. But as for me, I love the blue stand. I don't

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mind the eight00R curvature and I just

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want it first and I want it cheap cuz at

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$800, my gosh, it's an incredible gaming monitor. That's still, you know, don't

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get me wrong, it's still like a high price, but a few years ago, this thing

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would have been thousands.