WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:06.000 As a display owner of the 00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:11.920 AW3423DW, I couldn't be happier to see the successor, the 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:16.240 AW3425DW land on my desk. In fact, I requested to unbox this one specifically 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:22.000 as soon as I saw the press release because guess what? It's 240 hertz. And 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:28.080 the best part, unlike the original model that retailed at $1299, this one is 00:00:25.240 --> 00:00:34.000 $7.99. It's 800 bucks. You're getting 240 Hz 00:00:30.279 --> 00:00:37.360 3440x440p resolution in a roughly 34 in 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:39.200 ultrawide display, but now it's faster. 00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:43.520 It's a little more color accurate, and it's so much cheaper. So, let's see what 00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:48.000 we get in the box. We've got the new stand from Alienware that I am head over 00:00:45.680 --> 00:00:52.960 heels in love with. We've got the other part of our stand. It's absolutely 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:55.520 beautiful. Um, I just love how little of 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:59.120 a footprint this thing has on your desk. Even though the square footage on it is 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:02.399 probably bigger because it's not those two big legs poking out. It's just 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:06.560 easier to put somewhere. I also just love the blue. That's a big problem for 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:11.200 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 00:01:09.360 --> 00:01:16.720 so this one really does it for me. Uh, what else do we got in here? We've got 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:18.240 our C13 power cable, HDMI 2.1, because 00:01:16.720 --> 00:01:23.360 that's right. Unlike the previous version that only had 2.0, 0. This one's 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:29.600 got full 2.1 HDMI spec. Then we've also got a USBB cable for connecting to our 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:35.680 computer as well as finally our DisplayPort cable. One other minor complaint, 00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:39.520 it doesn't have DP 2.1. It is still DP 1.4. However, it's got a really cool 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:42.560 feature where you can actually turn DSC on or off if you really want to. We'll 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:48.399 get to that later. And then we also got this little box here. It's probably just got Yeah. some monitor cleaning cloth 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:52.560 stuff. Be careful. These things are delicate. And you definitely only want 00:01:50.399 --> 00:01:56.720 to use distilled water. Be careful. You do all, you know, put it in, click, 00:01:54.000 --> 00:02:01.520 clack, pull it out of the box. 34 inch ultra wide is like, it's such a great 00:01:59.600 --> 00:02:06.320 size. It's still really easy to handle. It's not super heavy, and it still just 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:12.480 gives you so much monitor real estate. And at 34 in 1440p ultrawide, you're 00:02:09.200 --> 00:02:14.879 still getting about 110 PPI, which is 00:02:12.480 --> 00:02:19.680 totally usable. Honestly, even sub 100 is okay, but you really want to be over 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:23.200 100 for that nice clarity. Our little film here has been taken off and put 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:27.200 back on because it's been tested. I'm going to take it off again so you don't 00:02:24.640 --> 00:02:27.200 have to see these 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:34.160 boobles. It's like Rice Krispies. And I've done the thing I always forget to 00:02:32.239 --> 00:02:37.920 do with these curved displays. I want to keep it on the little stand so I can 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:41.120 take a look at the IO cuz unfortunately unlike a flat display, I can't just put 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:44.080 this on the table. So, one moment, please. As for IO, we've got our power 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:50.959 connection here, and then a couple of HDMI 2.1 ports, DisplayPort, and our 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:52.879 USBB port. And then below, what we're 00:02:50.959 --> 00:02:58.480 actually missing out on a little bit here is a lack of USBA ports, but where 00:02:56.160 --> 00:03:04.080 you lose a couple of USBA ports, they give you USBC. Take it or leave it. I 00:03:01.920 --> 00:03:08.560 would rather have the USBC. The only unfortunate thing about 00:03:05.959 --> 00:03:11.920 this is that the power delivery on it caps out at 15 watts. So, if you're the 00:03:10.480 --> 00:03:16.560 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 00:03:15.440 --> 00:03:24.879 have enough juice for that. Sorry. You're going to have to get your power adapter. Click clock. Extract. Look at 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:28.000 one-handed. I love large displays. They're great, but they're heavy. 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:33.239 They're so hard to They're so hard to install yourself. Um, as for the stands 00:03:30.440 --> 00:03:38.159 capability, we've got some swivel. We've got height 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:41.360 adjustment. You know, it can go up and down with some tilt. And then I've heard 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:46.879 that it can pivot ever so slightly to the point where we're not calling it 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:49.120 pivot. Oh yeah, it can. Wow. Okay. So, 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:53.360 you're not going to go uh full 90 degrees or anything. But let's say for 00:03:51.519 --> 00:03:58.239 whatever reason this thing isn't level. You can just actually adjust it ever so 00:03:56.400 --> 00:04:02.879 slightly. It's also got some pretty good cable management. Nice and big open hole 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:06.239 here to stick all your cables in. We're just going to plug some cables in and 00:04:04.480 --> 00:04:10.560 then game on it. 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Tells me my service tag. 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:53.280 I get a factory color report that is not 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:57.120 here. Oh, there it is. Okay. Not really though. It just tells me that it'll tell 00:04:54.639 --> 00:05:00.880 me all of these things. Um, which I can find somewhere. So, that's cool though 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:04.880 that it'll tell you in the OSD as you boot it up. Select yes to enable USB 00:05:02.880 --> 00:05:08.880 charging. Absolutely. Let me just look through the OSD here. It looks pretty 00:05:07.440 --> 00:05:13.039 standard. They've sharpened it up a little bit. 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:17.680 PIP. If you're one of the dozens of people who use PIP or PBP, aka picturein 00:05:15.919 --> 00:05:21.600 picture or picture by picture on the regular, now it can do it. I'm pretty 00:05:19.919 --> 00:05:26.560 sure the original model could not do PIP. And I don't use it, but hey, I love 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:30.800 it when I have got features uh that I'll never use, but I can brag about having 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:35.440 pixel refresh, factory reset, self diagnosis, screen test. 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:38.240 Oh, sick. This does come with a three-year warranty that covers image 00:05:36.880 --> 00:05:41.680 retention, by the way. But if you're ever worried about it, um, and you think 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:46.400 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 00:05:44.479 --> 00:05:49.680 can just pop a gray slide on here and look around for it. And you can also 00:05:48.479 --> 00:05:54.000 cycle through a bunch of different colors just to make sure it's all good 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:58.800 to go. They've even got this little test pattern on here. You might be sensitive 00:05:56.479 --> 00:06:04.160 to color fringing on text. This is a good spot to check for that. Uh, it's a 00:06:00.960 --> 00:06:06.880 Gen two panel, so I don't think they had 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:11.759 the big text upgrade uh with these ones, but I was never really sensitive to 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:15.520 color fringing in the first place. A lot of people aren't. Uh, so take that as 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:19.600 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 00:06:18.080 --> 00:06:23.440 read a lot of text on this thing cuz it is primarily a gaming monitor. Looks 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:30.080 pretty good just out of the box. But we're going to go up to our 240 hertz. 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:34.639 I did plug in through HDMI 2.1 uh for two reasons. One, a graphics card 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:36.880 supports it. And two, uh 2.1 is a little 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:39.600 bit higher bandwidth than DisplayPort 1.4. Uh but you know, you might as well 00:06:38.479 --> 00:06:47.600 just use get that little bit of extra gigabit per second. And we're going to turn HDR on 10 bit color, baby. 465 00:06:45.039 --> 00:06:52.479 nits. That's because we're probably in true black 400 mode. And I don't want to 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:57.600 be in that because I like a 1000 nits. I like my eyes to be seared. Uh, HDR 1000 00:06:55.840 --> 00:07:02.000 was actually one of our more color accurate modes as well. We'll get to 00:06:59.039 --> 00:07:04.960 testing and everything later on, but uh, this thing's really good. That's all I'm 00:07:03.440 --> 00:07:08.160 going to say for now. It's really good. I love the panel health indicator as 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:11.360 well. I don't think that's new. Um, but I just it's a nice feature. I really I 00:07:10.080 --> 00:07:16.960 really like it. Bada bing, bada boom. HDR Peak 1000. One thing that is still 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:20.479 missing, Dell, please, Alienware, please put speakers on this thing. I get that 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:26.000 you've got like the lowest price out of everyone coming out with these monitors, 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:27.759 but uh I just want some cheap speakers 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:33.240 that I can use if I can't have headphones or anything. Uh so let's go. 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:36.160 What the is this search results on 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:40.120 YouTube? Tongue tongue tongue saw morning routine. Our HDR footage on a 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:45.919 cutie OLED display. It just it looks stunning every 00:07:43.599 --> 00:07:50.000 time. There's Andrew there standing proudly by the cabin. whatever that 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:54.960 thing may be. Uh, I love it. All the colors just pop beautifully and the 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:58.000 vibrancy per pixel, mind you, because it's OLED, so each pixel is self- 00:07:56.479 --> 00:08:01.759 emissive. And so that's how you've got this like proper full black, full black, 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:06.479 and then bunch of color here. It's really hard to explain this without having multiple like HDR versions of 00:08:05.039 --> 00:08:12.160 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 00:08:09.599 --> 00:08:16.160 got OLED with self-emissive pixels, it just is incredible. You're not going to 00:08:13.919 --> 00:08:19.520 get the bloom that mini LEDs got, and you're not going to get these weird like 00:08:17.599 --> 00:08:23.599 columns that some edge lit displays end up having with their like six zone HDR 00:08:21.440 --> 00:08:26.319 garbage. I recommended this monitor already to a friend of mine. So, Zach, 00:08:25.039 --> 00:08:31.599 if you're watching this video, I hope you're watching it on your brand new 00:08:28.520 --> 00:08:33.039 AW3425DW cuz uh it's good, but I know 00:08:31.599 --> 00:08:37.360 HDR footage looks good on this thing. What I want to know is is that 240 Hz 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:41.839 refresh rate and lightning fast pixel response time. How's it going to game? 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:46.040 So, let's pop our camera into 60 FPS. pop this up to 240 hertz and play some 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:52.320 video games. I gotta say it looks great. We tested uh display 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:57.600 latency and we got 2.4 milliseconds which is uh.3 over perfect. So, you 00:08:55.920 --> 00:09:00.880 know, it's pretty it's pretty good. It's pretty it's pretty fast. Um we've also 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:04.399 tested just in case you're playing consoles, you want to hook up a PS5 to 00:09:02.880 --> 00:09:10.560 this thing, especially with that HDMI 2.1 port. Um we measured uh also very 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:14.160 close to perfect or theoretical perfect at least. It's wild. Like, you know, I 00:09:12.560 --> 00:09:19.360 remember thinking, I'll never need anything more than 140 hertz or 120 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:24.080 hertz and then you start playing like 240 Hz on the regular and you're like, 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:28.080 man, I get it now. And I bet you, you know, in a few more years, I'll be like, 00:09:25.680 --> 00:09:32.720 yeah, 360 Hz is where it's at. How how did I ever deal with 240 Hz? It feels 00:09:30.560 --> 00:09:37.440 like garbage. And it's from any angle, too. Like, that's a huge thing about uh 00:09:34.800 --> 00:09:40.800 Q OLEDs is that the viewing angles are absolutely wild. like you can be at just 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:44.959 about any point in the room and it's still going to look good. Um the 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:49.120 eight00R curvature I still kind of wish Alienware would just make these things 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:53.360 flat at 1800R it's like hardly anything and so it's I don't know is it even 00:09:50.560 --> 00:09:55.760 worth curving it? I'm not sure. Um but I would like to see either a more 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:59.040 aggressive curve or just take it out completely at this point. As for all the 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:02.880 syncs it's G-Sync compatible. It's got Fresync Premium Pro and it's even got 00:10:00.880 --> 00:10:07.040 Vas's adaptive sync. The embargo for this was yesterday and there's already 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:10.480 one or two people out there who have them and there's a Reddit post about a 00:10:08.880 --> 00:10:15.680 guy who hears a bunch of coil wine on his. Um, I never heard any coil wine on 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:15.680 my original 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:22.560 one. The only coil wine I hear is the 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:26.720 one coming from our GPU. And so if you can hear it, that sucks and you should 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:30.320 probably try to return it or something because uh coil wine is annoying and you 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:36.000 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 00:10:34.640 --> 00:10:43.839 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 00:10:41.040 --> 00:10:47.760 if we can still see it. Um, we should be able to. It should basically be the same 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:50.720 sub pixel layout as the Gen 1 version, but you know, you might as well just 00:10:48.800 --> 00:10:55.040 take a little lookie poo, see if we can notice anything. I got a big notepad 00:10:52.720 --> 00:11:00.800 file on here. Uh, I got a bunch of text on it. And I'll be honest, I can see it 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:04.720 if I look really closely, but it's not something that jumps out at me. Um, 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:11.440 what's more noticeable, frankly, especially now that I'm used to a higher PPI monitor, is um the lack of PPI. I'm 00:11:09.680 --> 00:11:14.640 not going to do a whole DSC evaluation thing. I just want to like turn the 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:19.360 setting on and off and take a look and see if it's easy at all. Uh, so let's 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:23.360 try to find it in our OSD. Ah, display 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:25.440 DSC on. Turn it off. As for color 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:30.720 accuracy in SDR, we were a little worried at first because we measured an 00:11:26.959 --> 00:11:34.160 average of four. In Delta ETP, in Delta 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:36.399 E 2000, we got an average of like 0.8. 00:11:34.160 --> 00:11:40.800 Um, so this thing is just great in SDR color accuracy. And then as for HDR 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:45.440 color accuracy, I think we did measure something like 5.6 average delta E ITP 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:51.760 for peak 10000 mode, which is still very good. It's It's just It's just the same 00:11:48.880 --> 00:11:57.560 thing from a couple of years ago, but better in basically every single way, 00:11:54.959 --> 00:12:03.040 including the price. I Yeah, you might sacrifice some USB 00:12:00.839 --> 00:12:06.079 ports. And I'm sure there's something out there that someone is going to be 00:12:04.640 --> 00:12:09.440 like, "Oh, well, what about this? How did you forget this?" I don't care. This 00:12:07.760 --> 00:12:14.320 thing is great. It's It's such a good monitor at such a good price. And I 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:17.120 think that if you want an ultrawide um that you're not going to worry too much 00:12:15.839 --> 00:12:22.920 about when it comes to like image retention and stuff because it has a ton of built-in safety features like a big 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:28.720 graphite layer um it's just it's so good. If this isn't 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:33.519 exactly the one for you, don't worry. I'm sure that later this year we'll get 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:35.680 more and more uh Gen 2 34in ultrawides 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:39.839 coming out with CD OLED panels. You might not get every single feature that 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:42.639 you're looking for in the exact monitor that you want, but they will have a 00:12:41.680 --> 00:12:49.040 bunch of different options like maybe they've got more uh power on the USB port for charging or uh you know, maybe 00:12:47.040 --> 00:12:56.160 there's a flat one or whatever. But as for me, I love the blue stand. I don't 00:12:53.040 --> 00:12:59.959 mind the eight00R curvature and I just 00:12:56.160 --> 00:13:02.800 want it first and I want it cheap cuz at 00:12:59.959 --> 00:13:04.880 $800, my gosh, it's an incredible gaming monitor. That's still, you know, don't 00:13:03.839 --> 00:13:09.839 get me wrong, it's still like a high price, but a few years ago, this thing 00:13:06.880 --> 00:13:09.839 would have been thousands.