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have you ever bought something thinking surely this is as good as it gets at

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least for a while this guy sure did blew from the writing team loved alienware's

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first QD OLED gaming monitor so much

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when we reviewed it earlier this year that he put his name on a waiting list

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paid 1300 US Dollars and waited almost

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three months to finally get his baby

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since then he never misses an opportunity to flex that he has the best

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display on the Block even the Alienware cutie ol that I have for instance I've

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just gotten my Alienware cutie OLED finally I own a display I got it

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crazy right but he's about to learn a painful lesson being an early adopter

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sucks it's been just over six months

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since that monitor hit the market and Dell Alienware has already released a

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follow-up for us patient Gamers not only

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is it 200 cheaper but it's more color

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accurate out of the box has more features available comes in black and

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allows user firmware updates to be honest I didn't see this coming so soon

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either Samsung doesn't even have a monitor with this panel yet and their

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display division makes the bloody thing maybe there's a catch maybe the new one

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Cuts an important Corner thankfully our new specialist for the lab Brandon 2 is

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here to help shed some light on the situation like I'm gonna shed some light

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foreign

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physically these two are almost identical aside from the color scheme

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almost the refreshed DWF now has two

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DisplayPort 1.4 ports instead of two HDMI 2.0s but the 4 Port USB hub with

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mouse and keyboard dongle friendly positioning dual three and a half

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millimeter Jacks and simple C13 power input should all be familiar the RGB is

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slightly different though and you'll feel a difference when you pick them up

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Alienware managed to shed about a pound and a half from the updated model firing

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them up the differences are even less obvious our hilarious behind the scenes

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videos on Floatplane.com have never looked better and quantum dot OLED or QD

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OLED for short displays are simply the best for gaming amazing color accuracy

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and wide color gamut thanks to the quantum dots Lightning Fast pixel

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response times and Inky blacks thanks to the self-emissive OLED pixels now the

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newer F model is rated for 165 Hertz

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refresh rate compared to 170 95 for the

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OG one and you won't be making up that difference with an overclock we did try

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but we've also shown that there's a point of diminishing returns for high

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refresh rate displays and the difference between 165 and 175 that 10 Hertz is a

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lot smaller than the difference between 60 and 70 even though they're both 10

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Hertz now one concern we had was that Dell might have slimmed the new model by

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cutting down its power supply or its cooling which could hurt HDR performance

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but in practice both of them managed to

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get within Striking Distance of their rated 1000 nits Peak brightness meaning

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that whichever one you choose you're going to be looking at a gaming session

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that is buttery smooth and bright enough to flashbang yourself in a dark room so

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how did they cut the weight and cost turns out you got to look really closely

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by not paying NVIDIA the original DW has

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a g-sync ultimate module inside which honestly NVIDIA doesn't even seem to

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know the purpose of anymore something about low latency variable refresh rate

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and lifelike HDR whatever that is but

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then the new one has freesync premium Pro which on paper has all those same

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benefits anyway maybe the g-sync module helped them push that extra 10 Hertz

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we'll never know but the reality is that variable refresh rate Tech is really at

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its best on something like a console where it can eliminate tearing and mask

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stutters when the frame rate dips Below 60fps on a top of the line High refresh

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rate display like either of these ones with a powerful GPU which you probably

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already own you're more likely to run your frame rate uncapped anyway for the

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lowest possible latency so let's change gears then and talk about

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color accuracy both of our dwfs and our

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DW came Factory calibrated with Delta e averages of less than two that's

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accurate enough that even to the train die any differences should be

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indiscernible but the DWS results are

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even better in both the srgb and P3

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color spaces it managed a Delta e of less than one straight out of the box I

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mean it's the same panel so how did they do it

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ah this is interesting based on their spec sheets here QC at the factory is

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done using a more accurate testing tool now specifically a ca410 instead of an

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mk550t so it seems like in the extra

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time that Del Alienware has had they've refined their setup yielding

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significantly better results although it is also possible that they cherry-picked

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these units they were provided by Dell now let's talk about HDR which used to

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be NVIDIA's primary selling point for g-sync ultimate their module was after

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all the first to support variable refresh rate and HDR at the same time

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and it seems like they might still be ahead of the competition here to be

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clear there's no best approach to HDR tone mapping but there are best

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practices unfortunately these best practices can be different for different

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types of content and NVIDIA seems laser focused on gaming for HDR gaming on

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Windows the DW's NVIDIA certified approach to managing super bright on

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screen objects looks a lot better and

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the reason is that when you go through the process of calibrating your game

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during setup the point of that is to tell the game what the capabilities of

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your monitor are so that it can stay within them only peaking or losing

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detail in the image where the developer wants it to let's say as part of their

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artistic vision for how it should feel when an interrogation light turns on for

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comparison out of the box the DWF is

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going to try to maintain detail in bright objects by compressing them into

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the upper range of its capabilities this is a little hard to wrap your brain

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around but bear with me here say you had two light sources right next to each

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other in a scene one of them at a thousand and one at three thousand nits

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well this display might attempt to show both of them without peaking by going

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900 and 950 nits to represent that this

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one is brighter even if it's outside of its capabilities well the theory here is

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sound and this connection really be a very good thing for films that were shot

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and mastered for the capabilities of future displays that do have that range

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but in games it messes with that

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calibration process because it makes the game think that the display is capable

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of much higher Peak brightness so in practice you actually end up with more

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clipping rather than better preserved detail now this may have been an

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intentional move from Dell Some people prefer an HDR image that pops even if

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they lose some detail but as an artist's intent snob it's really not my cup of

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tea thankfully the DWF does include a source tone mapping mode as an option

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for those who want more accuracy but it's still not quite as accurate as the

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DW one neat trick the DWF has up its

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sleeve that the DW can't do though is the ability to accept a 4K HDR signal

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and this is a must if you're trying to game on an Xbox series X with HDR

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enabled that's a clear win from Mr blackfeet here and it's about to get a

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whole lot more of them picture in picture or picture by picture is

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supported it has more HDR color modes the OSD is more responsive you can

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change the aspect ratio to 4x3 for retro content you can adjust the sharpness Hue

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gain saturation and offset while the DW can only do saturation and if you want

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some test patterns for calibration or to check for defects the

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aw3423dwf comes with those built in and

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the dumbest part of all of this it's probably that lack of g-sync ultimate

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that you paid a whole bunch more money for that's right that module that we're

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paying extra for and not even really using makes it next to impossible for a

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home user to update the firmware on the DW we reached out to Dell and they have

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confirmed that if there is an issue with your display you can send it in and they

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will attempt a firmware update as part of the fix but only they can do it

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because of some specific tool that that's required for this module and they

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won't do it on demand so if some new mode or feature gets rolled out in later

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revisions of the monitor your display if it's otherwise fine tough break kit

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the DWF however not only comes with the latest and greatest firmware but since

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we're no longer limited by the physical module we can simply update it ourselves

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so not only have you now paid 200 less by waiting nine months but you're

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actually getting more features out of the box with the ability to potentially

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get even more over time is that so is

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that someone crying that's all ready

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weird to be clear this doesn't happen

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with every new technology and it usually doesn't happen this quickly but it's

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certainly a bummer when it does which raises the question should you hold off

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on that big purchase that you might have been considering as funny as it's been

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to joke about I don't think ploof actually regrets this purchase he paid a

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lot of money and the DWF is pretty cool but he's also been using arguably the

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best gaming monitor on the planet for the last six months and he pretty much

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still does one thing that's worked out really well for him is that he pretty

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much never notices the text fringing issue that some have complained about

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with these qdo lid panels and compared to my regular OLED gaming display that

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I've been using for less than a month he has no image retention whatsoever while

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I have some so it's always a personal

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decision are you happy with what you're getting for your money well if you are

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then don't let some shiny new toy make you feel bad about it there's always

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going to be something better coming and often for cheaper but we don't love our

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gadgets because having the best one makes us feel Superior we love them

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because of what they enable like great gaming experiences on that note by the

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way we've got some new testing equipment in the lab a photodiode and oscilloscope

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that are both fast enough to measure the response times of oleds and we've been

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looking for an excuse to throw them at the original DW as it turns out that's

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one area where somewhat predictably both of these performed identically with just

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.16 millisecond black to white transition times that is absolutely

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freaking incredible but bye LCD see you

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later so regardless of which one you choose and we're going to have them both linked down below it's clear that now is

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a heck of a time to pick up a top-tier gaming display Samsung MSI and Philips

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all have qdo-led monitors coming out over the next few months or a year some

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of which are going to have cool features that these ones don't have like power

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delivery for one cable charging your laptop but don't feel bad about that

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