1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,480 You might be wondering why we're covering this monitor. Well, Linus already did the 27 inch 1440P version. 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,640 Well, that's because this is the best monitor. 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:14,000 I'm telling you, it's better. This is the AW3225QF and it's the 32 inch 4K version. 4 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:21,000 No, this isn't 360 Hertz, but 4K 240 is amazing. 5 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:24,680 What we might sacrifice in terms of refresh rate, 6 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,640 it more than makes up for it in PPI because while the screen is bigger, 7 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:31,760 we are also going from like a 108, 109 PPI 8 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:36,760 all the way up to a whopping 140. Don't get me wrong, it's still not XDR 9 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:43,320 pro display territory, but man, I tell you a 140 PPI on a 32 inch screen, 16 by nine. 10 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,920 As much as I love ultra wide, maybe those days are over. 11 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:53,000 We've got our classic Alienware stand here, column insert and screw it down system. 12 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:58,040 Then we're gonna take everything else out of the box, like our cable cover that we're probably not gonna install. 13 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:01,040 Little Alienware box full of what goodies? 14 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,200 Safety and regulatory information for those who care about that 15 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:09,280 and you get an Alienware sticker. We've also got our C13 power cable, 16 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:13,600 DisplayPort to USB-C cable, surprisingly enough 17 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,880 and an HDMI 2.1 cable, ultra high speed. 18 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,160 Click, clack and boom, oh, it's heavy. 19 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:24,600 Let me get rid of this box here. Care of one. 20 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:29,220 You might notice that this is a curved screen which might seem a little weird at 32 inches, 21 00:01:29,220 --> 00:01:32,680 but I think at a screen size like this, it's not gonna be that bad. 22 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:36,360 You're not gonna have it curving like right over here. It'll be kind of like there in your peripheral vision. 23 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:40,800 So it should be okay. Now, as for the IO and navigation, 24 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:45,040 we've got a, oh yeah, traditional Dell Alienware navigation nipple 25 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:49,620 and then that's USB 3.2 Gen 1 for type B upstream port 26 00:01:49,620 --> 00:01:53,160 and then USB 3.2 Gen 1 type A downstream ports. 27 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:57,760 And then these are both HDMI 2.1 with the left one having ARC and ERC support 28 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:02,800 and then our DisplayPort is just DP 1.4. And then we've also got a couple quick access USB-A 29 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,440 and USB-C ports here with support for BC 1.2 power charging 30 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:09,800 on the USB-C. 240 Hertz, oh, and I forgot, 31 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:14,680 this one is better because it has Dolby vision on it. The other one does not do that 32 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,920 and you're definitely gonna wanna take advantage of it when you watch HDR content. 33 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:22,400 We did our testing for this display and I've gotta say it is literally 34 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,360 some of the best color accuracy we've seen in terms of HDR. 35 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,440 It's just mind-blowing how good it's getting. 36 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,960 It covers 80% of BT 2020, which has been beaten by TVs, 37 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:37,860 but that's still incredible for a display of this size. 38 00:02:37,860 --> 00:02:42,320 We've got the monitor tilted a little bit towards the camera, but when I put it straight on and I sit around 39 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:47,360 where I would be when I'm gaming from home, I've gotta say the curve doesn't bother me at all. 40 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:52,060 And I've heard that the 4K version is not always going to be curved. 41 00:02:52,060 --> 00:02:56,380 So if you really don't like this one, maybe just wait a little bit and see what else comes out. 42 00:02:56,380 --> 00:03:00,000 Wow, we've got our own HDR footage now from the Arri video. 43 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,020 Check out ShortCircuit. Before we watch our HDR footage, 44 00:03:03,020 --> 00:03:08,960 I'm just gonna make sure that this is actually in HDR 1000 mode. 45 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:12,820 It's currently just in standard. One minor thing that might actually be fixed 46 00:03:12,820 --> 00:03:16,620 in a firmware update, thanks to the lack of G-Sync Ultimate Module, 47 00:03:16,620 --> 00:03:20,260 is I am having a tough time using this navigation, 48 00:03:20,260 --> 00:03:24,140 Apple and menu to turn the mode to anything else. 49 00:03:24,140 --> 00:03:27,420 I had to fully stop HDR in Windows 50 00:03:27,420 --> 00:03:34,660 for it to be able to change for me. We're gonna set it to Creator, DCIP3, Gamma, iOS 2.2, sure. 51 00:03:35,940 --> 00:03:39,900 And then we should be able to go to Brightness, 15%. 52 00:03:39,900 --> 00:03:45,740 No, no, no, no, no. We're gonna crank that to 100%. In SDR, this gets up to about 250 nits full screen, 53 00:03:45,740 --> 00:03:49,340 which is pretty nice. Now here we go, Display, Smart HDR, 54 00:03:49,340 --> 00:03:53,580 Peak 1000, baby, that's what we want. It also does True Black 400, 55 00:03:53,580 --> 00:03:56,820 but we found it to be super accurate at Peak 1000 as well. 56 00:03:56,820 --> 00:04:00,980 So set it to Creator mode and set it to Peak 1000 57 00:04:00,980 --> 00:04:04,660 and you are good to go. It's gonna look pretty great. That being said, who knows, 58 00:04:04,660 --> 00:04:08,660 maybe we just got lucky with golden sample from the factory. 59 00:04:08,660 --> 00:04:13,940 I hope not. HDR enabled and oh my God, this looks so good. 60 00:04:13,940 --> 00:04:17,700 Let's get, I know it's just Andy, but his shirt looks so black, his jacket. 61 00:04:17,780 --> 00:04:21,380 It looks like he's right there. It looks like he's right there, like a window. 62 00:04:21,380 --> 00:04:25,620 I'm looking through a window. Oh man, honestly, you guys, it is really impressive. 63 00:04:25,620 --> 00:04:29,180 Look at Andy, look at that highlight on his forehead there and up in his hair. 64 00:04:29,180 --> 00:04:34,140 Oh, that's great. And then you've got these super dark low lights down here. I wish we had like a bigger contrasty scene. 65 00:04:34,140 --> 00:04:37,380 Let's get to one. Well, I guess his black on his jacket 66 00:04:37,380 --> 00:04:40,620 is actually quite black. And the best thing is, since it's cutie OLED, 67 00:04:40,620 --> 00:04:43,820 no matter what angle I look at it from, there's zero color shift. 68 00:04:43,820 --> 00:04:48,900 The green and the blue still looks perfectly green and blue. And I know that they're basically perfectly green and blue 69 00:04:48,900 --> 00:04:54,140 because it's super color accurate. Oh, any angle and it's just stunning. 70 00:04:54,140 --> 00:04:57,580 The red and the gold and oranges just pop 71 00:04:57,580 --> 00:05:03,700 so much more on cutie OLED. Honestly, no matter whether you're going for an LG display 72 00:05:03,700 --> 00:05:08,020 or Samsung, I think that OLED monitors are just kind of the future, 73 00:05:08,020 --> 00:05:12,300 at least until we get tiny micro LED, but that has its own set of problems. 74 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:15,420 And frankly, who knows when they'll actually become affordable. 75 00:05:15,420 --> 00:05:20,580 We'll get to the price on this a little later, but spoiler alert, it's not as bad as you might think 76 00:05:20,580 --> 00:05:26,700 considering the specs. Okay, we know the colors look amazing, but how does 4K 240 Hertz feel in game? 77 00:05:26,700 --> 00:05:29,780 Oh my God, I'm excited. I've got to admit, 78 00:05:29,780 --> 00:05:33,180 I don't think that you really need 240 Hertz. 79 00:05:33,180 --> 00:05:36,380 As soon as you're over the like 120, 144 barrier, 80 00:05:36,380 --> 00:05:40,940 it's good enough. Honestly, better than what a lot of people have access to. 81 00:05:40,940 --> 00:05:44,140 Oh my God, I love the Nova, it's so fun. 82 00:05:44,140 --> 00:05:49,740 Get out of here, Bob Pines. It's just, you know, you move, you flick and your screen is instantly cleared up. 83 00:05:49,740 --> 00:05:54,620 Now it can be a little clearer. I will admit that's the biggest advantage 84 00:05:54,620 --> 00:06:00,700 that Linus has on the 27 inch model, is that 360 Hertz, when you take a motion blur picture 85 00:06:00,700 --> 00:06:04,580 with this thing and with the 360, there's the tiniest bit of blur. 86 00:06:04,580 --> 00:06:08,860 We'll look at smooth frog in person in a sec here, but our still image shows that there's just 87 00:06:08,860 --> 00:06:12,540 the tiniest bit of blur. When you do it with the 360 Hertz, 88 00:06:12,540 --> 00:06:15,740 it's like you're looking at a still image. It's perfect. 89 00:06:15,740 --> 00:06:20,180 It's basically flawless. The text is so crisp, 90 00:06:20,180 --> 00:06:27,540 there's just hardly any blur at 240 Hertz with the almost instant motion pixel response time of OLED. 91 00:06:27,540 --> 00:06:31,180 They're on, they're off. We've got a 4090 in here 92 00:06:31,180 --> 00:06:34,860 and we're gonna see how many frames per second we get 93 00:06:34,860 --> 00:06:37,900 at 4K cyberpunk, completely maxed out. 94 00:06:37,900 --> 00:06:41,420 That's kind of the biggest problem with this monitor is that while it's amazing, 95 00:06:42,300 --> 00:06:47,340 4K 240 Hertz feels great whether you're playing games at that frame rate or not. 96 00:06:47,340 --> 00:06:52,340 It takes a lot to drive a panel of this caliber, frankly. 97 00:06:53,380 --> 00:06:56,940 I don't know if we're gonna get anywhere close. We probably won't. Like in Counter Strike, sure. 98 00:06:56,940 --> 00:07:00,580 Yeah, eSports, you can do 4K at a high frame rate and that's fine. 99 00:07:00,580 --> 00:07:05,220 Man, this isn't bad. We're doing like 100, 110 FPS with like frame gen on 100 00:07:05,220 --> 00:07:10,120 and everything cranked with path tracing. Some scenes with path tracing look better than others. 101 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,400 Also, I'm not a big fan of frame gen or DLSS. 102 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:16,800 I find that they make hair especially, even though it's gotten a lot better. 103 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:21,520 Hair can just look weird and bad. And then I find that this building looks a little grainy 104 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:28,240 and that's probably also because of DLSS. Moving a lot of sharp objects, it has trouble with, 105 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,880 but like look at the shadow depth on these palm trees. 106 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,480 Yeah, I think DLSS and frame gen just still to this day, 107 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:38,600 don't look quite good enough for me to want to enable them. 108 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:43,680 So that's the other thing is like, yeah, this is path tracing and everything, but we have software turned on 109 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:48,440 that helps keep that frame rate really high. And we're still only hitting 110, 110 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:52,960 which isn't even half of what this display can actually do. So let's turn it off and see what we get. 111 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:58,880 This looks pretty great. I am gonna turn back on either frame gen or DLSS 112 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:03,080 because we're down to 20, 25 average FPS. 113 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,660 It looks amazing. Like, especially when you pay attention to these signs 114 00:08:08,660 --> 00:08:12,300 and flat images that aren't gonna move too much. So you don't notice the low frame rate as much, 115 00:08:12,300 --> 00:08:16,820 but yeah, let's turn it up a little bit and try to give it a hand here. 116 00:08:16,820 --> 00:08:20,340 Path tracing is just such a beast. We'll go down from ray tracing overdrive 117 00:08:20,340 --> 00:08:25,460 to just ray tracing ultra. Okay, we'll turn it to quality. 118 00:08:25,460 --> 00:08:29,300 Yeah, see even that is so much better. Now we're up to 75 FPS average. 119 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:32,700 It means we've probably got a minimum of a 1% low 120 00:08:32,700 --> 00:08:35,860 of about 60, which is playable, very playable. 121 00:08:35,860 --> 00:08:41,740 And it's just stunning. Yeah, the nice thing about OLED is the blacks just get so inky and perfect that when you get 122 00:08:41,740 --> 00:08:44,940 to something that's truly black, you don't get a bunch of black crush 123 00:08:44,940 --> 00:08:49,820 and it looks super good. But then at the same time, because we can do up to a thousand nits, 124 00:08:49,820 --> 00:08:53,140 we're also not getting any clipping basically anywhere. 125 00:08:53,140 --> 00:08:56,780 Actually, it looks great. And then when it comes to QD OLED, 126 00:08:56,780 --> 00:09:02,340 we've got those essentially perfect colors, like especially reds because there's no white sub pixel 127 00:09:02,340 --> 00:09:06,340 helping boost the brightness up. We're getting like actually true red 128 00:09:06,340 --> 00:09:09,820 and we're getting actually true blue and true green and they just look phenomenal, 129 00:09:09,820 --> 00:09:14,460 especially yellows and oranges like fire, gold pops. 130 00:09:14,460 --> 00:09:18,180 I think this looks really good to my own eyes, but what does the lab say? 131 00:09:18,180 --> 00:09:23,180 It'll do 147% of sRGB, 99% of P3 and 78% of BT 2020, 132 00:09:24,980 --> 00:09:31,460 which is huge. In SDR color accuracy, we measured an average Delta E of 0.8 133 00:09:31,460 --> 00:09:36,420 with a max of just two. And then in HDR, we measured with luminance error, 134 00:09:36,420 --> 00:09:40,460 an average of 3.8 with a max of 15.7. 135 00:09:40,460 --> 00:09:45,060 That is wildly accurate. One thing to note, we found the standard was a little more inaccurate. 136 00:09:45,060 --> 00:09:50,040 So we swapped it to creator and then set gamma to 2.2. And that's how it's just perfect almost. 137 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:55,740 How could I forget about brightness? SDR, we got 250 CDM squared in a 10% window, 138 00:09:55,740 --> 00:09:59,100 which is pretty decent. And then in HDR, of course it's HDR 1000. 139 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:03,140 So we measured a whopping 1048 CDM squared 140 00:10:03,180 --> 00:10:05,900 in a 1% window, which is very impressive. 141 00:10:06,820 --> 00:10:10,060 This thing will basically do it all. 142 00:10:10,060 --> 00:10:16,660 It's almost perfect in just about every way. And I'm probably going to buy one 143 00:10:16,660 --> 00:10:19,900 because you know what, it's just that good. I don't know what to tell you. 144 00:10:19,900 --> 00:10:22,900 It also still comes because it's still Dell Alienware. 145 00:10:22,900 --> 00:10:28,540 It's got that three year OLED burn-in warranty. So if you are a little afraid, maybe don't be. 146 00:10:28,540 --> 00:10:32,500 I'm a little over two years into owning my other Alienware 147 00:10:32,540 --> 00:10:35,700 and it still has absolutely nothing. I take care of it. 148 00:10:35,700 --> 00:10:40,940 I, you know, I auto hide taskbar like we've got here. I use a moving desktop background with wallpaper engine. 149 00:10:40,940 --> 00:10:43,980 And then I make sure to put my monitor to sleep when I'm not using it. 150 00:10:43,980 --> 00:10:47,300 It's totally fine. Sometimes I game with very static elements. 151 00:10:47,300 --> 00:10:50,740 I play a lot of Dota. And then sometimes, you know, I'll watch movies 152 00:10:50,740 --> 00:10:53,860 with the black bars on the side because it's 16 by nine. 153 00:10:53,860 --> 00:10:58,700 Maybe now if I buy this, I don't have to worry about that anymore. With the performance, the color accuracy, 154 00:10:58,700 --> 00:11:04,940 the pixel density of a screen this size at a price tag of only 11.99 US dollars. 155 00:11:04,940 --> 00:11:09,340 It's, oh man, I think it wins. Even with the other one being like 8.99, 156 00:11:09,340 --> 00:11:12,780 you save like what, 300 bucks? I don't know. 157 00:11:12,780 --> 00:11:16,900 I think this is the way to go. It's just perfect in basically every way. 158 00:11:16,900 --> 00:11:22,180 And it comes out January 11th in North America. A little later, the rest of the world, I think February. 159 00:11:22,180 --> 00:11:25,740 And I can't wait to get my hands on one. Thanks for watching ShortCircuit. If you wanna watch another one, 160 00:11:25,740 --> 00:11:28,740 check out the Linus video with the 1440p 360 version 161 00:11:28,740 --> 00:11:32,740 of this guy. He just can't give up those frame rates for the higher PPI, 162 00:11:32,740 --> 00:11:35,580 but I think he's wrong. He's wrong. He's wrong.