WEBVTT 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. 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:07.640 Well, that's because this is the best monitor. 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. 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:21.000 No, this isn't 360 Hertz, but 4K 240 is amazing. 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:24.680 What we might sacrifice in terms of refresh rate, 00:00:24.680 --> 00:00:28.640 it more than makes up for it in PPI because while the screen is bigger, 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:31.760 we are also going from like a 108, 109 PPI 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 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. 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:47.920 As much as I love ultra wide, maybe those days are over. 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:53.000 We've got our classic Alienware stand here, column insert and screw it down system. 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. 00:00:58.040 --> 00:01:01.040 Little Alienware box full of what goodies? 00:01:01.040 --> 00:01:04.200 Safety and regulatory information for those who care about that 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:09.280 and you get an Alienware sticker. We've also got our C13 power cable, 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:13.600 DisplayPort to USB-C cable, surprisingly enough 00:01:13.600 --> 00:01:17.880 and an HDMI 2.1 cable, ultra high speed. 00:01:17.880 --> 00:01:21.160 Click, clack and boom, oh, it's heavy. 00:01:21.160 --> 00:01:24.600 Let me get rid of this box here. Care of one. 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, 00:01:29.220 --> 00:01:32.680 but I think at a screen size like this, it's not gonna be that bad. 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. 00:01:36.360 --> 00:01:40.800 So it should be okay. Now, as for the IO and navigation, 00:01:40.800 --> 00:01:45.040 we've got a, oh yeah, traditional Dell Alienware navigation nipple 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:49.620 and then that's USB 3.2 Gen 1 for type B upstream port 00:01:49.620 --> 00:01:53.160 and then USB 3.2 Gen 1 type A downstream ports. 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 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 00:02:02.800 --> 00:02:06.440 and USB-C ports here with support for BC 1.2 power charging 00:02:06.440 --> 00:02:09.800 on the USB-C. 240 Hertz, oh, and I forgot, 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 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:17.920 and you're definitely gonna wanna take advantage of it when you watch HDR content. 00:02:17.920 --> 00:02:22.400 We did our testing for this display and I've gotta say it is literally 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:26.360 some of the best color accuracy we've seen in terms of HDR. 00:02:26.360 --> 00:02:29.440 It's just mind-blowing how good it's getting. 00:02:29.440 --> 00:02:33.960 It covers 80% of BT 2020, which has been beaten by TVs, 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:37.860 but that's still incredible for a display of this size. 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 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. 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:52.060 And I've heard that the 4K version is not always going to be curved. 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. 00:02:56.380 --> 00:03:00.000 Wow, we've got our own HDR footage now from the Arri video. 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:03.020 Check out ShortCircuit. Before we watch our HDR footage, 00:03:03.020 --> 00:03:08.960 I'm just gonna make sure that this is actually in HDR 1000 mode. 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:12.820 It's currently just in standard. One minor thing that might actually be fixed 00:03:12.820 --> 00:03:16.620 in a firmware update, thanks to the lack of G-Sync Ultimate Module, 00:03:16.620 --> 00:03:20.260 is I am having a tough time using this navigation, 00:03:20.260 --> 00:03:24.140 Apple and menu to turn the mode to anything else. 00:03:24.140 --> 00:03:27.420 I had to fully stop HDR in Windows 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. 00:03:35.940 --> 00:03:39.900 And then we should be able to go to Brightness, 15%. 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, 00:03:45.740 --> 00:03:49.340 which is pretty nice. Now here we go, Display, Smart HDR, 00:03:49.340 --> 00:03:53.580 Peak 1000, baby, that's what we want. It also does True Black 400, 00:03:53.580 --> 00:03:56.820 but we found it to be super accurate at Peak 1000 as well. 00:03:56.820 --> 00:04:00.980 So set it to Creator mode and set it to Peak 1000 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, 00:04:04.660 --> 00:04:08.660 maybe we just got lucky with golden sample from the factory. 00:04:08.660 --> 00:04:13.940 I hope not. HDR enabled and oh my God, this looks so good. 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. 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. 00:04:21.380 --> 00:04:25.620 I'm looking through a window. Oh man, honestly, you guys, it is really impressive. 00:04:25.620 --> 00:04:29.180 Look at Andy, look at that highlight on his forehead there and up in his hair. 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. 00:04:34.140 --> 00:04:37.380 Let's get to one. Well, I guess his black on his jacket 00:04:37.380 --> 00:04:40.620 is actually quite black. And the best thing is, since it's cutie OLED, 00:04:40.620 --> 00:04:43.820 no matter what angle I look at it from, there's zero color shift. 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 00:04:48.900 --> 00:04:54.140 because it's super color accurate. Oh, any angle and it's just stunning. 00:04:54.140 --> 00:04:57.580 The red and the gold and oranges just pop 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 00:05:03.700 --> 00:05:08.020 or Samsung, I think that OLED monitors are just kind of the future, 00:05:08.020 --> 00:05:12.300 at least until we get tiny micro LED, but that has its own set of problems. 00:05:12.300 --> 00:05:15.420 And frankly, who knows when they'll actually become affordable. 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 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? 00:05:26.700 --> 00:05:29.780 Oh my God, I'm excited. I've got to admit, 00:05:29.780 --> 00:05:33.180 I don't think that you really need 240 Hertz. 00:05:33.180 --> 00:05:36.380 As soon as you're over the like 120, 144 barrier, 00:05:36.380 --> 00:05:40.940 it's good enough. Honestly, better than what a lot of people have access to. 00:05:40.940 --> 00:05:44.140 Oh my God, I love the Nova, it's so fun. 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. 00:05:49.740 --> 00:05:54.620 Now it can be a little clearer. I will admit that's the biggest advantage 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 00:06:00.700 --> 00:06:04.580 with this thing and with the 360, there's the tiniest bit of blur. 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 00:06:08.860 --> 00:06:12.540 the tiniest bit of blur. When you do it with the 360 Hertz, 00:06:12.540 --> 00:06:15.740 it's like you're looking at a still image. It's perfect. 00:06:15.740 --> 00:06:20.180 It's basically flawless. The text is so crisp, 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. 00:06:27.540 --> 00:06:31.180 They're on, they're off. We've got a 4090 in here 00:06:31.180 --> 00:06:34.860 and we're gonna see how many frames per second we get 00:06:34.860 --> 00:06:37.900 at 4K cyberpunk, completely maxed out. 00:06:37.900 --> 00:06:41.420 That's kind of the biggest problem with this monitor is that while it's amazing, 00:06:42.300 --> 00:06:47.340 4K 240 Hertz feels great whether you're playing games at that frame rate or not. 00:06:47.340 --> 00:06:52.340 It takes a lot to drive a panel of this caliber, frankly. 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. 00:06:56.940 --> 00:07:00.580 Yeah, eSports, you can do 4K at a high frame rate and that's fine. 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 00:07:05.220 --> 00:07:10.120 and everything cranked with path tracing. Some scenes with path tracing look better than others. 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:13.400 Also, I'm not a big fan of frame gen or DLSS. 00:07:13.400 --> 00:07:16.800 I find that they make hair especially, even though it's gotten a lot better. 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 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, 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:31.880 but like look at the shadow depth on these palm trees. 00:07:31.880 --> 00:07:35.480 Yeah, I think DLSS and frame gen just still to this day, 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:38.600 don't look quite good enough for me to want to enable them. 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 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:48.440 that helps keep that frame rate really high. And we're still only hitting 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. 00:07:52.960 --> 00:07:58.880 This looks pretty great. I am gonna turn back on either frame gen or DLSS 00:07:58.880 --> 00:08:03.080 because we're down to 20, 25 average FPS. 00:08:05.400 --> 00:08:08.660 It looks amazing. Like, especially when you pay attention to these signs 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, 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. 00:08:16.820 --> 00:08:20.340 Path tracing is just such a beast. We'll go down from ray tracing overdrive 00:08:20.340 --> 00:08:25.460 to just ray tracing ultra. Okay, we'll turn it to quality. 00:08:25.460 --> 00:08:29.300 Yeah, see even that is so much better. Now we're up to 75 FPS average. 00:08:29.300 --> 00:08:32.700 It means we've probably got a minimum of a 1% low 00:08:32.700 --> 00:08:35.860 of about 60, which is playable, very playable. 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 00:08:41.740 --> 00:08:44.940 to something that's truly black, you don't get a bunch of black crush 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, 00:08:49.820 --> 00:08:53.140 we're also not getting any clipping basically anywhere. 00:08:53.140 --> 00:08:56.780 Actually, it looks great. And then when it comes to QD OLED, 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 00:09:02.340 --> 00:09:06.340 helping boost the brightness up. We're getting like actually true red 00:09:06.340 --> 00:09:09.820 and we're getting actually true blue and true green and they just look phenomenal, 00:09:09.820 --> 00:09:14.460 especially yellows and oranges like fire, gold pops. 00:09:14.460 --> 00:09:18.180 I think this looks really good to my own eyes, but what does the lab say? 00:09:18.180 --> 00:09:23.180 It'll do 147% of sRGB, 99% of P3 and 78% of BT 2020, 00:09:24.980 --> 00:09:31.460 which is huge. In SDR color accuracy, we measured an average Delta E of 0.8 00:09:31.460 --> 00:09:36.420 with a max of just two. And then in HDR, we measured with luminance error, 00:09:36.420 --> 00:09:40.460 an average of 3.8 with a max of 15.7. 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. 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. 00:09:50.040 --> 00:09:55.740 How could I forget about brightness? SDR, we got 250 CDM squared in a 10% window, 00:09:55.740 --> 00:09:59.100 which is pretty decent. And then in HDR, of course it's HDR 1000. 00:09:59.100 --> 00:10:03.140 So we measured a whopping 1048 CDM squared 00:10:03.180 --> 00:10:05.900 in a 1% window, which is very impressive. 00:10:06.820 --> 00:10:10.060 This thing will basically do it all. 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 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. 00:10:19.900 --> 00:10:22.900 It also still comes because it's still Dell Alienware. 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. 00:10:28.540 --> 00:10:32.500 I'm a little over two years into owning my other Alienware 00:10:32.540 --> 00:10:35.700 and it still has absolutely nothing. I take care of it. 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. 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. 00:10:43.980 --> 00:10:47.300 It's totally fine. Sometimes I game with very static elements. 00:10:47.300 --> 00:10:50.740 I play a lot of Dota. And then sometimes, you know, I'll watch movies 00:10:50.740 --> 00:10:53.860 with the black bars on the side because it's 16 by nine. 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, 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. 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, 00:11:09.340 --> 00:11:12.780 you save like what, 300 bucks? I don't know. 00:11:12.780 --> 00:11:16.900 I think this is the way to go. It's just perfect in basically every way. 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. 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, 00:11:25.740 --> 00:11:28.740 check out the Linus video with the 1440p 360 version 00:11:28.740 --> 00:11:32.740 of this guy. He just can't give up those frame rates for the higher PPI, 00:11:32.740 --> 00:11:35.580 but I think he's wrong. He's wrong. He's wrong.