Update: This popular deal is still available.
Dell Technologies has
34" Alienware AW3423DWF Curved Gaming Monitor on sale for
$999.99.
Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member
kjvmartin for finding this deal.
Specs:- Resolution: 3440x1440
- Aspect Ratio: 21:9
- Refresh Rate: 165Hz (DisplayPort) or 100Hz (HDMI)
- Response Time: 0.1ms gray-to-gray
- Panel Type: Quantum Dot OLED
- Contrast Ratio: 1M: 1 (typical)
- Adaptive-Sync Technology: AMD FreeSync Premium Pro
- VESA Mountable: 100x100mm
- Ports:
- 1 x HDMI (ver2.0)
- 2 x DP (ver1.4)
- 2 x SuperSpeed USB 5 Gbps (USB 3.2 Gen1) downstream port [Front bottom, one with BC1.2 charging capability at 2A (max)]
- 2 x SuperSpeed USB 5 Gbps (USB 3.2 Gen1) downstream port (rear)
- 1 X SuperSpeed USB 5 Gbps (USB 3.2 Gen1) upstream port (rear)
- 1X Audio line-out port (rear)
- 1 x Headphone-out port (bottom)
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The minor annoyance aside - the thing that does greatly bother me is the coil whine. It ... is ... IRRITATING. Sometimes I can calm it down some by enabling/disabling the monitor's built-in lighting effects. For mine it gets louder when there is less image being lit up by the pixels. Screens that are predominantly black... higher coil whine sound. I pretty much have to wear my headphones to help me ignore it.
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For gaming, I found it really annoying to swap to- and fro- HDR. Granted, it's not a problem unique to this monitor, but HDR was obnoxious to use. Not to mention, the colors were oft wrong. You also can't just stay in HDR, as when you go back to Desktop, colors are super under-saturated and washed out. I also found that it had pretty bad flicker when framerates were unstable. That could have been a G-Sync issue, and perhaps this F monitor does not suffer from that.
I felt that this monitor was a first gen product, and imo waiting for the second gen might be prudent. I am comparing this one to AW3418 and AW3420. Both of those do better at pulling double-duty for work and gaming combined than the OLED does.
Text fringing is the biggest problem and an exercise in personal tolerance. Some people will not notice it, some will see it but tolerate it, and some will hate it. Personally, I strongly dislike it and it is a kind of deal breaker since I work from home 40+ hours a week.
The color, contrast, viewing angle, black level performance, and HDR are OUTSTANDING on qd-oled monitors. Literally light years better than regular monitors and a big improvement over mini LED backlit displays (but mini LED back lit displays do not have text fringing issues).
Finally, burn-in IS still a potential problem with qd-oled. The model on display at Microcenter definitely had a little burn-in visible in the lower right corner, where there must be a white text box most of the day. The task bar did not appear to be burned in (yet) though, and they probably have that monitor on 12+ hours a day. There monitor has probably been on display since December or January. If you mostly game, avoid long periods of static content, and use standard mitigation options, you can probably avoid burn-in. I have seen some reports of burn-in for these monitors start to appear on reddit though.
It's also dim. I work in a. brightly lit room w/ sunlight..
My 10 year old, 24" Dell, 1080p, IPS, 250 nits monitor has better text clarity than this. QD-OLED or OLED monitors isn't ready for work-play balance,.
Beautiful display for HDR content though.
I would like a micro LED, MLA OLED, or some high PPI ultrawide (137+ PPI) like LG's 5k, 40".
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The idea of this QD-OLED has been tempting to me. I received it today.
Disclaimer:M y current monitor was so precisely setup. Mounted, cable managed to the extreme. Completely perfect ergonomically. As I was removing my stuck on Hue lighting, unraveling my cable management, destroying my usual routine, my mind was saying "stop the madness, your monitor is fine, just send back the Alienware."
I have to say, about 30 seconds of the Alienware in operation made me completely forget all of my 2nd guessing. Just WOW. There really is no comparison.
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The idea of this QD-OLED has been tempting to me. I received it today.
Disclaimer:M y current monitor was so precisely setup. Mounted, cable managed to the extreme. Completely perfect ergonomically. As I was removing my stuck on Hue lighting, unraveling my cable management, destroying my usual routine, my mind was saying "stop the madness, your monitor is fine, just send back the Alienware."
I have to say, about 30 seconds of the Alienware in operation made me completely forget all of my 2nd guessing. Just WOW. There really is no comparison.
Use Windows 11, and enable the "Auto-HDR" feature. This makes a huge difference in older titles still showing up as HDR like.
Second, make sure to enable HDR in games that support it and to use the in game calibration tool for each game to get the whites and blacks set correctly.
Third, windows 10/11 have an HDR calibration tool from the microsoft store that should also be used to calibrate the monitor.
ENJOY!
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