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Dell’s excellent OLED ultrawide, the Alienware AW3423DWF, is $100 offA 34-in curved OLED screen produces gorgeous results.
A 34-in curved OLED screen produces gorgeous results.
Dell’s brand new 34-in gaming QD-OLED monitor is reduced at Dell USA, with a $100 discount reducing the monitor to triple figures - $999, to be exact. This is still atonof money to spend on a monitor, of any description, but this is genuinely the best monitor I’ve ever used.
Get the Dell Alienware AW3423DWF for $999 (was $1099)
So why this monitor? Basically, it combines all the awesomeness of OLED with thatuniquely captivating ultrawide form factor, providing unparalleled visuals but also more downsides than your average LCD panel display. Here’s what you need to know.
Right, still with me? OK, now let’s look at the good stuff - and the reasons why after testing the near-identical G-Sync variant of this monitor, I am completely in love with it.
The most obvious thing is the overall image quality here - everything looks incredible, thanks to those perfect blacks, gorgeous colour saturation, impactful HDR, ultrawide aspect ratio and generous viewing angles. The resolution of 3440x1440 is also a great middle-ground between 1440p and 4K, offering good clarity but not requiring a super high-end GPU to run. Motion handling is also top-notch, thanks to 0.1ms pixel response times (10x faster than even high-end LCD displays), a high refresh rate of 165Hz and the inclusion of FreeSync/G-Sync Compatible-ity. On basically every metric, this monitor excels, blowing even the best LCD-based displays out of the water.
So ultimately then, given the existence of its drawbacks, do these strengths justify the $999 asking price for the AW3423DWF? In my mind, 100% yes. None of the downsides to this panel are deal-breakers to me, and the upsides are game-changing. We will see more models in this mould going forward, no doubt, but to me this Dell monitor is already worth the price of admission.
