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My favourite ultrawide, the 34-in Alienware AW3423DW QD-OLED, is £156 off at Dell UKThe QD-OLED marvel sees its first major discount for Black Friday.
The QD-OLED marvel sees its first major discount for Black Friday.
Dell’s Alienware AW3423DW is my favourite ultrawide monitor, thanks to its beautiful 34-inch QD-OLED screen that offers perfect blacks, near-instant pixel response times and gorgeous colours. With wide-screen 1440p (3440x1440) resolution and a 175Hz refresh rate, it’s both detailed and responsive, and it looks the part too with a very cool space-y design.
I was lucky enough to review one for several months for Digital Foundry - I think Dell forgot about it for a while - so I consider it my duty to inform you that it is now on sale for the first time ever, dropping from £1099 to £943 - still a big chunk of change, but a fitting Black Friday price for one of the best monitors on the market of any description, hands down.
Get the Alienware AW3423DW QD-OLED for £943 (was £1099)
I could go on about why this Dell monitor is so lovely, but I fear it’ll quickly descend into mindless gibbering. Let me turn to the more sternly written review, lifted from my write-up on Eurogamer:
The Dell Alienware AW3423DW is the best 1440p ultrawide we’ve ever tested [with] infinite contrast with perfectly inky blacks, a wide colour gamut, instant pixel response times and better brightness (~500nits) than traditional OLED displays. The 3440x1440 175Hz spec is ideal for PC use, whether gaming or content creation, but doesn’t suit consoles… motion handling is superb, making this a great monitor for fast-moving games like shooters or racing titles, while the curved 34-inch screen is suitably immersive…
I have to offer a strong recommendation for this monitor, but I should also mention two further quirks of the unique screen tech: the screen could suffer from burn-in, although there are plenty of countermeasures and user habits to prevent this, and the text is not as crisp as most other displays due to a different subpixel structure. Neither of these bothered me during testing, but if you’re particularly worried then you should do your own research to arrive at a conclusion.
It’s genuinely a fantastic monitor, and I’ve not known anyone to get it and not fall in love with it, so do consider it if you’re in the market for a premium display. If you have any questions that I could potentially answer based on my time with the AW3423DW, do let me know! Cheers.
