The Alienware novelties 2022, announced last January at CES in Las Vegas, were presented to us yesterday in Paris in a private showroom, accompanied by product managers from Dell (Alienware’s parent company). The star was undoubtedly the Alienware AW3423DW, the very first QD OLED display for PCs on the market.
triumph in Las Vegas
His announcement on January 4th at CES in Las Vegas quickly put the surprise aside to arouse envy and admiration. Just as we were anticipating a refresh of the X and M series laptops, to everyone’s surprise, it was actually a large ultrawide screen that Dell and Alienware pulled out of a hat for us. A nugget that’s awarded the Las Vegas Innovation Prize, excuse me!
And not just any screen, no no, the very first in history with a QD OLED panel borrowed from Samsung, which it also shares with the future 34-inch Odyssey G8QNB, due for release later in the year.
Strangely, while OLED is everywhere in high-end TVs, smartphones or connected watches, it wasn’t present in the PC screen market until then. There are a few laptops with OLED panels or professional screens such as the LG 32EP950, but nothing besides desktop computers or for gaming, nada, just chi, walou… Until now!
OLED where are you?
The lack of OLED PC displays so far is a combination of several things. The first is the lack of transparency and uncertain profitability. Basically, No one wants to enter the market for fear of screwing up and losing a lot of money.
The second is that the manufacturers who have mastered this technology are two in number, LG and Samsung, thus marking their return to the OLED market with their own small variant, the QD-OLED. It was therefore imperative to pool production to be profitable, which Alienware and Samsun did.g and which today allows us to discover the Alienware AW3423DW, the screen of the future we have all been waiting for.
One last point, and last but not least, that could slow down the arrival of OLED in the world of desktop PCs in general and gaming PCs in particular, is always the famous story of “burn-in”, you know, that famous story of Screen burn, a rare but very real thing that was present with the first generations of OLED panels. Basically, there is a risk that if you leave a still image on the screen for too long, it can be marked, sometimes irreversibly, by the TV channels’ logos or banners.
On television, the phenomenon has long since disappeared, for one thing, because we never get stuck on the same channel for several hours (whatever…) and whatever we watch, there’s always a bit of movement. This is far from the case with a computer and a desktop running Windows. But all that is history, we are promised, and Here we finally face the first QD OLED screen for PC in history and we have to admit that it gave us a certain emotion.
A look into the future with the Alienware AW3423DW monitor
While we were waiting to be able to test it in the editorial office with games and our entire battery of internal tests, we finally got to see in real life this screen that everyone envies and that is full of promises but also with some doubts and uncertainties.
The first impression when you stand in front of him is just “Waouuuuh”! A slap to the right, a slap to the left, no, we’re not dreaming, he’s there, in his gorgeous white and black dress and his brand-specific subtle turquoise blue backlighting. The curvature is slight (1800R versus 1000R for the Odyssey G7 for example) but sufficient to lock us into its universe without distorting the picture and our vision.
Nothing to say, we immediately feel the quality and quickly see that we are in front of an exceptional product. We’ll have to test it to find out more and see all its qualities, though The promise of this long-awaited QD OLED panel is to offer the best of both technologies, namely absolute black, more accurate, more true colors, but also excellent brightness and the best HDR content. In short, a perfect world on paper.
As a reminder, this Alienware AW3423DW screen is has a 34-inch diagonal with a resolution of 3440 x 1440pmentioned more often WQHDand 175Hz refresh rate etc a response time of 0.1 ms !. It therefore has a format called Extra wide 21:9 type. It’s quite a special format, quite confusing at first, but once you’ve tried it, you can’t go without it. It’s simply our favorite format and many of us in the editorial office work and play with a Huawei Mateview GT 34, for example.
Back to the Future
Among all its other characteristics we note the presence of a Certification G-Sync Ultimatesomething rare to point out, which gives it optimal compatibility with the latest Nvidia GeForce RTX 30xx graphics cards. On the HDR side, Alienware announces dual certification, DisplayHDR 400 True Black and Display HDR1000, as well as a maximum brightness of 1000 nits
On the connector side you will have to rely on it a DisplayPort 1.4 input (essential to use 165 Hz) and two HDMI 2.0 inputs to play up to 1080p or 1440p (depending on console) at 120 fps. Note the presence of a USB HUB with no less than 4 USB ports, always handy for not having to rummage around behind your tower. finally to finish Dell offers a 3-year burn-in warranty, which means they’re pretty confident on this point. We have many other things to tell, but we’ll keep the rest for the test!
Announced earlier this year at CES in Las Vegas, the Alienware QD-OLED AW3423DW gaming PC screen has been available since March 22 on Dell or LDLC websites, for example, priced at $1,299. An unexpected price for such a technology showcase and the usual high price policy at Dell and Alienware.
Shop the Alienware AW3423DW QD OLED PC Display for $1299 at LDLC
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