Dell burst onto the gaming monitor scene earlier this yr with the Alienware AW3423DW, a 34-inch ultrawide that was dear, however nonetheless the most effective deal round in the case of that candy ultra-vibrant quantum dot OLED panel. (Oh, and a PCWorld Editor’s Choice!) The firm is bringing it again once more for a nearly-identical mannequin, the AW3423DWF, which swaps Nvidia’s G-Sync for the extra normal AMD FreeSync Premium Pro system. It’s launching later this yr for a barely extra reasonably priced $1099.99, $200 off the worth of the unique design.

A thousand bucks and alter continues to be some huge cash for any monitor, however this mannequin makes a compelling argument that it nonetheless counts as a worth. It’s the most cost effective QD-OLED display you will get designed for PC gaming (until you discover a deal on a smaller OLED TV), and with 165Hz of refresh fee, a claimed 0.1ms gray-to-gray refresh fee, and the same old 3440×1440 ultrawide decision, it’s packing the specs that loads of avid gamers crave. Yes, it’s almost an identical to the earlier mannequin, however this one comes clad in black plastic throughout as a substitute of the panda-ish look, with a considerably gaudy “34” LED lighting up the rear.

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The shift from Nvidia to AMD branding for the refresh system in all probability received’t matter an excessive amount of — anybody planning to drop this a lot money on a monitor can put out frames quick sufficient, and FreeSync works with Radeon and GeForce GPUs alike (in contrast to the Nvidia-only G-Sync). BConnections embrace two DisplayPort 1.4 ports, one HDMI 2.0 port, 4 USB 3.2 gen1 ports (two on the underside bezel for straightforward entry), and headphone jacks on the underside and rear. It’s a disgrace that there’s nonetheless no USB-C possibility on a display this costly, although.

Gamers can go along with the frilly built-in stand or the same old 100x100mm VESA mount, however get one which’s sturdy when you change it — this factor is sort of 14 kilos for the display alone. Along with refreshed Aurora desktops packing the latest Nvidia RTX 4090 cards and a brand new tenkeyless mechanical keyboard, the AW3423DWF will launch “later this fall.”