110 scaling still uses up a lot of screen estate. I just tried it out and my windows were taking up more screen area as well as desktop icons and other UX where fonts are shown. Better Cleartype is just better, especially after you apply it having done the normal cleartype adjustments prior.
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Those are the negatives. Did you find anything positive about it? Not tried it yet myself. Anyone else tried it?
Also @JediFragger how are you getting on with it? Thoughts so far? Best monitor you ever had (you have had loads as I recall)?
I finished Shadow of a Tomb Raider and now playing Halo Infinite which I am enjoying more than I expected.
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It's quite subjective. 110% was me notably more improved in overall quality while I can easily spot the fringing esp on high contrast sections like using dark mode on apps. For me, the BetterClearType made it worst by blowing out the edges. I tried many iterations, reboots, start from scratch etc. The 400% zoom makes it even easier to spot this exaggeration of color bleed which is what I'd expect since it's mainly blowing out the contrast. But as it's subjective, go with what works.
Discord web is by far the most offensive to the fringing due to the font used and it's natural use state of dark mode. Color bleeding into a darker canvas is always going to be more notable to the eyes than black test onto white which will have natural color dilution and contain any bleeding.
Now if someone can shut off the annoying fan, perfect display to date and I have no reason to upgrade for many years.
Discord web is by far the most offensive to the fringing due to the font used and it's natural use state of dark mode. Color bleeding into a darker canvas is always going to be more notable to the eyes than black test onto white which will have natural color dilution and contain any bleeding.
Now if someone can shut off the annoying fan, perfect display to date and I have no reason to upgrade for many years.
Noticed nothing different/better at 110 vs Better Cleartype Tuner. I see no fringe/lack of sharpness at 100%, as far as I am concerned now it's no different to my old LG 34UM05-P - And considerably better than the Huawei Mateview GT for clarity but that's a VA "gaming" panel so I don't expect much from that anyway.
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No man, I don't think it is (at least for my use-case). My problem is I game 15/20% of the time I'm on my PC and I think it's a bit too small considering I've been using bigger screens for a while now (43in 4k was perfect overall but didn't really like the slow VA pixel response. Wish I'd kept it tbh for a bit longer). I also managed to pickup a perfect s/h LG 38GN950-B for £600 (just because it was a bloody good price!) and I think I prefer it.
Not 100% yet as still switching between the 2, but I'm leaning towards keeping the GN til the Asus 42in hits...
Interesting. Yea, as I always said, when it comes to monitors it is very subjective and there is no right or wrong. I can understand what you mean. I had a similar feeling dropping from 4K at 27" as due to the PPI some IQ was lost, but due to the amount that was gained going from IPS to QD-OLED and and just as importantly if not more proper HDR made it a no brainer for me. Also after a week I started to even forget how my 4K one looked like so problem solved
How about as Vincent said, as a gaming monitor, would you say it is the best you have ever had?
Now that we have data from the TVs we can see they are significantly brighter. Both SDR and HDR brightness on the Samsung QD-OLED TV is 42% brighter than the Alienware monitor.
And also interestingly 2022 has been a good year for brightness across the board. LG added a heatsink to its G2 OLED this year and we now have the data for it, the new G2 OLED is 15% brighter than the Alienware QD-OLED
And also interestingly 2022 has been a good year for brightness across the board. LG added a heatsink to its G2 OLED this year and we now have the data for it, the new G2 OLED is 15% brighter than the Alienware QD-OLED
Yeah, the 38" is probably a better screen for general use/productivity. I had the AW 38" before (same panel I believe?) and do miss the sharper fonts and resolution. However the QD-OLED more than makes up for those shortcomings in games.
Playing through The Ascent atm and the neon lights and explosions etc are just jaw-dropping in places, can't wait to get back into Metro Exodus enhanced after.
Setting the scaling to 110% didn't make any noticeable difference to the text sharpness for me. However I did also try enabling Radeon Virtual Super Resolution and then setting my resolution to 5120x2160 and setting scaling to 150% (e.g. to maintain the UI size) and that did get rid of the colour fringing (but made everything a bit blurry
)Probably the reason why they are confident in offering 3 years warranty that includes burn in. That said, the Alienware is plenty bright in HDR. 15% more is not going to make much difference other than maybe hurting your eyes at that distance. With TV’s it’s different as one sits far away.
Besides the LG G2 and the Samsung QD-OLED TV’s are like 55” or bigger as far as I am aware, so I am not sure why you mentioned them really, apart from your need to justify your decision
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For the dark detail and incredible contrast then yes, it's top notch. A 42in will be perfect for me I think, hope the 34in UW is the start of many QD-OLED monitor sizes and shapes to come
For the dark detail and incredible contrast then yes, it's top notch. A 42in will be perfect for me I think, hope the 34in UW is the start of many QD-OLED monitor sizes and shapes to come
Hopefully they use a more conventional subpixel layout for the next iteration though, it's the 1 thing that really lets it down
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I've had the AW 38" albeit rather briefly, I really didn't get on with its AG coating I felt it was faaaaaar too 'heavy' and made text rather murky at best. The LG is much much clearer and better in this regard which I'm really happy about as I did miss the 38" format somewhat
Yep. I think we will be spoilt over the next few years. Let us know how much you sell it forFor the dark detail and incredible contrast then yes, it's top notch. A 42in will be perfect for me I think, hope the 34in UW is the start of many QD-OLED monitor sizes and shapes to come
Exactly. As far as I am concerned it is the best gaming monitor personally. It is obviously not perfect, but when you compare it with all the crap that came out before that people were paying silly money for, this is head and shoulders above those imo. The only thing anywhere near it imo before was the LG C1 48” which obviously was a bit on the large side.
Scenes like this more than make up for the loss of those 4"
Each to their own and all that but every time I see setups on reddits battlestations with 42"+ displays, it just looks ridiculous imo, that and if I want big screen gaming, I'll just play on the 55" oled lying back with a controller 
Although I'm doing that far less now as the AW QD-OLED is just that much better than the LG OLED in every way possible.
No way I would ever be going back to any "non" sub emissive panel tech. either, there's just no comparison, been playing some ark and 7 days to die lately and it's incredible just how much better night time is and more importantly, it's far more playable/usable, usually, you would have to wait till morning or up the in game gamma to make anything out.
Although I'm doing that far less now as the AW QD-OLED is just that much better than the LG OLED in every way possible.No way I would ever be going back to any "non" sub emissive panel tech. either, there's just no comparison, been playing some ark and 7 days to die lately and it's incredible just how much better night time is and more importantly, it's far more playable/usable, usually, you would have to wait till morning or up the in game gamma to make anything out.
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After my (subjective) text fringing fix, the AW matches my LG’s in SDR and exceeds them in every other way. I couldn’t be happier.
And unlike s95b owners, I get PQ accuracy when gaming without having a heavily spiked eotf curve with accompanying color luminosity juiced up (both are related). I wonder how many of the same impressions would hold true if they had to play the games in the calibrated filmmaker mode instead.
Thank you dell.
And unlike s95b owners, I get PQ accuracy when gaming without having a heavily spiked eotf curve with accompanying color luminosity juiced up (both are related). I wonder how many of the same impressions would hold true if they had to play the games in the calibrated filmmaker mode instead.
Thank you dell.
Probably the reason why they are confident in offering 3 years warranty that includes burn in. That said, the Alienware is plenty bright in HDR. 15% more is not going to make much difference other than maybe hurting your eyes at that distance. With TV’s it’s different as one sits far away.
Besides the LG G2 and the Samsung QD-OLED TV’s are like 55” or bigger as far as I am aware, so I am not sure why you mentioned them really, apart from your need to justify your decision
That's a good point, the lower brightness could be a mitigation techniques used given it's a monitor
For the consumer the 3 years is great, whether it's good for Alienware or not remains to be seen - burn in is something that is hard to predict or measure in a lab without actually putting in the hours - we don't know and Alienware to much of a degree won't know either how the panels will hold up. They obviously belive it's more resistant and they even lowered the brightness to help it along but if burn in was no risk then they'd do lifetime burn in warranty like Samsung does on QLED so we'll just have to wait a few years and see what happens
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Amen, we're all different brother!! I love a big screen myself, 42 will be perfick
And dayyyyyyyym I gotta stop buying bloody monitors
To be honest, I think the brightness is spot on. For desktop usage, I currently have it set to 54% brightness/66% contrast. This is with a window about 2ft away to the side of me and it's quite sunny at the moment, so plenty of light coming in.
My gaming profile is set to 75%/75% and I find that just about the limit of being comfortable - any brighter and it would be painful in very bright scenes!
I guess if I was sitting in an office with bright fluorescent lighting and huge poorly placed windows it might be different, but in my home office there are no issues.
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They're balanced out for different use cases. Post calibration, SDR peak brightness on the AW is higher at full field white than on the S95B. This makes sense as ABL in SDR would be annoying to deal with for daily productivity while it's less of an issue on a TV which is primarily meant for content consumption. The S95B peaks higher at 1% and 2% measurements in HDR for better specular highlights for content consumption.
AW SDR Per HDTV Test:
S95B Post calibration from ClassyTech (also calibrator):
HDTV tests are at full field white so it's 197 on the S95B vs 250 on the AW.
AW SDR Per HDTV Test:
S95B Post calibration from ClassyTech (also calibrator):
HDTV tests are at full field white so it's 197 on the S95B vs 250 on the AW.