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Alienware AW3926QW 39" 5K2K 165Hz w/ RGB Stripe

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Apparently this is not the same RGWB panel found in the LG 39GX.

Alienware's own slide:

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So it's glossy and no white subpixel unlike the LG model...seems like this just made the 39GX dead in the water.
 
I'm wondering why 2H hardness instead of 3H though, even the latest gen QD OLEDs have upgraded to 3H since there was a lot of complaints from owners of the previous gen about how easy it was to scratch up.
 
I'm actually less excited about these RGB stripe ones, particularly at high pixel counts. That white subpixel helps with brightness, I'd rather it stick around.
 
I have yet to use a 39" 4k/5k UW but it seems like the perfect format for a work-pleasure monitor. I really like my 34" 1440p UW, this would be a fantastic progression. The UW premium is just outrageous though, you can get a 32" 4k for about as much as a 1440p UW.

Still, this with a good KVM(fast switching, lots of USB ports) would probably be an endgame monitor for me. Sucks about the soft panel though. That's probably actually the AR coating and not the actual panel right?
 
Sycraft said:
I'm actually less excited about these RGB stripe ones, particularly at high pixel counts. That white subpixel helps with brightness, I'd rather it stick around.
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The brightness hit from losing the white subpixel is pretty minimal here, 1300 nits peak instead of 1500 nits peak so a loss of 200 nits which at that level is nothing really. Fullscreen is 300 nits instead of 335 so again it's not like you are getting the half the brightness by removing it. The white subpixel causes way more issues than it solves so leaving it in would mean grey banding, near black chrominance overshoot, and worst color volume. I'll happily trade no white subpixel and the benefits it brings over an extra 200 nits peak and 35 nits fullscreen.
 
MistaSparkul said:
The brightness hit from losing the white subpixel is pretty minimal here, 1300 nits peak instead of 1500 nits peak so a loss of 200 nits which at that level is nothing really. It's not like you are getting the half the brightness by removing it. The white subpixel causes way more issues than it solves so leaving it in would mean grey banding, near black chrominance overshoot, and worst color volume.
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There's a difference between what you see in measurement and what you see in actual gaming. The HUB Aussies find that despite the 32" TB400 QD-OLEDs and WOLEDs both being about the same in terms of peak and rated brightness, in actual scene testing the WOLEDs are brighter. Remember it is all about heat and energy usage, and that white subpixel puts out way more light with less energy because lack of color filter. So anything white in the scene (or desaturated colors, which use it), which there is often a lot of take less power and generate less heat than doing RGB directly.
 
Sycraft said:
There's a difference between what you see in measurement and what you see in actual gaming. The HUB Aussies find that despite the 32" TB400 QD-OLEDs and WOLEDs both being about the same in terms of peak and rated brightness, in actual scene testing the WOLEDs are brighter. Remember it is all about heat and energy usage, and that white subpixel puts out way more light with less energy because lack of color filter. So anything white in the scene (or desaturated colors, which use it), which there is often a lot of take less power and generate less heat than doing RGB directly.
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We'll just need to wait for some reviews but I'm going to guess and say that the actual real world gaming brightness will not be too far behind the LG 39GX.
 
Of course there is now a flood of 5K2K OLED monitors after becoming impatient and pulling the pin on the Odyssey Neo G9 57" 🤣 🤬😡😭

I suppose it means I can at least enjoy 240hz ultrawide 4K gaming until the 240hz versions of these monitors start showing up.
 
Blade-Runner said:
Of course there is now a flood of 5K2K OLED monitors after becoming impatient and pulling the pin on the Odyssey Neo G9 57" 🤣 🤬😡😭

I suppose it means I can at least enjoy 240hz ultrawide 4K gaming until the 240hz versions of these monitors start showing up.
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Isn't that an 8K2K Mini LED though? And of course its 57" instead of 39" so it's quite a different experience.
 
I've been waiting for this since it was shown in the roadmap several years ago. Something to finally replace my awesome 3840x1600 LG 38GN950. But now that it's finally here, I don't really care as much as I thought I would. At least it doesn't have that obnoxious 800R curve.
 
thelead said:
That looks different than the ‘leaked’ lab picture. That base was glossy where this one seems like a matte plastic.
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Perhaps it was just lighting conditions in that photo that made it appear that way. I'll be honest though, with the announcement of DisplayHDR 1000 monitors coming from LG Display at some point this has pretty much killed any excitement I had for this monitor lol.
 
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MistaSparkul said:
Perhaps it was just lighting conditions in that photo that made it appear that way. I'll be honest though, with the announcement of DisplayHDR 1000 monitors coming from LG Display at some point this has pretty much killed any excitement I had for this monitor lol.
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oooooh! Tell me some more...
 
thelead said:
man, I thought this year was going to be the year I jumped into OLED monitors… I may still do it and then upgrade when these DisplayHDR 1000 OLED monitors finally come out (likely mid to late next year). Do we know what the sustained 100% white nit count is on 1000 True Black? I couldn’t find it with a quick google search.
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500 nits.

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That would give it tons of headroom to do BFI since BFI kills brightness by quite a bit, I think the most aggressive BFI settings tend to reduce max brightness by half or maybe a little bit more. It also means far, far less aggressive ABL for HDR content.
 
MistaSparkul said:
500 nits.

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That would give it tons of headroom to do BFI since BFI kills brightness by quite a bit, I think the most aggressive BFI settings tend to reduce max brightness by half or maybe a little bit more. It also means far, far less aggressive ABL for HDR content.
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Wow, literally double the nits of my TB400 Alienware. That's actually worth waiting for.
 
Just watched a LTT video on it. It is glossy for sure… and Linus said that dell is targeting $1100 for it. I don’t think I’ll be able to wait for the DisplayHDR 1000 monitors. This will be a home run at that price.
 
thelead said:
Just watched a LTT video on it. It is glossy for sure… and Linus said that dell is targeting $1100 for it. I don’t think I’ll be able to wait for the DisplayHDR 1000 monitors. This will be a home run at that price.
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$1100? How could they sell it for that low when LG's own 39GX is $1800. If that really does end up being the price then I'll get one as well, I was expecting it to be the same price as LG. Maybe Linus got the wrong info on pricing and was given the price of the 34" QD OLED monitor instead which the price of that is......$1099.

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MistaSparkul said:
$1100? How could they sell it for that low when LG's own 39GX is $1800. If that really does end up being the price then I'll get one as well, I was expecting it to be the same price as LG. Maybe Linus got the wrong info on pricing and was given the price of the 34" QD OLED monitor instead which the price of that is......$1099.

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He mentioned that dell is targeting 800 for the 34” QD-OLED monitor in the same video
 
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