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hinch said:

Another look at the Alienware AW3423DW QD-OLED vs a 43" Gigabyte FV43U (VA) QLED.

Pretty good comparison. Unfortunately, the new AW doesn't accept a 4K signal. A deal breaker for me since PS5 doesn't support 1440P and will only display 1080P on this display. Looks to be a near perfect for PC usage though.. not for me. I guess the hunt for the perfect monitor continues.

Yea as a person that has been using an Ultrawide monitor (Alienware AW3418DW), you should never buy an ultrawide for consoles even if it accepts 4k signal. Consoles can't do ultrawide aspect ratios so either you have to deal with black borders or a stretched image which neither are good. It's one of the reasons why I bought my 32 inch 16x9 4k panel instead of buying another ultrawide. The only exception might be like a 49 inch super ultrawide where you have enough room to fit two 16x9 sources side by side.

The only real disappointment for me is that the Alienware doesn't support Display Stream Compression. This means you can't get 10 bit signal at 175hz, you can only get it at 144hz which is fine but Display Stream Compression is such a easy feature to add. But that seems to be an Nvidia G-sync Ultimate module problem along with the lack of HDMI 2.1 as they probably don't want to update the module until Display port 2.0 comes out with Lovelace which is kinda lame.

Personally I will probably be waiting until Alienware comes out with their 38 inch QD-OLED panel next year. While not confirmed, they do typically come out with 34 inch with new tech and release the 38 inch version the following year.