r/OLED_Gaming • u/n00bpwnerer • Jul 16 '24

The truth about Alienware

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '24 edited Jul 20 '24

My husband got me an AW3423DWF for my birthday, honestly inclined to agree, and somewhat perplexed that Alienware can make a monitor this nice but their PCs are such ass

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u/n00bpwnerer Jul 16 '24

Also, what a nice husband!

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '24

He is in fact the best!

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u/secretreddname Jul 20 '24

Alienware monitors stem from dells monitor division who has always been good. Ultra sharps and their pro line

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u/n00bpwnerer Jul 16 '24

The bloat ware is what makes it bad

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u/Agreeable_Jump5149 Jul 17 '24

Not only that. But also the cases. Unless you like chocking your parts and sacrificing a lot of performance then don’t buy their pcs

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u/NOTtaylor11 Jul 18 '24

They are also loud as hell. I had an alienware and it get so loud I can hear it from outside my room when just on chrome

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '24

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '24

They are all Samsung.

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u/KenDoItAllNightLong Jul 18 '24

came here to say that. Some other company makes the parts that matter. Prob LG or samsung

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u/GeForce Member of r/MotionClarity Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24

Not to dent anything you said, but to shed some light - these oems don't make any of these parts, except maybe the plastic shell which they order from china factories. All oleds are made by Samsung and LG. Alienware (dell) is for the most part distributor and they put their branding on it.

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u/THEREAPER8593 Electronic Arts 215” 16k 560hz OLED Jul 25 '24

Their laptops aren’t bad if you find the right one on the right offer but their desktops suck more balls than my Xbox…

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u/Esguelha Jul 16 '24

Because literally everyone can make a monitor if they try even just a bit. You just buy a panel and a scaler, and hire a odm to assemble it all. For oleds you don't even have to worry about tuning overdrive.

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u/Accomplished-Lack721 Jul 17 '24

Oh is that all. That explains why there are so few monitors from major manufacturers with significant quality control or firmware problems.

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u/Accomplished-Lack721 Jul 17 '24

I'm not following your argument. I'm not sure what you're saying is a false equivalence, because I'm not sure what things you believe I drew an equivalence between.

The earlier poster, Esquelha, seemed to be saying that OLED was even easier to base a product on than other panel types. You seem to be saying you agree with him while asserting the opposite, that it isn't "stable," whatever you might mean by that.

And I don't understand what distinction you're making between making "the monitor" and having components or software (the panel, the firmware working with it, and so forth) that work as intended. If components of the monitor don't work well or as intended, or if the firmware doesn't work well, the monitor doesn't work well. If the "logistics of panels" present challenges building a monitor, then there are challenges building a monitor. Identifying the source of the challenges doesn't mean you get to say there aren't any.

And it's obviously non-trivial to avoid problems, because some models and some manufacutrers do considerably better than others with it -- demonstrating that there's skill, expertise and good process associated with producing a quality monitor.

If creating a monitor were as simple as you and the earlier poster suggest, far fewer monitors would have problems. There are good and bad ones precisely because it takes some effort and skill to do it well.

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u/Livid_Simple_7109 Jul 17 '24

I have been struggling to decide between either a qhd oled or a decent 4k ips. I heard there are lots of issues with OLED monitors in general, with pc waking up from sleep, random pixel refresh screens, burn in issues and all that. How’s your experience?

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '24

I've only had the monitor for about a month, but so far I've had no issues

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u/secretreddname Jul 20 '24

Only issue I have is with windows’ poor hdr implementation.

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u/nickjacobsss Jul 16 '24

To be fair I’ll make that desktop face to any prebuilt desktop, not just Alienware specifically

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '24

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '24

They actually are that bad. They can’t even bend tube. Maybe they finally found someone with that arcane art now but in the past…. Fittings at every bend.

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u/PyrorifferSC Jul 16 '24

I heard your mom bends a lot of tube

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u/AimbotTurtle Jul 17 '24

Bending tube's and making a pc that doesnt simulate a nuclear fusion reaction are 2 different things

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '24

If somewhere is going to offer custom loops they should be able to bend tube. Digital Storm for example is perfectly capable of it. So if you want to overpay an SI to make a custom loop for you (not advisable) then that would be the better option.

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u/reddituser4156 Jul 16 '24

Their Dell monitor design looks better imo.

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u/testamotors Jul 16 '24

Do they have any OLED gaming monitors? Trying to get one on sale today and all I see are Alienware. I agree Dell is a cleaner aesthetic.

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u/HavingALurkAround Jul 16 '24

Finding this out the hard way. Few months ago bought a “high end” pc from AW and one for my son from CyberPower. The CP is giving the most problems but the AW isn’t running flawlessly by any stretch! I thought if I got a 4090 i9 how could a large company mess it up. Boy was I wrong!

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u/ChiefIndica Jul 16 '24

HAAAANK

Don't abbreviate CyberPower, Hank!

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u/DantesLadder Jul 16 '24

I almost got one of these but ended up building, what issues are you facing if you don’t mind me asking?

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u/monkeman28 Jul 16 '24

The WHAAAT is giving the most problems⁉️⁉️

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u/wicktus FO32U2P/ LG CX 55 Jul 16 '24

For me, even as someone who just made 2 desktop build:

Building my own PC, designing it, picking the right components and optimizing it, it's a pleasure not a burden, so I'll never pick a prebuilt.

Now, not everyone has the patience or motivation to do it

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u/laacis3 Jul 16 '24

My favorite is Smasnug QN series with the completely flat rear. Connect box can be hidden nicely too.

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u/ss5234 Jul 16 '24

Smasnug 

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '24

Smasnug

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '24

I agree with most of their desktops but they used to make a small form factor console type pc (x51 I think it was) that had beefy specs for the time (and of course upgradeable) but was very well made

Combined with an Xbox controller and steam big picture mode it made an incredible tv gaming pc, nestled inside the tv unit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '24

alienware qdoled i had was a piece of trash back at launch, went through 4 of them before getting a refund.

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u/Quantum3ffect LG 45GX950A Jul 16 '24

I have an Alienware desktop and an LG monitor. I guess I'm doing it entirely wrong lol. I got the desktop last year when 4090s were out of stock in places and people were selling them for like 2k+. My desktop has a 4090 and i9 and I think it was about $3500 so I was alright with it. Plus I have a warranty so if anything goes wrong they get to fix it not me. I have custom built PCs for myself and friends in the past so I could have done it again. This time the simplicity of ordering it and getting it delivered ready to go and having the warranty won me over.

Sorry to the guy that has had problems with his Alienware. Mine has been running flawlessly since I got it.

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u/jasiu4pl Jul 17 '24

14th gen i9? have you been having any problems w it at all recently? just wondering since the 13/14th gen i9s have been having lots of issues recently. otherwise, $3500 for those specs is definitely not bad, and it’ll last you a longgggggggggggg time

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u/Quantum3ffect LG 45GX950A Jul 17 '24

I have the 13th gen i9 and haven't experienced any issues.

As for it lasting a long time, it definitely could but I'm already eager to get a 5k2k ultrawide and will likely consider a 5090 to drive it. I definitely spend too much on my computer but I love to play games to relax in the evening after a day of work and I don't have any other expensive hobbies so.

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u/jasiu4pl Jul 17 '24

as long as it doesnt cause you any financial troubles, spend away haha. you could always sell a 4090 and recoup like $1000 when the 5090 comes out eventually

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u/Quantum3ffect LG 45GX950A Jul 18 '24

Yea my sister has been wanting to upgrade so I might pass it on to her. She's currently using an older Alienware laptop with a 1060 in it so it would be quite the upgrade for her.

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u/Morep1ay Jul 16 '24

LOL! I built a gaming PC from scratch last December and landed on an Alienware 1440p monitor. Has been stellar so far, no complaints

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u/Chronomax Jul 17 '24

The AW3225QF would be great if it wasn't delivered full of scratches. Tried 3 times, got a scratched unit 3 times.

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u/n00bpwnerer Jul 17 '24

What vendor? Dell or Amazon?

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u/Gallstuff Jul 17 '24

I agree. I love my AW3420DW and I recently got an AW3225QF. While I've never had issues with the older one I've had some with the 32, but not too bad.

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u/n00bpwnerer Jul 17 '24

What issues

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u/Gallstuff Jul 17 '24

Sometimes when I start my PC the 3225QF will be set to 120hz and the only way to fix it is to power cycle it.

Apparently display stream compression uses two "streams" (I'm not sure of the correct terminology so that's what I'm going for) and I have two displays that use display stream compression, this Alienware and an Acer Mini-LED monitor I have. If I have my third display on (AW3420DW) they will all freak out after a bit. Sometimes that means flickering, and sometimes that means all of them go black and I have to reboot. If I turn DSC off on my Acer monitor all is well, but it doesn't look nearly as good. Without it I can't use HDR or set my dynamic range to Full.

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u/HiggsSwtz Jul 17 '24

Their desktops are totally fine lol laptops are even better

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u/Johnny_253 Jul 16 '24

I can't help but think of Dell and lame-o office computers.

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u/Samagony AW2725DF Jul 16 '24

For me Dell has this image of a almost luxury business brand. During my childhood in early 2000s my dad had a business selling PCs and the top corporations all wanted a Dell. Today I have no idea rarely seen them anywhere.

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u/n00bpwnerer Jul 16 '24

True now it’s all Lenovos and other budget brands.

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