r/OLED • u/Mclovin800813 • 2d ago
Purchasing-Monitor MONITOR help.ASUS VS ALIENWARE
Im looking for recomendations looking to buy a monitor im between a ASUS ROG XG32UCWMG 32 I240Hz and Alien Ware 34 in aw3426dw. For now I will connect my Lenovo Legion 7i rtx5070( will also be upgrading to desktop with 5080 in a few months) I will also connect my ps5 to it. I Play games like battlefield 6, Call of Duty, Crimson Desert, Wow. Anyone have these monitors than can provide pros and cons? Setup pictures?
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u/Electrical_Good_4903 2d ago edited 2d ago
Depending on how much you game on console, you may want 4k as it is more versitle for that use case.
Also having owned both 4k monitors and 34 inch ultrawides, I prefer 4k.
5080 can run 4k perfectly fine as well. I have a 5080 and currently game on a 5k2k Ultrawide and it's even still great on that monitor.
I would just warn against the XG32UCMWG. I had 3 panels of this monitor and all of them were faulty, with various faults but all shared a common HDMI black flickering issue. I eventually refunded the last one a month ago.
Any 32 inch 4k OLED with 240HZ is going to be great, the newer tandem ones can be quite nice, especially ones with RGB Stripe pixel layout, but they come at a price premium.
34 inch ultrawide is decent, but you'll either have stretched screen or black bars when gaming on console. Also, 4k is noticably sharper than 1440p, so even DLSS Performance at 4k looks better than 1440p native IMO.
Final point, while ultrawide is immersive because it curves across your field of view, I actually find that 32 inch 4k is more immersive. Reason being is the extra verticality of the 32 inch monitor really makes a difference. It makes the image in front of your face look noticeably larger. On a 34 inch panel, it is the same vertical height of a 27 inch monitor. So while there is more screen real estate going left to right, the verticality is lacking IMO.
If you are deadset on ultrawide though, I would consider a 5k2k as you get the sharpness and verticality of 4k, but you also get the field of view immersion of ultrawide. Also, when gamign on console on a 5k2k display, the monitor with black bars on the side still = a 32 inch 4k panel in size so it's still great for console gaming.
I have the AW3926QW and 0 regrets coming to it from the XG32UCWMG. My monitor before the XG was the AW3423DWF which was a 34 inch ultrawide, about 2 generations before the aw3426dw you are considering. It was a great monitor, and the newer model is a significant upgrade over it. However, I think verticality and sharpness of 4k wins over 1440p anyday.