Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is my first OLED monitor and I have to say, the biggest take away is how hard it's going to be to go back to non-OLED screens. I have 2 other pretty nice monitors and 2 fairly nice, large TVs. None of them are OLED and now I'm sad about that. Setup is a breeze. It's a monitor. Connect your display devices and you're pretty much ready to go. Windows didn't install it right away but when I did a Windows Update, a driver was found for the monitor. There's also the Dell Display Manager software that's kind of nice for controlling most of the things you can control through the monitor menu with a mouse and keyboard instead. I've never really been sold on curved monitors. They just never seemed very necessary. I still don't think they are necessary after this one but I kind of get it now. Maybe I wouldn't care as much on a standard 16:9 screen but on this 21:9 screen, I like the subtle curve to it. Overall, the monitor looks pretty sleek. I could probably do without the ALIENWARE on the bottom bezel but it's not too obnoxious looking so I don't mind it much. I didn't use the stand since I had a wall mount ready for it so I can't speak to the quality or ease of use there but it definitely felt heavy and like it would have no problems holding the monitor sturdy. Picture quality is top notch compared to the rest of my monitors which aren't bad or cheap monitors at all. Colors seem rich but accurate. Blacks are as blacks are on OLED monitors. Pure black. It's so nice. The HDR felt good and didn't feel too dark to me. I accidentally turned on HDR Peak 1000 mode and everything was incredibly washed out and looked terrible but setting it to one of the other more reasonable settings was much nicer. Not sure when/where I would use the HDR Peak 1000 mode if it always looks like that. I played a couple of games like Doom Eternal and it looked gorgeous. Also watched some HDR shows on Netflix that also looked really good. The full 21:9 ratio in Doom Eternal really looks a lot better than I anticipated a game looking stretched across the full screen. I'm going to start being disappointed in games that don't fully support ultrawide mode because I really don't think I'm going to want to go back to 16:9 unless I need to. The amount of inputs is also really nice. You can connect two display ports and an HDMI. You can also Picture-in-Picture or Picture-by-Picture to get a more standard 1440p resolution (actually, 2554x1440 instead of 2560x1440, which seems weird) while also displaying your HDMI device on the other 25% of the screen. I'm not sure I have anything else say about this. The only gripe I can come up with might just not be something that ultrawide monitors do. I would love the ability to split the monitor just like Picture-by-Picture mode but have both monitors show up in Windows as separate displays. That's literally the only thing I can come up with that I'm not a huge fan of. Maybe this is something that can't be done with a single display port cable. Would be nice, though. Otherwise I'm loving this monitor. If you have the funds, look into this guy. It's not cheap but it is nice. It looks great. OLED is amazing. The HDR didn't feel dark or washed out. The interface works well enough with the option to control most of it via software. A lot of input options so you can connect your consoles and PC's to the same monitor. I like it.

The display technology is excellent but the packaging is damaging the screen. I opened the box to discover that the foam/bubble wrap layer that makes direct contact with the screen had left marks behind. These marks do not come off. I exchanged it for a new one, same problem. Did it once more, same problem again, and gave up. Returned for full refund. Note to Dell: It's always on the left side of the monitor It's a known manufacturing/shipping issue that ruins an otherwise good product: https://www.reddit.com/r/ultrawidemasterrace/comments/13wvimn/should_i_return_screen_defect_aw3423dwf/

Not delivered. I took the day off and stayed next to my phone and the driver just flagged as undeliverable. Called immediately and couldn’t get them back. Also NOT refunded within 10 business days.

Unfortunately this monitor had smudges from the screen protector that comes with the packaging. It's almost as oils or something from the screen protector head gone into the screen and deteriorated along the top and along the bottom of where it was taped at. No matter what I did with screen solution spray or microfiber cloth, nothing was coming off. Unfortunately it seems like others have the same issue.

Welp, I was excited to get an oled monitor and sure enough the one I got was damaged. They don't put a plastic peel film on the screen and they sit it right on the foam inside the box. Mine had the faom rub against the screen so much that it caused a bunch of micro scratches and these weird looking bubbles on the screen. Almost like it was making the coating on the screen bubble off of it. Shame because it looked like it would be a great monitor.

It's what you'd expect in an OLED monitor. The colors are vibrant and the blacks are true. This is my first OLED monitor and I couldn't be more happy with it. A great monitor for media consumption.

Amazing screen but it gathers so much dirt and dust and you can never clean it without making it worse. I’ve tried everything to get the screen clean but even just touching it gently with a microfiber cloth leaves think lines across the screen

as purely gaming monitor is ok but all fonts in Windows are blurry due not LCD matrix which is not supported by Windows 11. This is not what you could expect from $1k monitor. There is no solution for this problem :(

Forced to return to Best Buy because Dell will not honor the burn in warranty unless bought directly from Dell.

For the first few months, this was great. Now it does not work at all. The boot keeps messing up, so now it just flickers over and over again, with the menu going wacko on the screen. What sucks is i did not get the geek squad, so i sm out a monitor....yay....

Great screen. Unfortunately mine has an issue where the on screen menu keeps turning on and off repeatedly. Updated firmware and still doing it. Some days are fine, some it wont stop. With no way of knowing if you would get one that has this issue I cant recommend this monitor

Monitor will randomly go black screen. Updated filmware and still goes black screen. DO NOT PURCHASE.

For the price you can get higher refresh rates same quality panel

Menu bottom is defective started messing up after 2 months

Great monitor, if you get an undamaged panel. Not best buys fault, its dells for having terrible QC

This is one of the best screens I ever tested but ended up taking it back due to poor QC from Dell. The bubble wrap on the screen ended up scratching it. I exchanged 3 of these but each one was messed up. Ended up going with something else.

I haven't even had the monitor for a month, and I'm getting little bubbles on the screen. I called tech support they cant do anything about it and i called Dell they also cant do anything about it better off getting something else.

It gets 1 star because when it stays on it's great...it just won't stay on. Flickers then dies right in the middle of meetings every single day. Worst monitor I've ever owned.

So I ordered this monitor online and was not at home when it was delivered. My monitor has not been found. I contacted best buy and told them this and they wouldn’t send me a replacement. So I paid 900 dollars for nothing.

It seems that the 34" ultra-wide curved monitor is a very popular configuration for a great general purpose monitor these days. Everyone is cranking one out but most can not compete with the latest from Dell's Alienware division. Where this one shines is the high resolution and refresh rate. Connected to a capable graphics card the 3440x1440 resolution packs a lot of pixels per inch and connected via Displayport you get a blistering 165Hz refresh rate (100Hz with a HDMI cable). Running AAA games I experienced to ghosting or artifacts. Not only is the monitor great for gaming but also general use. I deal with large spreadsheets and the ultra-wide format gives me additional real estate so I don't have to horizontally scroll for most of my files. Packaging was better than most I've seen. Curved screens require a bit more care with the packaging and the box inserts, screen covering and foam did a great job of protecting the screen, and the whole monitor for that matter. Setup was a breeze. The desktop pedistal snapped to the back of the monitor. I used the included Displayport cable connecting to my nVidia RTX4080FE video card. I did go to the Dell support page for the monitor and downloaded the firmware update and hardware drivers. Initially Windows 11 recognized it as a generic monitor however installing the downloaded drivers Windows recognized it as an Alienware AW3423DWF providing a bit more fine tuning. Power button is on the right hand bottom of the monitor. There is a center bottom joystick to be able to get into the native menu and make adjustments on the fly. I always enable Freesync (or G-sync for that version of the monitor) to help reduce any display tearing but honestly with 165Hz I never really see any noticable difference. The OLED screen with HDR cranks out vibrant colors. It usually takes some tweaking for me to get the colors right on other monitors with HDR but I had no such issues with the Alienware. Out of the box it preformed amazingly. For the ports you get 2 Displayport and 1 HDMI input. Dell supplies not only a Displayport cable but also a USB C to Displayport cable if your video out supports video over USB C. There is a USB port to connect to your computer so you can use the monitor as a USB hub (4 USB-A out ports) and allows for easy firmware updates. I've been running a couple of AAA games and I really love the performance, crisp and bright picture. This is a great addition to my gaming setup. Price point is around the $110o mark so a bit on the high end. If performance and picture quality are important to you then it's easy to justify the price tag.