re: Worth it? Alienware 34" 1440p OLED To Alienware 32" 4k OLED?

The tech progresses so fast that I'm always wanting to upgrade. If you would've told me we would have 4k/240 monitors with great HDR implementation 4 years ago I would've laughed at you

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Unless I’m missing a use case.

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I'm just spitballing, but using a monitor for heavy graphic/productivity stuff that requires (or would ideally be at) 4k and also does lower resolution, higher framerate for gaming. Would be niche, for sure.



I might either have completely separate setups or separate monitors, but some folks don't have the excess real estate.

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You have headroom for later. DLSS Performance with a 5080/5090 will be there shite I'm getting 190 frames on Warzone with DLSS balanced and a 4080S

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Sure, but we are talking in the context of upgrading monitors more frequently than every five years or so. You said that four years ago, you wouldn’t have been able to anticipate this tech. But my point is that this tech isn’t particularly useful yet, and I would say we are at least still a generation away, if not two. Which puts us at 5-7 years in this hypothetical paradigm.

Now, just to save us an extra unnecessary exchange, and this is purely my personal opinion, but once you’ve moved DLSS from Quality to Balanced, we are starting to flirt with the area of whether the visuals would be better if you just bumped down the graphics a bit, etc. But I appreciate that’s personal preference.

But with that said, I would argue that everything we’ve discussed has supported the idea of a 5+ year upgrade cycle, not undermined it.

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Now, just to save us an extra unnecessary exchange, and this is purely my personal opinion, but once you’ve moved DLSS from Quality to Balanced, we are starting to flirt with the area of whether the visuals would be better if you just bumped down the graphics a bit, etc. But I appreciate that’s personal preference.

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I have done 0 research on this and can't really say, but I generally am playing competitive on pc and will take frames over some reduced fidelity

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I have done 0 research on this and can't really say, but I generally am playing competitive on pc and will take frames over some reduced fidelity

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You’re misunderstanding me, because I agree with you. My point is that people playing competitively to the point that they are aiming for 240fps generally aren’t playing at 4k. At which point you’re degrading visuals at 4k to improve frames, you’re likely better off not playing at 4k to begin with.

Now, as mentioned above, there’s the niche usage case of having two usage cases but wanting to cover them with a single monitor, which is perfectly fine. Just super niche.

Heh. I turn it off. I don't really care for it

Monitor or stand? I’m not sure I’m following if the former.

I have the curved Alienware Oled at the office and like it quite a bit