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LG UltraGear Evo 39GX950B is almost perfect except for one major flaw

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LG 39GX950B-B: The Two-Minute Review (Image credit: Future / Isaiah Williams) It's impossible to describe the LG UltraGear Evo 39GX950B-B as anything short of phenomenal. It's the end goal for any PC gamer striving for the best quality, with its immersive 21:9 aspect ratio and crisp image quality, thanks to its 5K2K (5120x2160) display resolution. It also uses a 4th-gen tandem OLED panel, best known for its improvements in sustaining high levels of brightness, reducing burn-in chances, and better efficiency, which is great for those long hours of gaming and productivity. The 39GX950B-B has options to tackle the brightness uniformity and ABL (Automatic Brightness Limiter) frustrations that are common with OLED displays. In the monitor's OSD (On Screen Display), under 'brightness level', there are options for high and low levels as well as a 'uniform' setting that ultima...

The Alienware AW3426DW is easily the best 34-inch ultrawide OLED I've ever used, and it's made me want to abandon my 45-inch monitor

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Alienware AW3426DW: Two-minute review (Image credit: Future / Isaiah Williams) There's a new 34-inch ultrawide powerhouse in town, with the brand-new Alienware AW3426DW QD-OLED. After testing it with several games and movies, it's clear to me that this monitor stands well above its predecessors in terms of quality. Unlike its predecessor, the Alienware AW3425DW, this display uses 5th-gen tandem OLED technology, delivering significantly higher brightness, improved efficiency, and better text clarity. The Penta (five-layer) tandem OLED stack also solves one of the biggest issues I've had with previous QD-OLED monitors, where brightness dimming from the automatic brightness limiter (ABL) would result in inconsistent brightness levels. Frankly, coming from a 45-inch LG 45GS95QE QD-OLED ultrawide display that utilizes an 800R curve, I wasn't expecting to be blown away with greater imme...