At $1299, Alienware new QD-OLED 34-inch monitor is available for preorder soon.

Alienware's 34-inch QD-OLED gaming display is not one of those prohibitively expensive items. The monitor made its debut at CES and will be available for less than $1,300 soon.

The Alienware AW3423DW features a 3440x1400 resolution, a brightness of 250 nits, and a peak luminance of 1000 nits (for OLED). The 175 Hz curved panel is branded with Nvidia's G-Sync Ultimate technology (enough to drive the best graphics cards to their limit in modern games, but you have to use a GeForce GPU). In terms of HDR, the unit legally conforms to the DisplayHDR TrueBlack 400 specification, therefore take the unit's advertised peak brightness of 1000 nits with a grain of salt.

We're excited to announce that the Alienware 34 QD-OLED Gaming Display will arrive early this Spring for $1,299 USD.

Additionally, the monitor features all of the advantages (and disadvantages) of an OLED display, including a high contrast ratio, deep blacks, and a 0.1 millisecond response time. A quantum dot layer over an OLED display is the monitor's primary selling point. Samsung's $1 billion quantum dot organic light-emitting diode (QD-OLED) initiative promises to improve color reproduction while lowering prices. This color space covers 99.3 percent of the DCI-P3 color space and 149 percent of the sRGB color spectrum. Apart from being branded with Nvidia's G-Sync Ultimate technology, the curved 34-inch monitor features all the benefits (and drawbacks) of an OLED panel.

The Alienware monitor is priced at $1,299, which is a little higher than you might anticipate for a monitor of this grade.