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Just like the soon-to-be-reviewed LG UltraGear evo GX9, the Alienware 39 5K OLED Gaming Monitor (AW3926QW) is a 39-inch ultrawide curved “5K2K” (5,120-by-2,160-pixel) gaming monitor with a cutting-edge QD-OLED panel. On paper, these two monitors are matched in almost every category, from their dual-mode options to their DisplayHDR True Black 500 certifications. But Alienware’s latest…

This isn’t true for every display or use case, but typically speaking, monitors designed for gaming often fall into two distinct categories. There’s the competitive-focused gamers who want 1080p/1440p panels at most, the highest refresh rate possible, along with the highest response time. The biggest compromise in that hardware typically comes from visual clarity and…

Valve’s Steam Deck OLED and the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X sit at opposite ends of the same idea: a handheld PC you can hold in two hands and play real games on. One runs Linux and costs less than it did last year. The other runs Windows 11, packs a newer Ryzen chip, and…

A Steam Deck OLED costs $549 and runs Cyberpunk 2077 at roughly 30 frames per second. A GPD Win 5 costs up to $2,955 and pushes the same game past 60 frames per second at a sharper resolution. That gap sits at the center of the biggest question in handheld PC gaming right now: how…