If you’re looking for a solid, price meets performance ultrawide gaming monitor,
Dell just may have the solution. We’ll talk specs, build quality, image quality,
the pros and the cons and see if it’s the one for you. Let’s roll that intro.
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off of Dell’s regular price. So, let’s not waste any more time and get into today’s video.
The Dell S3422DWG is a 34” curved ultrawide, 3440 by 1440P 144Hz Gaming monitor, and is the flagship
of Dell’s new S series line of monitors. Inside the box we have your stand base on the left,
a quick start guide in the middle, your cables on top, and your stand neck on the right.
Underneath that, we have your display. You’ll receive 4 cables which include a SuperSpeed USB
upstream cable, an HDMI 2.0 cable, a Display Port 1.4 and your power cable.
The base and body of the monitor come in the hard plastic build we’re accustomed to seeing from Dell
and has a screw with a latch on the bottom to screw into the stand
neck. The neck has a cable management hole in the middle and if we pick it up,
we can see the four metal tabs that connect to the back of the monitor.
When put together it stands up to 20.76” tall, has a width of 31.81”, a depth of 9.22” and weighs in
at about 17 lbs. It is height adjustable, can slightly tilt to the left or right,
and can be tilted upwards for better viewing angles.
It’s got a matte anti glare display which I believe is shared on every monitor in this line up
as well as a back ventilation system that releases heat above the monitor much like a gaming PC.
Taking a look on the back we have 5 menu buttons with the top button being the main controller. In
the middle we have your connections which, from left to right consist of your power connection,
two HDMI 2.0 connections, a Display Port 1.4, an audio out, which by the way, there are no speakers
on this unit, a USB upstream port and two USB downstream ports. A quick glance above and we
can see the monitor is 100mm x 100mm VESA mount compatible. On the lower right we have another
USB downstream port which I believe ha charging capabilities, a headphone jack, and, you guessed
it, another USB downstream port. A quick side note about those HDMI and Display Ports is that 144
Hz is only possible with the Display Port as the HDMI connections can only reach 100Hz. And finally
on the bottom center we have an LED downlight which adds some ambience to your environment.
That pretty much covers the physical build aspects of the unit,
so, let’s get it connected and talk about the image quality starting with the Menu.
Sigh, I’m just having all the luck, so the last video I just did, the device had a ton of
issues and it looks like that’s carried over to this video as well. The monitor
works but as you can see there’s a blue pixelated line going up and down the screen,
fresh out of the box. Now this is going to happen when it comes to tech, you’re going to have
products out there that need to be sent back so don’t let this deter you, chances are, yours will
be just fine. For the sake of the review, let’s continue and just try to pretend it’s not there.
Starting with the Menu we have Preset Modes where you can select Presets like Standard, FPS,
RTS, RPG, Sports and so on, Game Enhance Mode where you can set a timer, display your frame rate
in the corner or align your display if for some reason it’s not already, Turn AMD Freesync Premium
Pro on and off, adjust your response time, Dark stabilizer, Hue and Saturation, as well as Reset.
In the next section we can adjust your brightness and contrast, then change your input source,
make Display changes like aspect ratio and sharpness. Now it is worth nothing that there
is a Picture in Picture and Picture by Picture option should you be interested in those. Next is
Audio where you can raise or lower your volume, again there’s no speakers so you’ll need a pair of
headsets or external soundbar to connect to. Then we have your Menu, Personalize and Others sections
where you have more customizable options where you can change things language or set shortcuts.
This is a VA panel so you’re not going to get quite the same pop of color you
would from an IPS but for the price, you’re going to sacrifice something,
somewhere, that said, you’re not going to feel like you’re missing anything. You won’t notice
any backlight bleed when sitting directly in front of the monitor however it does start to
show when viewed from the sides and compared to other monitors I’ve had, it’s not that subtle.
It’s HDR400 which isn’t true HDR, has a 1ms response time and is AMD
Freesync Premium compatible. I’ve seen some questions on Amazon regarding GSync where some
say it works and some say it doesn’t, but, just for the record as we can see here, it does not.
It does have a 90% DCI-P3 color gamut which is the best out of the new line
up so it’s going to be solid for photo editing and when combined with the screen real estate,
awesome for video editing. Before we get into gameplay, let’s check out ghosting and blur....
Now don’t judge me too harshly, I’ve NEVER played Counter Strike before but I’ve gotten
a few requests to show gameplay from it, so here we go. I apologize ahead of time to my teammates.
Now let’s check out some Forza Horizon 4 for some beautiful imagery.
That’s going to do it for today, if you found this video helpful be sure to give it a thumbs up
and let me know what you think of this monitor in the comments below.
Until next time, thank you for watching, stay tuned and have a great day.