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this feels like I'm definitely gonna break it

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why would anyone do this to a two

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thousand dollar monitor well maybe because they waited 10 years for this

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technology to go from hiding away behind a glass barrier at a trade show to being

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a product that you can actually buy and take home and also because gosh darn it

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it's really cool it's also practical though depending on what you're doing

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the optimal curvature of a display can change dramatically so from an ergonomic

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standpoint any conventional monitor will at times be too curved or maybe too flat

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and stuck in the paper but the Xenia on Flex from Corsair fixes all that I'll be

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the first to admit that it feels like kind of a bougie gimmick right now but

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if you give this a generation or two to come down in price I think this could be

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the on desk equivalent of seed adjustments on your chair it really does

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make a huge difference but not in the

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most gamers only have one gaming display

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the square one beside it for Discord doesn't count and I think it's fair to

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say that they expect it to last a very long time that means that a cool party

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trick is not enough to justify giving the zeni on Flex that coveted place of

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honor front and center on the empty

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Cannon bottle shelf that you call your desk it also has to be a great monitor

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fortunately I took it home for a week and it really is I think I might have

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fallen in love with ultra white again I mean it's not that it has the best specs

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it runs at a resolution of 3440 by 1440

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while top displays are pushing 4K or more it hits 240 hertz while the best

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Esports displays are flirting with the 500 Hertz barrier and it only hit about

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700 nits brightness in our testing when we've had displays that can do double

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that for years but what it is is a

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complete package from taking it out of the box to firing up your favorite game

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is an absolute treat do we have a stool

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by any chance just use this one Linus 440. no no no oh my God no I won't tried

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to stop him Jake he said no

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man does all that ever look good boys

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and the low resolution is actually kind

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of an advantage in a way because if you're gonna push 240 hertz like you

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can't be running at 8K or whatever couple things worth noting it's got a

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matte covering on the display but because it's OLED blacks still look

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outstanding man the motion is just

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so good this paired with a high-end gaming rig there's just nothing like it

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I don't know that this would necessarily be the best you can do for retro games

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just because it doesn't include any kind of backlight strobing or a black frame

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insertion but for anything else

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what the the cops took you out I don't know why wow it took me out really

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fast you must be some kind of criminal did I mention by the way it's g-sync

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compatible and freesync premium Pro certified with an advertised range of 40

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to 240 hertz but it seems to work all the way down to 10 Hertz and starts

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duplicating frames at 50 hertz talk about the Driving Experience oh yeah

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right somewhere else and then drive through right right right right right right yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I'll

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immersed are you you're so immersed that you stopped making the video yeah well

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that's that's a that's a fair point actually using this thing is just

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there's no other way to describe it other than it's one of the best gaming

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experiences that I've had in a long while uh when I first unpacked it at

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home I fired up the Halo infinite campaign just for testing since I'm

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supposed to wait to play a co-op with Luke and I ended up sitting there in the

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dark in my garage bench station below

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zero with like not even gloves on or anything for almost an hour just sitting

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and experiencing it first thing that stood out about it after the size was

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absolutely the flexible panel it's not that you're gonna want to switch between

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completely flat and completely curved multiple times a day or every time you

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launch a different game it's more about being able to adjust it exactly the way

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you like it kind of like the seat in your car I mean occasional tweaks from

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one day to the next might make sense maybe you're in the zone and you'd

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prefer a more upright posture right now kind of like RGB I see the real value in

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being able to tailor your setup to your preferences forget about it and

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completely focus on your game or on your work it's about Choice that's what makes

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it a safer bet than I think any kind of

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fixed curve display they it flat or curved the thing is most people are

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buying monitors online these days having never actually sat in front of them and

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that is a scary proposition when you're spending high-end monitor money I could

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probably make the decision but I've had the benefit of trying a lot of different

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displays of different sizes with different curves for most people they

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might not have any idea if they like just a little curve maybe around 1400 R

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or if they like a cranked curve you know

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all the way to 800r it is so dependent on how far away you like your display

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and how you like to sit I mean if you're lounged back with a controller playing

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Pixel Cup soccer you're probably going to want it you know a little more like

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that right the second thing that stands out pun intended is the unique approach

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that Corsair took to the stand have you ever seen front i o like this on a

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monitor it does have some drawbacks more on those later but we get not only two

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USB a ports for mouse and keyboard dongles or thumb drives but a headphone

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jack and all of our menu navigation in plain sight with easy to read labels

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ugly especially with the chin bar handle here but it was so refreshing not to

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have to get intimate with my monitor just to make an OSD adjustment or plug

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in a cable then on the back we get this long strip of ports two HDMI 2.1s

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input and two more usbas with a type c

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kind of cluttered I especially would have hoped for an internal power supply

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with such a large footprint on this thing already but it is so functional

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that for all of its flaws I just don't see how I could ever want to go back to

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fumbling with the lock on an upward plugged DisplayPort ever again though I

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might not have a choice there's one important detail that we need to discuss

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before we move on the waffle shirt from lttstore.com not only looks great but it

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is super comfortable too oh and also you

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cannot vase amount this display you see just because the OLED panel is flexible

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doesn't mean that a circuit board is flexible so most of the electronics are

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actually housed in the stand rather than

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up in here it's a big part of how they got away with putting all the i o and

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physical buttons up front the way that they did I personally didn't find the

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default height of it to be a problem I actually didn't even realize that height

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adjustment was missing until ploof brought it up in our review of this

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script you know it's got a little bit of tilt I never thought to change it but

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someone out there will be sorely again pun intended disappointed and it could

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be a deal breaker for them another possible deal breaker is the pixel

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density don't get me wrong any content from movies to gameplay looks amazing on

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this display and and the lower resolution is actually a key part of how

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your GPU might actually have any hope of driving this thing at 240 hertz

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however 83 pixels per inch is a little

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low by today's standards especially for a monitor that might tempt you in close

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with such an aggressive curve I mean with a little bit of super sampling

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you're not going to notice it in a fast-paced game like Doom but on the

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desktop text Clarity Is Not Great unless you sit quite a bit farther back

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requiring a much deeper desk you could get a similar 4K variant of this idea

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with the LG 42 lx3 qpua but it's 16x9

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rather than Ultra wide it's smaller it's only 120 hertz and it costs a thousand

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dollars more than this at regular price and that assumes you can even find one I

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genuinely don't think they actually made many and you might want to stay away anyway since two out of the five reviews

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across Best Buy and Amazon mention a defective curve adjustment motor knowing

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that this is your only choice then for a bendable monitor how good is it we asked

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our Labs team and here's what they sent back it's using an LG wo-led panel so

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you can expect a beautiful image with Inky blacks and 10-bit color depth we've

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got a Delta e average of less than one in srgb mode after adjusting the color

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temperature we weren't happy about having to adjust the color temperature but we were very happy about being able

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to do it since many monitors don't allow it and it manages an impressive color

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gamut reaching 98 of the DC ip3 color space and 75 percent of Rec 2020. all of

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that is great and it seems like the days of having to choose between gaming and

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content creation are well behind us at this point with that said though it is

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absolutely a gamer's monitor at 240Hz

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refresh rate it is almost double the speed of nearly every other OLED display

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on the market and thanks to its OLED pixels the response times are so fast

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that you can pretty much kiss any concerns you might have had about motion

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Clarity bye-bye look at this sea of green that we got with the osr TT V2

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but we did find some downsides this is

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the PQ eotf in HDR mode that is the

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display's ability to convert a video signal into the correct brightness value

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and you can see that it's a little off and what this does is it throws off

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in-game HDR calibration and HDR color

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accuracy it's still going to impress everyone but your professional colorist

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friend but at this price point we can't ignore any flaws and there's an even

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bigger one as much as I love gaming on

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this thing and didn't personally find the brightness to be an issue Corsair

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claims that thanks to their use of the latest LG panel technology they should

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be able to hit 1000 nits in a three percent window in HDR and we just could

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not get anywhere close to that both of

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our units we had two of them fell short of 700 nits let alone a thousand nits

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which along with analysis of the subpixel arrangement seems to suggest

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test that rather than using LG's top of the line ex panel technology like you

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might find in their 2022 TVs Corsair is

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actually using something more similar to LG's 2021 models a later firmware update

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did improve our results netting roughly 200 extra nits of peak brightness but it

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still fell short it's weird because their testing results are seeing a

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thousand nits so it could be a calibration issue on their end or our

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end or it could be down to the panel Lottery it's not a huge problem for

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performance I mean nothing really would prevent Corsair from pushing the Xenia

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on Flex to that rated thousand nits even if it doesn't have an ex panel but if

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it's using the older panel type Which is less efficient that could affect the

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longevity of the pixels which as you know is a major concern for any OLED

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type display Corsair has taken steps to address this through the inclusion of

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pixel shift and pixel cleaner routines and they're backing the Xenia on Flex

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with a three year warranty but if my personal experience is anything to go by

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I would definitely recommend a plain black desktop wallpaper with hidden

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icons and an auto hide taskbar with that

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said if you see anything like this don't freak out we noticed uniformity

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anomalies at between 10 and 30 gray on

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both of our units but we found that it wasn't distracting in real day-to-day

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use and it could be easily remedied by burning in the display for a while I've

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got high hopes that some of our other concerns will go away in time as well

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one of Corsair's biggest advantages compared to even some other high-end

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displays is that they've designed the xeni on Flex with user upgradable

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firmware I mean I guess you might need that for the IQ RGB software integration

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that they're planning for next year sounds cool they won't be able to fix

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everything with firmware though the 24 gigabit per second HDMI 2.1 ports mean

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that you'll probably always be stuck with lower color depth on the PS5 and

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you're going to get some fringing on high contrast text borders until

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Microsoft fixes clear type with support for this subpixel Arrangement but if

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your primary concern is PC gaming I doubt that these or any of the Xenon

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flex's other flaws are going to stand in your way it's far more likely to be your

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