this feels like I'm definitely gonna break it
why would anyone do this to a two
thousand dollar monitor well maybe because they waited 10 years for this
technology to go from hiding away behind a glass barrier at a trade show to being
a product that you can actually buy and take home and also because gosh darn it
it's really cool it's also practical though depending on what you're doing
the optimal curvature of a display can change dramatically so from an ergonomic
standpoint any conventional monitor will at times be too curved or maybe too flat
and stuck in the paper but the Xenia on Flex from Corsair fixes all that I'll be
the first to admit that it feels like kind of a bougie gimmick right now but
if you give this a generation or two to come down in price I think this could be
the on desk equivalent of seed adjustments on your chair it really does
make a huge difference but not in the
way you might expect but you probably expected though was this message from
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most gamers only have one gaming display
the square one beside it for Discord doesn't count and I think it's fair to
say that they expect it to last a very long time that means that a cool party
trick is not enough to justify giving the zeni on Flex that coveted place of
honor front and center on the empty
Cannon bottle shelf that you call your desk it also has to be a great monitor
fortunately I took it home for a week and it really is I think I might have
fallen in love with ultra white again I mean it's not that it has the best specs
it runs at a resolution of 3440 by 1440
while top displays are pushing 4K or more it hits 240 hertz while the best
Esports displays are flirting with the 500 Hertz barrier and it only hit about
700 nits brightness in our testing when we've had displays that can do double
that for years but what it is is a
complete package from taking it out of the box to firing up your favorite game
is an absolute treat do we have a stool
by any chance just use this one Linus 440. no no no oh my God no I won't tried
to stop him Jake he said no
man does all that ever look good boys
and the low resolution is actually kind
of an advantage in a way because if you're gonna push 240 hertz like you
can't be running at 8K or whatever couple things worth noting it's got a
matte covering on the display but because it's OLED blacks still look
outstanding man the motion is just
so good this paired with a high-end gaming rig there's just nothing like it
I don't know that this would necessarily be the best you can do for retro games
just because it doesn't include any kind of backlight strobing or a black frame
insertion but for anything else
what the the cops took you out I don't know why wow it took me out really
fast you must be some kind of criminal did I mention by the way it's g-sync
compatible and freesync premium Pro certified with an advertised range of 40
to 240 hertz but it seems to work all the way down to 10 Hertz and starts
duplicating frames at 50 hertz talk about the Driving Experience oh yeah
right somewhere else and then drive through right right right right right right yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I'll
immersed are you you're so immersed that you stopped making the video yeah well
that's that's a that's a fair point actually using this thing is just
there's no other way to describe it other than it's one of the best gaming
experiences that I've had in a long while uh when I first unpacked it at
home I fired up the Halo infinite campaign just for testing since I'm
supposed to wait to play a co-op with Luke and I ended up sitting there in the
dark in my garage bench station below
zero with like not even gloves on or anything for almost an hour just sitting
and experiencing it first thing that stood out about it after the size was
absolutely the flexible panel it's not that you're gonna want to switch between
completely flat and completely curved multiple times a day or every time you
launch a different game it's more about being able to adjust it exactly the way
you like it kind of like the seat in your car I mean occasional tweaks from
one day to the next might make sense maybe you're in the zone and you'd
prefer a more upright posture right now kind of like RGB I see the real value in
being able to tailor your setup to your preferences forget about it and
completely focus on your game or on your work it's about Choice that's what makes
it a safer bet than I think any kind of
fixed curve display they it flat or curved the thing is most people are
buying monitors online these days having never actually sat in front of them and
that is a scary proposition when you're spending high-end monitor money I could
probably make the decision but I've had the benefit of trying a lot of different
displays of different sizes with different curves for most people they
might not have any idea if they like just a little curve maybe around 1400 R
or if they like a cranked curve you know
all the way to 800r it is so dependent on how far away you like your display
and how you like to sit I mean if you're lounged back with a controller playing
Pixel Cup soccer you're probably going to want it you know a little more like
that right the second thing that stands out pun intended is the unique approach
that Corsair took to the stand have you ever seen front i o like this on a
monitor it does have some drawbacks more on those later but we get not only two
USB a ports for mouse and keyboard dongles or thumb drives but a headphone
jack and all of our menu navigation in plain sight with easy to read labels
some might find this approach kind of
ugly especially with the chin bar handle here but it was so refreshing not to
have to get intimate with my monitor just to make an OSD adjustment or plug
in a cable then on the back we get this long strip of ports two HDMI 2.1s
DisplayPort 1.4 a USB-C DP alt mode
input and two more usbas with a type c
Upstream port to connect the other ports to your PC finally a DC Barrel plug it's
kind of cluttered I especially would have hoped for an internal power supply
with such a large footprint on this thing already but it is so functional
that for all of its flaws I just don't see how I could ever want to go back to
fumbling with the lock on an upward plugged DisplayPort ever again though I
might not have a choice there's one important detail that we need to discuss
before we move on the waffle shirt from lttstore.com not only looks great but it
is super comfortable too oh and also you
cannot vase amount this display you see just because the OLED panel is flexible
doesn't mean that a circuit board is flexible so most of the electronics are
actually housed in the stand rather than
up in here it's a big part of how they got away with putting all the i o and
physical buttons up front the way that they did I personally didn't find the
default height of it to be a problem I actually didn't even realize that height
adjustment was missing until ploof brought it up in our review of this
script you know it's got a little bit of tilt I never thought to change it but
someone out there will be sorely again pun intended disappointed and it could
be a deal breaker for them another possible deal breaker is the pixel
density don't get me wrong any content from movies to gameplay looks amazing on
this display and and the lower resolution is actually a key part of how
your GPU might actually have any hope of driving this thing at 240 hertz
however 83 pixels per inch is a little
low by today's standards especially for a monitor that might tempt you in close
with such an aggressive curve I mean with a little bit of super sampling
you're not going to notice it in a fast-paced game like Doom but on the
desktop text Clarity Is Not Great unless you sit quite a bit farther back
requiring a much deeper desk you could get a similar 4K variant of this idea
with the LG 42 lx3 qpua but it's 16x9
rather than Ultra wide it's smaller it's only 120 hertz and it costs a thousand
dollars more than this at regular price and that assumes you can even find one I
genuinely don't think they actually made many and you might want to stay away anyway since two out of the five reviews
across Best Buy and Amazon mention a defective curve adjustment motor knowing
that this is your only choice then for a bendable monitor how good is it we asked
our Labs team and here's what they sent back it's using an LG wo-led panel so
you can expect a beautiful image with Inky blacks and 10-bit color depth we've
got a Delta e average of less than one in srgb mode after adjusting the color
temperature we weren't happy about having to adjust the color temperature but we were very happy about being able
to do it since many monitors don't allow it and it manages an impressive color
gamut reaching 98 of the DC ip3 color space and 75 percent of Rec 2020. all of
that is great and it seems like the days of having to choose between gaming and
content creation are well behind us at this point with that said though it is
absolutely a gamer's monitor at 240Hz
refresh rate it is almost double the speed of nearly every other OLED display
on the market and thanks to its OLED pixels the response times are so fast
that you can pretty much kiss any concerns you might have had about motion
Clarity bye-bye look at this sea of green that we got with the osr TT V2
but we did find some downsides this is
the PQ eotf in HDR mode that is the
display's ability to convert a video signal into the correct brightness value
and you can see that it's a little off and what this does is it throws off
in-game HDR calibration and HDR color
accuracy it's still going to impress everyone but your professional colorist
friend but at this price point we can't ignore any flaws and there's an even
bigger one as much as I love gaming on
this thing and didn't personally find the brightness to be an issue Corsair
claims that thanks to their use of the latest LG panel technology they should
be able to hit 1000 nits in a three percent window in HDR and we just could
not get anywhere close to that both of
our units we had two of them fell short of 700 nits let alone a thousand nits
which along with analysis of the subpixel arrangement seems to suggest
test that rather than using LG's top of the line ex panel technology like you
might find in their 2022 TVs Corsair is
actually using something more similar to LG's 2021 models a later firmware update
did improve our results netting roughly 200 extra nits of peak brightness but it
still fell short it's weird because their testing results are seeing a
thousand nits so it could be a calibration issue on their end or our
end or it could be down to the panel Lottery it's not a huge problem for
performance I mean nothing really would prevent Corsair from pushing the Xenia
on Flex to that rated thousand nits even if it doesn't have an ex panel but if
it's using the older panel type Which is less efficient that could affect the
longevity of the pixels which as you know is a major concern for any OLED
type display Corsair has taken steps to address this through the inclusion of
pixel shift and pixel cleaner routines and they're backing the Xenia on Flex
with a three year warranty but if my personal experience is anything to go by
I would definitely recommend a plain black desktop wallpaper with hidden
icons and an auto hide taskbar with that
said if you see anything like this don't freak out we noticed uniformity
anomalies at between 10 and 30 gray on
both of our units but we found that it wasn't distracting in real day-to-day
use and it could be easily remedied by burning in the display for a while I've
got high hopes that some of our other concerns will go away in time as well
one of Corsair's biggest advantages compared to even some other high-end
displays is that they've designed the xeni on Flex with user upgradable
firmware I mean I guess you might need that for the IQ RGB software integration
that they're planning for next year sounds cool they won't be able to fix
everything with firmware though the 24 gigabit per second HDMI 2.1 ports mean
that you'll probably always be stuck with lower color depth on the PS5 and
you're going to get some fringing on high contrast text borders until
Microsoft fixes clear type with support for this subpixel Arrangement but if
your primary concern is PC gaming I doubt that these or any of the Xenon
flex's other flaws are going to stand in your way it's far more likely to be your
so when they see how much it costs at least you can give them Comfort when
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check out this one on the very first curved ultrawide that I checked out like
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