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today we've got a bit of a special treat uh Corsair sponsored this video and they

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hand delivered us their new Corsair Xenon Flex can you guess what it's cool

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one party trick is oh my

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God it's an OLED panel and it can bend

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up to like 800 R curvature this thing is insane I don't know about you guys but

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I've been watching OLED for a long long time and one of the original things that

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was a big selling point for me was the fact that it's bendable and you can Flex

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the panel and stuff we're finally there we've had bendable phones and foldable

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phones for quite a while like several years actually but no one's really done

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it in a monitor yet where you can do it yourself like yeah we've got curved

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screens those are cool but this this is

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something else oh my God it just clicks in place

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once it's there you can also stop this thing anywhere you want along that

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curvature so say you're doing office work and you're not gaming you want to

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put back to Flat 21 by9 uh but then all of a sudden you're done

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little early it's time to game oh my God

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and then it just F just bends out that's so wild uh it's

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1440p 21 by9 covers 99% of the DCI ip3

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color space and hits 1,000 nits which it's crazy this thing does 240

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Herz absolutely wild this is a prototype

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unit so nothing is final final the stand

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is going to be a little different these are going to be shorter and a little wider these handles by the way they are

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going to be able to go back into the screen uh but right now we've just got a

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prototype unit so they kind of have to stay out once they're out but we've got

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pretty good front IO we've got two USB 3.2 ports we've got a headphone jack we

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have an input button power button and then this is probably for navigation our

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OSD is locked today because it's a prototype unit they don't want us

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messing around with anything too much uh so we can basically just change input

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and power it on as for the back it does 240 HZ so we've got HDMI 2.1 2.1 uh

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DisplayPort 1.4 but you know DP 2.0 isn't here yet USBC one of these there's

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two USBC one of them can actually do DisplayPort out so if you want to hook

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up a laptop really quick or something you can totally do that two more usba

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slots and then a power bar one of these USBC is also Upstream so if you want to

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connect it to your PC no problem at all that's why there's no usbb Port which is

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kind of crazy I've actually been waiting for usbb to die and uh maybe this is the

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monitor that finally kills it it is a prototype and this is going to be mostly

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the same probably they said the big improvements are going to be on the handles uh on the firmware and then on

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the stand itself uh this will be shorter and wider I think it's fine personally I

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know if horest was here he'd complain he's like why is there a Contraption on the back of my monitor but let's be real

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you're going to set this thing up and then you're just going to leave it there you're not going to poke your head

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around the back unless you've got like your office right in the middle of the room um I think it's totally fine uh if

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anything it actually makes me feel a bit more safe because there's like a big support system for the bend I still feel

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a little uncomfortable when flexing it myself but that's kind of just because

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it's brand new I've never really done this before um as for everything else

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it's good you know it's all just blacked out there's a small Corsair logo on the

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back of the stand and there's a small Corsair logo on the front of the stand

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um the one caveat to this is there is

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basically no adjustment at all when it

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comes to like pivot rotation height adjustment um even mounting it you

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actually need because all the important brains of this thing are in this back uh

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stand right here and there's only a little bit on the panel box right here

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so there's a cable that connects the two and what Corsair has said is that you

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cannot get a vesa mount for this guy um

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you have to either just leave it desk mounted or they are selling a little

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clamp that'll clamp onto desk and attached to this guy I don't know how

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that's going to work they haven't shown us or brought it here but at least

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you've got an option as you can see it actually looks pretty good but what I

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want to know is how does it look turned on uh they actually sent us two if you

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haven't noticed that already uh they were worried that you know since it's a

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prototype one of them might be a little finicky or it might fail so we've got

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two here today and luckily they're both fine this one over here is set up on a

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Corsair 1 that they brought with them and we're going to check out the HDR

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we're going to game on it we're going to just like watch some other content check out the 03 millisecond grade to grade

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response time thanks to that delicious OLED panel oh man I can't wait let's

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check it out the one kind of feature that the stand does have is uh tilt so

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you can tilt it to your liking which is great they found that the size of the screen was just the right amount for

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most people to be kind of in that sweet spot so they're not worried about height

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adjustment or anything they've had tall people they've had short people they've had average people come in and daily

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drive this thing or at least check it out in the office apparently it's fine

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feels pretty comfortable to me like I've got a 21 by9 1440p Ultra wide at home

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it's a little smaller mine's 34 in I think and this is 45 um but still this

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is kind of really good actually it's very comfortable very pleasing to the

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eyes we watched their own HDR content that they brought with them it looks

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pretty good but what I want to do is do the classics that we always check wow I

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can't type on this keyboard at all um just to see how good it really is

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promising a th000 nits Peak brightness not Vasa certified but apparently

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they're working with someone else to set up their own kind of certification process I mean one thing I'm already

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noticing just because it's OLED is like the nice black just pure black on either

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side here uh cuz the pixels are just turned straight off so that means that

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everything is going to be a dimming Zone every pixel is a dimming Zone uh so

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you're really not going to beat something like an OLED in terms of HDR

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content maybe like even mini LED on a big TV is like 1100 zones or something

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like yeah that looks pretty pretty good don't get me wrong but OLED is like 4

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million zones or something if it's Ultra wide 1440p then that's like eight no

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it's not 8 million it's like 6 million pixels 6 million diming zones oh my God

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obviously we're not measuring or testing anything today so I can't verify any

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sort of claims about like thousand nits or anything like that but it's getting pretty bright wow it's already doing 240

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HZ yeah I get this David look at this look at

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this 240 htz like I know it's 1440p it's not

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4K 240 but that is insanely fast for an

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OLED display 240 HZ with the like

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microsc gray to gray um pixel response

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time that's wild I love it even my alien wear monitor at home the aw 3423 DW QD

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OED display that thing only does 175 Hertz and once you go to 175 you don't

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get 10 bit color anymore I want to see this now I asked them while they were

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here I specifically asked them if this would do 10 bit color at higher refresh

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rates they said no but I want to see where we can get away with it so a

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couple things one Windows is saying it's peak of 565 Windows is often wrong about

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this so don't trust that especially when it's like brand new firmware that like

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no one has access to uh but it's saying it's doing 10 bit and it's saying it's

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240 HZ so whatever maybe they're going

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to do it cuz that's kind of my one problem with my Alienware monitor I've got to go down to 144 for truth and bit

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uh maybe this is my my next display I don't know but I've been waiting for

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something like this for so long we asked them about price and they wouldn't give

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us a direct answer because this isn't coming out until like Q4 maybe q1 next

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year but we did Hazard guesses um I

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guess like $2,500 Jeff said 2800 and they both all they said was

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that it's lower than that they said it's competitive if they can get this thing

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close to like 2 Grand considering the screen size and the other capability is

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of it um I don't know this might be basically the best gaming monitor on the

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market because yep he's just crisp one

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minor complaint is that it's not gsync ultimate but it is gsync compatible and

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it's got AMD free sync premium so the variable refresh rate on this is going

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to be pretty good and the reality is I

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can't see any issues when following this UFO across one of the benefits to buying

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a Corsair product is that if you're already in their like product Suite of

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IQ uh boom this thing will do it I don't think there's any RGB on the back good

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no definitely not hey I don't mind the back RGB but you can control stuff from

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a single Hub probably the OSD stuff as

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well we don't have access to that like I said earlier but uh it's a pretty cool

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feature if you actually already use IQ it's just icing on the cake okay now I

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got to game can I game yet oh looks good already I got to be the cool looking

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teide guy give me oh you got some skins

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right and look at this look at this

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oh this is game oh okay I died right away that's okay sorry thanks Bert but

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like it's pretty clear could be yeah it could be a little clear now that being

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said though there is uh a ton of firmware updates and stuff for them to

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make to this panel this is a super early prototype um so I only expect it to get

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better and the reality is man it still looks pretty good my current monitor is

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the aw 3423 DW the CU OLED guy and uh I

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got to say this is the first time I might actually be tempted to swap it's

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got more of a glossy look to it not so

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much anti-glare but the reality is I kind of like that anyway cuz the colors

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really pop it's an anti-reflective coating with low blue light and honestly

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it looks pretty good it doesn't look like colors are desaturated or anything

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like that it looks just crisp okay we got to look counter-

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strike's great you know it's great but

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uh we got to do something a little more cinematic to show off this like amazing

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Ultra wide HDR experience here the one

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kind of big drawback to this is that

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it's 1440p so you've got a 45 in Ultra wide

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display running 1440p and I've already said that like 32 in 16x9 is kind of

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like the max you should run 1440p um this is something around 84 PPI at this

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point and for gaming it's okay I do

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think that when you get a little closer you can kind of start to get a bit of a screen door effect um but gaming and

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watching regular content I think it's perfectly fine the problem you're going to run into is if you're some kind of

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designer which is really unfortunate cuz this thing would be great for like oh I

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want a game and you pull it out and then oh I want to design stuff and you put it back or maybe you even like designing un

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curved I don't know um but that is easily the biggest downfall is that this

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is unfortunately not 4K however 4K 240

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HZ ultrawide I don't even think that's a thing yet so Corsair has really kind of

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outdone themselves with this guy here's another super cool feature that they

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mentioned you don't want just one of these no no no you want two of them

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because yeah I feel like I should bend more okay whatever um you want two of

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them because what you can do is you can

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take one side and only curve that one side and then you can put another

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monitor up next to it and curve the other side and make like a full like

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180° cockpit view which is just super cool so you can have like a flat wind

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screen and then curved Windows that kind of Wing out the sides I can't wait the

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HDR on this thing is fantastic and the reality is too with 99% of the DCI ip3

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color space this doesn't come pre-calibrated out of the factory but

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you it does have access to that whole gamut so if you have a Colorimeter or

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something at home you can absolutely color uh correct this thing yourself to

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make it dead on there are always concerns with OLED about burning and

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there's also a lot of concerns with monitors in general about dead pixels

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the really cool thing is Corsair is offering very similar to Dell's warranty

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with the threeyear um anti- burn and stuff it's got a three-year warranty

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that covers both buron and dead pixels pretty much the two bins of OLED

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monitors so you don't have to worry it is sponsored but I honestly think this

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thing is pretty nice I'm waiting to see what they can do with the firmware to

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really make the panel shine um but

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honestly once this thing comes out in a few quarters or whatever there's a good

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chance I'm going to get it I just upgraded my display and I already need a

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new upgrade thanks for watching ShortCircuit this is the Corsair Zenon Flex

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