today we've got a bit of a special treat uh Corsair sponsored this video and they
hand delivered us their new Corsair Xenon Flex can you guess what it's cool
one party trick is oh my
God it's an OLED panel and it can bend
up to like 800 R curvature this thing is insane I don't know about you guys but
I've been watching OLED for a long long time and one of the original things that
was a big selling point for me was the fact that it's bendable and you can Flex
the panel and stuff we're finally there we've had bendable phones and foldable
phones for quite a while like several years actually but no one's really done
it in a monitor yet where you can do it yourself like yeah we've got curved
screens those are cool but this this is
something else oh my God it just clicks in place
once it's there you can also stop this thing anywhere you want along that
curvature so say you're doing office work and you're not gaming you want to
put back to Flat 21 by9 uh but then all of a sudden you're done
little early it's time to game oh my God
and then it just F just bends out that's so wild uh it's
1440p 21 by9 covers 99% of the DCI ip3
color space and hits 1,000 nits which it's crazy this thing does 240
Herz absolutely wild this is a prototype
unit so nothing is final final the stand
is going to be a little different these are going to be shorter and a little wider these handles by the way they are
going to be able to go back into the screen uh but right now we've just got a
prototype unit so they kind of have to stay out once they're out but we've got
pretty good front IO we've got two USB 3.2 ports we've got a headphone jack we
have an input button power button and then this is probably for navigation our
OSD is locked today because it's a prototype unit they don't want us
messing around with anything too much uh so we can basically just change input
and power it on as for the back it does 240 HZ so we've got HDMI 2.1 2.1 uh
DisplayPort 1.4 but you know DP 2.0 isn't here yet USBC one of these there's
two USBC one of them can actually do DisplayPort out so if you want to hook
up a laptop really quick or something you can totally do that two more usba
slots and then a power bar one of these USBC is also Upstream so if you want to
connect it to your PC no problem at all that's why there's no usbb Port which is
kind of crazy I've actually been waiting for usbb to die and uh maybe this is the
monitor that finally kills it it is a prototype and this is going to be mostly
the same probably they said the big improvements are going to be on the handles uh on the firmware and then on
the stand itself uh this will be shorter and wider I think it's fine personally I
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
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
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
anything it actually makes me feel a bit more safe because there's like a big support system for the bend I still feel
a little uncomfortable when flexing it myself but that's kind of just because
it's brand new I've never really done this before um as for everything else
it's good you know it's all just blacked out there's a small Corsair logo on the
back of the stand and there's a small Corsair logo on the front of the stand
um the one caveat to this is there is
basically no adjustment at all when it
comes to like pivot rotation height adjustment um even mounting it you
actually need because all the important brains of this thing are in this back uh
stand right here and there's only a little bit on the panel box right here
so there's a cable that connects the two and what Corsair has said is that you
cannot get a vesa mount for this guy um
you have to either just leave it desk mounted or they are selling a little
clamp that'll clamp onto desk and attached to this guy I don't know how
that's going to work they haven't shown us or brought it here but at least
you've got an option as you can see it actually looks pretty good but what I
want to know is how does it look turned on uh they actually sent us two if you
haven't noticed that already uh they were worried that you know since it's a
prototype one of them might be a little finicky or it might fail so we've got
two here today and luckily they're both fine this one over here is set up on a
Corsair 1 that they brought with them and we're going to check out the HDR
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
response time thanks to that delicious OLED panel oh man I can't wait let's
check it out the one kind of feature that the stand does have is uh tilt so
you can tilt it to your liking which is great they found that the size of the screen was just the right amount for
most people to be kind of in that sweet spot so they're not worried about height
adjustment or anything they've had tall people they've had short people they've had average people come in and daily
drive this thing or at least check it out in the office apparently it's fine
feels pretty comfortable to me like I've got a 21 by9 1440p Ultra wide at home
it's a little smaller mine's 34 in I think and this is 45 um but still this
is kind of really good actually it's very comfortable very pleasing to the
eyes we watched their own HDR content that they brought with them it looks
pretty good but what I want to do is do the classics that we always check wow I
can't type on this keyboard at all um just to see how good it really is
promising a th000 nits Peak brightness not Vasa certified but apparently
they're working with someone else to set up their own kind of certification process I mean one thing I'm already
noticing just because it's OLED is like the nice black just pure black on either
side here uh cuz the pixels are just turned straight off so that means that
everything is going to be a dimming Zone every pixel is a dimming Zone uh so
you're really not going to beat something like an OLED in terms of HDR
content maybe like even mini LED on a big TV is like 1100 zones or something
like yeah that looks pretty pretty good don't get me wrong but OLED is like 4
million zones or something if it's Ultra wide 1440p then that's like eight no
it's not 8 million it's like 6 million pixels 6 million diming zones oh my God
obviously we're not measuring or testing anything today so I can't verify any
sort of claims about like thousand nits or anything like that but it's getting pretty bright wow it's already doing 240
HZ yeah I get this David look at this look at
this 240 htz like I know it's 1440p it's not
4K 240 but that is insanely fast for an
OLED display 240 HZ with the like
microsc gray to gray um pixel response
time that's wild I love it even my alien wear monitor at home the aw 3423 DW QD
OED display that thing only does 175 Hertz and once you go to 175 you don't
get 10 bit color anymore I want to see this now I asked them while they were
here I specifically asked them if this would do 10 bit color at higher refresh
rates they said no but I want to see where we can get away with it so a
couple things one Windows is saying it's peak of 565 Windows is often wrong about
this so don't trust that especially when it's like brand new firmware that like
no one has access to uh but it's saying it's doing 10 bit and it's saying it's
240 HZ so whatever maybe they're going
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
uh maybe this is my my next display I don't know but I've been waiting for
something like this for so long we asked them about price and they wouldn't give
us a direct answer because this isn't coming out until like Q4 maybe q1 next
year but we did Hazard guesses um I
guess like $2,500 Jeff said 2800 and they both all they said was
that it's lower than that they said it's competitive if they can get this thing
close to like 2 Grand considering the screen size and the other capability is
of it um I don't know this might be basically the best gaming monitor on the
market because yep he's just crisp one
minor complaint is that it's not gsync ultimate but it is gsync compatible and
it's got AMD free sync premium so the variable refresh rate on this is going
to be pretty good and the reality is I
can't see any issues when following this UFO across one of the benefits to buying
a Corsair product is that if you're already in their like product Suite of
IQ uh boom this thing will do it I don't think there's any RGB on the back good
no definitely not hey I don't mind the back RGB but you can control stuff from
a single Hub probably the OSD stuff as
well we don't have access to that like I said earlier but uh it's a pretty cool
feature if you actually already use IQ it's just icing on the cake okay now I
got to game can I game yet oh looks good already I got to be the cool looking
teide guy give me oh you got some skins
right and look at this look at this
oh this is game oh okay I died right away that's okay sorry thanks Bert but
like it's pretty clear could be yeah it could be a little clear now that being
said though there is uh a ton of firmware updates and stuff for them to
make to this panel this is a super early prototype um so I only expect it to get
better and the reality is man it still looks pretty good my current monitor is
the aw 3423 DW the CU OLED guy and uh I
got to say this is the first time I might actually be tempted to swap it's
got more of a glossy look to it not so
much anti-glare but the reality is I kind of like that anyway cuz the colors
really pop it's an anti-reflective coating with low blue light and honestly
it looks pretty good it doesn't look like colors are desaturated or anything
like that it looks just crisp okay we got to look counter-
strike's great you know it's great but
uh we got to do something a little more cinematic to show off this like amazing
Ultra wide HDR experience here the one
kind of big drawback to this is that
it's 1440p so you've got a 45 in Ultra wide
display running 1440p and I've already said that like 32 in 16x9 is kind of
like the max you should run 1440p um this is something around 84 PPI at this
point and for gaming it's okay I do
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
watching regular content I think it's perfectly fine the problem you're going to run into is if you're some kind of
designer which is really unfortunate cuz this thing would be great for like oh I
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
curved I don't know um but that is easily the biggest downfall is that this
is unfortunately not 4K however 4K 240
HZ ultrawide I don't even think that's a thing yet so Corsair has really kind of
outdone themselves with this guy here's another super cool feature that they
mentioned you don't want just one of these no no no you want two of them
because yeah I feel like I should bend more okay whatever um you want two of
them because what you can do is you can
take one side and only curve that one side and then you can put another
monitor up next to it and curve the other side and make like a full like
180° cockpit view which is just super cool so you can have like a flat wind
screen and then curved Windows that kind of Wing out the sides I can't wait the
HDR on this thing is fantastic and the reality is too with 99% of the DCI ip3
color space this doesn't come pre-calibrated out of the factory but
you it does have access to that whole gamut so if you have a Colorimeter or
something at home you can absolutely color uh correct this thing yourself to
make it dead on there are always concerns with OLED about burning and
there's also a lot of concerns with monitors in general about dead pixels
the really cool thing is Corsair is offering very similar to Dell's warranty
with the threeyear um anti- burn and stuff it's got a three-year warranty
that covers both buron and dead pixels pretty much the two bins of OLED
monitors so you don't have to worry it is sponsored but I honestly think this
thing is pretty nice I'm waiting to see what they can do with the firmware to
really make the panel shine um but
honestly once this thing comes out in a few quarters or whatever there's a good
chance I'm going to get it I just upgraded my display and I already need a
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