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Corsair Xeneon Flex 45WQHD240 Gaming Monitor - 45-Inch OLED WQHD (3440 x 1440) Bendable Display, 240Hz Refresh Rate, 0.03ms GtG Response Time, NVIDIA G-SYNC Compatible, AMD FreeSync Premium Black

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Allows you to manually set the display’s color temperature with sliders controlling the red, blue, and green levels The Corsair 45WQHD240 is pretty well positioned to handle console gaming, with its performance strengths being the super-fast response times and excellent HDR capabilities (discussed later). The screen has two HDMI 2.1 ports, and so can support the full capabilities of this screen from a PC (3440 x 1440 @ 240Hz), as well as handle modern games consoles and many of their features, to a point.

OSD proximity sensor is very helpful for finding the buttons, but I do wish I could just use a remote control because I end up messing with settings a LOT. And obviously, the sensor can't help you find the power button when the screen is off. Chances are if you looking at this monitor your running a GPU that probably costs not far from the same price, and IMO now that i have this set up and working its worth the price hands down. DisplayPort 1.4, 2x HDMI 2.1 and 1x USB type-C (with DP Alt mode and 30W power delivery) connections The ultrawide aspect ratio is a great fit for gaming and delivers an excellent sense of immersion – a feeling only heightened when the monitor is bent into its maximum curvature. It’s especially useful in simulation games, like Microsoft Flight Simulator, and in strategy games. I spent more than a few hours playing the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress on this monitor – and thoroughly enjoyed myself. The Xeneon Flex’s huge, colorful OLED panel provides plenty of room for its bulky in-game windows. Corsair Xeneon Flex 45WQHD240 - HDR Image QualityLooking at the screen for an extended period of time causes eye fatigue and may deteriorate your eyesight. The OLED panel offers super-wide viewing angles which result in a stable and clear image, even from viewing positions that are not head on. There’s also none of the glow on dark content like you get on IPS panels, popular in the office LCD monitor space. Ergonomics and Connections It’s a huge monitor, of course, measuring about 42 inches wide and 22 inches tall with the OLED panel kept flat (it’s a bit more narrow when bent). This is almost as wide as my desk and much wider than a 34-inch ultrawide. The large stand takes up significant width and depth, which means the monitor will sit relatively close to you. You’ll need a big desk to handle this beast.

While LG and others also have their own monitors using this panel ( LG UltraGear 45GR95QE and Acer Predator X45), uniquely the Corsair screen offers a bendable screen as well! This allows you to switch between flat format, or curved, anywhere up to 800R if you want. This provides a great deal of flexibility for working, videos and gaming and sets this version apart from the competition so far (which are otherwise fixed curved models). As discussed in our detailed article about Response Time Testing – Pitfalls, Improvements and Updating Our Methodologywe are using an improved and more accurate method for capturing G2G response times and overshoot, based on figures that are more reflective to what you see visually on the screen in real-World usage. Our article linked above talks through why this is better and how we arrived at this improved method in much more detail. The wide colour gamut provides flexibility to work with a range of different colour spaces if you need to. The native wide gamut is useful for gaming, HDR and multimedia where you might well prefer the more saturated and vivid colours, and especially for HDR content which is mastered in this DCI-P3 or the even wider Rec.2020 colour space anyway. Having the ability to cover most of the DCI-P3 (98.0%) and Adobe RGB colour spaces (96.7%) from this screen is great news if you want to work in either of those, although you’d need to be able to calibrate the screen with a calibration tool to clamp the gamut to Adobe RGB properly. The native colour space is very close to DCI-P3 so you wouldn’t need much clamping there. You’d also need a calibration device to be able to correct the high gamma in dark grey shades in the native wide gamut mode ideally too. Especially if you were working with any darker content, as otherwise shadow detail is crushed. A decent and generally well configured sRGB emulation mode is also provided which is definitely useable and valuable. This is slightly too warm and has a variable gamma in lighter grey shades, but the emulation of this smaller colour space, and the accuracy of sRGB colours, is very good. Even with lights OFF (a dark room) - With brightness stabilizer ON - You just can't game. I think they have done this because of the 3 year burn-in warranty. It took me 2-3 days to get used to ABL. No I barely notice it. Corsair do thankfully provide a useful ‘Brightness Stabilizer’ mode which removes the need for ABL to be used at all which is great, but does however limit your brightness quite substantially. We only achieved 34 – 139 cd/m 2 in this mode. This could be ok for those who use a common 120 cd/m 2 brightness or tend to have a darker room, but it’s limiting for those who want something brighter. Above 150 and around 200 cd/m 2 are also common brightness levels, even for office work, and so the inability to reach these levels while at the same time removing ABL was a disappointment. When it comes to gaming and multimedia, you’d almost certainly want to turn Brightness Stabilizer off and that affords you a decent brightness range. In dynamic content like that, you’re far less likely to experience issues visually with the ABL or dimming too. Text Clarity and Sub-pixel structure

Corsair’s 45-inch 21:9 OLED monitor with a bendable screen and 3440x1440 resolution.

There is also a ‘Brightness Stabilizer’ mode offered on this screen which is designed to offer a consistent screen brightness and avoid the activity of the OLED ABL feature. We will explain that more in a moment and measure this setting’s impact on ABL. We switched to the other colour temp setting which is called ‘Default’, confusingly as it’s not actually the default setting for HDR mode at all! Maybe this should have been called “native” for the native panel white point? Anyway… I understand the method behind this madness. My everyday monitor is a flat ultrawide. I prefer it when writing, editing photos, or viewing multiple windows, as a curved monitor can cause distortion in productivity apps. Unfortunately, the flat display is also less immersive in most games. I made the choice to buy a flat ultrawide knowing that my in-game experience would be slightly compromised – but now, with the Xeneon Flex, I can have the best of both. The "0" brightness level is still too bright for my photosensitive eyes. The lowest brightness in SDR for this monitor is 40 nits according to RTINGS.com, which I failed to consider before buying. At night, my workaround was using software like f.lux to dim the colors far below OSD minimum. However, it's very difficult to make the display look pleasant in pitch-dark environments, partially due to the screen's graininess (discussed later). As for daytime, I still keep the display near minimum brightness since my monitor is never in direct sunlight. Corsair’s marketing positions the Xeneon Flex as an alternative to both 49-inch super-ultrawide monitors and 42 to 48-inch widescreen monitors. That puts it up against displays like the Samsung Odyssey G9 Neo and LG Ultragear 48GQ900-B, as well as LG’s similar Ultragear 45GR95QE.

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