Corsair 45-Inch 240Hz OLED Gaming Monitor – 3440×1440, 0.03ms Response, G-SYNC/FreeSync Compatible

a great monitor with a feature that’s a little ahead of it’s time
This XENION Flex has amazing image quality and some advanced features that will probably become standard options in the future, but for which you are now paying quite a premium. First the positives: OLED has no backlight, each pixel is literally on or off, so the contrast ratio is excellent. That and the pixel transition times are so fast because of the OLED technology that no LCD can even come close. The screen is also enormous, so playing games or watching movies, especially in HDR, looks incredible. HDR is made possible, btw, by the high light output, nearly 800-1000 nits, which is fantastic for an OLED but merely decent for an LCD. The monitor is also 120Hz with Nvidia GSYNC and AMD FreeSync, so if you have the card to drive it you can get very smooth gaming.Now the negatives. Some people have dinged the monitor because, with it’s very large size but only 3440×1440 resolution, the pixel density is lower than what a typical 4k monitor would have. But for me this is more of a bonus than a downside. The argument that the density is too low is mostly about text. With less pixels per inch being used to create text the monitor doesn’t have the same level of crispness that a smaller 4k monitor would, but what usually goes unsaid about that is that higher density also makes the text on the screen smaller. Because of the large screen size and somewhat lower pixel density text on this screen is much more readable, particularly if you are middle aged or above. And while the text might be theoretically less crisp on this monitor, if there is any fuzziness to it I can’t see it, so all in all I actually appreciate the larger, more readable text.A downside that does bother me is the brightness. OLED screens get stressed when they push out a lot of light, so to compensate the monitor has some protections enabled by default. When you are on a screen, say a web page, for an extended period of time the monitor will begin dimming the screen to ease the stress on the organic pixels. Refreshing the page or switching quickly between pages brings back the light, but it can get kind of annoying if you are reading something and it feels like you are gradually losing the light, plus the transition back to bright can hurt your eyes a little. I think there is probably a way to adjust this, but the problem is that OLEDs are famously wanting in durability, so I worry that fiddling with this could shorten the lifespan of my very expensive monitor.Related but less annoying are things you don’t have to do but probably should do to protect the monitor, like switching off icon visibility on your desktop and setting the background to straight black to avoid the dreaded screen burn, which again OLEDs are particularly prone to. You should also probably set a screen saver that blanks the screen after 5 or 10 minutes of inactivity. Again, you don’t have to and the screen does have a 3 year warranty, but if you want the most bang for your buck this is probably a smart move.Finally, the major talking point about this monitor that, in my opinion, is neither good nor bad, which is the bendable screen aspect. You can grab the outside edges of the screen and push it flat or pull it into a sharper curve. Some people will never use it, but it does serve a purpose. For gaming, pulling the screen into a curve makes the games more immersive, but for productivity work I find flat is easier to work with. The neither good nor bad part of this is that while being able to adjust the curve is a very nice feature and one that I think will probably become standard a couple years from now when the technology is less novel, for now you are paying one heck of a premium for it. The monitor is easily 25%+ more expensive than comparable offerings where only the ability to define the screen curve separates the monitors. I made the plunge, but not everyone will see it as worth the extra price.Bottom line, if you don’t mind paying a little extra to be on the bleeding edge, this is an excellent gaming, entertainment, and productivity monitor whose technology still requires a little extra care be taken to preserve full functionality.

Amazing but requires some understanding
All the reviews complaining about flickering don’t understand one thing:You can only use 240hz if the game you’re running has uncapped FPS or sets the maximum FPS to 240hz.If the game’s maximum FPS is set to 60 or 120 and your monitor is set to 240hz then your screen will flicker!Thus you simply need to change either the game or the monitor’s FPS to match and resolve the flickering.Before I understood this I was about to come here and write a 1 star review because it was really annoying but now I understand that this monitor is simply amazing. I went and played Diablo 2 Resurrected; was wondering why the game looked so dark then I cast Frozen Orb and the entire screen lit up and it looked real like 3D and like the image wanted to jump off the screen. My jaw dropped.I tested Forza Horizon 4 and it also looked so good and real like the game was popping off the screen.But then I went and played a game like Dead by Daylight and it has so many darks and so few lights that nothing really has an opportunity to “pop”. So these OLED monitors really depend on a mixture of darks and lighting.Anyway, if you buy the monitor like I did make sure to do the firmware update, turn on HDR and follow the color calibration options like they recommend on the website, and make sure your monitor’s FPS setting matches the in the permitted in-game FPS to avoid the flicker.

Llego muy rapido el monitor, tiene muy buenos colores y alta frecuencia de actualizacion de cuadros, lo unico que si me molesta es que tiene ghosting pero es muy dificil notarlo, la unica forma de quitar el ghosting fue desactivar la sincronizacion G-Sync y desactivando eso el monitor esta 10/10

I have used all the oled monitors that are available in the market. I do have a lg c2 55 that I use for RPG, and TV, corsair for work (I code, text isn’t an issue for me – Is it crisp? No, Would you notice? With 110 PPI I would say no issue for most).Corsair just nailed the monitor I/O – I love the way they designed it.PS5/Xbox – you got hdmi 2.1.PC no issues with display port, andType-C DP – The only high end gaming monitor that provides this (I love type-c DP, I could just plug in one usb-c to my work laptop, and not worry about power supply (its adequate unless you are gaming), and monitor’s USB hub as the monitor has usb-c upstream port (What happened to lg, dell, Asus – still stuck with USB-A – This isn’t a game changer, but a nice to have!), and the type-c DP. So, Monitor’s Input switch is all it needs to switch your accessories between machines. This works great for people who work and game on different machines but single monitor.NO RGB -> I like my monitors black. This is subjective, so for people who are into RGB this is a let down.Movies & TV -> Nothing special to me, as I have a 55 c2. A television obviously excels with its AI upscaling, smoothing and so on.Blacks -> Its just black, once you switch to oled you will love the blacks and would never go back (Proceed with caution!)Webcam placement -> I had issues with AW34DWF because no magnetic attachment support, this monitors works perfect.Gaming -> AW34DWF – Colors are just amazing. When you get to WOLED panels, you will notice how over-saturated Quantum Dot panels are, and I eventually started appreciating the colors on WOLED.Brightness -> I game and work with lights on, I have no issue at all. There is a built in ABL(Auto brightness limiter) that is aggressive, but interesting part is it doesn’t affect you while gaming. But, regular desktop usage takes time to get used to. There is a brightness stabilizer – If you use this the brightness is way below sub-par. I would recommend turn off brightness stabilizer and get used to the built-in ABL. This way you get the best experience it could offer in terms of brightness.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.Hope this helps someone. I have finally decided to keep this, my hunt for an OLED monitor started in March, and finally came to an end!