The manufacturer is poking fun at its own technology by talking about giving an inflection to the gaming monitor market.
For several months now, Corsair has been making gamers salivate with a screen of a very special kind since its slab is flexible. Last August, at the Gamescom 2022 in Cologne, the American company even presented this original monitor in the most official way in the world and allowed visitors to try it out, to handle it and to discover its flexible system which gives it its name. Indeed, the Xeneon Flex 45WQHD240 OLED has a slab that can be adjusted to be completely flat or, on the contrary, curved with a radius of curvature of 800R.
By being so adjustable, the Xeneon Flex 45WQHD240 OLED intends to convince those who are hesitating saying - with good reason - that the curved screen is still great for immersion in action or simulation games while a perfectly flat panel is more practical for working or playing with several people on the same screen. In order not to miss out, Corsair chose to go all out by using OLED technology for impeccable colors and a contrast ratio of 1,500,000:1. The manufacturer also mentions a maximum brightness of 1,000 nits and does not hesitate to speak of a " sublime image quality ". We only ask to believe it.
As its name clearly indicates, the Xeneon Flex 45WQHD240 OLED adopts a definition that is a bit disappointing since it is "only" WQHD, in other words 3440 x 1440 pixels. On a 45 inches, we would have liked to be able to enjoy 2,160 points of height, at least. This limitation has an advantage, however, since it allows Corsair to easily offer very high refresh rates: we're talking about 240 Hz, knowing that, of course, AMD FreeSync Premium and NVIDIA G-SYNC technologies are on the menu and that the gray-to-gray response time is 0.03 ms. Everything you need for video games.
Alas, a thousand times alas, innovation comes at a cost and Corsair is teaching us that bitterly. If the Xeneon Flex 45WQHD240 OLED is announced for release by the end of the month with the setting up - as of now - of pre-orders, it is in fact unlikely to concern many people. Indeed, the price of this jewel is as high as its technical promises: no less than 2,399.99 euros. Fortunately, Corsair offers a three-year warranty and adds " a zero pixel death and zero burn-in guarantee " as it explains in its press release. It's the least we can do, we're tempted to say.
