Thursday, September 30th 2021
This View is Spectacular - CORSAIR Debuts the XENEON 32QHD165 Gaming Monitor
CORSAIR, a world leader in enthusiast components for gamers, creators, and PC builders, today announced the XENEON 32QHD165, a stunning new monitor built from the ground up for gamers and creators, featuring an ultra-slim 32-inch QHD screen with a cutting-edge IPS LED panel to produce a beautiful 2560x1440 image. With up to a 165 Hz refresh rate, along with AMD FreeSync Premium certification and NVIDIA G-SYNC compatibility to keep up with every frame of the latest games, the XENEON 32QHD165 offers a terrific combination of powerful specs, smart features, and thoughtful design that power users need. Integrating seamlessly into the CORSAIR iCUE and Elgato Stream Deck software ecosystems for convenient, customized control, the XENEON 32QHD165 is uniquely positioned to take center stage in a modern gaming and streaming setup.
An ultra-thin micro-bezel surrounds the XENEON 32QHD165's 32-inch screen, offering a minimal border ideal for multi-monitor setups. Its IPS LED panel utilizes Quantum Dot technology with 100% sRGB, 100% Adobe RGB color space, and DCI-P3 (98%) color gamut - ensuring the superb color accuracy critical for creators that work with applications like Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and DaVinci Resolve. Moreover, HDR400 support provides a wide brightness range for high realism in both very dark and brightly lit scenes. With a viewing angle of up to 178° horizontally and vertically, the XENEON 32QHD165's image looks great from anywhere, even if you're standing nearly parallel to the screen.
When playing fast-paced games at high settings, gamers need a monitor that can keep up. That's why the XENEON 32QHD165 outputs a refresh rate of up to 165 Hz, more than twice that of a standard monitor. Paired with adaptive sync technology from both AMD FreeSync Premium certification and NVIDIA G-SYNC compatibility, gamers experience smoother visuals and less screen tearing, further aided by a rapid 1 ms response time.
The XENEON 32QHD165's uniquely designed die-cast aluminium stand opens up new possibilities for streaming setups. An innovative built-in mounting point atop the stand features standard ¼" threading, enabling compatibility with rigging systems such as Elgato Multi Mount and simplifying your setup by securely mounting a camera, light, or microphone above the monitor itself.
The XENEON 32QHD165 integrates with both CORSAIR iCUE software and Elgato Stream Deck software to unite your monitor with the rest of your setup even further. iCUE enables adjustment of all on-screen controls, removing the need to ever reach behind the monitor for the physical controls. Through iCUE, you can instantly swap your custom settings when switching between playing games, watching movies, working in Photoshop, or anything else - even doing it at the touch of a button on your Elgato Stream Deck or CORSAIR iCUE NEXUS Touch Screen.
The myriad connections and clever cable management built into the XENEON 32QHD165 make it a convenient central hub for your desktop. With 2x HDMI 2.0 ports and 1x DisplayPort 1.4, as well as 2x USB 3.1 Type-C and 2x USB 3.1 Type-A ports, you can connect a plethora of gaming peripherals and streaming devices. The XENEON 32QHD165's sturdy and stylish aluminium stand incorporates built-in cable routing to organize and hide your cables from view, ensuring that your battlestation is always tidy and photo-ready. With screen tilt from -5° to 20° and 100 mm of adjustable height, the stand keeps the screen positioned exactly where you need it. If you'd rather mount your monitor, a 100 mm x 100 mm VESA mounting point lets you secure it to a wall or mount arm with ease.
Availability, Warranty, and Pricing
The CORSAIR XENEON 32QHD165 Gaming Monitor is available immediately from the CORSAIR webstore and the CORSAIR worldwide network of authorized retailers and distributors. Initial availability will be in North America, UK, France, The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, Australia, and New Zealand. The CORSAIR XENEON 32QHD165 is backed by a three-year warranty including a ZERO DEAD PIXEL policy, alongside the CORSAIR worldwide customer service and technical support network. For up-to-date pricing of the CORSAIR XENEON 32QHD165, please refer to the CORSAIR website (Editor's note: It costs $799.99 in the USA).
Web Pages
To learn more about the CORSAIR XENEON 32QHD165 Gaming Monitor, please visit: corsair.com/xeneon-monitor
An ultra-thin micro-bezel surrounds the XENEON 32QHD165's 32-inch screen, offering a minimal border ideal for multi-monitor setups. Its IPS LED panel utilizes Quantum Dot technology with 100% sRGB, 100% Adobe RGB color space, and DCI-P3 (98%) color gamut - ensuring the superb color accuracy critical for creators that work with applications like Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and DaVinci Resolve. Moreover, HDR400 support provides a wide brightness range for high realism in both very dark and brightly lit scenes. With a viewing angle of up to 178° horizontally and vertically, the XENEON 32QHD165's image looks great from anywhere, even if you're standing nearly parallel to the screen.
The XENEON 32QHD165's uniquely designed die-cast aluminium stand opens up new possibilities for streaming setups. An innovative built-in mounting point atop the stand features standard ¼" threading, enabling compatibility with rigging systems such as Elgato Multi Mount and simplifying your setup by securely mounting a camera, light, or microphone above the monitor itself.
The XENEON 32QHD165 integrates with both CORSAIR iCUE software and Elgato Stream Deck software to unite your monitor with the rest of your setup even further. iCUE enables adjustment of all on-screen controls, removing the need to ever reach behind the monitor for the physical controls. Through iCUE, you can instantly swap your custom settings when switching between playing games, watching movies, working in Photoshop, or anything else - even doing it at the touch of a button on your Elgato Stream Deck or CORSAIR iCUE NEXUS Touch Screen.
The myriad connections and clever cable management built into the XENEON 32QHD165 make it a convenient central hub for your desktop. With 2x HDMI 2.0 ports and 1x DisplayPort 1.4, as well as 2x USB 3.1 Type-C and 2x USB 3.1 Type-A ports, you can connect a plethora of gaming peripherals and streaming devices. The XENEON 32QHD165's sturdy and stylish aluminium stand incorporates built-in cable routing to organize and hide your cables from view, ensuring that your battlestation is always tidy and photo-ready. With screen tilt from -5° to 20° and 100 mm of adjustable height, the stand keeps the screen positioned exactly where you need it. If you'd rather mount your monitor, a 100 mm x 100 mm VESA mounting point lets you secure it to a wall or mount arm with ease.
Availability, Warranty, and Pricing
The CORSAIR XENEON 32QHD165 Gaming Monitor is available immediately from the CORSAIR webstore and the CORSAIR worldwide network of authorized retailers and distributors. Initial availability will be in North America, UK, France, The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, Australia, and New Zealand. The CORSAIR XENEON 32QHD165 is backed by a three-year warranty including a ZERO DEAD PIXEL policy, alongside the CORSAIR worldwide customer service and technical support network. For up-to-date pricing of the CORSAIR XENEON 32QHD165, please refer to the CORSAIR website (Editor's note: It costs $799.99 in the USA).
Web Pages
To learn more about the CORSAIR XENEON 32QHD165 Gaming Monitor, please visit: corsair.com/xeneon-monitor
46 Comments on This View is Spectacular - CORSAIR Debuts the XENEON 32QHD165 Gaming Monitor
Also its odd that native and max resolution are different.
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***Image is downscaled to native resolution.
But it can only do 30 or 60Hz.
What does matter is price, response time, and how good the overdrive is - ie, whether it's variable overdrive for VRR or whether it only really works well at a fixed refresh rate.
Is this Corsair's first monitor?
Also, as a pet peeve, ALL of the marketing material uses fake images on the displays so there's no truth to how wide the bezels really are. From experience the bezels are usually 5-10mm wide, half-buried under the front panel layer. Their vidoes here www.corsair.com/uk/en/Monitors/CORSAIR-XENEON-Gaming-Monitor/p/CM-9020001-PE have laughably different bezel thicknesses from shot to shot, and even two screens side by side have different "bezel" thicknesses (I put the quotes in because the fake image is clearly wobbling around within the monitor's frame).
It is the LG panel, with the utterly weak contrast, ain't it. That's why it is not mentioned anywhere.
Either way when a screen says Corsair I kinda know enough, stay at a comfortable distance. You're just going to get overpriced stuff that's been done already but now has a new logo. I think this brand has gone the way of the dodo tbh (for sensible purchases that is).Gotta love how they keep filming ingame footage to show the monitor qualities... did they forget you're viewing them on another monitor or something? Holy craperino the stupidity is real. You've first got a camera lens and FPS and then your own monitor, so everything's a mess to look at regardless. And... 40 whopping minutes of it.
...yeah, no. Overpriced.
For people buying $800 monitors, a proper desk arm is always the best choice. I have a cast-alloy gas-sprung arm that I paid about €200 for a decade ago, it looks like the going rate for them now is about $50/€40 and I still don't begrudge spending a single cent on mine.
If you can afford an $800 monitor and you have a tiny, flimsy little desk, then perhaps it's time to reassess your desk....
At $800 that's a cardinal sin. I already have a 32" 165Hz, Curved QHD monitor with fantastic response times and you can pick it up for less than half the asking price of this Corsair. Like most "budget" monitors in the high-refresh club, it has fixed overdrive that works amazingly at 165Hz and not so great at variable refresh rates. The only reason to pay more (for me) would be variable overdrive, something that most of the premium gaming monitors include and that should, by definition, be a key requirement to call a monitor "premium".
On the plus side, now I've finished the review I kind of agree with them - it's not rubbish, and arguably being a "okay but overpriced" is probably how many of us would describe Corsair. For a first attempt, and in a market that has plenty of awful, overpriced, or awful and overpriced offerings, this could definitely be worse.
TLDR: Good, but admittedly overpriced