Corsair Announces XENEON 27QHD240 OLED Gaming Monitor

[btarunr]

CORSAIR, a world leader in enthusiast components for gamers, creators, and PC builders, today announced an exciting new addition to its lineup of high-performance gaming monitors, the XENEON 27QHD240 OLED. Combining the latest in LG OLED display technology with trademark CORSAIR style and performance, the XENEON 27 OLED offers superb black levels, self-lit OLED pixels, and blistering 240 Hz refresh rate, all in a 2560x1440 27-inch package ready to display everything your PC has to offer at its best.

Continuing the close partnership between CORSAIR and LG Display, the XENEON 27 OLED boasts a cutting edge 3rd generation OLED panel with META Technology featuring Micro Lens Array (MLA). This innovative new technology places a focal lens to enhance brightness in front of every pixel, boosting brightness far beyond previous generation OLED panels and delivering breathtaking color vibrancy. HDR10, 1,500,000:1 contrast ratio, a peak brightness of up to 1,000 nits and 98.5% DCI-P3 color gamut ensure that the brightest highlights, darkest details, and most nuanced colors are presented beautifully, whatever you're playing, watching or creating.



The XENEON 27 OLED boasts rapid response times that leave previous generation gaming monitors behind. Up to 240 Hz refresh rate, 0.03 ms response time and 0.01 ms Pixel on/off time all-but eliminate motion blur, for class-leading gaming performance compatible with both NVIDIA G-SYNC and AMD FreeSync Premium.
The Xeneon 27 OLED also offers a wide range of customization options. With 60° of swivel, 22° of tilt, 100 mm (3.94-inch) of height adjustment, the ability to rotate 90° on its stand in either direction, or to be mounted on a monitor arm via its standard VESA mount, it's easy to integrate the XENEON 27 OLED into an existing setup, or make it the showpiece of a new one.

Whether your setup is PC first, or console inclusive, the XENEON 27 OLED has all the connections you need. A pair of HDMI 2.1 ports, DisplayPort 1.4 and a USB Type-C DP Alt-Mode input allows it to be connected to 4 different devices at once (and two displayed simultaneously with picture in picture or picture by picture), while a USB 3.1 Type-C port and four USB 3.1 ports make it easy to connect the XENEON 27 OLED to full-equipped computers.

The front accessible controls also include an innovative proximity sensor to guide you to the correct button for Power ON/OFF, Input Select as well as the On Screen Display (OSD) joystick controller.

As with its stable-mate, the XENEON FLEX 45 OLED, the XENEON 27 OLED features an array of burn-in protection techniques to maintain a clean image, even following extended overlay, UI or operating system use, backed by a comprehensive three-year Zero Dead Pixel and Zero Burn In warranty.

Bringing the transformative leap forward in performance and image quality of OLED to a 27-inch display, XENEON 27 OLED shows everything your PC can do at its best.

Availability:
The new CORSAIR XENEON 27 OLED is on display throughout PAX East 2023 at the CORSAIR booth, Booth #18031.

Customers will be able to order the XENEON 27 OLED from the CORSAIR webstore and select channel partners in May 2023.

For more information, visit the product page.

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[Wye]

how's the text reading on this monitor?

 

[Cheeseball]

It's the same panel as the one in LG's 27GR95QE-B. Not sure if this has a native USB-C port or if its just a DisplayPort-to-USB-C cable.

 

[Space Lynx]

my guess is it will be more expensive than the LG one even though its the same panel. not sure why companies do this, why the hell would I pay extra for the same thing. lol

 

[evernessince]

how's the text reading on this monitor?

Poor, it's based on the same panel as the LG 27" OLED which means it doesn't have an RGB subpixel layout and by extension there is text fringing.

So far all OLEDs this generation are based on non-RGB panels so if you are using your PC for more than just playing games and watching videos you are probably going to want to wait until next gen for hopefully something that is a better all-rounder.

 

[Space Lynx]

Poor, it's based on the same panel as the LG 27" OLED which means it doesn't have an RGB subpixel layout and by extension there is text fringing.

So far all OLEDs this generation are based on non-RGB panels so if you are using your PC for more than just playing games and watching videos you are probably going to want to wait until next gen for hopefully something that is a better all-rounder.

and better price to boot. that's what i am waiting for.

markets will crash soon and price will come down, its already happened with nvme drives. monitors are next.

 

[Garrus]

Poor, it's based on the same panel as the LG 27" OLED which means it doesn't have an RGB subpixel layout and by extension there is text fringing.

So far all OLEDs this generation are based on non-RGB panels so if you are using your PC for more than just playing games and watching videos you are probably going to want to wait until next gen for hopefully something that is a better all-rounder.

I think text readability is ok, the problem is the brightness. Actually LG's layout is a lot more clear than the funny shaped pentile or QDOLED subpixels. LG uses normal rectangular subpixels. There's an extra white one that's all.

The main issue for LG is lower brightness on an all white screen. Too dim for example. It is harder to read dark text on a white background when the white is more dim.

Also LG has a broken 240hz display controller. Because of the 4k 120hz support added despite the 1440p monitor, with NVidia video cards it incorrectly chooses a different resolution than the one you select in many games (Mass Effect and Apex Legends for example). You have to delete the 4k resolutions using CRU and it is a pain as I've had a bug where the screen flickers during a game after using CRU and it tries to output and it is permanently unable to display anything. I then have to switch the port, reset CRU, and do it again.

THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF AMD'S DRIVERS BEING SUPERIOR.

Hopefully Corsair releases a working one? Every 240hz 1440p LG monitor recently doesn't work right with NVidia, and that's a long running 6+ month problem they haven't fixed.

So of course the visuals in game are incredible. The best monitor I've ever bought. Response time, refresh rate, resolution DPI, incredible HDR. However, it is too dim for all white background text reading (NOT dim at all in HDR playing games, it is an issue for all white backgrounds), broken resolutions in some games, price is too high, and the fan noise may bother some (out of the 5 different OLED monitors, only the Samsung seems to have a silent fan).

 

[evernessince]

I don't think text readability is that bad. Actually LG's layout is a lot more clear than the funny shaped pentile or QDOLED subpixels. LG uses normal rectangular subpixels. There's an extra white one that's all.

The main issue for LG is lower brightness on an all white screen. Too dim for example. It is harder to read dark text on a white background when the white is more dim.

Also LG has a broken 240hz display controller. Because of the 4k 120hz support added despite the 1440p monitor, with NVidia video cards it incorrectly chooses a different resolution than the one you select in many games (Mass Effect and Apex Legends for example). You have to delete the 4k resolutions using CRU and it is a pain.

Hopefully Corsair releases a working one? Every 240hz 1440p LG monitor recently doesn't work right with NVidia, and that's a long running 6+ month problem they haven't fixed.

So of course the visuals in game are incredible. The best monitor I've ever bought. Response time, refresh rate, resolution DPI, incredible HDR. However, it is too dim for all white background text reading (NOT dim at all in HDR playing games, it is an issue for all white backgrounds), broken resolutions in some games, price is too high, and the fan noise may bother some (out of the 5 different OLED monitors, only the Samsung seems to have a silent fan).

It's pretty bad as both Hardware Unboxed and Rtings have noted.

You can see in the above image just how much clearer the text on the bottom looks. Even if you personally can't see it, others very well may and making text harder to read increases eye strain.

 

[Garrus]

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It's pretty bad as both Hardware Unboxed and Rtings have noted.

You can see in the above image just how much clearer the text on the bottom looks. Even if you personally can't see it, others very well may and making text harder to read increases eye strain.

I'm using the LG OLED monitor to type this message. It's not bad, it's not great. It's not as good as a normal IPS but the rectangular layout looks better than QDOLED. It just needs to be a bit brighter. Also larger monitors are easier to read on, so a 1440p at 32" would be fine. For sure, if text readability is important to you, go buy the LG GP850, incredible monitor. The best monitor you can buy imo, and LG's best.

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It's pretty bad as both Hardware Unboxed and Rtings have noted.

You can see in the above image just how much clearer the text on the bottom looks. Even if you personally can't see it, others very well may and making text harder to read increases eye strain.

you have to remember that image is when the text is at 100 percent, if you use windows like I do at 125 percent or 150 percent it won't look like that

 

[Timbaloo]

my guess is it will be more expensive than the LG one even though its the same panel. not sure why companies do this, why the hell would I pay extra for the same thing. lol

That's pretty much the business that Corsair does. The buy stuff from other manufacturers and put their label on. And people buy their stuff. With a good premium on it.

 

[Gungar]

my guess is it will be more expensive than the LG one even though its the same panel. not sure why companies do this, why the hell would I pay extra for the same thing. lol

The Asus model isn't more expensive, so Corsair one won't be either.

 

[Scrizz]

3 year burn-in warranty. nice.

 

[Wye]

This is old "news". Ahem I mean old adverticle.