Corsair Xeneon FLEX 45WQHD240 OLED Monitor

[Inle]

The Corsair Xeneon FLEX 45WQHD240 is undoubtedly one of the most extravagant monitors on the market. Depending on what you use it for, you'll either love it or hate it – there's no middle ground.

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[Guwapo77]

Time to bring back SGLi and X-Fire to push the 5K2K version.

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

Yes, I've been desperately wanting a 5120x2160 ultrawide with at least 120hz. I've personally owned a 34" LG with this resolution, but it's only 60hz and this was released years ago so I'm actually surprised we haven't seen any higher refresh panels with that resolution yet. A 45" 2160p ultrawide with 120hz refresh would be amazing, but this would probably require Displayport 2.1, right? Or does HDMI 2.1 have the bandwidth?

 

[P4-630]

Innovation...Ok..

too..

 

[geniekid]

Agree with the conclusion 100%. 45" is a great size for 5K2K, and terrible for 3440x1440.

 

[trsttte]

Wow, I knew it had low ppi but haven't quite bothered to do the math, ~80 is brutal! What a bunch of expensive garbage

5K2K

Fingers crossed for the 40'' ultrawide Dell is releasing at CES to not suck! It will be a business monitor but their latest ones had 120hz so fingers crossed

 

[Chaitanya]

Power consumption for such a big screen is quite reasonable.

 

[Scircura]

I've been daily-driving the Xeneon FLEX for over two months
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if you're working with text or graphics on a daily basis, you shouldn't come anywhere close to this monitor.

Truly dedicated to the cause. Thanks Inle.

 

[RandomWan]

I don't know what they were thinking since 34" is the sweet spot for 3440x1440, but beyond the low pixel density, this was always a gimmick. Almost no one is going to adjust the monitor manually regularly or at least for very long. Couple that with the reliance on using the base and being unable to wall/arm mount it, it cements it being a giant waste of money.

 

[maxime506]

5160*2160 resolution at 45" would be perfect. With DLSS, FSR and Xess offering frame generation tech, gaming at this resolution is entirely possible. P.S. I'm already playing at this resolution by using DLDSR down sampling

 

[Jaquith]

MY EXPERIENCE WITH CORSAIR FLEX.

I was one of the first to get my copy of the 45" 240Hz Corsair Flex (effectively, 32-in if 16:9) which replaced my 34" 175Hz Alienware AW3423DW (effectively, 27-in if 16:9). Both are 3440x1440 21:9 OLED panels, but as far as gaming and immersive gaming, the Corsair Flex destroys any monitor that have had before. For that size monitor you definitely need 800R otherwise the eye strain would be awful.

The Corsair Flex is not meant to be anything other than an immersive gaming monitor. The height and the adjustments are more than adequate. If you want something to mount on a wall or a stick then get the LG variant, but you're stuck to 800R.

Obviously, I'd love to have a 4K version 5120 x 2160 (5K2K .. okie dokie) with G-Sync Ultimate, 2000 nits, and 1kHz or at least 500Hz with <0.1 ms GtG) with DisplayPort 2.x. It's easy to say it's another thing to whip out your bank account and buy one, besides it doesn't exist (vaporware) and probably won't for three or four more years at least.

Bottom line, you'll not find a better gaming monitor if you like 32-in size screens in 1440p period. It's definitely mediocre but usable for text, and you have the option to make it a perfectly flat screen and any curvature between flat and 800R. The colors are extremely accurate, but the most impressive thing that you'll notice is the nearly instantaneous response. Short of wearing VR glasses this is the closest that you're going to get to an immersive gaming experience.

In addition, I like to add a note regarding the "5K2K" in normal rasterization you be lucky to break 100 FPS in the most simple AAA games unless you really turned down the graphic settings which completely DEFEATS your high resolution. I mostly play Call of Duty and I have to use (DLSS Quality) to ensure that I'm keeping 240 FPS on my i9-13900K and RTX 4090. Obviously I can turn off DLSS and hit 240 FPS but my 5% nevermind my 1% frame rate may drop down below 160 FPS in areas. My settings are pretty well maxed.

My next build will be as soon as Nvidia decides to release an RTX 5090, but I seriously doubt that will be 2024 and more than likely 2025 and by then hopefully more advanced monitor technology will be available to everyone.

CPU-Z J8P8UR / CPU-Z 9MM3CZ

 

[Tahagomizer]

I don't care for OLED screens at all so I wanted to skim the review. Then I noticed the resolution, which gave me a pause to check if I'm not reading a review of cheap Chinese screen. What the diddly is this? A screen for people who treat pixel-peeping extremely seriously?
And I thought my 3840x2160 43" is rather low density.

 

[danc]

oled is useless for pc text use until RBG subpixels become the norm.

 

[Jaquith]

oled is useless for pc text use until RBG subpixels become the norm.

I'm sorry but that's just not true. My Alienware OLED has very crisp looking text. It's like saying that VA and TN extreme high Hz monitors are all completely useless because their off-angle viewing is atrocious. Even on my Corsair Flex if I don't use ClearType the text looks okay. Here's the kicker, for Apple there was a "ClearType 2" that fixed this issue only days after WOLED panels were available. So where's Microsoft??