The Corsair Xeneon FLEX 45WQHD240 is a premium OLED gaming monitor with a 45-inch ultrawide OLED panel, whose curvature can be manually adjusted. While this isn't a feature you'll use daily, it's still innovative and potentially useful, as not everyone has the same panel curvature preference. I don't see it as a gimmick, although it brings a couple of unwelcome restrictions to the table. The panel-bending mechanism is implemented in such a way that it's not possible to separate the factory stand from the panel, so you can't mount the monitor on the wall or a table mount, or even adjust its height. That alone is going to be a dealbreaker for some, but it's far from being the biggest drawback of the Xeneon FLEX 45WQHD240.

The biggest issue I have with this monitor is its subpar picture sharpness, caused by low pixel density (3440x1440 resolution, when stretched over a 45-inch panel, results in a mere 82.87 PPI) and fringing – a consequence of the WOLED panel having a nonstandard RWGB subpixel layout. Because of that, the Xeneon FLEX 45WQHD240 is a poor choice for any kind of productivity work, especially anything that requires you to work with text, where the fringing and overall softness of the picture are the most noticeable.

Other than that, the Corsair Xeneon FLEX 45WQHD240 is an impressive monitor. Its gaming performance is absolutely stellar, and the sheer size of the panel, along with the immersion that comes with it, makes this one of the best gaming monitors on the market. At first, I was afraid it was going to be too large to be used comfortably, but that's not the case at all. Its 45-inch ultrawide screen size strikes me as perfect – it offers a ton of screen real estate (somewhat subdued by the aforementioned 3440x1440 native resolution), but you still don't have to bob and tilt your head around to find the mouse cursor.

The price of the Xeneon FLEX 45WQHD240 is fairly high, but it can be justified by the innovative screen-bending mechanism, the sheer size of the OLED panel, and the complete absence of competition; nobody else is making a 45-inch ultrawide OLED monitor with a bendable screen. The value proposition of this monitor is going to deviate wildly depending on intended usage. For a hardcore gamer, this is one of the best monitors on the market. For casual (weekend) gamers and anyone using their PC for productivity work, the $2,000 price tag is ludicrous.

My perfect monitor would in many ways be like the Xeneon FLEX 45WQHD240, but with a higher 5120x2160 native resolution (so-called 5K2K), which would dramatically improve its greatest weakness. Such models are tentatively announced for the end of 2024 or the beginning of 2025, but they could bring new problems, this time for gamers. The 5K2K resolution has over 11 million pixels; almost three million more compared to 4K. You'll need a mammoth of a graphics card to reach a high frame rate, so all we can do is look forward to further improvements in DLSS and FSR tech, as that could very well be our salvation.