Is the Corsair XENEON Monitor actually good?

Corsair now makes Gaming / Streaming monitors! But are they any good?
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[@galgrunfeld9954]

Petition: make Jaytober videos look spooky by adding a Gigabyte smoke machines (their PSUs).

[@russellflemister393]

yes please

[@sergiooliveira1853]

or graphic cards

[@TheAngelOfDeath01]

☠️☠️☠️Hmm... Gigabyte PSU, Gigabyte GPU... and let it all run Never World for the remainder of the month or until it dies of natural causes... ☠️☠️☠️

[@berra5739]

Lol

That brand is called "Gigacrap" for a reason. :)

[@nitt3rz]

The picture quality (refresh, view angle, colour ghosting, etc) is THE most important thing about a monitor. The rest (stand, widgets, etc) are just gravy.

[@Varangian_af_Scaniae]

The common display stand goes right in the trash bag and you buy a great swivel arm.

[@NotEvenDeathCanSaveU]

who gives a fck.. I want a monitor with good contrast and backlight bleed so I dont have to be like "wtf is this crap" when I play some dark game that has nights and so on.. its really off-putting I hate that more than anything about monitors.. also 120 hz minimum I would say, any kind of gaming, even singplayer fps , 120 hz should be a standard now, QHD is like a nice compromise between F-HD and overrated 4k too.. looks awesome and can get more frames out of games than in 4k, + if you play old games at QHD the UI elements will still be readable, thats not the case with 4k monitors, unless you lower resolution ofc

[@jarno1thomander]

Agreed!

[@jarno1thomander]

@@Varangian_af_Scaniae OR you build a perfect stand/arm your self to match your needs!

[@Varangian_af_Scaniae]

@@jarno1thomander If you have the tools, yes of course. But I don't so I let some engineer somewhere fix it for me.

[@RackBaLLZ]

You're on point with this video timing. I was contemplating researching it for purchase, then scrolling through my KZbin subscriptions this pops up. Thank you 👍

[@RubyRoks]

With Corsair getting so vertically integrated, and the fact that they've been making prebuilts for years now, i'm surprised they don't make their own motherboards and GPUs. Aside from Asus, and maybe MSI, they're the closest to making a single brand setup from computer to cables. I think the only things they're missing are corsair MoBos, desks, and chairs

[@gusmc7808]

Corsair do chairs. I'm sitting on one right now 👍

[@WarriorVII]

And GPUs

[@RubyRoks]

@@WarriorVII ...? I said GPUs

[@WarriorVII]

@@RubyRoks somehow I missed that lol

[@allenhoyt8016]

Does the feature where everything made by Corsair stops working when icue crashes apply to this monitor as well?

[@RRGreiner]

Yikes. Never had this issue. I use icue and my aio, ram, fans, keyboard all work fine even when icue crashes, (which has only happened to me maybe twice to be fair) thought the lighting effects do stop animating until I restart the system.

[@ChristopherWoods]

@@SVT_LIGHTNING iCue actually has HWiNFO64 running under the surface (plus various other apps they use to gather sensor data) so you may be encountering a double attempt to address a chipset or device values. I run iCue along with hwinfo64 standalone and haven't had issues, but I am using an older build of iCue...

[@vyyo5025]

Never had this issue with ICue. I see people complain about it frequently though. Hopefully it won’t be an issue but based off the amount of complaints I’ve seen with icue it probably will be an issue.

[@jholiday31]

I appreciate the when, not if. It seems like I have to relaunch iCue everytime I turn my computer on.

[@Dildozer68]

Kinda offtopic, i cant change fanspeeds on icue anymore :(

[@NoisyBoy-fi2wx]

I'm happy for the daily uploading this month. Thanks Jay and team

[@jaredjohnson1174]

I think there are features I appreciated like the secure stand, cable management features, cabling setup, and camera mount options. I think monitor gets a little specialized in what you are doing, as Jay kinda touches on. For gaming, high refresh rates, picture clarity, and contrast are super important to me, as well, as having a curved screen for the immersion aspect. For media editing, obviously color clarity is very important, and the highest resolution you can squeeze out. One side of the industry I don't see touched on enough are the bigger screen monitors. For most things, I understand a 27-34" screen makes a lot of sense. However, as an Engineer, I often need to review or write blueprints and view them at the same time. I can't count the number of times I have walked into an engineering den, and seen 2 rows of setups with a typical low rez 27" monitor or Laptop screen sitting next to a 55-65" Flat screen TV used for print review. Now maybe a TV is the best choice here, and it honestly isn't that hard to set up, but I'm surprised the industry hasn't caught on to this and developed monitors for this purpose.

[@calypsoraz4318]

Bought a 32" 1440p 165hz a couple months back and absolutely love it. A no nonsense experience.

[@RRGreiner]

I love the stream deck. You can do some amazing stuff with it. I have mine set with different color profiles that control the system lighting, the keyboard and my nanoleaf panels. So when I cycle to the next profile the lighting all changes and matches up. Also when I open Photoshop or lightroom it changes to the proper modes and displays shortcuts that I set up. I also have a game launcher profile with a gif for each game that when pressed launches the game. Also since icue allows you to layer effects when setting up lighting you can create some really cool custom animations. If you are using corsair ram it is particularly cool. The ram also has a tendency to get stuck though, with an animation freezing and no longer animating. The stuff I do is just surface level though, if you can write scripts you can do ANYTHING with the stream deck.

[@AdamL_18]

What i dont like about these "ecosystem" technologies is the fact that they often don't age well and they are often really dependant to each other. It makes me remember about the nvdia 3d vision technology back in the days.. and it wasnt so long ago.

[@michaelvanrheede7225]

Yeah i think Corsair is trying too hard to be apple

[@zwenkwiel816]

Yep, we already have an ecosystem, it's called PC

[@Spartancat02]

@@zwenkwiel816 yep

[@Spartancat02]

You don't need icue for this monitor, it is just an extra feature to control it without the monitor osd

[@RRGreiner]

Valid point but the streamdeck and corsair icue are really easy to use and, for the most part, works great. My streamdeck changes the color of my, aio, ram, fans, keyboard, nano leaf panels and the streamdeck itself at the push of a button. It does NOT, however, change my lianli strimmers or the Asus 3090, which it COULD do if I set everything up a little differently and set up a script for the asus card. If you dont do all that then the streamdeck is worth it just for the functionality it offers all by itself. When I start photoshop, for example, it switched to my profile for that program and when I am editing photos I can do a whole bunch (keyboard short cuts mostly) at the push of a button. On the downside I am locked into the ecosystem which has recently become an issue since lianli realeased some really great new fans that I am lusting over. I can make it all work but would be giving up some control over custom lighting animation that are possible with icue.

[@Secretlycat31]

When I bought my new monitor I tried to get the best possible specs without spending a ridiculous amount of money. So I got a 27inch 1440p IPS panel, up to 170hz Overclock. 130sRGB. For me colour is quite important but just so I can see the detail put into games. The Extra features on that monitor like it being compatible with streaming stuff is a real plus and a possibly reason to by it over other monitors with the same overall specs.

[@KellicTiger]

Sweet. I was hoping you were going to get this for a review. I'm eyeballing a new monitor for end of December and have been going through various reviews

[@deathcall6663]

"xenon is a type of energy" Jay , i appreciate that you do all the videos live and then upload them on KZbin , but if you come across my comment xenon is a chemical element on the periodic table, a noble/inert gas to be more exact.

[@jsteezy80]

I was coming to make the same comment 😆

[@TheVirtualArena24]

Bro how can I relearn chemistry from start?? I forgot everything

[@deathcall6663]

@@TheVirtualArena24 i can't say I learned it, like from school. I just grinded through Wikipedia on other subject usually like physics / biology and chemistry is like a tangent discipline to these, and i kind of remember slot of the stuff that I go through. Also chemistry is an extremely vast discipline, depends on what exactly you want to learn. Organic/anorganic , Applied/theoretic chemistry but I'd say everything starts with the periodic table and the classes of elements (alcaline metals ,tranzițional metals, halogens) which usually determines their valences and pH scale (not that kind you perv, i know you already thought of that) to determine acids and bases . Then you go from there, just remember that you will (need) to learn some adjacent domains such as molecular physics in order to better understand.

[@TheVirtualArena24]

@@deathcall6663 lol I also didn't wanted to learn this stuff back then. Now just learning by internet.

[@deathcall6663]

@@TheVirtualArena24 well it's not that I didn't want to learn so much that it was pretty primitive and extremely boring. Presentation is more important to a teenager with the attention span of a golden fish than ... well basically everything. On some areas I can confidently say I learned more from the internet out of my free will than (imposed) from school. Will i ever need/use all that I read ? 99% probably not, but i enjoy at least having the knowledge about it. It's all about the way you learn and finding the best way of teaching according to your personal preferences. Being born in '94 , even in an Eastern Europe, i still benefitted slot from the simplicity of finding information from a rather young age , compared to the previous generations that speak of books/library and other archaic stuff. Knowledge is on click away now, all you need is to search for it.

[@thomasdarby6084]

Jay, I believe you could have fixed that tilt-up vs. tilt-down simply by reversing the VESA plate...

[@martinqizeaq]

I think it's intentional. If you tilt it down more, it will touch the stand.

[@lordsqueak]

I'd love to have a rainmeter compatible mini screen, so that I can write my own displays, displaying what I want.

[@arimittila7249]

Display sizes and densities are nowadays advanced enough to be good to either productivity or gaming performance. You should have a testing of gaming displays in productive use and compare the power usage in regular tasks as well compared to running couple of 24" hd screens against a 34-37" gaming monitor

[@fred_derf]

So, basically it's a decently good monitor with a whole bunch of kitschy semi-useful (and expensive?) add ons.

[@BobBobson]

A whole bunch of kitschy, semi-useful add ons that are only useful if you buy completely into the Corsair brand.

[@CorruptInfinityOfficial]

hater spotted in replies, nobody was saying it was good

[@heresy0615]

and the monitor is already expensive enough

[@LarsKuhlmannCourtwright]

@@BobBobson sounds like Corsair in a nut shell these days.

[@glow4417]

Hardware unboxed tested this monitor, it's slow for 165hz and not worth purchasing. Much better options out there.

[@brianwithnell3570]

I really like the idea of the 49" 5kx1440. I don't like a really tall panel, but being able to push two screens worth of real estate onto a single monitor will probably be where I'm at in the near future.

[@crocobye]

lmao the intro was so good, can't wait for more months where we see you daily

[@Darkfox1100]

I didn't notice this until now but Jay was lowkey letting us know about the Kingpin coming out in this video with the boxes in the background.

[@TheFireman18287]

I think ICUE's reliability as a whole needs some love.

[@frankyfourfingerss]

I love my corsair hardware. The k95s and the dark core se/rgb are the best out there for me. The software is a radioactive carcinogenic dumpster fire. Whoever approved that iCue atrocity for public release needs to be tried for crimes against humanity.

[@dest-125]

I've never had any issues with iCUE other than sometimes my corsair VOID pro bass boosts to unbelievable levels. That's all. I love iCUE, it controls my motherboard LEDs too

[@Johndoe-lx8sh]

I am a big fan of Corsair making an ecosystem that all blends esthetically, makes the setup really blend easily

[@rashkavar]

Honestly, I don't look up monitors too much, but this is the first time I've seen a default desk mount that can actually put the monitor at the appropriate height. Having a monitor lower than eye level, like mine are, encourages slouching or hunching over, both of which do a number on my back. It could be a 17 inch 720p monitor with a bad response time and I'd still rate this better than any monitor I've experienced based on the fact that its designers have at least heard of the concept of ergonomics.

[@russellflemister393]

we always need that much J going back to a 2 monitor setup i miss it too much

[@ResilientME]

I care about size(32", res(1440p), and colors(>95% DCI-P) first and then refresh rate. This ones got all my priorities straight but I got 99% of the way there for half the price so it loses appeal on the price alone.

[@steeltimberwolf]

Which monitor did you get?

[@Jere2Pretty]

^

[@ResilientME]

@@steeltimberwolf LG 32GP83B-B

[@AshenTechDotCom]

i have a dell s3220dgf that i got when a firmware update disabled adaptive sync on the LG Nanocell tv i had only had a week, cost less, and honestly the lack of IPS Glow..is great, i have mostly owned IPS panels over the years, TN is mostly shit... i say mostly because i have seen a few panels demo'd i dont know if they ever went into production but, it was a true 8bit + frc one was even true 10bit, with better then i could believe viewing angles for a TN panel.. (va isnt great with angles but, is far better today then even that high end TN..) thing was the panels were expensive and the guys demoing them admitted as much, they actually are harder to make the va/tn/pls/etc designs, without giving better results outside response times... i couldnt go back to using my old panels(pre 1440) as a main/primary monitor anymore... i need to get a new controller board for an LG panel i have that could take a control board from an old apple display or any compat with that LG panel... anyway, i will say at least 75% is up on my list these days.. its noticable how much smooother even windows move around the screen...

[@ostlandr]

Happy with my LG 32MN600P-B. I don't play "gamer-y" games though- 1080P (1440 x 1080) @ 60 Hz is fine for me. Paid around $250 IIRC. Can't see the justification for higher refresh rate unless you're serious into eSports. Prices have really come down, though- Amazon has the 32GK650F-B for $299. That's 1440P 144 Hz with AMD FreeSync.

[@LorathanF]

Shame Corsair doesnt fix ICUE issues and just builds up the lineup. If the ICUE software problem solving was in par with lineup they build it would actually work.

[@GrimpakTheMook]

Icue is the only thing that stops me from investing on it further than just their non-RGB ML fans. Hell, I have a Commander pro lying around that I could use but won't because of Icue.

[@LorathanF]

@@GrimpakTheMook I have been strugling with disconnecting ICUE since i build my PC 6months ago and culcprit is ICUE, its keeping fan RPM as normal but RBG's are disconnecting every few minutes. So its last corsair RBG ill touch untill they decide to fix theyr shit.

[@Endominius]

When Jay said it used iCue I knew I didn't want it. I have enough problems with my mouse and iCue.

[@RRGreiner]

I have never had problems with icue beyond the occasional animation freeze. I am really curious to know what the problem is with it. I have been using it to control and animate my entire lighting scheme for over a year and have had no problem for the most part. It does get a little wonky if I have to use asus aura sync (which I sadly do) for my gpu. Nothing terrible or system breaking though. Please let me know what issues you guys are having, I would love to know about this.

[@Endominius]

@@RRGreiner I have no issues with RGB, I run a fixed colour anyway. I have a Scimitar mouse with 12 thumb buttons and a H60 headset. The mouse buttons are assigned using iCue through a very janky interface. Quite often iCue will say the device isn't there and it will not work until I uninstall and reinstall iCue. Sometimes I have to install a different version! The only permanent solution is to save profiles to the device and uninstall iCue. I'd like to use game profiles so that button assignments change depending on the game but iCue has to be running to do this and it constantly fails to recognise the mouse and/or the headset. Jay's experience with the keyboard attachment shows how poor iCue is as control software.

[@niccam]

Just brought this on Newegg. Glad I came across this video. 🔥🔥🔥❤️

[@Chalto]

Thanks for reviewing this monitor Jay. My current monitor is a 32" Philips BDM3270QP (first and best version), that I bought about 5years ago specifically for my photo editing, and gaming second, although I game a lot anyway. It is only a 60Hz QHD AMVA panel, but even now, it still displays a gorgeous image, thanks to being a true 10bit panel (actually 12bit internal). I have no issues gaming at 60Hz, but once the video card situation stabilises, I will be getting something around the RTX 3080 Ti / RTX 3090 / RX6900XT, or better, and a panel like this Corsair will compliment by photography and gaming almost perfectly. I also have a 27" Benq GW2765 used in portrait mode for web browsing, watching videos etc, and that's also a great QHD 60Hz 10bit panel, that I got used for a measly £60 (about $80) 🤑 Enjoying the videos as always, and hoping it continues so long as you enjoy making them for us 😉

[@hilariovilla3606]

Hey Jay since this is basically an ad for corsair can you do a video on icue software issues with aida64 for a sensor panel. I've been running this issue for a while and I haven't had much luck on info about this issue. While running Aida64 and corsair icue at the same time it disconnects my corsair aio from my system and you can hear it via USB sound.

[@CannedMarmalade]

According to Hardware Unboxed this monitor's performance is around $400-$500 but it costs $800. This monitor should really be $400-$600.

[@wasdawasda3849]

Yeah I'd say it's competition is something like the lg gl850 which is much more reasonably priced.

[@icybeans3104]

im guessing its that expensive because of the name of the company... i think

[@shuttze]

still cost less than apple pro stand xDDDDDDDDDD

[@sabrevanson4412]

@@shuttze lol love this

[@happygiraffe9787]

Jay fanbois over every bad sponsored monitor

[@engcamel]

for me, it's the size of the panel and the form factor. I'm leaning more towards ultrawide, 32 inches and up, as that's what I'm used to working on in the office. I also want to know that the panel is capable of high refresh rates, with good colour accuracy. I also want the panel that has local diming zones as I can't stand the edge lit. Also it would be nice to experience great HDR. For now Acer X35 or Asus PG35 are the only competitors for me.

[@travisscott9893]

can you use the corsair keyboard addon thing to change which monitor input it displays? like if i have my PC and an Xbox hook up to the monitor and after watching a JayzTwoCents video and decide i want to play xbox i just hit a button on the corsair thing to change the input. Does the streamdeck do that?

[@isturma]

I'd love to see a 27" in this. I worked in home theatre for 3 years and I became a picture snob - I'm that guy who goes shopping for a TV trying to compare it with known images. But this monitor looks really nice - the 1440p, the accurate colors, the sharpness, and the flexibility to hook into another ecosystem. I want a 27" model for 500$

[@Pisscan]

Picture snob that even considers LED LCD panels?

[@isturma]

@@Pisscan They ARE? Umm... LED just means they're backlit by banks of LEDs instead of a mercury panel like older models. But it's still LCD.

[@khaledm.1476]

I mean battlefield 2042 supports dlss so 4k60 would definitely be attainable on a 3060ti/3070. I feel like dlss just made 4k gaming so much more viable

[@raawesome3851]

Same with FSR.

[@tan.tan1234]

Me: you guys are using 4k? Also me: *runs 720p*

[@JohnCiaccio]

Just reinstalled Battlefield 4. Ultra setting 4k/60Hz with a new Ryzen 5800x system with my old GTX 1080. So yes. Even the new Battlefield will eventually run at 4K 60hz on newer cards.

[@khaledm.1476]

@@JohnCiaccio I don't even think it's a case of eventually I kinda expect 4k60 to be attainable with dlss on a 3070 because it would be pretty dicey if that wasn't the case

[@JohnCiaccio]

@@khaledm.1476 I agree. Let's see how they do with optimizing the game.

[@hammermike77]

question for you Jay I play sim games and have 3 - 27" monitors set-up, but want to upgrade to a ultrawide for better viewing while doing truck sim what monitor do you recommend?

[@claudiulazar926]

The specs I consider when looking for a monitor are: Luminosity (nits) - above 300 / Standard (Typical) Contrast - above 1000:1 / Resolution / Response time / Refresh rate / Adaptive Sync (if any) and (obviously) Price.

[@ClLouID]

I can already tell, Jaytober is going to be amazing

[@Fossillarson]

Hell yeah it is

[@Terepin64]

He already managed to produce enough of fake information in this video.

[@Wrapped-in-bacon]

Hey Jay, the response delay when you were pressing the button on the keyboard attachment for OSD refresh wasn’t a delay from the button. I just got this monitor this weekend, mostly I part to your review, and was testing this just through the icue software and it took just as long to turn on there as well. It’s a delay on the monitor side, not the keyboard attachment. Overall great monitor IMO, but the stand was way too big for my desk so I wall mounted it.

[@ooopsyantsoshadrytv-2911]

Bro love your videos your putting on the kgs look after your health bro . Love your videos too from Australia

[@xerogear]

Beautiful monitor. Love the beefy stand! Don't really care about the extra features. Resolution, response time and htz is what I mostly care about. Followed closely by aesthetics.

[@r.g.7620]

Just wanted to let you all know. I recently purchased the monitor and connected it. All I can say is WOW. Jay's review does not do it justice. The picture is outstanding and the construction is very solid. I was very impressed and well worth the money.

[@Acconda]

The ppi ok ?

[@garrett1144]

Still loving my Dell 32 curved va, for 350 when it was on sale, I think its hard to beat for 1440p @ 165hz in 32" format. It's not perfect but for the price, I have no complaints.

[@BenGaming8]

Since the stand is one of the best parts and the stand uses vesa mounts would you buy just the stand if available?

[@jaxxarmstrong]

The intro made me smile. Ps. What I'd like to know is how many CPU cycles that Corsair ICue software (all of it) eats. I have a bad feeling about it.

[@G.J.Uytdewilligen]

It's actually very, very decent. On my system, iCue only eats about 0.1 to 0.2% of my total CPU. (i9-9900K). It's worth mentioning that I have a lot of Corsair stuff driven by iCue.

[@BDBD16]

11:30 I too love using two sided tape to stick to the back side of my motherboards.

[@otanguma]

Beat me to it lol

[@berra5739]

lol rite

[@prozoomy3588]

Same haha

[@dragonhed123]

Jay making a video everyday and streaming man you're a hard worker thank you Jay I appreciate you and we are not worthy of your kindness.

[@TP014563]

A dedicated hard switch, that changes viewed picture between plugged in and powered on devices. For instance, plugging my gaming PC and work laptop to it at the same time, both on, and by using the switch, toggle between them on the fly.

[@bretthousman8317]

Jay with a serious face: "I could use my other 4k 32" monitor for my chat pane in twitch"

[@samster7704]

When did Jay become a walking advertisement for everything?

[@frvi3502]

Always was

[@TheFrisken95]

Since he started his business.

[@autumndusk4767]

When did you decide that you'd be a grown ass man and that you needed to set yourself straight financially?

[@RestroShen]

hey Jayz i know this isn't a 4k monitor but what out you say would be a good 4k monitor to get, like to downgrade from a 43in to like a 32in or 28in but don't know what would be best. Downgrading do to I sit too close to the monitor (roughly 26~34ins away) and its hard to view it easily without turning my head

[@a4gr]

Is there a gap between the front screen and image? Also shadows around the edges.

[@Olfan]

I heard in the video manufacturers read comments? Well, let's see. Dear future monitor, let's go through this little check list to see whether you're qualified to move into my home. Do note that all points not containing a "please" are mandatory and not subject to negotiation. ==Hardware features:== • Be Anti-glare. Sunlight exists, and I have kids so I won't shut out the sun from the living room. Be a glare display and I won't even consider buying you. • Have 4K or bigger resolution. "Bruh, you can't drive native 4k @60Hz" is no excuse anymore and hasn't been for years. Monitors are *much* longer-lived than GPUs, I've been daily driving a 4k display since 2016, and only now I'm thinking of upgrading.I want to enjoy beautiful vistas in all it's glory while upscaling the fast-paced action. Scaling tech works great already and is getting better all the time, also I will be driving native 4k @120Hz before long, so putting a hardware limit on visual fidelity by buying a 1440p display is out of the question. Be a little wider to make for a true upgrade, but be 2160p at the absolute minimum or I won't want you. • Have a great stand or no stand at all; and have a proper VESA mount whether you come with a stand or not. Flimsy light stands for otherwise good displays show that a manufacturer will do anything to shave off a cent of production cost, and I will not trust a product made by a company who works like this. If you come with a stand, have it be heavy and well adjustable. (The stand in this video was great, I liked it a lot.) When I put my coffee mug on the table and you start wobbling like that pound of weight were an earthquake, I'm going to put you back into your box and send you where you should never have left. • Spare me unnecessary gimmicks. Be a great display, and I'm gladly going to pay a proper price for you. If I need speakers, woofers, USB hubs or extra little displays I'm going to find and buy just the thing I need, not something that comes in some bundle. You want to offer such stuff as truly optional options? Great, I might even consider them. Just don't artificially inflate the display price with anything that isn't needed to make a great display. (Note: Cables *are* needed. Coming with proper cables for each kind of input that are guaranteed to work with the product is a great idea.) • Have many local dimming zones. Yes, that makes it more expensive and more difficult to drive, but it looks SO much better. I'm not going to settle for less. • Be long-lasting. As beautiful as OLED screens are, I can't deal with burn-in effects after just a few months. I'm buying for a whole family of gamers, at one display every two years monitors just have to last a very long time. • If you are bigger than 28", please be curved. It's just so much easier on the eye if the display surface is at an equal distance from side to side. Also, curves in the right places make everything look more sexy. ==Software/firmware features:== • Support both G-Sync and Adaptive Sync. My monitor will not dictate what brand of GPU I'm buying. (My current one only does G-Sync because there wasn't anything else yet.) Be compatible with both teams or stay at the store. • Be able to display HDR, but be smart about it. You know as well as I do that not everything outputs HDR today, so don't give me bland colours when connected to an SDR source. I find out that you can't work with standard old-school colour depths, I'll return you. • Support both low and high refresh rates. 120Hz or more is great, and I love you for offering that. There still is content hard-locked to 30Hz, though, and that has to work, too. Don't be stupid about choosing your signal input, you're digital, you don't need scanlines anymore. Support at least 120Hz, but properly do variable sync down to very few fps or I'll consider you broken and even pay for shipping back to the vendor. • Don't promise what you can't deliver. Don't brag about super fast response times when that makes the experience unbearable, I'm in it for visual pleasure, not for "works as specified" nitpicking. A millisecond more is not a problem, a distorted image certainly is. Also, upscale lower resolutions properly or not at all. "I can't do this" is a far better response than "Yes we can!" and then failing to deliver something usable. A bit of professional honesty goes a long way. • Please, please do have a snappy OSD. If I can shell out a thousand or thousandS of Dollars for a great monitor, don't you think I would much rather have spent an extra 10$ if its menu isn't a pain to use? A faster CPU for your little menu software costs just a few cents more, come on! According to this list, is there ONE product currently actually available on the market that I could buy?

[@87ers]

It would be really great if they offered the monitor stand (with wide vesa compatibility) by itself. I'd like to use it with my existing monitor just for that elgato mount

[@TonGregorio]

Also an option to have a clamp instead of the base...the base is kinda massive especially on regular size desks..

[@AceBoy2099]

In addition to that, speaking of stand alone accessories, jay said you'd loose the camera mount if wall mounting, maybe make an adapter that goes between the versa wall mount and the monitor that re-enables the camera mount.

[@feeterican]

DUUUDE I was just watching Deep Space 9 last night and Warf was in the episode a lot, so his voice is still resonating in my head. When Jay said "I will fight for my honor" sounded a lot like Warf's voice. Almost spot on. So, Jay can do Arnold and Warf. lol, how many more voices can he do???

[@shutterbugnerd]

You mentioned that the little Touch Bar can be set up for macros to launch in cmd is that a normal or admin cmd?

[@Honnnnnnnnnnnn]

Specs are standard for what I'd expect for 2021. I like that it can tie into a whole ecosystem (I'm OCD like that). The camera mount is a fantastic idea IMO, coz Elgato aside, most webcam clamps are pretty flimsy.

[@TheRisingMiles]

Corsair has been killing it the past few years!

[@TheFIghtin]

Yea...with their defected GPU blocks, lackluster cases, and cheaply built K100 with their....wheel thing. But hey, at least they have RGB LIGHT BARS!!!! Thankfully, their power supplies are still great.

[@briancates3576]

@@TheFIghtin to their credit they did fix the gpu block for the 3 series

[@2528drevas]

This is the second review of this monitor I've watched, and the most common thing both say is how much it just pops, how crisp and vibrant it looks. I'm using an old HP 2k Monitor as my primary display and it is low of the refresh scale. Still, $800 and I don't stream? I would have to think really hard.

[@joshuawaterhousify]

Size is definitely one of the factors for me; I have a hutch on my desk, so the absolute largest I can go for is 27", and I can't do ultrawides. I currently run a 24.5" 1080p240 monitor from Acer on an arm, but I'm looking at upgrading to 27" 1440p240 at some point early next year. (Not that I can max out 1080p240, but I'm more a resolution and setting guy anyway, so as long as I can get a stable 30 or 60 (depending on the game), I'm perfectly happy. (Hell, I've even gamed comfortably at 15fps in the past, but that was only possible because it was extremely stable as far as frame times, and I do appreciate higher frame rates in games where I can push the full resolution and highest settings beyond 60)

[@Condor_]

I'd be a lot more on board with a 27 inch option for this panel. Maybe one will come out later? That'd be cool.

[@ejensen]

27 inch and I'd probably buy this for my next monitor, but I'm not sold on this as a 32 inch which i can't fit into my current setup anyway

[@sirius4k]

27"? You disgust me!

[@TonyisToking]

True, even 4K at 32” looks a little grainy up close. Can’t even imagine 1440p. What blows my mind is that the only benefit (over competition) to buying Corsair’s monitor is the expansive color space in sRGB and DCI P3… but then it’s 1440p @ 32”… seems a little contradictory. No one is gonna notice that level of color accuracy in their games and only professionals really value 10 bit color accuracy… yet they also edit 4K video and high megapixel count images.

[@huntercoleman8036]

32 is the new standard so I'm doubting it

[@imo098765]

@Mac Pot yep, if you sitting close to the screen. A 32 inch is kinda big to look around

[@MrAcethebum]

I'm in my mid 30s so my fps days are behind me to be competitive at least.. My sweet spot for monitors is 32" at least, brightness level, ~120 hz, 1440p (rather have good fps at 2k over 4k)

[@mcsquirgle]

jay i have seen you use a spyderco knife for unboxing your review products before! why are you using a utility knife now at 6:19?

[@sumdude4]

Since you asked. I look for something with great color. Like an IPS or VA which at mostly all angles looks great. High refresh rate for smoothness and for me less eye strain. And highest response time I can get little to no ghosting. Plus maybe a USB hub built in for other things like a wireless dongle, webcam, etc.

[@Daniel-or3vf]

A 4k version of this, with HDMI 2.1 ports too, would be the perfect monitor for me.

[@stompi3]

must be nice

[@mukaheyoh]

We don't need that much Jay? Everyday? I beg to differ! I always appreciate your videos, and enjoy the knowledge I gain from them

[@landmarker]

32" @ 1440p is the sweet spot. 165hz + IPS makes it very well rounded

[@crossbowhunter9118]

So can I hook my stream deck up to that monitor? And control the monitor settings on my stream deck? I found my next monitor that I will buy once one of my monitors go bad that is a very nice looking monitor

[@OddJobEntertainment]

I like that they have innovated a lot with the stand. I personally wouldn't benefit since my monitor is on an arm. My checklist goes in this order: Ultrawide, 3440x1440, 144hz+, HDR. Right now I have a 400nit panel but the better monitors are just so expensive. I'd like to see corsair introduce and ultrawide variant with high refresh rate.

[@Youngsta0]

Funny, I stopped using my ultrawide went back to 16:9

[@Anugrah_Amriza]

The monitor is looking good. Looking forward to it in Southeast Asian Markets

[@beardedgaming3741]

i look for 120hz+ color accuracy, size. i bought a samsung Q80t 85" for my main screen and am putting a couple 4k's to left and right. not sure yet if im doing horizontal 55's or vertical 45's to match the center height.

[@enzob95]

Last year I was shopping for a 1080p 144 Hz 24" IPS panel. It came down to 2 monitors, basically for the same price. I choose the one with the worse stand because it (hopefully) means that the panel is better (and I also got an arm a few months later so the stand doesn't even matter, btw thanks Phil for the suggestion).

[@EposVox]

Multiples of 60hz are always the way to go!

[@sliwa95]

Even if they're multiples of 30! ;)

[@Durolith]

miss my crt at 85hz

[@MrShwaggins]

I'm happy with my FLATTY LG 27" 1080P 240hz since it was a HDR G-Sync monitor that didn't rape my funds. I don't want to be spoiled by 1440 and I refuse to do 4k on anything under 42". It just seems wasteful. TV's are a different story regarding 4k

[@sreesyammohan2349]

Surprised jay actually made it through the intro without messing up 😂

[@tunatunaleeks]

It made me nervous when he was one hand palm holding the display. I’ve seen Linus drop too many expensive parts before so now I keep thinking other people will as well. Good thing Jay isn’t Linus! 😂

[@DaKink]

that's a Loooooot of Jay to come then. Bring it Jay! Let's see if you can cause some burn in!

[@churro6160]

If they make a solid desk/wall monitor mounts WITH the camera adapter like on this desk stand that would be so dope! I bet they would sell more cameras too. Game changer

[@Verntheowl4]

I love Corsair, but I feel like Icue is never 100% functional.

[@CreeVal]

It's gotten alot better though, but I agree... I have HS70 Pro wireless headphones and the K55 keyboard per now, but it's still laggy at times and the battery percentage reporting is half assed because it will keep going at low % with an audible warning every now and then for what feels like forever... Not to speak of FW updates(K55 has gotten some) for the HS70 pro, that absolutely could use some optimization in terms of startup time and battery % reporting... Corsair however will get extreme kudos for their RMA process, because I had to return my HS70 Pro and the customer service was really good, sent to NL via DHL ESI but they returned it with WPX so once they registered the RMA I actually got my RMA headset like the day after... So kudos... BUT DAMN IT CORSAIR! Do something about the responsiveness in iCue, it's slow and bulky still...

[@fuckthedumbsh1t]

function over aesthetics for me. That is my requirements for monitors

[@CHR0N1KS]

I didn’t know about the Jaytober before but i love it🥰🙌🏻

[@matty1162]

Is the RTFM show coming back anytime soon? It’s my go to on Friday’s while I’m driving my 18 wheeler

[@l.ls.8890]

I care about product quality which this seems to have. Love that metal stand with built -in cord management not cheap plastic

[@HeyHey-fy5jd]

How can we trust you to talk about a monitor after you were sponsored by Samsung to talk about the G9 and completely ignored all of it's QC issues and broken HDR, Firmware, scan lines, etc. acting like it's such a great monitor?

[@coreymcdonald7745]

Sponsored video is the clue… do you think they’d pay a KZbinr to talk negative about their product?

[@HeyHey-fy5jd]

@@coreymcdonald7745 This must be your first time in the tech KZbin space. That's irrelevant. Every youtuber who has any credibility and reviews a sponsored product still stays honest about the product. They don't get paid to say only good things they get paid to review the product to their audience. This was stated multiple times by every major tech youtuber. Sponsored review videos don't automatically mean they'll only say good things. If it's a bad product they're going to be honest and talk about the flaws. Only the sell out youtubers take a sponsored review and let the sponsor dictate what they can and can't say about the product and aren't honest. That's why some tech channels have credibility and are trusted while others are not.

[@calabriamia6307]

Umad bro?

[@koffeetechshow]

@@calabriamia6307 they really do be. Although I agree with the sentiment, honestly one sponsored review doesn’t discredit him, at least to me. Beyond the point that he talked it up, people need to understand whether any review is biased or unbiased, the bottom line is if you buy something without checking actual consumer reviews, it’s at that point on you. Not the guy who simply received money to point out the positives and not the negatives

[@I_killed_that_beard_guy]

Thanks now I am not watching this review

[@Leme994]

31 days of Jaytober is exactly what I needed

[@SirRobertJamesDavid]

Jay, Any comment on the two EVGA Kingpin Geforce RTX products in the background at 5:48?

[@disorientedbear]

Haha, the first 7 minutes and 51 seconds of this video was just me pleading and yelling for Jay to please screw in the VESA mount. That was almost 8 minutes of cringing and waiting for a "Linus Moment." Thank you Jay! My blood pressure probably couldn't take much more. 👍

[@VAISHALIDORANALA]

😂😂 True, I was feeling the same bro..

[@colcactus]

Size, resolution, response time, and longevity! The quality of the stand or the camera mount is completely incidental. If the dang thing doesnt maintain quality performance for a long time I will hate the company. This stuff is too expensive for it to be mediocre or to wear our within two years

[@githane]

Their stuff is pretty well known to be extremely mediocre. PSUs are very mediocre to bad, the AIOs are utter garbage, keyboards are TERRIBLE (especially for the price). Cases aren't too bad.

[@Terepin64]

@@Boodoo4You This isn't even an attempt at review. This is straight up a sponsored demonstration.

[@supreme84x]

Jay, can't you use this monitor stand with your monitor at home?? Shouldn't they have the same connection method at the back??

[@obelisk0073]

I need help i got a pre-built pc 3060 and is getting to 82 degrees on the gpu

[@mainfighter]

Hold up, is Gigabyte the OEM for this monitor because that Refresh Rate OSD is identical to the one on my Gigabyte monitor except it's a yellow icon.

[@Colonel9090]

Considering the panels are made by like 3 companies, I'd guess the manufacturers all share similar software too, Just with their own spin on it.

[@UlrichLeland]

Probably same manufacture process with the Corsair name and price put onto it.

[@andydbedford]

No its Samsung Quantum dot.

[@TheSjuris]

@@andydbedford which is odd since Samsung usually uses VA panels for their monitors.

[@andydbedford]

@@TheSjuris thats true I have a Samsung VA panel on a 32" 1440P curved monitor, however, for their WQHD, they use IPS panels that they make themselves.

[@gamezahoy712]

I love external power bricks. The ones with it inside the monitor make a bunch of dammed noise.

[@Bryan11210]

I thought it was only the Gsync Ultimate panels that use a fan in the chassis, for monitors. And that's for the gsync module, not power.

[@MiddleofKnowhere]

For me, I've been waiting for an IPS monitor that can be good at both gaming (with high refresh rate) and content work that requires color accuracy. I want something Nvidia G-Sync (ultimate would be ideal but compatible is good). While I'd love 4k, I still don't think hardware is fully there yet for high fps in AAA games. I have a 27" 1440p atm and I'm def intrigued by 32" as I love more screen realestate.

[@jeffpetrimoulx6806]

I haven't bought a new monitor in close to 8 years, most of the specs you talked about went over my head, I'm still running 22" monitor. But I think I picked up some info. Thanks

[@SlayrKris]

I think the branding is what gives us that price, hopefully it lowers after a while, otherwise I'll just buy from the competition.

[@Vertigo11]

You’re better off buying from the competition anyways.

[@Tantrumspam]

I thought corsair was always known as reasonably priced alternatives?

[@biker932012]

ill give him 17 episodes before he abruptly quits this jaytober thing.

[@leeboyce9771]

Don’t count out Jay’s Garage in a supporting role. I can’t wait until he incorporates a 2 cents build into his garage projects!

[@biker932012]

just wait, as soon as the viewership drops even a little bit, he'll can it like he did the podcast.

[@biker932012]

@ZERO SLEEP lol true, don’t mistake me as a hater though, I really do enjoy his content but with my ADD I can’t just sit through a 1.5 hr video at one time so I’d listen to it from apple podcast while I’d be working and I’m still a bit sore that he expected people to sit through an hour and a half video. I mean if Jerry from nerdgasm would upload his KZbin “podcasts” as an actual podcast, I’d tune into that as well but my time is more valuable than sitting at my pc watching one video for hours on end. Ok rant over, I feel better now lol

[@irzyxelwj]

About 5 years ago I purchased a 27" 165Hz panel. I was hoping the motion performance would have significantly improved by now, but I guess it doesn't bother some people as much as it does me. The price of this monitor doesn't seem too bad, and compares almost directly to the one I purchased 5 years ago, but I find it hard to justify purchasing this and not gaining much. The video seemed to talk about a lot of other things, other than the actual panel performance.

[@xpyr]

I also watched the short circuit review of this and they found the cable management a bit flimsy in that they wouldn't stay put.

[@theonlyone38]

Great for an entry level product for them, but I fully expect a more robust monitor with 240hz or even hdmi 2.1 in the future.

[@hhrhheh]

it isnt, the price is like 800 lol

[@hhrhheh]

For them its ok but ik they coulda done better

[@moldyshishkabob]

Yeah, would be fantastic entry level, just like the Gigabyte M series... If it were priced correctly.

[@kenshin1368]

"entry level"

[@deminybs]

What's so special about HDMI 2.1 ?? display port 1.4 is so much better

[@mctown972]

32in at 1440p🤦‍♂️ the LG 27GP850-B is a much better deal monitor at 27in 165hz (180hz OC) g-sync and freesync for $450

[@moldyshishkabob]

If you want the same but in the same 32 in format, Gigabyte M32Q. Even cheaper? M27Q.

[@theripcord03]

Personally I'm happy with my viewsonic elite 27in as my main monitor, paid like 480 with shipping and taxes, can do 165hz, but I never run above 144hz anyway. Gsync enabled. But the LG panels are good too

[@SuperBlackGuyV2]

@@theripcord03 the ViewSonic Elite uses the LG panels

[@paolobricarelli]

No it’s not

[@YuJay]

I hope they do a 27/28in Monitor. I had a 30 and 32 Inch Gaming monitor, it was way too big for my style of gaming. I like to get close(ish) to my monitor and I personally think 30 and 32 inch is too big for competitive gaming. They also need to sell monitor arms too. I ditch stands last year and it's a way better experience, also helps keep my desk clean of rubbish.

[@Lucky13exe]

@jayztwocents you said that 1440p is borderline not enough for a 32 inch and that you’d prefer a 4K at the size. What 32inch 4k (hopefully 144hz) monitor would you recommend?

[@macdaddy3583]

i was a beta tester for this monitor, It’s aightttt

[@oscarf747]

Overrated af in my opinion 🍔

[@DatzBunz]

How did you get in to test these products? I have always wanted to test things especially pc stuff.

[@lizardofoz8289]

Is it possible to just get the stand?

[@leeboyce9771]

Same question, how does an individual get linked into beta testing products?

[@macdaddy3583]

Tim_Mae Lee Boyce My dad owns corsair.