- Holy, they actually did it.
Corsair made a monitor. The B 11 N D.
Hey, wait a second.
It's not B 11, N D at all.
It's a Xeneon.
So you might not remember,
but the B 11 N D or the blind was their April fool's joke
from like 2016 or something like that.
But it basically just had an RGB all over the monitor.
Well, it took a few years,
but it looks like they've actually made something now
that's not just a joke product.
And just looking at the packaging here, it looks okay.
32 inches is a little too big for me for 1440 P,
but otherwise specs are decent.
It's like 165 Hertz IPS.
I love the packaging, by the way.
I love that they've actually got all this
like right on here.
Speaking of which,
what I'm really excited about is this 100% Adobe RGB
and sRGB color space.
That's actually pretty big.
And if I'm not mistaken, I think it's also 98% DCI P3.
So this is a surprisingly color accurate monitor as well,
which is pretty cool, you don't really expect that
from someone like Corsair,
but hey, what do I know?
There are some instructions on the top of the box
for how to open this thing.
I'm just going to open it and see what happens.
I'm always terrified when lifting a monitor like this.
You never know when it's going to just flop over.
Luckily we got this sweet LTT desk pad underneath.
Those are back in stock.
We've got a display port cable.
It's probably just DP 1.4.
This is mini H or no, it's the USB-C.
Cause this thing, if I'm not mistaken,
also does power charging through the back, which is nice.
And I think it does HDMI or DP through USBC,
which is great if you've got a laptop.
Power cable, a bunch of clamps,
this is probably for the stand.
Power brick to accompany the power cable.
And here's our HDMI cable. Is this 2.1?
That's the real question.
High speed HDMI well, it says high speed with ethernet,
so we'll see I guess.
I'll probably just stick to display port.
Either way lots of cables that come with it, which is nice.
It sucks when you get a monitor
and it's got like one display port cable or something.
The stand on this thing is also super cool.
Well, that's debatable.
It's depends on what kind of taste you have, I guess.
But I think it looks kind of cool.
I thought it looked ugly at first,
but the more I looked at it, the more I thought, wow,
this actually looks pretty neat.
There's the bottom of this yeah,
so this is what I'm talking about.
So it's an unconventional stand.
Like you'll have a better idea once it's all put together.
I think it goes like this actually.
But like, look at how hefty this thing is.
This is like a couple of, well,
maybe just one or two pounds,
but it's aluminum I'm pretty sure.
And I mean this thing isn't going anywhere.
Let's check out the panel.
I don't think it's curved,
which at 32 inches is like kind of maybe like 32 is like,
I'm not even big on curved monitors,
but once you hit 32 inches you kind of need it
to just be able to look at everything quickly.
Otherwise you're like scanning your whole head
back and forth.
Pretty sure they say don't handle it like I just handled it.
Where you kind of hold it by the screen a little bit,
but that's okay.
I like their label here that most monitors have
to quickly indicate features and stuff.
It's just kind of nice.
Like the ASUS ones are a little blander compared to this,
but hey, look at that.
Look at that sweet, sweet color that you get with Corsair.
You know they love their RGB.
So this thing costs about $800.
For a 32 inch panel at a high refresh rate, 1440 P,
but not 4K, that's not terrible. Like
that's not out of the realm of pricing of other things.
You are getting much cheaper for 1440 P these days.
Like you can get a brand new, ASUS VG liner, whatever,
for like I think $300, maybe $400, 1440 P 144 Hertz.
So you're really paying for the screen space.
You're paying for the color accuracy though,
which is really impressive again.
And one thing that's really cool for this thing is
if you have IQ, like if you've got like all Corsair computer
with all Corsair RGB and stuff,
you can hook this thing up to IQ
and then you can apparently control a bunch of stuff
through IQ.
Let's check out the back IO,
I guess before I put it on.
The cable management on this thing is pretty good
once you've got the stand on,
but my big problem with these bottom ports is that
it's a lot harder to plug into when you're kind of fumbling
behind your computer and you can't see them, right?
Like when you're on, when it's on the back,
just kind of flat, you can just tilt,
like pivot the whole thing and then plug them in.
Whereas this you've got like crank your head underneath
to even see what's going on, but that's okay.
It does have a navigation nipple on the back here.
And then it looks like a power button.
Two USBC, two USBA, a display port and then two HDMI ports.
I'm not sure again, if those are 2.1 or not,
but since it's not 4K, I don't think you need 2.1 actually
to hit a 120, or 144 Hertz at 1440 P.
But I can never remember those kinds of specs
off the top of my head, so we'll find out.
Let's get this on the stand.
So yeah, it's got these really wicked cable management,
like ties back here so you can throw everything back
behind here and then just clip it down.
It's got this front little kind of divot
and then that's right there.
Very cool, aye look at that.
Let's screw it down.
Yeah, it is heavy.
I think this thing is like 10 kilos or something like that,
which isn't too crazy
like that ASUS PA 32 UCG or UCX
that we have is like 40 pounds or something crazy like that.
And then it's just got your standard,
I think it's VESA mountable as well,
it's just got those standard, like hooks.
Oh, that's kind of bad, the plastic was unclipped.
I mean, it's not the end of the world,
but a little quality control, Corsair, come on.
Does it snap in?
Well, it doesn't sound like it, but it's sturdy.
Oh, it's got screw holes on the back.
Okay, cool that's fine.
So, a lot of these, when you put it on,
they just like clip in, but for this guy it's got screws,
which were in the bag earlier.
Where'd those go?
Here they are!
This is a knock to a screwdriver.
I was too lazy to head over to 105
and grab a proper Phillips.
The clips on most monitors are fine,
but I do like the screw in
just for that added level of security.
Yeah. I can swivel.
It's a little, it's a little loose when it swivels,
but like that's okay.
Cause I mean, once it's in position,
it's not really going to go anywhere after that.
It can tilt and go up and down, of course. Amazing.
Let's get the cables in now,
before we take it over to our computer. All right.
All right. See, here's what I'm talking about though.
Like I can't just plug it in.
I've already got to like raise it as much as I can,
which it is and then crouch down.
Find the, oh, luckily it, you know what?
Here's a nice thing though. These are all labeled.
One thing that's normally frustrating is you have to like
actually search for the right one and look under the, yeah.
So HDMI 1, HDMI 2 the way they usually know
if your DP is going out the right way
is the clip will be on the outside part
so that you can actually like, press it down.
Yep, there it goes and it goes.
I don't know if there's a cover for this back or not.
It doesn't look like it.
Oh, what's in this box?
Oh yeah. Okay.
So this thing also has a bunch of elgato support.
Apparently you can get like clamps and stands for this thing
and you can clamp on like elgato, arms for heads,
microphones and cameras and stuff.
So if you're super into streaming
and you want like a really easy clamp system for your stuff
that doesn't have to weigh down anything else,
you can just basically apparently like clip it
right on here, somehow.
These are just extra little brackets
for more cable management if you feel like you need it.
I think two is probably fine.
Oh, I don't like how loose they are.
I wish we could like lock them in place somehow.
Cause this guy is just going to keep sliding down.
Admittedly,
I do kind of already wish there was a pass through
out the top.
So, I mean,
I guess you can't because of the up and down mechanism,
but I really wish you could like pass through here first
and then put it through these cable,
these like cable tie-down kind of things.
Because as it stands I'm going to like pull it out
and maybe I'm doing this wrong, but I don't think so.
I'm going to pull it out and clip it down.
There we go, oh yeah, see it fell down.
Even so, I do really like this system.
Oh okay and then like once you have cables in.
It goes through here.
Definitely don't do what I did and plug it in first.
Cable manage this first cause this brick is not going to fit
through here at all.
Yeah. This not staying up is really killing me.
Like on a personal level it is just killing me here.
It's like, it's a really good idea.
They just didn't execute it as well
as they probably could have.
Yeah. You're not going anywhere now.
Green tape to the rescue. Thanks, Corsair.
I kind of wish the screen came with a peel.
I guess that's another complaint point is that
I don't see any kind of peel on here
and yes, it was packed nicely,
but most tire and monitors come
with like a really nice like thin styrofoam kind of
that goes across the front.
Or at least a peel to just protect the display
a little bit better.
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Okay, I love the stand,
but now it's problematic because it's huge.
I can't even see anything.
Right. It's a huge desk footprint.
Am I good?
Yes, almost.
There's something like stupid about it,
but pretty at the same time if that makes sense.
It's hard to explain.
It's one of those things where it's like a matter of taste.
Either you like it or you don't
and if you can organize your desk around this monitor stand,
I think you could actually make something look really cool.
Especially if you've got like a brushed aluminum keyboard
and like some like a gun metal,
like mouse pad or something like that, I don't know.
I think you can make a really cool aesthetic out of it,
but let's get it set up and then we'll run some games
and see how it actually performs.
Booted right up displayed flawlessly.
So that's always a plus didn't have to fight
with any settings or anything like that.
Let's check and see what it's actually displaying at.
Like I said,
I want to know if it's going to actually go to 165
by itself or if that's like an overclock feature.
Oh no. Yeah. Native 165.
So I mean it's 164.835, whatever.
There's a lot of monitors that do that.
Yeah, it does 8 bit color. Doesn't do 10 bit.
I think that's our, let's, yeah just RGB full.
Can't change the outbit color.
That's okay. 165 Hertz, that's good enough for me.
The more I use these 32 inches at work,
the more I'm super jealous and wish I had one at home.
It's got G sync, free sync.
I mean, those are pretty much interchangeable these days.
You've got all your settings and stuff here.
So the navigation nipple on the back,
is in kind of an awkward place,
but only if you're trying to let the camera see the screen,
I guess.
Cause otherwise it's just like this and that's not that bad.
I wish it was a little lower though.
I really prefer those ones that are like right down here
in the middle of the screen, but whatever.
So let's see what our presets are.
Changing default settings could increase power usage.
That's cool.
Movie, text, sRGB, creative, game, standard.
All right, I don't know what any of these do,
so let's just go standard.
So yeah, it's got type C video,
which is great because I think it also does
15 Watts of power delivery,
which probably isn't enough
to charge your work-from-home laptop,
but it is enough to keep it going instead of just,
you know, slowly dying over the course of the day.
And it's probably enough to charge your phone at least.
So the cool thing though,
is everything can be done through IQ apparently.
Now we have to use the right version of IQ.
So we've got the right IQ software installed,
but I think we might be missing a file or something.
I can't find how to do it with the monitor itself.
Maybe I'm missing something.
I'm not sure, these are kind of on a timer, so sorry guys.
Basically what you should be able to do
with the final product once the software is released
to the public as well is
everything that you saw me doing in the navigation menu,
you can do that in Corsair IQ,
which is actually really handy.
And I kind of wish more monitors did that.
It's probably out of the realm of possibility
for most other manufacturers
because they don't also have like a fan
and system, like sensor slash fan configuration software.
I mean, some of them kind of do,
but it's nowhere near as robust.
As much as I hate that Corsair has
all this proprietary stuff,
but at the same time, if you only use Corsair,
like if you use, live in Corsair land,
it does work pretty well together.
And you do end up with a pretty good experience.
It's just, you know, you're stuck with Corsair,
so that's okay.
Let's play some Counter-Strike.
We're running at like 300 FPS and for 165 Hertz.
I mean, you basically want double.
Ooh wow. I got smoked.
You basically want to double what you're actually displaying
at to make sure that your 99 lows are still like up there.
No, this feels great though.
Like, don't get me wrong, I'm doing really bad
and I'm dying to a bunch of bots,
but the refresh rate, the colors,
like it all looks super nice.
I, again, I wish I could actually test the color accuracy
of what I'm seeing here,
but it looks really good.
And I mean the screen space of me sitting here,
this is about perfect.
At least for me personally because I can see everything.
I don't have to like crane my neck and move my head
to check out the corners.
Like I just have to actually move my eyes to like look up,
which is pretty good.
But yeah, the stand, it's huge.
Like it takes up a ton of space,
but I think if you fit stuff in here,
like if you put like a little pencil holder there,
maybe or like some figurines or something.
Even just this logic tech keyboard actually
kind of fits the aesthetic really nicely.
So it's a small thing, but I really like it.
I don't like the footprint, don't get me wrong.
It's a little too much in terms of desk space,
but this thing is actually really thin.
It's not the thinnest monitor I've ever seen.
There's an inner bezel that they haven't managed
to get rid of.
And that would be so ideal for me
if they could get rid of this.
And you can see the bottom is thicker
and it hides that bottom bezel.
Like if they could get rid of this black bar
around the edge, I would be very pleased with this thing.
You could put like two or three side-by-side
for a racing rig or something like that
and it would look beautiful, it would look amazing.
Otherwise I don't really have any major complaints.
It's got a lot of extra features
that aren't usually seen on monitors,
like the charging out the back and that crazy color accuracy
that I've mentioned way too many times at this point.
But would I pay $800 for it?
I think unless I lived in Corsair land
and all I had was Corsair and I could use IQ
for literally everything,
I don't think I would like, it's nice,
but for a screen this size, I really do want 4K.
And I'm not even a resolution snob.
Like I think 1440 P is more than fine,
but it's a pixel per inch kind of thing.
Of course, then it would be more like a thousand dollars
probably at least.
But hey, beggars can't be choosers
and you can't get everything you want.
So no, I wouldn't buy it for 800, but yeah,
like I said, if you, if you're a big Corsair fan,
you like their products, you know,
your whole PC is hooked up with Corsair fans and IQ
and commander pro and all that stuff
to keep it all synced together,
this thing could be a pretty good purchase for you.
As long as you don't hate the stand right here
and the desk footprint that it's going to take up.
Thanks for watching.
This is Corsair's first monitor,
which it's still pretty cool for their first product.
If you liked this one,
check out the other short circuit I did.
The 390 Hertz monitor from Acer that thing is fast.
It's not 400, 500 Hertz fast, but 390 Hertz is pretty quick.