Corsair Xeneon 27QHD240

As good as 1440p gets, but at a price

- JEREMY LAIRD

YOU CAN BUY OLED PC monitors from a growing list of brands. Ultimately, however, the actual OLED panels that go into those screens are sourced from just two companies: LG and Samsung. It's the former that provides the 27-inch OLED panel in the new Corsair Xeneon 27QHD240. Unfortunately, that's an issue.

Hold that thought while we cover speeds and feeds. This 27 incher runs the same 1440p native resolution as similar OLEDS from Asus and LG. They use the same LG WOLED technology and offer similar specifications. Corsair rates the panel at 0.03ms for pixel response, with peak brightness at 1,000 nits.

Again, that's some serious punch, though it only applies to a three percent or smaller window and Corsair doesn't quote full-screen brightness, the latter arguably being what you want to know. Typically, the full-screen brightness of all OLED panels and LG panels in particular is dramatically below the peak brightness achieved in a small portion of the panel.