Corsair Xeneon Edge Review

Corsair is not necessarily known for monitors. His great thing has always been the memory market, but the company has also successfully expanded its horizons for power supplies, peripheral, cooling and almost everything that goes to the construction of a game for games. But it was also one of the first to hit us on the screen of games with bent OLED, Xeneon Flex, so it has some earlier form of pioneering panels.

So it comes Edge KseneonThe second screen of your system promising a lot of versatility from the panel attached to the computer. Either sitting only as a secondary display display for letters, or full of widgets with a touch screen, powered by Icue Corsaira software, the AHVA screen can sit below the monitor, providing immediate access to everything you choose.

In fact, it doesn’t have to be only sitting under the screen or even on the desktop. Although the package is equipped with a magnetically connected frame so that it can be free on any surface, other assembly options are available. It is a Corsair device that you can screw it in Elgato, SIM Fanatec platform or its platform desk.

There are also 14 circumspect magnets embedded under a plastic edge chassis, which allows you to stick everything in any orientation you can wish for on any iron surface.

You can also mount it directly in a computer housing, and this is not necessarily narrow to a chassis built on Korna. The screw holes at the back of the monitor frame are designed to perfectly level out with any 360 mm fan mounting point in the housing. But there is one more place specific to Corsair, which you will be able to play the screen: BOK Corsair Frame 4000D … ultimately.

This is a case designed for tearing and reconstruction with many different modular parts, and in the pipeline there is a mounting frame of the Xeneon edge to sit on the side of the chassis, just below the side panel.

When it comes to support for the specification, it is a 14.5-inch AHVA display, connected via USB Type-C by connecting ALT DP or by a straightforward DisplayPort cable. You get a native resolution of 2560 x 720 and a refresh rate of 60 Hz. This is also not the lightest screen you will ever see, with a peak luminance 350 cd/m².

I had one strange problem, after connecting through the Thunderbolt connection on my Lake Lake Intel Arrow desktop computer. It is absolutely terrible on the screen when I move between the widget systems and it is incredibly distracting. Connecting to the USB4 port to Razer Blade 14, but you can’t see it. At 60 Hz it is not particularly polished, but there is no tear.

But the low refreshment and relatively low brightness are not necessarily Biggie, considering that this is not designed as no game screen. There is to display several applications, several balmy keys and maybe some software control; It doesn’t have to be particularly Zingy.

I need a touch screen interface if it is there to support some additional software control, à la virtual stream deck. And it has a five -point capacitive touch technology, which is sufficiently responsive on this front.

So, as the second screen has the necessary technical goods, but after the last few weeks he spent the edge of Xeneon attached to my working machine, I really have a question why I would pay money for it. This is not a budget-friendly device – displaying a screen with a value of USD 250 (220 GBP) – and additional functions offered by ICUE integration do not sing for me.

After removing from the box, you get 15 different widgets that you can hit the screen, and I was bored with a plus button before I approached Icue, deciding that I could not add more “desktop” to accommodate them (I got it to 23). But they are all quite standard tariffs with several exceptions, such as Windows Notif Flow and the IFRAME widget.

You can adapt the widgets to some extent, with a selected background and color and sizes options, but nothing that seems to have a lot of style.

For clarity, my home computer already has a built -in second touch screen. This is Hyte Y70 TouchAnd it is … Usually fine. I have several display widgets at the system level, cute rotating gallery of my boys Li’l, clock and weather application. Now the Y70 touch is also not budget-friendly, with nearly $ 200 Premium compared to the standard Y70 housing, but is directly integrated with the chassis, so you don’t have to take the 360 ​​mm fan attachment to it and immerse cooling.

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And the Nexus application, which you apply to configure everything, simply seems much more fancy. Well, it seems that he is looking much longer than the ICUE section. It can chew more resources, but the built -in video backgrounds are immediately more pleasant than asking for a departure and simply racing your own movies. There is also much more adjustment of system sensors’ widgets. To sum up, it just seems to be better connected.

But I am still not completely excited about the implementation of Hyte; I will certainly not hurry to make sure that my next computer compilation must have a miniature secondary screen built into the configuration. Despite this, ICUE options seem even more narrow in comparison.

Although I say that I think the iframe widget is quite effective. You can apply it to embed information about the page in the third or two or systems on the full screen-which I was a bit developed by the lack of a weather widget in ICUE-but most importantly, you can also apply it to create your own applications.

I still haven’t got out of Corsair if it will create any Xeneon market for Edge widgets, such as it exists for the Elgato stream deck, but this seems to be a good way to expand functionality beyond the narrow choice. But the IFRAME widget is a way to circumvent it if you want to soiled your Genai hands.

Using the function of Gemini and Github pages, I could create a straightforward application of the calculator in the color of my choice with the display, which provided the requested information. He does what I need every day, break down with the number of frame time and comparative tests analysis, and it is useful that this permanently sat down in front of me.

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Although when I sat down, think about how else I could rule this newly discovered power of coding (i.e. Dumbly’s question about the twins, until I can get something approximate to what I want to display) I entered empty. Why do I really want a second screen? Probably not much for me.

There are niche ways in which I can see that some of them are benefits for some people, such as video editors, who want to drag the timeline to a separate screen (as with strangely divided Duo Asus laptops), or folk working with music or editing images that want shortcuts available in a tiny order.

For this purpose, you can apply the virtual waist application and apply many shortcut keys to the touch screen that you may want. Here is the rubbing, the 15-clavish stream waist is $ 100 less than the edge and is equipped with physical buttons that will be more tactile and do not necessarily require eyeballs every time you press them, at least not when muscle memory takes control.

It is also worth noting that monitors-modal monitors available in games are currently super accessible. Only ~ 150 USD will receive a full 27-inch display, 165 Hz, 1440p. You do not necessarily have to have a segmented place to display widgets on the “stupid” second screen, but I would say that it will be much more useful from day to day, even in the absence of using the touch screen.

Here I am still trying to find out why the edge of the world really exists. Corsair has several pages connecting from the product side, basically trying to sell us on this concept, but they just come down to the same things: we created a few widgets for him.

Almost most often the meaningful thing that Corsair talks about the Edge screen comes from introducing to your own page, which you need to know where he compares it to LCD screens, which regularly are driven onto the pumps of every damn Aio refrigeration refrigerator on the ground. AIOs receive screens That’s why And it seems that all Raison d’ętre from the edge of the Resneon: only because.

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