so my original plan for the obutto Revolution was to find the most ba
monitor setup on the planet and take a look at this thing from a productivity
and gaming perspective allinone shot unfortunately and this is a super duper
first world problem I ended up with a surround setup of three LG 31 muu 97
displays which are absolutely beautiful 31-in monitors but uh all add up to an
ungodly 26.5 million pixel resolution that no
current graphics card setup could even hope to drive in modern AAA titles so in
my unintentional part one I talked about productivity and comfort because that
screen real estate and that flexibility of the setup and you can check that one
out here while I waited for auss to send me three Rog Swift pg278 Q gaming
monitors so that I could actually play some games on the bloody thing and by
the way that stick and throttle that you see uh the x55 the review of that is
coming
soon you can ensure Swift Victory with Corsair's highly responsive lightweight
gaming mouse their saber RGB click my face hopefully if Nick remembers The
annotation to learn more so I'll start with why I picked the
pg278 Q out of all the 1440p monitors on
the market it features Lightning Fast pixel response times a 144 hzz refresh
rate NVIDIA gsync um while I wouldn't recommend it for a pro photographer for
a TN monitor really not bad color reproduction in viewing angles the
second of which is especially critical in a surround setup and you know what
just screw it if you want to know more about this monitor it's great check out
my review of it here the next thing I'd like to address about this setup is that
while the pg278q aren't impossible to
drive three of these suckers is still about 11 million pixels hardly Child's
Play so everything you're seeing demoed is on a very high-powered machine
running an Intel Core i7 5960x 8 Core Extreme Edition processor at 4.2 GHz
even overclocked 16 gigs of ddr4 memory and two gtx980 graphics cards in SLI so
with that out of the way the first step is to gear up the cockpit with my G25
racing wheel setup this process taught me a lot about both the versatility of
the oo um I ended up moving the chair back back quite a bit further moving the
foot pad down and reducing the angle of its incline so away from my feet I ended
up moving the wheel Mount closer to me tweaking shifter height and then I was
able to finally Bolt the wheel and foot pedals onto the revolution with the
conveniently pre-drilled holes and clipped the shifter into place and then
with that down I sat down and promptly accidentally wrenched the shifter off
the mount not because the mount is any less secure than it ever was before you
know when I had it clipped on to the table but because driving in the
revolution feels truly different from
driving at your desk my usual racing
game complaints will all still exist until driving cockpits with motion
compensation get a lot more affordable but with everything so securely mounted
and a more carlike sitting posture I
definitely found myself falling into my real driving habits of slouching with
one hand on the wheel and just throwing the shifter around into gear so I'd
recommend drilling your own holes for your shifter because accidentally
pulling it off was the one complaint that I really had about this config
because everything else about it is just
better than doing this kind of thing at your desk I mean one of the reasons my
G25 mostly sits in a closet is that it is so inconvenient to set up and I
always end up tearing it down when I do because it takes up so much space the
Evolution takes care of that by making your keyboard and mouse much more easily
accessible something that can be a huge Boon even when you are racing since so
many games are a pain in the butt to navigate with the buttons built into
your wheel so my final thoughts on using the obutto and the default racing
configuration are these this is the first time I've ever really felt like
the g25s toy grade build quality is just
not good enough it takes the experience to another level like to the point where
I found myself needing to wear shoes for better control and craving force
feedback pedals and a much more robust shifter unit and just it generally gave
me an understanding of why people get really really deep into this stuff but
with that said driving has never really been my thing anyway so the next step
for me was to use the optional flight stick Mount and convert to a flight Sim
cockpit the whole process took about half an hour including watching the one
minute guide on aut's website and involved removing the shifter Mount
adding the mount on the left for the throttle portion of my x55 and mounting
the joystick Mount you can put the joystick over on the right if you want
but I went with the center mount for a couple of reasons it does make the seat
a little more difficult to get into and out of but I find the center Mount more
natural and more authentic feeling with my hands on it and I found a great
solution to my complaints about the keyboard and mouse tray from my
productivity video having it mounted on the right hand side puts more support
under my mouse hand and causes it to shift around a lot less during use it
also makes the keyboard and mouse very accessible with the joystick in for
games that have FPS and flight elements so you can switch between them really
quickly and when you're done playing out right and you don't want the joystick in
the way and you want to bring the keyboard mouse a little closer you just pull one Knob Off put it aside and
you're ready to use it as a normal computer one thing that sketched me out
a little bit about all of this was the double-sided mounting T tape that o
expects you to use to Mount Your hotas but I was pleasantly surprised when I
simply placed the throttle down on its Mount to check the location and almost
couldn't get it off to reposition it this is some serious business tape and
it should hold out for a long time so let's talk about actually using it
though right well um if you're into flight games and all I can really say is
loads of fun and then I can try to find different ways to say loads of fun for
the next couple of minutes it's cuz it's freaking awesome I fired up Star Citizen
Elite dangerous and an old favorite of mine X-Wing and everything I said about
racing games definitely applies here except to a genre of games that I
generally find a lot more entertaining and interesting even if I also suck at
these I definitely found Star Citizen a little tough to play Because at this
resolution I was dipping well under 30 FPS even at low details but Elite
dangerous ran at over 60 FPS which especially with gsync looks butter
smooth and was just a blast to play around with so it's time to draw my
final conclusions about the abuto revolution cuz there won't be a part
three to this after my first video I wasn't completely sold on it as a daily
driver workstation it's an okay chair on an incredibly versatile seemingly
infinitely adjustable monitor SL peripheral Mount thing which is cool
really cool but not cool enough to justify how much space it takes up in my
house after gaming on it I'm really
trying to figure out a way to get my wife to let me keep this thing even if I
have to put it in the garage and wear a jacket when I use it it's really really
freaking cool once you've done it up right with the correct displays and
accessories and if you're a racing or flight Enthusiast with a couple Grand to
burn then there's two things I have to say to you number one can I be your
friend you seem like a pretty cool baller sort of individual and two don't
even think about trying one of these things because your Enthusiast status is
about to reach newer crazier Heights and that money you had to burn well you
won't have it anymore so guys that's pretty much it thanks for watching like
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