you may recall that we were one of the first to get our hands on an 8k monitor
it was from dell and the thing is a creator's dream thanks to its 100
coverage of the adobe RGB color space and true 10-bit color
the only problem is that come on to be truly creative especially when you've
got a bunch of different design tools and file explorers and web browsers open
you really need a multi-monitor setup
and now we have just that today we're going to be
showing off a badass workstation with not one but two 8k monitors and we're
going to be powering those things with NVIDIA's brand spanking new nine
thousand dollar quadro gv
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so let's start by having a look at what we would consider to be basically an
ultimate workstation at this point we ended up choosing a very subdued case so
this is the Corsair 600 q and unlike a
lot of the really popular options that are out there right now it's got no RGB
no tempered glass no nothing it's just a
plain black box with a nice included fan controller and
ample room for any kind of cooling you could possibly want to put in it for our
CPU we went with obviously the core i9
7980xe so that's an 18 core processor turbo's up to 4.2 gigahertz or something
crazy like that we've got
128 gigs of g-skills tridency RGB RAM
okay yes i know it's RGB but that's not why we chose it it's just one of the
only kits that we had a 128 gig kit of for our motherboard we've gone with ASUS
ws x299 sage now we could have gone with
the ws c422 pro sc that we checked out
recently but we determined in our video covering the xeon w for the 2066
platform that the value just wasn't really there
unless you need ecc RAM and besides the
x299 sage has seven pci express slots
meaning we can put basically anything we'd want in here for our ssds we went
with two samsung 960 pros each of them
512 gig running in raid 0 and then for our power supply we went with a c sonic
80 plus titanium unit it's only 750
watts but quite frankly
quite frankly that's more than we really need anyway
bringing us to of course the centerpiece the quadro gv100 we've
only got one of these so we won't be using the nv link connections that you
can use to not only double your processing power but also share RAM
between them but for the kinds of workloads that
we're going to be able to put on this thing anyway it's improbable that we
will actually need more RAM than one of these cards has
each of them is equipped with 32 gigabytes of high-speed hbm2 memory to
go along with their 5 120 cuda cores and 640 tensor cores so
these are designed not just for your sort of traditional workstation usage
but also for ai and deep learning
applications let's go ahead and get it installed
all right now that we've got it in we can see we're going to be using every
single one of the displayport 1.4 outputs on this card because each of our
8k monitors requires two of them
okay so while we wait for this to power up i want to take you guys for a little
tour of our desk here because as you might have noticed it looks really
different from one of our more typical gaming setups because when your focus is
productivity the kind of gear that you're using needs
to be a little bit different so first of all obviously we'll get to
the visuals in a little bit here is sound
now gamers might want speakers and the
same actually goes for their headphones that
accentuate details that are important to gameplay
like say for example the frequency of footsteps so that they can pick out
where opponents are around them not so for content creators so these
here are audio engines a5 plus bookshelves they have a flatter response
curve not quite like you would consider
you know a studio monitor grade response curve but a flatter response curve and
they represent a good value because they can connect directly to your pc unlike
some other monitors that used balanced xlr inputs for example
now for audio again for the typical gamer pretty much
anything will do you can actually use your onboard audio no issues there but
we've gone with a combination from audio so yes that is what they're
actually called i know so we've got our emoji ii this is a dac and then we're
using a valhalla 2 amp that should pair really nicely with our audeze lcd 2s now
to be clear the lcd 2s are especially
now that they've been replaced by other models not necessarily the be-all and end-all
of headphones but what they are is an open-backed design giving a very natural
sound stage and they use planar magnetic drivers so
to put it in layman's terms they sound absolutely bitchin
i mean this is something else obviously
we've seen one of them before but this amount
of real estate so i mean we are scaled at 300 right now come check this out if
i change it to a hundred percent
look how small the cursor is
look how small the start button is like
here you open a web browser this is the default window size
so while unlike the early days of
monitor resolutions increasing
we don't necessarily get to benefit from it just
scaling linearly the amount of desktop realistic date that we have the pixel
density though the fineness of the image is
absolutely incredible so each of these is 7680 by 4320 meaning
that we've got a total of 67 million pixels total and of course
it's being driven at 60 hertz
like you can see individual feathers moving around i'm actually impressed
we're running this at full resolution right now is this 8k footage brandon
the computer's definitely feeling the burn check this out
82 CPU usage
but it's not buckling
not bad now that we've got a bigger project
loaded up it is definitely suffering a little bit more
but i think part of that might be a network bottleneck that's one thing that
we're still missing on this particular config but i think that we could fix
pretty easily with a 10 gig card or something along those lines
it is definitely nice to have all this real estate though like being able to
watch at the maximum size of a preview
like what is effectively probably what like a
720p video as you scrub through it like this
that's pretty incredible
check this out we can pick exactly the right moment for a thumbnail
without even ever opening it i could actually watch a video like this
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there was a way with our building layout to reconfigure our editor's machines
so that they can use monitors like this cause like all of a sudden you can
actually feel the stereo sound where applicable
so like in the game for example and it sounds so much more natural than
when you have it pipe through headphones even really good ones
but i don't think any kind of extensive renovation like that is on the horizon
anytime soon and
neither is an upgrade to dual 8k monitors and a5 pluses for all of our
editors anyway so
yeah unless of course
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