it's ultrawide festival 2017 we've got three contestants each of which has been
challenged as part of their final quest
with building the dream setup that they
submitted in the first two rounds so
there were a couple of hey can i be part of the video yeah you could be part of
the video dawg sweet okay it's austin so
hey guys it's austin i'm just gonna do everything like this just like holding
yeah sure we'll tie our legs together the whole day will be three-legged race
okay get get on my intro so each of them had to do a 2 000
dream setup including the lg 34 uc 89 g gaming monitor so this
is our first contestant taylor he's got a mad shout out to his wife for putting
up with his bull crap over the last couple weekends working on these videos
got a mad shout out for your son who he was in the second video he was one of
the little noobs and he is working on what was it biochemistry yeah getting my
phd in uh cell biology and biophysics it's going good so you should be able to
handle building a computer you know that's not something they train us how
to do now zachary our second contestant
computer video making clearly you're pretty damn good at it but uh were you
guys like actually for serious blacksmithing yeah we're amateur
blacksmiths with a beard like that you're an amateur blacksmith
we have to look the part okay so give us give us a couple facts about yourself
well i'm studying astrophysics we're all physics here so
holy crap okay must have been a requirement and are you much of a gamer
yeah absolutely awesome well that's good news because the monitor that is part of
zachary's ultimate dream setup here runs at 144 hertz stock and overclocks to
166 hertz because this thing is g-sync meaning no stutter no tearing
no all right you can start unboxing your 2 000 rig and as soon as i
say go you can start building okay sorry i should have had you just open this i'm
sorry i should have opened it yeah yeah why was i blaming myself when
there were perfectly good other people to blame true i've got two arms i'm just
lazy you know what
yours is getting the rough unboxing treatment so here it is
here's your monitor and you can go ahead
and pull up all your stuff whoever builds the best system and we're going
to be looking at their component selections we're going to be looking at the way they put it together everything
from cable management to the way that they did their hair this morning whoever
builds the best system gets not only the 2 000 system to take away with them but
also eight thousand dollars in additional gear all right okay am i
ready yeah okay three two one start
oh my god
so what's your stick i see you uh
brought your own box cutter the weird part is how i got on the plane
definitely the weird thing is i broke federal a lot to get here
so tell me about what makes your rig optimized for
what you're doing with it well um
i tried to make sure that i had a fast enough
RAM that was good for the i7 which is 2400 makers okay
and i used my extra money to dump into an overclocked 1080 ti which is very
essential for 3d rendering
zach did you go by zach yes okay not zachary
nope things are going a little rough for you right now yeah do you need some help
can i help you do you want me to help you with the i o shield yeah lab too are you i don't know i have to ask
you went with a b series chipset on an unlocked processor
see there's a secret to it i don't think anybody knows that
it's because i'm stupid
tell me why you would use up part of your budget for usb extension
i need one
no but it's for it's for the secret weapon actually
it's not really a secret weapon everybody knows what it is interesting
i gotta say i've tried toby eye tracking
have you and from a gaming perspective
i was not too impressed i'll just leave
what
taylor wait huh actually hold on i'm
actually serious can i see this for a second yeah
i think there might be a bent pin in your socket oh
this thing is like mangled there's a bunch of bent pins here
and there's a bent pin here this is this thing brand new yeah i just
took it out of the case uh
okay so so here's the plan
uh it's like not new but uh it's z170
which shouldn't have any performance impact on your system
but like dude you got a bunk motherboard uh we don't want to take any points off
for that so the one thing you're missing is the critical feature that everybody needs in
2017. it doesn't have RGB
can i can i have a minute so you went small form factor why i did
go ahead keep working but this is being hosted by lg
and it's about the monitor so i wanted a case that would stand out and look like
the monitor so i went with something with curved side panels and this is the
thing to do it so wow that is a hell of a lot more thought
than i would have put into it i came here with the mindset of trying
to win the whole thing and so i did kind of build this around the competition
more than anything else i see
now last time i was here you didn't have your motherboard in the case
and i helped you install your io shield and you still don't have the motherboard
in the case you want to for the ioshio
it's all squishy you just need the appropriate tools so here i'm going to
show you a motherboard installation trick that i picked up back in nom
you can you can press on it pretty hard like i think you're being a little bit
gentle ginger yeah and so then all you want to do is just check um i couldn't
help noticing that you've got RGB RAM on a non-RGB motherboard yeah i really
should have thought about that right all right you really should have planned
the head a little bit better all right how you doing you seem a
little stressed i'm a little hot yeah
man i'm glad you got something with rsync
because this build is sunk
so so far your build is going kind of uneventfully
i'm sorry so uh you tried to convince us that this flame
band thing is is flare but that was a lie yeah it's hot in here
so tyler Linus hold on let me see if i can find
something to criticize
this one has two connectors on it you didn't need this one at all
ouch that was all i really had like you haven't done much so there's not a lot
to criticize i've been very flippant so far but we actually have to decide who's
walking away with the thing totally um i think zack's out the motherboard's a big
oversight it's a big oversight big oversight like i've been giving taylor
about you know his broken motherboard or whatever yeah zach actually like
scratched up the back of his board here's what i actually don't like about
taylor's build he designed it to win
instead of designing it to be a balanced build i don't think we can dock him for
that i think we can i think is that part of the competition
the idea is to build your dream setup i think john has the most balanced build
he does in the budget he managed to get an unlocked processor
an overclocking capable board and a 1080 ti so he's got as good a
graphics card as anyone else and if you talk to him about what he's planning to do with it it all makes it total sense
perfect sense i think john and taylor are pretty even for me right now i feel like they're
both fairly close there's a lot that can kind of go wrong or right with either of
them all right you've got a wow you've got a lot of pci
express connectors connected right now i'm not done yet no the cable management
scoring is done now though but it's it's not like a score out of a hundred it's
like uh kind of more of like a subjective score so this i'm just i'm
giving yours like a a business in the front party in the back kind of it's like a naked party in
the back though it's like everyone's writhing around kind of party i'm gonna
go judge some other people look at this this this guy is your build
is a logo disaster right side up logo
okay right side up logo right side up logo what the hell is this
they installed that at the factory oh oh so i've been having a lot of
factory problems today so your mo
see this is the first time a manufacturer first time's a fluke the
second time is a pattern sir i think that's the third time so
you know what we can i'm not an expert on math don't listen you're doing a
great job things he's just mean you're my favorite perfect youtube
okay zach how's progress not too bad
you got your water cooler in very nice that is mounted correctly you
got thermal paste in there you got your logo right side up he's got his logo
right side up tyler i think it's taylor
jackass is what it is wow your cable management is really
coming along that is looking really good now
it's too bad i had to grade it before it's fine
that's a shame dude you broke the usb 3 header i'm telling
you it's not me these manufacturers have it out for me you know what
i shouldn't have called you jackass before i actually feel kind of bad about
that because what i should have called you was captain excuses that was my nickname
in high school with any luck like it's just not going to turn on at all
all right you're powered up
you're the first one to be powered up but what you didn't know
is that part of the lightning round is for us to short out the first
movement no i'm just kidding only tyler taylor see he actually screwed me up
only taylor gets to have a broken motherboard today freaking awesome man
no keyboard detected though no keyboard detected press one 110 for one to enter
setup this this is what's wrong with the pc
industry wow you've made a lot of progress since
the last time i was here thank you cable management looks good in the front you
know i uh i was a little worried about about you getting done in a reasonable
amount of time here and then you kind of pulled it together man
it's looking good dude not a bad little system yeah and it's on
which is an improvement over taylor
i didn't even show you the the greatest piece of this whole build
oh do you have a secret weapon too i do it's called
a background that yes wow that is just about the most
like overly masculine
thing of all time this might take several minutes zach but
that's okay because you are actually the entire Windows installation process
ahead of taylor over there he was way out ahead did you really put this uh
20-sided die on your uh power button you are actually the last one to start your
Windows install you were way ahead of the game you need
to still do overclocking cable management RGB you got to download your
drivers all right that's okay you still got time
we can do this we actually i guess it is we at this
point at this point okay so hold on so what have i not done in your system i
you installed your power supply let's take a moment to reflect on
the fact that none of our contestants managed to kill the monitor
this video brought to you by lg ultrawide
all right so everyone's ready yes i'm ready running you're ready are you ready
important thing yes judgment time
i was just waiting for it judgment time were you waiting for it that time i was
not so for ghost recon we're running at the native resolution of these monitors
has 2560 by 1080 and we are using the ultra preset because we figure for two
grand you should be having a pretty ultra gaming experience now one of the
things that we're going to be looking for is not just being able to run the game but
being able to run it at a frame rate where you're going to be taking advantage of these high refresh rate
monitors so gentlemen hit it and let's have a look at those benchmark scores
oh oh here it comes 65 7 65 9 and fifty three point four
okay you guys basically tied you guys are gonna have to run it like medium
details to get all those juicy buttery frames i think that it did pretty well i
have a really nice graphics card a really good i7 processor one of the
advantages i have over them is that i have a Corsair or name brand
keyboard and mouse and i also brought along a headset and a
mouse pad i thought everyone was doing that i
could have saved that money and put it into a trident RGB RAM set so that way i could
have had a much nicer looking build overall i think i did really well i've
got a decent build i kind of went for more
value spread out throughout the build i wanted peripherals that will last a
while i wanted an immersive experience but to
use a monitor for an immersive experience i figured you would probably
need an extra peripheral that's so that's why i chose the
the tobii eye tracker yeah my whole thing was based on immersion
i feel like i did worse than i could have if i'd had the original motherboard
i planned for um i think i managed to pull it together all right i'm hoping
that Linus and austin give me
a little bit of extra credit knowing that i had to go through a few broken
components so
we'll just have to see
all right so third place is
zachary you uh you fought hard the scores were
super close actually it was actually and we basically agreed on almost everything
yeah the performance hurts you the good news is that you come out of this with a
wicked awesome gaming rig and hopefully you had fun today
and you get this dope ass trophy can i put this on a
resume you can put it on a resume yeah there you go number two well i think we
need number one i think number number two is pretty obvious when we do number one that makes sense so why don't you
give each of us one of them randomly oh look at this all right two out of ten
two out of ten for these guys before we announce the winner you guys
all did really well it was way close you guys had such similar sort of setups you
obviously ran into a lot of bottlenecks and sort of issues but you handled it
really well and most of them weren't your fault so you know that was really
well done but john you took it home oh
wonderful and uh taylor you fought hard and you were a lot of fun to hang out
with today you were okay too this is this is official i mean it's not it
doesn't even really look like a check you actually can't go catch this yeah yeah they're gonna laugh
is this 21x9 hold on hold on let's get a validation
here no it's not congratulations though i
think you did a great job um you put the system together really well you had no
real issues with time performance was the best i think you have you know RGB
and like the lighting and colors all completely on point the configuration
was pretty much what i would have built yeah so awesome
good work good work good work thank you guys so thanks
everyone for coming and participating even austin even though i don't like
that guy and uh especially thanks to lg for
sponsoring ultrawide festival 2017 and thanks to you guys of course for
watching