you might say our 16k gaming project was
a massive success well you might say that if you measure
success purely by how many views something gets
on youtube because the usability of that
thing left a lot to be desired we know
so ever since we first unveiled it we've
been waiting for the right moment
and perhaps more importantly the right hardware to bring it back to life better
than ever with hopefully a decent
actual gaming experience this time and that day
thank you Jake has arrived
lg sponsored this video and sent over
nine of their flagship curved
ultra wide monitors so all we need to do now then is uh
go see how the old setup has survived its long slumber here in the storage
unit holy crap
this thing is uh scenes of better days eh this is a freaking mess
i mean the good news is most of the wiring is still in place but like
even the underside is that dirty
all right so let's get this uh let's get this cleaned up
for redeployment here
as many many of you pointed out the 4x4
arrangement of monitors in 16k gaming made the majority of games pretty much
impossible to play because any kind of
crosshair ended up being hidden behind
the bezels right in the middle of our display array
and the abominable frame rates didn't help
either i mean even though we were running four quadro p5000s one for each
of our four rows of monitors last time and those are about equivalent to gtx
1080s but with 16 gigs of video memory
almost every game ran into some sort of
processing or memory bottleneck it was
just it was just too many pixels csgo wouldn't even run
fortunately though a couple of months ago NVIDIA's quadro team
launched the gv100 a 9 000
beast of a workstation GPU and they
graciously lent us
a few of them so now we're cooking with gas baby these
puppies have about 2.93 times the
transistor count so they are much more powerful and they each come with 32 gigs
of high-speed hbm2 memory okay so first
things first we need a system thank you that is worthy
of those graphics cards so i wanted to use the 7900x but
the last one we had didn't survive a d-lid so we're using a 7960x instead
poor us first world problem i guess so the clock speeds are a little bit
lower on this one but let's be realistic here i mean even in this new
configuration every card is still running the pixel
count equivalent of a 5k display so the
bottleneck is still going to be the gpus
and not the CPU for our motherboard ASUS sent over their
rampage six extreme which is going to be paired with naturally
128 gigs of vengeance RGB ddr4 memory
wow this receipt is uh
is getting a few more zeros on it here then i had really hoped good thing of
course serenacious graciously provided these things and then for power the
obvious choice was Corsair's ax 1600i
with some sexy cablemod pro style cables
to match our icy table now cooling
is actually surprisingly not a huge concern since our desk pc case is quite
open for the gpus and we're not going to be overclocking our CPU so we're going
to be using an nhd15 now then
it's time for the monitors as i mentioned earlier the gaming downside of
even-numbered monitor grids easily outweighs any advantage so a 3x3 grid
looked like our best option because 5x5 was just not going to be a thing
but rather than simply do a 12k setup which
was our original plan to make the rig somewhat playable we opted to try
something new so these
are lg's 34 uc 99w
these are 3440 by 1440 curved ips ultra
wides they've got usb type-c input and
freesync and this is cool they run it up to 75 hertz
so any less demanding games we might be able to get even more than 60 FPS
the aesthetic here actually helps our cause a lot too check this out even the
bottom bezel is not much bigger than the
sides in the top now this is less of an issue in a standard desktop
configuration but when you start stacking them it
makes a huge difference quite literally
huge and holy sh
that curve hey
there we go i don't know why this one's all weird okay your scaling is a little
uh little wonktastic there got that big
start button and that small start why do they all have a start menu uh mosaic is
not up yet so we need to configure mosaic okay make it one big display oh
we can play some games this is beautiful
i just love standing right here like the sound of my voice echoes back
at me and video why you do okay there we go there we go
and then the last piece of puzzle bezel correct bezel correction cool okay so
here what we're doing is we're trying to align the road here that's not bad
actually no it's not even close you need like 100 pixels what do you mean not
even close no that's off you're too far no stop stop stop stop you can't look at
just one of them no it's not look at them you can look at whichever
angle it's a little bit too far on that one but it's not far enough on a couple of i
see which means you can do it per month because the monitors aren't aligned
perfectly yeah like so basically because Jake done goofed
aren't you just so hyped to play games yeah too bad NVIDIA says no games these are
cool drones these are not for gaming
professionals have patience you're kidding
the professionals getting paid to set this up are getting paid by the hour anyway what do they care
wow i get to really drive Jake pull me
uh we broke another tech accessory out of the uh moth balls upstairs this is
our obato revolution cockpit with a logitech g920 racing wheel that is going
through its uh pre-flight calibration here
and we've got a shifter because Jake assumes that i know how to drive manual
don't you which i do yes yeah right no the lambo's manual
okay so i stalled do you not know how to drive i know how to drive manual
how do you research how do i restart the car whoa he's doing it
oh oh no my shifter moved
you got a downshift don't go downshift
super duper smooth it's fine that's okay i'm pretty good at
overwatch i've never played overwatch okay
it's basically team fortress 2 though right okay like it's a little different
oh yeah oh yeah there's like 30 heroes oh yeah everybody they all have unique
things whereas oh look at that you've got an endorsement for being a good teammate
they dropped right but i have to be in the emoji shoot your left shift at the
at the door there my what left shift
see they're going to come and kill you right oh man you're going to die
that was nuts oh my god
so worth wow oh come on click your e damn it
yes minus is good at overwatch who knew
does anyone know how to tell if someone's on my team nobody's on your team
remember we talked about this oh so this is like this is like complete
free-for-all yeah oh like you're gonna get you're gonna
get destroyed like oh okay so i just need to hide
right here forever okay well that's not interesting like
okay that's sort of left i guess jackass
all the way left all right whatever this doesn't run that well so let's try something else
look at that this is 75 so they're i want to try 100 hertz but i think that's
out of it gorgeous all right okay do we have anything else
to try can it run crisis
law okay what graphic settings are we at whoa that low that system spec low that
texture low we're not even trying to like run it
well then hey no all right
we're at 48 FPS and we haven't even actually rendered anything other than a
black screen with some green text on it yet in this game this game is very
optimized okay
oh so it's just the other character models that get completely like your gun
is strong your hand is like high quality i don't
know oh wow wait what just happened there
how did i not fall down you just like searched it
those guys oh forget it
where are you going oh my goodness isn't this where i'm supposed to go oh oh oh
oh oh and we're done okay as much as we love using enterprise
grade hardware for unconventional things like gaming NVIDIA did ask us
very nicely to talk about what these cards are actually made for so
uh have you ever seen the multi-hundred-foot video walls in places
like times square or in tokyo or while
watching your favorite sports teams live well they're usually made up of many
smaller displays like our setup here and
even though they're intended to be viewed from far away so their pixel
density is comparatively low like all these look great from even just a couple
feet away their overall resolution can
get very high along with their demand for video memory
and processing power and of course the images all need to be synchronized even
if you're just playing back video so the sync card would come in handy there
and for a more apples to apples look at the processing power improvements
because gaming at different resolutions it doesn't really mean anything we tried
out chronos's v-ray ray tracing benchmark and found that it actually
runs in half the time compared to our last setup
and bear in mind guys we are running one
fewer actual graphics card in this setup
so that's pretty much it now we just got to pack this thing up
and take it to ltx oh yeah
so huge huge thank you to lg for making this project happen if you guys like
what you saw from these monitors you can pick one up or nine at the link in the video
description or if you want even more pixels stay tuned because lg is
launching their new 5k ultrawide nano ips display soon so
you can check out the link to that or just google lg ultrawide for more
information on their latest ultra wide displays
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how's it going there uh not great we're running bastion we just can't
they just can't oh did i get more kills than you oh
yeah yeah look my team one elim is gold
that shows you how long my team is playing right now