for the ultimate no compromises compact gaming pc look no further than the
obsidian series 250d from Corsair click now to learn more shopping for a
graphics card is tough AMD has all kinds of technologies like crossfire true
audio mantel great opencl performance
and hd 3d while NVIDIA has sli g-sync 3d
vision cuda physx and game stream and no matter how much you spend on your
computer you can't have all of these things at the same time
or can you this is it the ultimate
no compromises gaming machine the name davidia titation 3000 ultra xt platinum
edition it's got a core i7 processor 16 gigs of dominator memory and
most importantly two gtx 780 ti is an
sli and two Radeon r9 290 x's in
crossfire simply choose which graphics card vendor
you want powering the system at any given time fire up your game
and enjoy all the exclusive technologies from both sides on one computer
truthfully guys this is not a joke here are some far cry 3 benchmarks at 2560 by
1440 very high preset and this hulking beast of a system can be yours for the
value price of only five thousand dollars and you're sitting there asking
yourself is he kidding or am i missing something here
good question guys this video isn't intended to convince you to run out and
put a handful of different graphics cards in your system to make sure that you're not missing out on anything that
would be crazy and therein lies the true
purpose of this video or the average gamer shopping for a graphics card is
already hard enough graphics cards are major purchases so there's a lot of
research to do on top of the price you have to consider performance in the
games you play cooling and then you have to pick between a dozen different brands
that are all available and now with the introduction of AMD's mantle API and
NVIDIA g-sync technology it feels like on top of all of that gamers have to
decide months or even years ahead of time
how they want to experience their games rather than just if they want to
experience them because you can only have one and you're going to be stuck
with it until you replace it we've seen this before with physx but most people
didn't notice or care because physx never saw widespread adoption and beyond
franchises like batman and games like borderlands 2 the
gameplay experience was never really affected much by its implementation
right now is different though right now mantle and g-sync look like they may be
widely supported and shoppers will have to choose at the time of purchase
whether they want smooth paste frames with g-sync graphics uh with a decent
graphics card and display or mantel's so
far unparalleled ability to leverage multi-core cpus along with some tidy GPU
performance improvements and they have to pick all of this without even knowing
things like whether future titles they want to play will support mantle or
whether or not g-sync monitors will be worth buying what the hardware guys are asking
us to do is crazy if this is the
solution for a gamer to have every experience each game developer intended
then isn't it time for something to change and this doesn't even address
individual games that will support cross vendor technologies like star citizen
nothing i do can let me experience mantle and physx in that game when it
comes out at the same time i will always be not quite getting the full experience
now i'm not going to say who's wrong or right in fact i'd love to hear what you
guys have to say as long as you can keep it civil about it in the comments below
or in the discussion thread on linustechtips.com that you can find
linked in the video description so you know let me know what you think
because i really do want to know now with all of that said the titanium
3000 here actually works really well in fact switching between crossfire and sli
is as simple as hooking up the primary card for each of them to a single
monitor with two different inputs so i'm using displayport and dvi
then changing the primary display in the Windows display manager
a reasonably modern monitor will auto detect when you switch the signal loss
from one input and then pick up the new one at the same time i tried a couple of
different monitors and games and the process actually worked really seamlessly to my surprise uh the NVIDIA
driver doesn't like to do some things with the AMD one running in the
background like switch between single card and sli which i had to do during my
benchmarking but you can force close ccc.exe
make whatever changes then relaunch the AMD control panel and they both run just
fine at the same time for most things oh yeah and one last thing guys before
everyone gets mad and points out that AMD has said they're planning to open
mantle up to other vendors as a standard because i was talking about it as a
proprietary thing don't worry i know however right now today for shoppers
there's no guarantee they'll do it and there's certainly no guarantee that
other GPU makers notably Intel and NVIDIA will use it so my point still
stands gamer shopping now are making decisions based on faith and guesses
rather than solid facts i mean it's console exclusives all over again and we
see the direction that that's headed it's all about the games and it needs to
be not about the hardware that people choose speaking of things that aren't
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Linus to learn more and anyway i think that's pretty much it thanks for
watching like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a
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