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for the ultimate no compromises compact gaming pc look no further than the

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obsidian series 250d from Corsair click now to learn more shopping for a

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graphics card is tough AMD has all kinds of technologies like crossfire true

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audio mantel great opencl performance

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and hd 3d while NVIDIA has sli g-sync 3d

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vision cuda physx and game stream and no matter how much you spend on your

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computer you can't have all of these things at the same time

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or can you this is it the ultimate

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no compromises gaming machine the name davidia titation 3000 ultra xt platinum

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edition it's got a core i7 processor 16 gigs of dominator memory and

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most importantly two gtx 780 ti is an

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sli and two Radeon r9 290 x's in

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crossfire simply choose which graphics card vendor

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you want powering the system at any given time fire up your game

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and enjoy all the exclusive technologies from both sides on one computer

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truthfully guys this is not a joke here are some far cry 3 benchmarks at 2560 by

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1440 very high preset and this hulking beast of a system can be yours for the

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value price of only five thousand dollars and you're sitting there asking

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yourself is he kidding or am i missing something here

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good question guys this video isn't intended to convince you to run out and

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put a handful of different graphics cards in your system to make sure that you're not missing out on anything that

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would be crazy and therein lies the true

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purpose of this video or the average gamer shopping for a graphics card is

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already hard enough graphics cards are major purchases so there's a lot of

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research to do on top of the price you have to consider performance in the

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games you play cooling and then you have to pick between a dozen different brands

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that are all available and now with the introduction of AMD's mantle API and

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NVIDIA g-sync technology it feels like on top of all of that gamers have to

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decide months or even years ahead of time

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how they want to experience their games rather than just if they want to

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experience them because you can only have one and you're going to be stuck

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with it until you replace it we've seen this before with physx but most people

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didn't notice or care because physx never saw widespread adoption and beyond

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franchises like batman and games like borderlands 2 the

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gameplay experience was never really affected much by its implementation

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right now is different though right now mantle and g-sync look like they may be

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widely supported and shoppers will have to choose at the time of purchase

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whether they want smooth paste frames with g-sync graphics uh with a decent

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graphics card and display or mantel's so

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far unparalleled ability to leverage multi-core cpus along with some tidy GPU

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performance improvements and they have to pick all of this without even knowing

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things like whether future titles they want to play will support mantle or

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whether or not g-sync monitors will be worth buying what the hardware guys are asking

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us to do is crazy if this is the

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solution for a gamer to have every experience each game developer intended

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then isn't it time for something to change and this doesn't even address

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individual games that will support cross vendor technologies like star citizen

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nothing i do can let me experience mantle and physx in that game when it

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comes out at the same time i will always be not quite getting the full experience

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now i'm not going to say who's wrong or right in fact i'd love to hear what you

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guys have to say as long as you can keep it civil about it in the comments below

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or in the discussion thread on linustechtips.com that you can find

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linked in the video description so you know let me know what you think

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because i really do want to know now with all of that said the titanium

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3000 here actually works really well in fact switching between crossfire and sli

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is as simple as hooking up the primary card for each of them to a single

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monitor with two different inputs so i'm using displayport and dvi

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then changing the primary display in the Windows display manager

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a reasonably modern monitor will auto detect when you switch the signal loss

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from one input and then pick up the new one at the same time i tried a couple of

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different monitors and games and the process actually worked really seamlessly to my surprise uh the NVIDIA

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driver doesn't like to do some things with the AMD one running in the

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background like switch between single card and sli which i had to do during my

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benchmarking but you can force close ccc.exe

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make whatever changes then relaunch the AMD control panel and they both run just

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fine at the same time for most things oh yeah and one last thing guys before

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everyone gets mad and points out that AMD has said they're planning to open

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mantle up to other vendors as a standard because i was talking about it as a

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proprietary thing don't worry i know however right now today for shoppers

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there's no guarantee they'll do it and there's certainly no guarantee that

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other GPU makers notably Intel and NVIDIA will use it so my point still

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stands gamer shopping now are making decisions based on faith and guesses

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rather than solid facts i mean it's console exclusives all over again and we

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see the direction that that's headed it's all about the games and it needs to

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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

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watching like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a

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comment as i said before letting me know what you think needs to be done and as

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always don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings

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oh actually if you're still watching right now i did mention star citizen earlier in the video we've been kind of

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pimping it lately you should definitely join our star citizen organization so

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reddit because reddit's kind of big but right now star

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citizen we're winning

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you