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so if my living room was at work um this

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is probably what it would look like I'm here with my ifinity triple 46 in setup

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that I'll be using for an episode of tech tips that may be up before but it

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may be up after this video actually goes up so I just want to take you on a

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little tour through the uh the construction because if you actually

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look around the room you can see it's kind of a you know an empty space so I

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figured hey why don't we use this for our for our setup and uh yeah so here

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let's walk through it so I found this couch um upstairs where people have to

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wait so anyone who had to wait for anybody today had to stand because I

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borrowed it we've got the Phantom lapboard right here so you can see that

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this guy uh we I did an unboxing recently but it's a laser mouse and

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rotating keyboard with a mousing surface on the bottom of it great game

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controller when you're sitting on the couch I've got a wireless Xbox 360

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controller with my griet rubberized uh

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analog stick covers all right I got my remote for the TV uh over here I've got

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the TVs themselves so these are all Samsung LCDs they aren't LED backlit

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they're not super high-tech the total cost for these three TVs at a big box

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store was $3,000 so I mean y's a lot of

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money but it's not actually Out Of Reach to set up something like this which is

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pretty cool because the technology has just come so far I've got my box for the

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Phantom lap board I had to kind of um

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well this is random but I had to sort of

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jury rig something to actually put the monitors on so these are all antech df30

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boxes because they're quite sturdy and they're just kind of a you know glossy

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black box so they look pretty nice this is actually my media PC from home um so

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this is a Silverstone sgo1 which in my

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opinion was the best Sugo ever although the SG3 is pretty good too I've got a

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little Imon display which I actually I don't have the application open right

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now but it shows me like what media is playing the date and time uh inside I've

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got a core i5 750 quad core with a

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custom CA and Tech true power 550 W you can see my 8 pin connector for example

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is only exactly long enough to reach the 8 pin connector on the motherboard got a

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zman CPU Cooler in there keep things nice and cool nice and quiet and then uh

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normally I keep a fairly modest video card in here but as you can see I have

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clearly upgraded it to the Radeon 6870

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and what's really cool about this card is as you'll see in my length comparison

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on my blog it's not actually that long so you can install it quite easily in a

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media oriented or a mini ATX case and

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it'll still work just great so I got my wireless I got a Gigabyte motherboard in

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there uh okay I think that's pretty much it I got my steam drive so you can see

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my steam drive back here runs off USB 3

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contains all my Steam games cuz I use an SS SD for my home computer so there's

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not enough space to store my like 50 something Steam games um so I found that

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that solution actually works pretty well for me so this is oh crap that one came

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undone the HDMI cable I'm using is a little bit finicky there we go all right

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so we can here we can even go around the back and sort of check out how everything's hooked up at the back so as

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you may or may not know ifinity requires at least one display

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port compatible uh monitor so since most

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TV in fact all do not have DisplayPort what we're using is an active display

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port adapter back here so that's a mini DisplayPort to DVI active adapter it

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means it costs about 100 bucks and you actually have to power it via a USB port

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so that's back there and that one is running over to the far monitor then

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we're using native HDMI to HDMI for the middle Monitor and last but not least

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we're using a DVI to HDMI cable for the

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left monitor when looking at them from the front so what that means is that

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we're using all Native digital signals but we are using adapters so the image

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quality is all going to be identical it's just a matter of cables at the back

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so um there you have it that's a little tour of the setup here so if you don't

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mind I'm just going to sort of oh yeah right cameraman's reminding

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me of something we had discussed that I totally forgot so what I want you guys

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to do is leave a comment at uh on the bottom of this video and

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say first of all if you installed this

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setup in your living room tonight would you sleep tonight and second of all if

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you installed this what would you do how

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would you make this setup better to suit your personal needs