The ULTIMATE Gaming Cockpit Experience - Obutto Revolution Part 2
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,719 words · ~8 min read
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so my original plan for the obutto Revolution was to find the most ba
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monitor setup on the planet and take a look at this thing from a productivity
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and gaming perspective allinone shot unfortunately and this is a super duper
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first world problem I ended up with a surround setup of three LG 31 muu 97
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displays which are absolutely beautiful 31-in monitors but uh all add up to an
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ungodly 26.5 million pixel resolution that no
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current graphics card setup could even hope to drive in modern AAA titles so in
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my unintentional part one I talked about productivity and comfort because that
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screen real estate and that flexibility of the setup and you can check that one
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out here while I waited for auss to send me three Rog Swift pg278 Q gaming
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monitors so that I could actually play some games on the bloody thing and by
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the way that stick and throttle that you see uh the x55 the review of that is
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coming
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soon you can ensure Swift Victory with Corsair's highly responsive lightweight
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gaming mouse their saber RGB click my face hopefully if Nick remembers The
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annotation to learn more so I'll start with why I picked the
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pg278 Q out of all the 1440p monitors on
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the market it features Lightning Fast pixel response times a 144 hzz refresh
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rate NVIDIA gsync um while I wouldn't recommend it for a pro photographer for
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a TN monitor really not bad color reproduction in viewing angles the
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second of which is especially critical in a surround setup and you know what
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just screw it if you want to know more about this monitor it's great check out
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my review of it here the next thing I'd like to address about this setup is that
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while the pg278q aren't impossible to
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drive three of these suckers is still about 11 million pixels hardly Child's
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Play so everything you're seeing demoed is on a very high-powered machine
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running an Intel Core i7 5960x 8 Core Extreme Edition processor at 4.2 GHz
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even overclocked 16 gigs of ddr4 memory and two gtx980 graphics cards in SLI so
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with that out of the way the first step is to gear up the cockpit with my G25
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racing wheel setup this process taught me a lot about both the versatility of
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the oo um I ended up moving the chair back back quite a bit further moving the
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foot pad down and reducing the angle of its incline so away from my feet I ended
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up moving the wheel Mount closer to me tweaking shifter height and then I was
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able to finally Bolt the wheel and foot pedals onto the revolution with the
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conveniently pre-drilled holes and clipped the shifter into place and then
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with that down I sat down and promptly accidentally wrenched the shifter off
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the mount not because the mount is any less secure than it ever was before you
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know when I had it clipped on to the table but because driving in the
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revolution feels truly different from
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driving at your desk my usual racing
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game complaints will all still exist until driving cockpits with motion
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compensation get a lot more affordable but with everything so securely mounted
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and a more carlike sitting posture I
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definitely found myself falling into my real driving habits of slouching with
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one hand on the wheel and just throwing the shifter around into gear so I'd
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recommend drilling your own holes for your shifter because accidentally
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pulling it off was the one complaint that I really had about this config
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because everything else about it is just
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better than doing this kind of thing at your desk I mean one of the reasons my
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G25 mostly sits in a closet is that it is so inconvenient to set up and I
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always end up tearing it down when I do because it takes up so much space the
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Evolution takes care of that by making your keyboard and mouse much more easily
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accessible something that can be a huge Boon even when you are racing since so
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many games are a pain in the butt to navigate with the buttons built into
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your wheel so my final thoughts on using the obutto and the default racing
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configuration are these this is the first time I've ever really felt like
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the g25s toy grade build quality is just
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not good enough it takes the experience to another level like to the point where
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I found myself needing to wear shoes for better control and craving force
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feedback pedals and a much more robust shifter unit and just it generally gave
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me an understanding of why people get really really deep into this stuff but
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with that said driving has never really been my thing anyway so the next step
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for me was to use the optional flight stick Mount and convert to a flight Sim
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cockpit the whole process took about half an hour including watching the one
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minute guide on aut's website and involved removing the shifter Mount
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adding the mount on the left for the throttle portion of my x55 and mounting
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the joystick Mount you can put the joystick over on the right if you want
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but I went with the center mount for a couple of reasons it does make the seat
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a little more difficult to get into and out of but I find the center Mount more
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natural and more authentic feeling with my hands on it and I found a great
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solution to my complaints about the keyboard and mouse tray from my
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productivity video having it mounted on the right hand side puts more support
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under my mouse hand and causes it to shift around a lot less during use it
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also makes the keyboard and mouse very accessible with the joystick in for
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games that have FPS and flight elements so you can switch between them really
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quickly and when you're done playing out right and you don't want the joystick in
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the way and you want to bring the keyboard mouse a little closer you just pull one Knob Off put it aside and
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you're ready to use it as a normal computer one thing that sketched me out
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a little bit about all of this was the double-sided mounting T tape that o
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expects you to use to Mount Your hotas but I was pleasantly surprised when I
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simply placed the throttle down on its Mount to check the location and almost
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couldn't get it off to reposition it this is some serious business tape and
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it should hold out for a long time so let's talk about actually using it
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though right well um if you're into flight games and all I can really say is
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loads of fun and then I can try to find different ways to say loads of fun for
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the next couple of minutes it's cuz it's freaking awesome I fired up Star Citizen
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Elite dangerous and an old favorite of mine X-Wing and everything I said about
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racing games definitely applies here except to a genre of games that I
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generally find a lot more entertaining and interesting even if I also suck at
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these I definitely found Star Citizen a little tough to play Because at this
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resolution I was dipping well under 30 FPS even at low details but Elite
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dangerous ran at over 60 FPS which especially with gsync looks butter
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smooth and was just a blast to play around with so it's time to draw my
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final conclusions about the abuto revolution cuz there won't be a part
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three to this after my first video I wasn't completely sold on it as a daily
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driver workstation it's an okay chair on an incredibly versatile seemingly
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infinitely adjustable monitor SL peripheral Mount thing which is cool
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really cool but not cool enough to justify how much space it takes up in my
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house after gaming on it I'm really
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trying to figure out a way to get my wife to let me keep this thing even if I
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have to put it in the garage and wear a jacket when I use it it's really really
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freaking cool once you've done it up right with the correct displays and
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accessories and if you're a racing or flight Enthusiast with a couple Grand to
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burn then there's two things I have to say to you number one can I be your
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friend you seem like a pretty cool baller sort of individual and two don't
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even think about trying one of these things because your Enthusiast status is
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about to reach newer crazier Heights and that money you had to burn well you
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won't have it anymore so guys that's pretty much it thanks for watching like
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