GTX 1080 in an Ultrawide All-in-one!?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,231 words · ~6 min read
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if you're the kind of ultra gamer who's logged more hours in halflife than in
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real life then the words allinone PC
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will probably make your eyeballs roll out of your head and straight out the
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front door I mean come on fellas aios
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may be great for your photography business but clearly other Allin ones
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don't have all you would need if you're
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a gamer well blow the dust bunnies off
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those baby blues my friends because the digital storm Aura is a 34in curved
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ultrawide AIO with a freaking GTX 1080
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inside
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it the GMM keyboard features Cherry
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Gaton and kale hot able switches with a floating key cap design RGB lighting and
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minimalistic style check it out now at the link below kicking things off the
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aura is seriously heavy duty like all of
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digital Storm's custom machines it's a low volume built to order product which
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explains why the thin bezel is anodized
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aluminum rather than your usual mass production plastic and also why some of
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the finishing touches are perhaps a little less finished the 34-in display
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is mounted on a rugged AF stand that does offer a generous amount of tilt
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freedom but unfortunately only stays at
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a fixed height which given the height
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disparities found among humans even just within our office is sort of a drag I
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get it the machine's heavy but it's still unfortunate that a $3,000 computer
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doesn't include a more featur stand causing some of our more vertic
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challenged staff to seek out creative aftermarket Solutions since you can't
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even fix this with the good old textbook trick thanks to the ARA's long legs and
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35b heft though now that I think about
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it is that weight even really unreasonable that's only 12 lb more than
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the Acer Predator x34 and that's just a
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monitor not to mention that the other dimensions impressively are nearly
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identical except for the ARA's extra
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inch of depth and speaking from
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experience it wouldn't surprise me if uh
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that extra inch was enough to make a lot of magic happen working past then the 11
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screws that hold the back panel on we find an entire ball ass gaming rig worth
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of Parts frankensteined into that extra
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inch on the back of a Samsung panel
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seriously this thing is like a a crazy
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science experiment gone horribly right
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there's even two separate power supplies with like this weirdo janky power
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splitter in here I mean what else is crammed in this thing our units got 16
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gigs of 2666 MHz ddr4 RAM on a standard
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Mini ITX standard MSI z270 Motherboard
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upgradeability my friends crazy it rocks
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an Intel Core i7 7700 K kbl Lake
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processor that's cooled by what looks to my eye like a custom 160 MMX 35mm
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acitech all-in-one liquid cooling system
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not too shabby it's got a 1 TB hard
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drive as well as a 480 gig SATA 3 SSD
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NVMe m.2 equipped models are also
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available and of course finally the
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pesta resistance a full-sized GTX 1080
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Founders Edition graphics card which uh
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has its display outputs actually looped
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back into the monitor Tim Taylor style
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to a separate PCB that runs the display
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and the crummy onboard speakers the fact that this rig is built
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with mostly off-the-shelf Parts gives it
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that Franken Stein feel but it also
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gives it some distinct advantages it's completely upgradeable as long as your
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new parts would fit your new parts could
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sit and if I mean assuming you don't
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want to use it as a computer forever you could even just use it as an ultra wide
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monitor this thing has all the io of a
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full conventional desktop setup the
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monitor itself has all the usual display in Port
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though it does lack an OSD the graphics cards outputs are all there and easy to
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reach all the motherboard ports are here including USB 3.1 10 gig in both type A
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and type c flavors though it should be noted those are significantly more
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difficult to reach and it's even got decent front IO with a side located SD
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USB and set of audio jacks and this is
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cool up on the top there's even an extra USB port for uh you know a webcam or an
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anti-air missile defense system whatever you
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prefer but can all this stuff crammed
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together under a plastic covering stay
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cool under load well the answer is
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shockingly yes yes it can we used Ida 64
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and furmark to simultaneously tax the
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CPU and the GPU n either of which
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throttled instead leveling off at 70°
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and 85° respectively with most of the
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components hovering around 50° heat gets
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dissipated through the perforations on the top and back of the chassis and the
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warmest feeling area is actually beneath the motherboard plate which is perfect
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by the way for keeping your nachos warm during extended raiding sessions the
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aura does start humming underload however adding about 20 DB to the rooms
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ambient noise in our testing though it should be noted that this is about what
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I would expect from having a you know thoughtfully assembled gaming rig 2 feet
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in front of my face and still way quieter than the HP wave uh ocean
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simulator if you don't dig synthetic tests we threw some real games at it as
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well running all of our benchmarks at the native 3440 by 1440 resolution and
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then again at 1080p for comparison's sake as a expected the 60hz 3000r curved
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ultrawide IPS display is awesome to game
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on with great contrast and viewing angles but it doesn't have gsync and
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frankly the colors are way off so
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without a calibrator this one's not really recommended for our friends who
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are Gamers by night and graphic designers or photographers by day so is
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it better then to buy a fancy pants Monitor and a separate gaming rig or to
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save space with an all-in-one like the aura I mean now that small formfactor
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PCS are becoming more and more popular you could make the argument that you're
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not saving that much space but very few
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of them are dedicated gaming Rigs and
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even the ones that are like the MSI
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Trident aren't necessarily upgradeable
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thanks to the use of proprietary components in fact even some of the ones
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that are advertises upgradable like the Corsair one void your warranty if you
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have the audacity to pop the hood so
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then if you're looking for the ultimate
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Trifecta of desk space performance and
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future proofness and you've got the cash
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to back up your search then uh accept no
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substitutes because this thing is lit as
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