Gaming PC Build-Off, $10,000 Prize!! - LG Ultrawide Festival 2017
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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3,016 words · ~15 min read
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it's ultrawide festival 2017 we've got three contestants each of which has been
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challenged as part of their final quest
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with building the dream setup that they
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submitted in the first two rounds so
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there were a couple of hey can i be part of the video yeah you could be part of
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the video dawg sweet okay it's austin so
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hey guys it's austin i'm just gonna do everything like this just like holding
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yeah sure we'll tie our legs together the whole day will be three-legged race
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okay get get on my intro so each of them had to do a 2 000
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dream setup including the lg 34 uc 89 g gaming monitor so this
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is our first contestant taylor he's got a mad shout out to his wife for putting
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up with his bull crap over the last couple weekends working on these videos
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got a mad shout out for your son who he was in the second video he was one of
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the little noobs and he is working on what was it biochemistry yeah getting my
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phd in uh cell biology and biophysics it's going good so you should be able to
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handle building a computer you know that's not something they train us how
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to do now zachary our second contestant
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computer video making clearly you're pretty damn good at it but uh were you
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guys like actually for serious blacksmithing yeah we're amateur
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blacksmiths with a beard like that you're an amateur blacksmith
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we have to look the part okay so give us give us a couple facts about yourself
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well i'm studying astrophysics we're all physics here so
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holy crap okay must have been a requirement and are you much of a gamer
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yeah absolutely awesome well that's good news because the monitor that is part of
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zachary's ultimate dream setup here runs at 144 hertz stock and overclocks to
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166 hertz because this thing is g-sync meaning no stutter no tearing
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no all right you can start unboxing your 2 000 rig and as soon as i
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say go you can start building okay sorry i should have had you just open this i'm
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sorry i should have opened it yeah yeah why was i blaming myself when
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there were perfectly good other people to blame true i've got two arms i'm just
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lazy you know what
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yours is getting the rough unboxing treatment so here it is
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here's your monitor and you can go ahead
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and pull up all your stuff whoever builds the best system and we're going
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to be looking at their component selections we're going to be looking at the way they put it together everything
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from cable management to the way that they did their hair this morning whoever
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builds the best system gets not only the 2 000 system to take away with them but
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also eight thousand dollars in additional gear all right okay am i
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ready yeah okay three two one start
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oh my god
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so what's your stick i see you uh
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brought your own box cutter the weird part is how i got on the plane
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definitely the weird thing is i broke federal a lot to get here
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so tell me about what makes your rig optimized for
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what you're doing with it well um
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i tried to make sure that i had a fast enough
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RAM that was good for the i7 which is 2400 makers okay
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and i used my extra money to dump into an overclocked 1080 ti which is very
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essential for 3d rendering
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zach did you go by zach yes okay not zachary
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nope things are going a little rough for you right now yeah do you need some help
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can i help you do you want me to help you with the i o shield yeah lab too are you i don't know i have to ask
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you went with a b series chipset on an unlocked processor
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see there's a secret to it i don't think anybody knows that
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it's because i'm stupid
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tell me why you would use up part of your budget for usb extension
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i need one
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no but it's for it's for the secret weapon actually
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it's not really a secret weapon everybody knows what it is interesting
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i gotta say i've tried toby eye tracking
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have you and from a gaming perspective
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i was not too impressed i'll just leave
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what
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taylor wait huh actually hold on i'm
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actually serious can i see this for a second yeah
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i think there might be a bent pin in your socket oh
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this thing is like mangled there's a bunch of bent pins here
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and there's a bent pin here this is this thing brand new yeah i just
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took it out of the case uh
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okay so so here's the plan
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uh it's like not new but uh it's z170
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which shouldn't have any performance impact on your system
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but like dude you got a bunk motherboard uh we don't want to take any points off
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for that so the one thing you're missing is the critical feature that everybody needs in
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2017. it doesn't have RGB
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can i can i have a minute so you went small form factor why i did
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go ahead keep working but this is being hosted by lg
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and it's about the monitor so i wanted a case that would stand out and look like
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the monitor so i went with something with curved side panels and this is the
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thing to do it so wow that is a hell of a lot more thought
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than i would have put into it i came here with the mindset of trying
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to win the whole thing and so i did kind of build this around the competition
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more than anything else i see
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now last time i was here you didn't have your motherboard in the case
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and i helped you install your io shield and you still don't have the motherboard
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in the case you want to for the ioshio
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it's all squishy you just need the appropriate tools so here i'm going to
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show you a motherboard installation trick that i picked up back in nom
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you can you can press on it pretty hard like i think you're being a little bit
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gentle ginger yeah and so then all you want to do is just check um i couldn't
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help noticing that you've got RGB RAM on a non-RGB motherboard yeah i really
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should have thought about that right all right you really should have planned
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the head a little bit better all right how you doing you seem a
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little stressed i'm a little hot yeah
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man i'm glad you got something with rsync
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because this build is sunk
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so so far your build is going kind of uneventfully
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i'm sorry so uh you tried to convince us that this flame
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band thing is is flare but that was a lie yeah it's hot in here
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so tyler Linus hold on let me see if i can find
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something to criticize
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this one has two connectors on it you didn't need this one at all
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ouch that was all i really had like you haven't done much so there's not a lot
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to criticize i've been very flippant so far but we actually have to decide who's
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walking away with the thing totally um i think zack's out the motherboard's a big
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oversight it's a big oversight big oversight like i've been giving taylor
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about you know his broken motherboard or whatever yeah zach actually like
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scratched up the back of his board here's what i actually don't like about
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taylor's build he designed it to win
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instead of designing it to be a balanced build i don't think we can dock him for
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that i think we can i think is that part of the competition
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the idea is to build your dream setup i think john has the most balanced build
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he does in the budget he managed to get an unlocked processor
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an overclocking capable board and a 1080 ti so he's got as good a
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graphics card as anyone else and if you talk to him about what he's planning to do with it it all makes it total sense
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perfect sense i think john and taylor are pretty even for me right now i feel like they're
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both fairly close there's a lot that can kind of go wrong or right with either of
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them all right you've got a wow you've got a lot of pci
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express connectors connected right now i'm not done yet no the cable management
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scoring is done now though but it's it's not like a score out of a hundred it's
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like uh kind of more of like a subjective score so this i'm just i'm
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giving yours like a a business in the front party in the back kind of it's like a naked party in
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the back though it's like everyone's writhing around kind of party i'm gonna
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go judge some other people look at this this this guy is your build
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is a logo disaster right side up logo
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okay right side up logo right side up logo what the hell is this
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they installed that at the factory oh oh so i've been having a lot of
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factory problems today so your mo
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see this is the first time a manufacturer first time's a fluke the
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second time is a pattern sir i think that's the third time so
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you know what we can i'm not an expert on math don't listen you're doing a
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great job things he's just mean you're my favorite perfect youtube
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okay zach how's progress not too bad
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you got your water cooler in very nice that is mounted correctly you
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got thermal paste in there you got your logo right side up he's got his logo
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right side up tyler i think it's taylor
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jackass is what it is wow your cable management is really
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coming along that is looking really good now
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it's too bad i had to grade it before it's fine
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that's a shame dude you broke the usb 3 header i'm telling
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you it's not me these manufacturers have it out for me you know what
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i shouldn't have called you jackass before i actually feel kind of bad about
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that because what i should have called you was captain excuses that was my nickname
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in high school with any luck like it's just not going to turn on at all
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all right you're powered up
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you're the first one to be powered up but what you didn't know
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is that part of the lightning round is for us to short out the first
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movement no i'm just kidding only tyler taylor see he actually screwed me up
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only taylor gets to have a broken motherboard today freaking awesome man
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no keyboard detected though no keyboard detected press one 110 for one to enter
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setup this this is what's wrong with the pc
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industry wow you've made a lot of progress since
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the last time i was here thank you cable management looks good in the front you
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know i uh i was a little worried about about you getting done in a reasonable
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amount of time here and then you kind of pulled it together man
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it's looking good dude not a bad little system yeah and it's on
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which is an improvement over taylor
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i didn't even show you the the greatest piece of this whole build
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oh do you have a secret weapon too i do it's called
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a background that yes wow that is just about the most
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like overly masculine
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thing of all time this might take several minutes zach but
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that's okay because you are actually the entire Windows installation process
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ahead of taylor over there he was way out ahead did you really put this uh
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20-sided die on your uh power button you are actually the last one to start your
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Windows install you were way ahead of the game you need
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to still do overclocking cable management RGB you got to download your
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drivers all right that's okay you still got time
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we can do this we actually i guess it is we at this
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point at this point okay so hold on so what have i not done in your system i
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you installed your power supply let's take a moment to reflect on
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the fact that none of our contestants managed to kill the monitor
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this video brought to you by lg ultrawide
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all right so everyone's ready yes i'm ready running you're ready are you ready
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important thing yes judgment time
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i was just waiting for it judgment time were you waiting for it that time i was
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not so for ghost recon we're running at the native resolution of these monitors
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has 2560 by 1080 and we are using the ultra preset because we figure for two
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grand you should be having a pretty ultra gaming experience now one of the
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things that we're going to be looking for is not just being able to run the game but
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being able to run it at a frame rate where you're going to be taking advantage of these high refresh rate
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monitors so gentlemen hit it and let's have a look at those benchmark scores
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oh oh here it comes 65 7 65 9 and fifty three point four
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okay you guys basically tied you guys are gonna have to run it like medium
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details to get all those juicy buttery frames i think that it did pretty well i
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have a really nice graphics card a really good i7 processor one of the
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advantages i have over them is that i have a Corsair or name brand
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keyboard and mouse and i also brought along a headset and a
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mouse pad i thought everyone was doing that i
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could have saved that money and put it into a trident RGB RAM set so that way i could
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have had a much nicer looking build overall i think i did really well i've
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got a decent build i kind of went for more
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value spread out throughout the build i wanted peripherals that will last a
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while i wanted an immersive experience but to
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use a monitor for an immersive experience i figured you would probably
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need an extra peripheral that's so that's why i chose the
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the tobii eye tracker yeah my whole thing was based on immersion
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i feel like i did worse than i could have if i'd had the original motherboard
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i planned for um i think i managed to pull it together all right i'm hoping
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that Linus and austin give me
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a little bit of extra credit knowing that i had to go through a few broken
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components so
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we'll just have to see
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all right so third place is
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zachary you uh you fought hard the scores were
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super close actually it was actually and we basically agreed on almost everything
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yeah the performance hurts you the good news is that you come out of this with a
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wicked awesome gaming rig and hopefully you had fun today
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and you get this dope ass trophy can i put this on a
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resume you can put it on a resume yeah there you go number two well i think we
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need number one i think number number two is pretty obvious when we do number one that makes sense so why don't you
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give each of us one of them randomly oh look at this all right two out of ten
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two out of ten for these guys before we announce the winner you guys
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all did really well it was way close you guys had such similar sort of setups you
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obviously ran into a lot of bottlenecks and sort of issues but you handled it
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really well and most of them weren't your fault so you know that was really
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well done but john you took it home oh
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wonderful and uh taylor you fought hard and you were a lot of fun to hang out
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with today you were okay too this is this is official i mean it's not it
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doesn't even really look like a check you actually can't go catch this yeah yeah they're gonna laugh
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is this 21x9 hold on hold on let's get a validation
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here no it's not congratulations though i
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think you did a great job um you put the system together really well you had no
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real issues with time performance was the best i think you have you know RGB
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and like the lighting and colors all completely on point the configuration
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was pretty much what i would have built yeah so awesome
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good work good work good work thank you guys so thanks
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everyone for coming and participating even austin even though i don't like
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that guy and uh especially thanks to lg for
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sponsoring ultrawide festival 2017 and thanks to you guys of course for
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watching