Gaming on the ULTIMATE 10K ULTRAWIDE Display!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,996 words · ~9 min read
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you might say our 16k gaming project was
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a massive success well you might say that if you measure
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success purely by how many views something gets
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on youtube because the usability of that
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thing left a lot to be desired we know
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so ever since we first unveiled it we've
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been waiting for the right moment
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and perhaps more importantly the right hardware to bring it back to life better
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than ever with hopefully a decent
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actual gaming experience this time and that day
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thank you Jake has arrived
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lg sponsored this video and sent over
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nine of their flagship curved
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ultra wide monitors so all we need to do now then is uh
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go see how the old setup has survived its long slumber here in the storage
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unit holy crap
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this thing is uh scenes of better days eh this is a freaking mess
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i mean the good news is most of the wiring is still in place but like
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even the underside is that dirty
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all right so let's get this uh let's get this cleaned up
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for redeployment here
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as many many of you pointed out the 4x4
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arrangement of monitors in 16k gaming made the majority of games pretty much
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impossible to play because any kind of
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crosshair ended up being hidden behind
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the bezels right in the middle of our display array
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and the abominable frame rates didn't help
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either i mean even though we were running four quadro p5000s one for each
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of our four rows of monitors last time and those are about equivalent to gtx
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1080s but with 16 gigs of video memory
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almost every game ran into some sort of
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processing or memory bottleneck it was
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just it was just too many pixels csgo wouldn't even run
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fortunately though a couple of months ago NVIDIA's quadro team
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launched the gv100 a 9 000
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beast of a workstation GPU and they
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graciously lent us
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a few of them so now we're cooking with gas baby these
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puppies have about 2.93 times the
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transistor count so they are much more powerful and they each come with 32 gigs
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of high-speed hbm2 memory okay so first
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things first we need a system thank you that is worthy
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of those graphics cards so i wanted to use the 7900x but
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the last one we had didn't survive a d-lid so we're using a 7960x instead
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poor us first world problem i guess so the clock speeds are a little bit
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lower on this one but let's be realistic here i mean even in this new
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configuration every card is still running the pixel
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count equivalent of a 5k display so the
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bottleneck is still going to be the gpus
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and not the CPU for our motherboard ASUS sent over their
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rampage six extreme which is going to be paired with naturally
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128 gigs of vengeance RGB ddr4 memory
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wow this receipt is uh
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is getting a few more zeros on it here then i had really hoped good thing of
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course serenacious graciously provided these things and then for power the
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obvious choice was Corsair's ax 1600i
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with some sexy cablemod pro style cables
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to match our icy table now cooling
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is actually surprisingly not a huge concern since our desk pc case is quite
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open for the gpus and we're not going to be overclocking our CPU so we're going
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to be using an nhd15 now then
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it's time for the monitors as i mentioned earlier the gaming downside of
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even-numbered monitor grids easily outweighs any advantage so a 3x3 grid
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looked like our best option because 5x5 was just not going to be a thing
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but rather than simply do a 12k setup which
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was our original plan to make the rig somewhat playable we opted to try
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something new so these
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are lg's 34 uc 99w
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these are 3440 by 1440 curved ips ultra
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wides they've got usb type-c input and
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freesync and this is cool they run it up to 75 hertz
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so any less demanding games we might be able to get even more than 60 FPS
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the aesthetic here actually helps our cause a lot too check this out even the
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bottom bezel is not much bigger than the
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sides in the top now this is less of an issue in a standard desktop
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configuration but when you start stacking them it
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makes a huge difference quite literally
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huge and holy sh
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that curve hey
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there we go i don't know why this one's all weird okay your scaling is a little
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uh little wonktastic there got that big
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start button and that small start why do they all have a start menu uh mosaic is
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not up yet so we need to configure mosaic okay make it one big display oh
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we can play some games this is beautiful
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i just love standing right here like the sound of my voice echoes back
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at me and video why you do okay there we go there we go
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and then the last piece of puzzle bezel correct bezel correction cool okay so
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here what we're doing is we're trying to align the road here that's not bad
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actually no it's not even close you need like 100 pixels what do you mean not
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even close no that's off you're too far no stop stop stop stop you can't look at
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just one of them no it's not look at them you can look at whichever
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angle it's a little bit too far on that one but it's not far enough on a couple of i
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see which means you can do it per month because the monitors aren't aligned
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perfectly yeah like so basically because Jake done goofed
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aren't you just so hyped to play games yeah too bad NVIDIA says no games these are
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cool drones these are not for gaming
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professionals have patience you're kidding
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the professionals getting paid to set this up are getting paid by the hour anyway what do they care
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wow i get to really drive Jake pull me
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uh we broke another tech accessory out of the uh moth balls upstairs this is
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our obato revolution cockpit with a logitech g920 racing wheel that is going
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through its uh pre-flight calibration here
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and we've got a shifter because Jake assumes that i know how to drive manual
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don't you which i do yes yeah right no the lambo's manual
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okay so i stalled do you not know how to drive i know how to drive manual
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how do you research how do i restart the car whoa he's doing it
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oh oh no my shifter moved
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you got a downshift don't go downshift
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super duper smooth it's fine that's okay i'm pretty good at
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overwatch i've never played overwatch okay
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it's basically team fortress 2 though right okay like it's a little different
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oh yeah oh yeah there's like 30 heroes oh yeah everybody they all have unique
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things whereas oh look at that you've got an endorsement for being a good teammate
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they dropped right but i have to be in the emoji shoot your left shift at the
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at the door there my what left shift
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see they're going to come and kill you right oh man you're going to die
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that was nuts oh my god
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so worth wow oh come on click your e damn it
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yes minus is good at overwatch who knew
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does anyone know how to tell if someone's on my team nobody's on your team
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remember we talked about this oh so this is like this is like complete
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free-for-all yeah oh like you're gonna get you're gonna
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get destroyed like oh okay so i just need to hide
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right here forever okay well that's not interesting like
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okay that's sort of left i guess jackass
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all the way left all right whatever this doesn't run that well so let's try something else
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look at that this is 75 so they're i want to try 100 hertz but i think that's
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out of it gorgeous all right okay do we have anything else
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to try can it run crisis
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law okay what graphic settings are we at whoa that low that system spec low that
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texture low we're not even trying to like run it
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well then hey no all right
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we're at 48 FPS and we haven't even actually rendered anything other than a
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black screen with some green text on it yet in this game this game is very
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optimized okay
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oh so it's just the other character models that get completely like your gun
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is strong your hand is like high quality i don't
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know oh wow wait what just happened there
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how did i not fall down you just like searched it
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those guys oh forget it
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where are you going oh my goodness isn't this where i'm supposed to go oh oh oh
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oh oh and we're done okay as much as we love using enterprise
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grade hardware for unconventional things like gaming NVIDIA did ask us
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very nicely to talk about what these cards are actually made for so
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uh have you ever seen the multi-hundred-foot video walls in places
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like times square or in tokyo or while
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watching your favorite sports teams live well they're usually made up of many
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smaller displays like our setup here and
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even though they're intended to be viewed from far away so their pixel
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density is comparatively low like all these look great from even just a couple
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feet away their overall resolution can
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get very high along with their demand for video memory
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and processing power and of course the images all need to be synchronized even
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if you're just playing back video so the sync card would come in handy there
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and for a more apples to apples look at the processing power improvements
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because gaming at different resolutions it doesn't really mean anything we tried
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out chronos's v-ray ray tracing benchmark and found that it actually
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runs in half the time compared to our last setup
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and bear in mind guys we are running one
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fewer actual graphics card in this setup
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so that's pretty much it now we just got to pack this thing up
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and take it to ltx oh yeah
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so huge huge thank you to lg for making this project happen if you guys like
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what you saw from these monitors you can pick one up or nine at the link in the video
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description or if you want even more pixels stay tuned because lg is
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launching their new 5k ultrawide nano ips display soon so
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you can check out the link to that or just google lg ultrawide for more
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information on their latest ultra wide displays
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how's it going there uh not great we're running bastion we just can't
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they just can't oh did i get more kills than you oh
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yeah yeah look my team one elim is gold
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that shows you how long my team is playing right now