XFX Fxtristand Triple LCD Display Monitor Stand Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,594 words · ~7 min read
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have you ever gone to one of those like um my family did this one year where you
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do Christmas morning and everyone brings an unlabeled present and puts it under
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the tree and it can be anything like uh you know it can be your old bowling
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trophy or it can be something you bought at the store and that's actually kind of
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cool and um as a kid the the first one I
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went for was the biggest possible package and the reason I mentioned
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bowling trophy is cuz that among with a
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among a bunch of other random stupid knick-knacks is what was in my my secret
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Santa gift so this is proof that not
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every time when you go for the huge box will it be something stupid inside this
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is actually a product that I am very
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excited about because although AMD
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ifinity technology has been on the market for quite some time
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there hasn't really been a good
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economical feasible way to run three
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monitors other than like ghetto moding it and throwing three monitors on your
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desk with their stands and running all the cables everywhere and it just it
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doesn't look that good you can buy expensive stands but that's the problem
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they're quite expensive uh I mean Samsung had their MD
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2303 something I don't remember that the expensive thing with the three monitors
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and the one stand built in but once again very very expensive well
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XFX decided they were going to address that so this is the triple display
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monitor stand from XFX that's right folks a reasonably priced triple monitor
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stand from a manufacturer that you trust
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XFX so let's
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just get out of there the unboxing before the
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unboxing I'm struggling here guys I'm struggling all
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right all right there we go now we have the real box so we can clearly see what
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is inside the box so that's it I won't be unboxing it today
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bye yeah I'm kidding okay on the back
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let's see what XFX has to say for themselves so it's designed to withstand
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the most intense gaming sessions and extreme work dayss
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uh adjust your monitors individually or collectively cool up to 24 in each for
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height angle and rotation with the XFX triple display monitor stand your single
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base will free up desk space while integrated Cable Management keeps chords
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untangled and organized and it adds functionality to the already Sleek
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design with two USB ports as well as
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Jacks for your gaming headset cool so those are right in the front what's
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included semi- adjustable HD pivot fully adjustable HD adjustable pivot extr
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Fusion crossbar 1.5 in pole XFX plastic
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cap crossbar Cable Management clip pole
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management clip M4 Phillips pan head monitor mount screws an allen key
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another Allen key a base instruction booklet 6 3 and2 mm stereo cables no a
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6t 3 1/2 mm stereo cable and a 6t USB
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cable so those are going to be just passrs so that you can plug from the
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back of your case into the monitor stand and from the front of the monitor stand
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into your headset or USB
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devices inside we find
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styrofoam with an XFX logo on
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it next we find a manual for both dual
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and triple display monitor stands now the triple one is the one that I'm
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really interested in and that's the one that we have here today so they show us
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the steps although this probably looks like a tech tips episode in its own
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right uh here's pretty much what they want it to look like at the end so
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there's you know your webcam and there's your three monitors with all of the
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cables routed
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okay and let's have a look at all the different things that are included it
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comes on a lot of pieces so uh yeah here we go here's a USB A2B cable so that's
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for the integrated Hub here's your 3 and 1 12 MIM audio jacks for your microphone
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as well as your headphones very nice touch all
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right see XFX is a gaming company so they put that extra little bit of
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thought into things Gamers need a microphone and a headphone Port let's
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provide it good on you guys okay here we have some uh Visa
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compatible monitor mounting screws three sets of four all right we have a bag
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then we have what appears to be a cable management clip of some sort you know
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what if I get any of this stuff wrong I apologize guys because I haven't
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assembled one of these yet so I don't know all right uh this looks like a
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little cap for this tube okay with a
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logo on it as well as a little clip on the back got a couple Allen Keys here
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this looks like the main stand you can see it's threaded on the one
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end and not threaded on the other end so that's probably where that cap goes all
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right next we have the ARM assembly
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itself so check this out guys so it's
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uh don't know exactly how it works looks like something to do
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with yeah I don't know guys but you can adjust these so I can tell you that
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much okay and then you can tighten those up if you want them to stay there okay
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let's see if I can find anything else adjustable here this looks like it's for
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tightening this in place so you got one of these Nifty little guys right here
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that you have on your uh cheap Jack included with your
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car which I had to do the other day actually I had a flat tire on my car and
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I had to take out the stupid Jack from under my spare tire install my spare
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tire what a pain take my car to Costco get some new
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tires all right there we go so let's put that away for
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now without dropping it and breaking it because I still need it all right next
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we have some more little clippy bits we have another piece of
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Styrofoam wow that's pretty boss looking
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all right ah here we have the pieces that make this other piece that I was
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tinkering with before actually make sense because these aha I think I get it
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okay these go on here like this okay see that Ridge
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right there so these hook on there and then wow I already pretty pretty much
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can't remove it look at that so it stays on really good so you put these on here
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and then you attach monitors to them they can
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slide what appears to be pretty much the entire length of this bar so you can
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mount the monitor wherever you desire so if you have a few different size
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monitors although that wouldn't make any sense uh you could potentially do that
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if you wanted okay gives you a lot of flexibility if
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nothing else got another one of these and another one of these so this looks
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like the this looks like the center one because it's different from the others
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and then these two no wait no this looks like the center one because it's
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different from the others and then these two look like they must be the outer
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ones and finally we have the base itself
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which has got some weight to it which is good I was hoping it would have some
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weight to it because you're going to put three up to 24 in monitors hanging off
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this thing so you're going to need not only some weight to keep it from moving
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around and tipping but also some surface
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area or some some W width to The Stance
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so even though we're going to have all this weight hanging off the front you can see XFX has designed this to lean
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quite far forward so even if you try to try to tip it it shouldn't go anywhere
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in the front here we have our microphone our headphone jack as well as our two
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USB ports which you could use for example for your keyboard and mouse say
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for example if you were I don't know a gamer okay and then in the back we have
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the p pass throughs so there's your mic pass through your headphone pass through
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and your USB hub on the bottom we
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find some nonstick or nonstick uh
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nonslip pads okay so these are all over
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the place down here you can see there's far more in the front than there are in
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the back in terms of the spacing the reason for that once again is because
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most of the weight is going to be forward leaning on this particular
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device and that is important for
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stability all right thank you for checking out my
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unboxing of the XFX triple display monitor stand I hope to get this thing
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assembled and show you guys what it looks like with three monitors on it in
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the next little while here and as always
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