MD230X3 Tech Tips Episode Preview & Eyefinity Heaven Benchmark on 6970 Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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873 words · ~4 min read
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all right so we've got our oh just so happens we start the video exactly when
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it goes like down to the dungeon but we've got our MD 230 X3 monitor setup so
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that is the uh monitor setup you see back there so it's the three 23in
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Samsung narrow bezel LCDs on this base I
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did a full unboxing as well as a as a
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sort of overview of this you know what here I'm just going to start the Benchmark over because this is all the
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dark scenes you can't see anything uh so we'll go to like the uh the town and the
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ship that's a little bit better so uh I showed all the wiring in the back that's
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quite complicated but now we've finally got it set up with our ultimate AMD
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machine which I have updated and I've installed the brand new 5970 graphics
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card so this is a fully ifinity direct X11 all that good stuff card it is the
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replacement for the 5870 but faster better stronger more
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powerful all that good stuff so we've got that in our machine that we also did
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a couple full Tech tips episodes on which has our Phenom 2 X6 1100t turbo
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processor it's got uh 4 gigs of Corsair Dominator GT memory Corsair h70 cooler
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ax850 power supply dual Corsair 40 gig
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ssds which are hiding back there somewhere as well as an assus Crosshair
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4 formula motherboard in the Corsair
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graphite 600 TK so it's a very cool machine and you can see we're running
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the heaven Benchmark here right now I actually don't have a score yet because
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I'm just prepping this episode of ncx
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tech tips that's going to focus on the new 6970 as well as the MD 230 X3 monitor
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setup so it's pretty impressive and here cameraman I'll get out of your way for a
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second so what I want you to do is go in a little bit closer so that the camera
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angles yeah yeah actually that's perfect is kind of like sitting in front of it I
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mean it's a different experience when these are angled correctly towards your
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face and you're kind of looking at it like that's your peripheral vision and
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that's your Center Vision now remember guys you can also set this up so that
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the monitors are up this way but the way that I bolted it together we're going
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for the super wide Panorama view versus
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the uh the taller less wide Panorama
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View and also you can adjust the uh the hinges here so if you don't want the
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monitor um facing in towards you then you can also
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just make the whole thing flat if you prefer that although it's not going to
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look as good cuz if that's flat you'll you'll find that uh that most games will
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actually kind of um uh stretch this image a little bit so that it makes more
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sense out of your peripheral vision so if you put it flat then it'll look kind
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of weird because really what's right here is actually beside you so it's a
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lot closer to you than you know the the wall in front of you in all likelihood
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so it'll it'll look weird if you don't uh if you don't do it like this so
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that's pretty much it I'm just showing you guys sort of some of the some of the prep work I'm doing for this episode and
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don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips ncixcom both of my channels for
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more cool videos about this sort of good
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stuff now I should also mention while it's probably not ideal for gamers there
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is a six monitor version some people commented on the unboxing video for this
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well can you can you stack two of them you can't but there is a six monitor
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skew that comes preset up to do six
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panels so it looks like this uh the stand is a little bit taller but it's
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otherwise the same panels you just have uh double the number of them and check
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out the wiring at the back of it cuz I showed you guys the wiring on the back
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of this one well it gets even more complicated when you're looking at six
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panels instead of uh instead of three panels so yeah it's not cheap but I
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guess you you got to pay to play for uh for this kind of uh this kind of
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product and actually our Heaven Benchmark is uh finished running so you
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can see here with a single 6970 at stock
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speeds with the actually here well you can see my full system configuration
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here as well as all of my settings we get 24.3 frames per second which is
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pretty darn impressive for a single card
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at this kind of resolution that is
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triple HD resolution very cool