Full Tour of MSI Radeon HD 6870 3x 46" Eyefinity Setup for NCIX Tech Tips Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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952 words · ~4 min read
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so if my living room was at work um this
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is probably what it would look like I'm here with my ifinity triple 46 in setup
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that I'll be using for an episode of tech tips that may be up before but it
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may be up after this video actually goes up so I just want to take you on a
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little tour through the uh the construction because if you actually
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look around the room you can see it's kind of a you know an empty space so I
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figured hey why don't we use this for our for our setup and uh yeah so here
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let's walk through it so I found this couch um upstairs where people have to
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wait so anyone who had to wait for anybody today had to stand because I
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borrowed it we've got the Phantom lapboard right here so you can see that
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this guy uh we I did an unboxing recently but it's a laser mouse and
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rotating keyboard with a mousing surface on the bottom of it great game
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controller when you're sitting on the couch I've got a wireless Xbox 360
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controller with my griet rubberized uh
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analog stick covers all right I got my remote for the TV uh over here I've got
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the TVs themselves so these are all Samsung LCDs they aren't LED backlit
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they're not super high-tech the total cost for these three TVs at a big box
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store was $3,000 so I mean y's a lot of
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money but it's not actually Out Of Reach to set up something like this which is
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pretty cool because the technology has just come so far I've got my box for the
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Phantom lap board I had to kind of um
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well this is random but I had to sort of
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jury rig something to actually put the monitors on so these are all antech df30
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boxes because they're quite sturdy and they're just kind of a you know glossy
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black box so they look pretty nice this is actually my media PC from home um so
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this is a Silverstone sgo1 which in my
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opinion was the best Sugo ever although the SG3 is pretty good too I've got a
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little Imon display which I actually I don't have the application open right
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now but it shows me like what media is playing the date and time uh inside I've
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got a core i5 750 quad core with a
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custom CA and Tech true power 550 W you can see my 8 pin connector for example
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is only exactly long enough to reach the 8 pin connector on the motherboard got a
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zman CPU Cooler in there keep things nice and cool nice and quiet and then uh
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normally I keep a fairly modest video card in here but as you can see I have
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clearly upgraded it to the Radeon 6870
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and what's really cool about this card is as you'll see in my length comparison
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on my blog it's not actually that long so you can install it quite easily in a
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media oriented or a mini ATX case and
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it'll still work just great so I got my wireless I got a Gigabyte motherboard in
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there uh okay I think that's pretty much it I got my steam drive so you can see
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my steam drive back here runs off USB 3
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contains all my Steam games cuz I use an SS SD for my home computer so there's
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not enough space to store my like 50 something Steam games um so I found that
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that solution actually works pretty well for me so this is oh crap that one came
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undone the HDMI cable I'm using is a little bit finicky there we go all right
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so we can here we can even go around the back and sort of check out how everything's hooked up at the back so as
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you may or may not know ifinity requires at least one display
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port compatible uh monitor so since most
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TV in fact all do not have DisplayPort what we're using is an active display
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port adapter back here so that's a mini DisplayPort to DVI active adapter it
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means it costs about 100 bucks and you actually have to power it via a USB port
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so that's back there and that one is running over to the far monitor then
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we're using native HDMI to HDMI for the middle Monitor and last but not least
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we're using a DVI to HDMI cable for the
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left monitor when looking at them from the front so what that means is that
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we're using all Native digital signals but we are using adapters so the image
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quality is all going to be identical it's just a matter of cables at the back
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so um there you have it that's a little tour of the setup here so if you don't
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mind I'm just going to sort of oh yeah right cameraman's reminding
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me of something we had discussed that I totally forgot so what I want you guys
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to do is leave a comment at uh on the bottom of this video and
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say first of all if you installed this
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setup in your living room tonight would you sleep tonight and second of all if
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you installed this what would you do how
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would you make this setup better to suit your personal needs