Samsung MD230X3 Eyefinity Monitor Showcase & First Impressions Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,049 words · ~5 min read
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So, since I shot my last video about this uh triple panel display, the box of
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which is here, I've already done the unboxing. I have done two things. First,
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I assembled it. And second, I realized
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what the part number means.
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MD multi-is 230 that is 23.0 in x3 * 3. So, it's
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actually fairly self-explanatory. I guess if they released another one, it
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would be called MD230X3
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V2. That would be my guess. I could be wrong. Anyway, so we've got it set up
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with the triple monitor stand. And I'm not going to let you look at the back
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yet. I'm just going to let you bask in the uh triple monitor glory that is this
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this setup. So, as I mentioned in the unboxing, it's about ow ouch. It's about
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the width of my outstretched arms in terms of your your visible area. Okay.
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The stand is a little wider than one of them. And it actually is height
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adjustable, which is pretty darn cool. Okay. And uh where was I where was I
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going with this? It's so freaking cool. So, we are going to run some games on
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this at some point. I haven't decided whether it'll be on my Linus Tech Tips
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blog or my NCIXCOM channel. So, make sure you're subscribed to both so that
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you don't miss that because we're going to get some iffinity action going on on
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here. And uh I did figure out what the little and yes, they are magnetic
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strips. The little magnetic strips are for that I found in the unboxing.
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They're to put on the sides of the monitor to cover up the kind of uh
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industrial finish that this monitor has. So, cameraman, you can come around to
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the back and don't catch yourself in the mirror there.
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So, check this out. So, I this is sort of the comment I was making a minute ago
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is that this setup is probably as close
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as you could ever get to a custom manufactured just for you setup from
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Samsung. Because you look at this, the fit and finish of it, while very
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industrial, very rugged, very all of that, is clearly not mass-production. I
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mean, this is like this is like stamped pieces of sheet metal with, you know,
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like ventilation holes and then it's like screwed together and you drill
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holes through it. It's like it's like it was assembled like uh like just custom
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like they found a Samsung panel and they just like built an enclosure around it
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just for this which is pretty sweet. So
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I want to show you guys how the cable management works on the pack because
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it's not simple. Okay, so first of all
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you've got power. So uh you can daisy chain the monitors together so that you
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only actually have to run a single power cord up to the entire setup. So, my
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power cord is going into this one and then out from there to this one and then
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out from there to this one. Here, back up a little bit so I can show you sort of the whole the whole look. Okay. I'm
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using DVI on the two outside panels and
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running the DVI cables over here and down. And then I have a DisplayPort uh
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cable here. Okay. And then for USB, cuz
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we do need USB, I've got the control pod plugged in over here. And the control
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pod is here right now. So, that means you could sort of sit it right there in
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front of the monitor. And then there is a control in and control out. So I plug
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the control pod into control in and then control out into control in and then
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control out into control in finally on the third one. Then the whole thing the
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only way I was able to get it tidily and that is without sort of I I could do it
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a little bit better if it was at home and I was going to be set up like this for good. But uh was to use some kind of
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a tie around the bottom here and run the whole whack of cables down the back. So,
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what we end with end up with at the bottom is two DVI, one power, and one
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DisplayPort to get this whole honken thing running.
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Uh, I think there was something else that I still wanted to say. Oh, yeah,
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yeah, yeah. I haven't shown you guys the hinge. So, the hinges, as you can see,
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I've adjusted them. Come have a look from top down on these. So, as you can
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see, I have adjusted them so they are at their full 30° angle, but you can also
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run it completely flat if you prefer.
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The setup for this thing actually to to put together the monitor itself took
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very little time at all. I was done in about 5 minutes, whereas doing all the
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cabling actually took me about 20 minutes. So, that's that's the
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timeconsuming part. Here, come have a look at it from the front over here.
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Make sure you don't catch yourself in the window because I know you're about to. Yeah, that's right. Uh, okay. So,
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this is what it looks like if you run it flat. And then just for perspective,
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here it is with my arms span again. So, you can see how long this panel thing
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is. So, as I mentioned in the unboxing, you can actually set it up differently.
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You can have them all um vertical if you
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want, and then that's a that's a slightly different look. So, it'll be less wide, but more tall if you set it
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up that way. So, thank you for checking out my detailed impressions on the MD230
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X3. See, I bet I got it right even though I didn't cheat. MD230X3. Yep. And
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uh yeah, don't forget to stay tuned because we are definitely going to be uh
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seeing this thing in action.