Building a 4K Workstation with Dennis!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,456 words · ~7 min read
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okay so this video is the result of two recent events here Atlantis media group
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that have serendipitously collided the
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first is that our search for a new graphic designer is over the LMG Squad
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has a new member and this person naturally will need a high-performance
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workstation that they can use to design vector graphics and it videos and
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potentially create animations and the second is that LG reached out to us to
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sponsor a video about their new 27 UK
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850 monitor it's 4k its HDR and it looks
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like a great match for our new graphic designer so you see where I'm going with
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this so we decided to use this monitor in this sponsored video to build a
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workstation for this guy whose face and
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name will remain secret because he's not past his probation yet
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I'm really liking the look of this monitor it's got the thin bezels that
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we've come to expect from LG on all sides which enhances the immersion
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factor it's got a 3840 by 2160 4k
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resolution with 315 a typical brightness and on the back it's got a textured
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white finish and a slim stand with 110 millimeters of hide adjust and 25
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degrees of tilt which unfortunately we
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are not going to be able to see or use once we attach it to our crate case
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alright so as not necessarily an expert
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on you know creative workstations I've brought in
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well I think expert would be a strong word Dennis thank you for volunteering
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wait that's that person no I'm building this PC for
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no no
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surprise so if you guys watched recently Dennis did claim in his PC building
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simulator you know PC building debut that he could build a normal computer
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just fine it was limitations of the software that held him back I know how
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to be in real life I know how to do it
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of course of course so Dennis why don't you start us off
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here with our CPU so we're gonna be using a 79 80 Excel for several use I
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know you had you touch it no I know I know
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we can put it here oh
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oh okay there's no plastic thing okay yeah
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that's fine that's fine I feel like this
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is more like kindergarten class no I'm the triangle who's it this is trying I
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know this may be like that
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okay turn it no no no okay this way okay
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you put the size of a rice I've seen the video like a big rice bigger eyes yeah
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thick your eyes like bloated rice yeah cuz this is a big CPU that's what your
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rice looks like you see long rides I
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know yeah so you have to open the clip first I know I know I didn't do that in
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the videos but I know that's not oh that's an SSD no I know that I think
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that looks different this is the click sound just make a sound effect you know
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No okay okay stop it I'm not acting this is
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really hot out there I don't think you're acting oh no no no
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this way ha ha ha ha I know it Linus
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don't you I would never laugh at you I'm laughing with you
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got it got it got it more accurately I'm laughing with the viewers they are
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laughing they are learning how to be a PC with me
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yeah just like that just like can see building simulator
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good good collect like uh how much time
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do we have in here we have we have four rims I
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don't want to do the math again okay
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ready now we add our HDR monitor
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so I can lay that down Boop not on any screws hopefully they do that
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wait wait doesn't fit is this something
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wait this doesn't go on that side that's
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okay nice this is like bad
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Oh
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guys going mm this is
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C you are wrong I said we were wrong
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IDI say you was right yes
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seems like such a waste to get rid of a like stand that looks like this for one
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that yeah compared to this like that but
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this way we can have the computer clipped onto it okay so you're gonna put
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it on and we're coming through this you're gonna do the honors make sure you
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got a good angle and Casey drops at Brennan at the very least we want to
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capture it on camera I'm not going to drop this for sure
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yes
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this is Ian wait it's not only the top is on you
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miss Luxx I was kind of it go
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no you missed out come can you look at
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it from the side do you see how the hooks go okay oh
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my god oh
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my god
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yes yes yeah your honor
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Wow
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so believe it or not this workstation is
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actually more powerful than your editing workstation really yep okay so we are
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making a couple of compromises we can't especially access the i/o which is kind
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of a shame because it's got two HDMI one DisplayPort all supporting HDR it's got
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a USB type-c with 60 watts of power so you can like run your laptop on the side
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actually that would be a pretty cool idea just having it plugged in
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permanently and just having like a wire like velcro here or something that you could run your laptop off it yeah but I
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mean you lose height adjust and stuff but still
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one piece full workstation now it's time for us to
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test out the HD arnis
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we made our own all-in-one Dennis yeah
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okay let's find out how good it is for productivity then
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wow it's actually better than my editing
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machines is check out that that real-time 8k footage scrubbing in full
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at full not bad eh
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keep playing
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you can really see my hair thinning at 8k
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so what we're looking at here is a testing code at 4k for upload to YouTube
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and wow that is really darn speedy sorry
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Dennis but this is way better than your machine so we're making this for the new
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designers there his desktop background desktop
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desktop desk desktop there you go and
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once he saw this he will know why we need to hire him there's a new desktop
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get that picture google it it's I just have it on my
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phone what is this what you also have a
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vessel actually yes and why Wow now given this as a
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workstation it's probably not going to come up that often but other than
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playing back HDR videos HDR gaming is one of the biggest use cases for HDR and
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you can clearly see that it's working in Deus Ex mankind divided here this
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benchmark looks noticeably better on an HDR display than
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it does on an SDR display now with that said in HDR mode sometimes you do run
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into some odd behavior like for example
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this thumbnail for Austin's iPhone 10 video which happens to be an HDR video
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is not HDR so like the thumbnail looks weird but then the video itself is gonna
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be running in HDR so there you have it overall I'm really
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pleased with this nice compact little workstation that we managed to put
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together it is definitely a little bit
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on the heavy side but you can't really blame the monitor for that I guess that's why they stopped making cases out
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of thick steel or cast iron or whatever
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else the case may be we ended up with really nice cable management and
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hopefully they really liked it and are especially proud of having a system
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built by the one and only Dennis V ow it worked so it's fine I think you will
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love it so thanks for watching guys if you dislike this video you can hit that
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