Building The Ultimate Thunderbolt Gaming Setup #Helpful Post

hey guys Boston and this is the ultimate

thunderbolt set up this entire project

started a few months ago when I had a

conversation with Intel's thunderbolt

team about what really to me felt like a

very obvious use case for thunderbolt a

single cable powering an entire crazy

over-the-top gaming setup

luckily they agreed and alongside Dell

Intel was able to sponsor this entire

set up and make it happen

the set up is built around the Dell XPS

13 this is a terrific ultra block not

only is it powered by the latest eighth

generation Core i7 processor but you

have great battery life a good screen

all the normal kind of laptop stuff but

what it lacks is some dedicated graphics

for gaming which is where Thunderbolt

comes in the HP S is connected today or

as GT X 1080 gaming box this little

enclosure here houses not only a full GT

X 1080 graphics card but it also has a

power supply to power down of the

graphics card in the laptop but it also

has USB ports for the rest of our

accessories what's great about this is

that with a single Thunderbolt 3 cable

your thin and light Dell that you carry

around all day long turns into a full

proper gaming setup there are a wide

variety of Thunderbolt 3 enclosures

available most of which have graphics

cards built in and those started around

$350 or so but there are also other

options without the GPU that you can add

yourself so these started around $200

and one of the ones I recently took a

look at was the Razer core X this

supports a full sized graphics card with

plenty of power for pretty much anything

you want to put in there the reason we

chose to go with the gaming box is for a

few reasons

first of all at GTX 1080 is a lot of

power paired with an ultrabook like this

but it also has some additional features

so first of all we have a series of USB

ports on the back which is helpful

because we wanted to make sure that all

of our accessories could be wired in

with just that single defender volt

cable and on top of that this does

support a full 100 watts of power

delivery which means that we don't have

to charge our laptop either it really is

one single Thunderbolt 3 cable to make

this entire setup work to take advantage

of all this gaming hardware we have

three full monitors and by monitors I

mean TVs

these are TVs they're 55 inch 4k HD are

panels

so this in hindsight may have been a

little bit of overkill but I mean come

on we're building the ultimate

Thunderbolt set up overkill is kind of

what you're here for right

pair with this are my favorite gaming

peripherals right now first of all we

have the Razer Huntsman elite keyboard I

did an entire video about this you

should definitely go check it out this

is straight up my favorite keyboard that

I've ever tried alongside this we have

these Zowie

what is it the the BenQ Zowie that's k1

I knew it the FK one this is actually

the mouse I've been using for like two

years now not only do I use it for

editing and general use but it is really

great for gaming as well I probably

should have known the name of the mouth

should nayeth all this is backed up by

my favorite gamepad right now the Xbox

one wireless controller now this is seen

a few revisions over the years most

notably it now has bluetooth and you can

also do a cool design lab version which

maybe doesn't match with the setup but I

don't care because it's my custom Austin

not Duncan one but the cool thing is

this is going to be a nice benefit for

when you want to play racing games or

stuff that doesn't work well with the

mouse and keyboard what's really cool

about this is when you sit in front of

it urea is just how immersive it is I

mean look at this we've got three

displays all running in surround it's so

seamless I mean yeah the TV's have a

little bit of a border but I mean come

on this is so cool almost like sitting

with like a VR headset on as opposed to

three giant TVs oh dude what this is the

point of the video where I'm just like

freaking out the whole time so we're

playing on full epic settings too so

right now the resolution is set to 57 60

by 1080 but it's full epic basically

everything and framerate wise we're

doing pretty solid I mean we're pretty

much around 50 to 60 fps see I do a lot

of videos with fortnight right a lot of

the time I'm playing on like $200 pcs

they're like seven frames per second on

ultra low settings but this totally

feels like cheating

I mean sure when I'm looking ahead it

looks like a fairly standard field of

view but I look left and right I can

have such a competitive advantage go

it's like downside is that some of the

information is all the way over to the

left or all the way over to the right

such as the mini-map I mean sure you

could go build an incredibly expensive

gaming PC and get this sort of permanent

setup going but the greatest part is the

students are done with this game I

unplug a single cable and I've got my

normal Ultrabook that's completely

portable that I can take with me to

school or work or whatever whoa this is

like chippy it's like all those enough

to get you motion sick at summer

of all right let's do this I'm coming

there we go

I can be helpful you have a very cool

cape too so immersive I mean it's crazy

just how into the game I feel this feels

incredibly dangerous

I shouldn't be hiding underneath this

tree right now I'm just gonna run

running us always a good option right oh

yeah haha I like this

no no no no no no no no no no no no no

that's not how this works

that's not how all right well it's fine

we we came in number two I cannot go

back to playing games on a mere single

display or a phone or a switch or a 200

laptop can't don't let me go back can I

can I just do this now actually might

get good at Porton I have a play on this

set up next up we have Forza horizon for

not only is this one of my favorite

games out there but the PC version is

actually really good this year which is

especially helpful when you have three

giant TVs in front of you if you want to

be lame you can drive outside the car

and I mean yes that's fine but nah this

the way do it you have something I'm

noticing is that the mirrors in the game

I've never really paid that much

attention to playing on like Xbox but it

makes a big difference here on PC not

only are the reflections nice and high

quality but I can really see especially

with this right-hand mirror when people

are behind me it's a small thing but it

really kind of goes to show just how

useful a setup like this can be Hey nope

nope that was too aggressive that was

too aggressive that's okay I made it huh

no you don't there we go little pump

never heard anybody rate I do have the

same problem as I did with fortnight and

that some of my information like the HUD

is way too far away but I mean come on

it's fine it's like a real race I don't

need my my mini-map I could just kind of

drive by the seat of my pants and the

voice of the GPS of course Thunderbolt

is useful for more than just purely

playing games so not only are we adding

a ton of extra graphics horsepower to

our system but we do have all the extra

USB ports and power and stuff and we

also have the ability to hook up

multiple 4k monitors so that's something

that's going to make a big difference in

things like video editing and racing

games but mostly the old video editing

and creative professional activities

like drifting and that is the ultimate

Thunderbolt setup a lot of work went

into nellie our brand-new set to getting

this all together it's a huge out to

everyone here and of course massive

thank you to Intel and Dell for

sponsoring this video if you excuse me

I'm going to go do some real work on my

tiny XPS 13