The UltraWide Gaming Setup Battle! #Helpful Post

ey guys this is Austin and today we're

here for the LG ultra-wide festival and

of course big shout out to LG for

sponsoring this video and you're

mouthing what I'm saying the entire time

aren't you

after hundreds of entries Linus and I

narrowed it down to three finalists

Taylor Zack and John they each have a

budget of $2,000 to hold the game pcs

set up to go along with the LG 34 you

see 89 G ultrawide monitor and the

winner gets a $10,000 grand prize what's

the deal with the parts right so you

want a mini ITX system I went with a

mini ITX system okay this case is really

beautiful it's actually not built

anything in the Manta I'm not either

it's gonna be exciting

it looks nice so you're also going

you've got like the Z 270 I you've

gotten Core i7

but you're able to fit a 1080i in the

$2,000 budget yes with that I 770 700 K

pair with the gtx 980ti 16 gigs of RGB

a5 ram and a 250 gig SSD tears got a

pretty well-rounded small form-factor

build next we're here with Zachary now

you picked a very different style of

computer so what do you plan on doing

with it

well I wanted to focus more on immersive

gameplay immersive gameplay yeah okay

well you definitely went a lot higher

end on the accessories you spent was

probably 150 bucks or so on accessories

yeah 170 170 so you believe it

technically a little bit more than that

technically wouldn't you technically

well about something else what's what's

there something else that's the secret

weapon I don't think anyone's getting

anything close to this but I'm curious

okay so you have a beachy 50 motherboard

would you have an unlocked core i7 yeah

some reasoning behind that well there's

a big reason for that okay I'm just

stupid wrong motherboard aside while

zach is rocking much better accessories

to go with the ultrawide monitor he's

taking a serious hit with only a gtx

1080 as well spending a big chunk of his

budget on a 480 gig SSD next we're here

with John and you actually picked out a

little bit of a different system so

what's the main thing you wanna do with

this I want to make 3d animation videos

ok yes ok gotcha so it's a little more

on the content creation side yes here

John's also got an i7 7700 K pair with

the GTX 1080i but he also stepped it up

with matching RGB accessories even

including a headset for $2,000 you

should be able to build a pretty solid

gaming system and

first glance everyone has solid parts

but part of the challenge is actually

building them and tuning them in a

single afternoon to work with that

ultrawide monitor one it's three to one

we just said 31 okay so three two one go

or three two one three two one and then

you go on go okay all right okay ready

okay three two one turn so is the

headband giving you the power to

complete the build faster is it that the

manly power that you only need to like

use your words to just reinforce it it

does look cool what wait wait hold on

whoa that is crazy yes you can see those

pins are definitely bent they're

actually there's a couple over here as

well what do you think so I don't think

there's an easy way of fixing this at

all you have another look at this that's

that's totally fair like this is not

your fault that you got a busted yeah of

course not

after about an hour or so of building

the systems are coming along nicely hey

dude good job alright so you're the

first person to get a system up and

running lul you suck okay try it

well one fan is not spinning because you

actually had to swap out the motherboard

it's probably not posting because

there's a kV like CPU in here and it's

really looking for skylake so if we have

a BIOS update that will probably fix it

that's going to set you back this is

kind of a tough one

alright so your system is done do you

have anything else to do besides

overclocking right now no well he posts

so that's a big improvement over

Taylor's machine

besides the secret weapon which I'm sure

will be a hundred percent figured out by

the time that we're actually ready

you have everything installed yes okay

so now it's going to basically come down

to since you can't overclock the CPU

you're gonna try to get as much as you

can out of the ten eighty yeah all right

so everyone's basically buttoning up

their systems now it looks like you're

just doing the final bit of cable

management no I got

this Ram reseated that was the ceded

property so you're actually only at

eight gigs of RAM that's showing up

right now yeah okay got it so you feel

like it's just going to need to be

receded yeah all right so we are almost

done

everyone has their systems set up and

now it's just the final stuff like

making sure all the benchmarks are set

up doing the overclocking tweaking all

the last-minute little like lighting

stuff cables all that kind of thing the

first test is going to be set a bench

image

now they all have the same CPU yes but

overclocking is going to be very

different or what is it nonexistent

three two one two okay go go just go

start go everybody go

so your five gigahertz five gigahertz

overclock on that little priority cooler

very nice that's really impressive so

the next test is going to be 3d mark

which is going to be testing their GPU

performance so are you guys ready all

right three two one start alright so

we've got our x 5 benchmarks basically

John's card is a little more overclocked

and or margin of error of the test but

he takes this one by a hair so for Ghost

Recon we're running at the native

resolution of these monitors as 2560 by

1080 and we are using the ultra preset

because we figure for 2-grand

you should be having a pretty ultra

gaming experience now one of the things

that we're gonna be looking for is not

just being able to run the game but

being able to run it at a framerate

where you're gonna be taking advantage

of these high refresh rate monitors 65 7

65 9 and 53.4 ok you guys basically tied

with benchmark results in hand last

night stepped away to discuss what we

thought about the competition so far I

feel like right now ya back is kind of

not looking so great I feel like he's

got the wrong motherboard yeah there are

some fairly major issues I'm not a huge

fan of the idea that he spent so much on

the SSD and with some of the other stuff

where he skimped on things like the 1080

is opposed to a 1080 I'm having the

worst graphics card out of everyone

we're a gaming setup yeah is at the

problem pretty tough yeah in the

motherboard that's a huge problem

because like he got a very expensive

motherboard but it's still not

overclocking compatible like I think it

looks nice the complete system is going

to look solid but that's a big big

problem

which I guess brings us to Taylor yeah

so Taylor had a huge disadvantage in the

fact that he got a broken motherboard

out of the box so we're not gonna dock

him points for that I mean I'm not I

think I like his build I like the ideas

doing small form-factor

I think it's going to match pretty well

with the monitor well he had a rationale

behind everything he's like yeah I chose

like a case with curved side panels not

match the curved monitor I chose a black

and red case to match the monitor and

like it feels a little kiss ass to me I

mean the rules were that you had to get

a system to go along with the setup I

don't think we can penalize him for

trying to make something inside the

rules what do you think about John so

far John everything's going smoothly

over there I don't disagree with any of

his Hardware choices I think his is in a

vacuum you know the best balanced

machine on the table I terribly do that

so third place is Zachary you you fought

hard the scores were super close

actually it was actually we basically

agreed on almost everything yeah but I

think what's hurt the performance hurts

you the good news is that you come out

of this with a wicked awesome gaming rig

and hopefully you had fun today I think

before we announce the winner we agree

on basically every category

I think we're pretty on the same page

you guys all did really well it was way

close John you took it home and Taylor

you fought hard and you were a lot of

fun to hang out with today you royal

kitchen all right and you get to do the

check do the challenge I mean it doesn't

really look like it no she can't go cash

this is this 21 by nine so of course you

shut it to LG for sponsoring the video

and inviting us out to sort of host the

ultra-wide festival and let us know what

you guys think about the whole thing

actually we'd like to do more and you're

just keep doing that aren't you you know

I'm glad the videos over I can finally

go home