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hey 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