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okay yes I know last episode total cliffhanger with some of you expressing frustration that we left you with these apparently whatever that means anyway we never meant to lead you on but between the desk the monitors and the troubleshooting it was just way too much for one video but we're back at it with 16k gaming and this episode will be the last and it's going to work we hope synergy allows you to share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers at once check it out now at the link in the video description okay so here's where we left off some of the monitors are running correctly for K 60 Hertz some of them are not working at all and some of them are somewhere in between at this god-awful 1024 by 768 resolution with pillar boxes so troubleshooting we reseated our graphics cards we double checked the connections on our quadrille sync card and finally it might be the painstakingly cable managed 25 foot generic DisplayPort cables I've got the new ones freaking fantastic okay so while Jake works on swapping the cables out I want to get into a little bit more detail about the 16 K experience we are trying to create here we wanted to upstage our last insane resolution gaming setup in every possible way so we reached out to Acer who graciously provided 16 of their 4k Predator xbone gaming displays we weren't able to make use of all of their gaming features like g-sync can our config but their IPS panels are an absolute must for a monitor array that's so large that in regular use you could actually be looking at it from 30 to 50 degrees off-center let's move around to where Jake's working and take a closer look at the cabling even with some clever cable management using these stealth power bars that we've got here we needed four pounds of power cords and we actually need to wall circuits in order to run this monstrosity because with a typical power consumption of around 70 watts each our monitors alone draw more than 1,100 watts from the wall and sending an image to the monitors was no easy battle either so our original setup had a whopping 300 feet of DisplayPort cabling all nicely managed into the desk save for a little bit that's kind of hanging out the back here takes shrinking that down to 240 feet now basically a lot of DisplayPort cabling and I think we've got all the replacements in right yep okay this isn't sixteen gamers one CPU is it yes yeah wait are they all 4k look again alright there it is sixteen K's of soon to be gaming glory and this is probably even more impressive than you realize because remember 16 K is not twice as much as 8k and 8k is not twice as much as 4k we are talking about a 4x increase in pixel count as we move up so to put this thing in perspective look at the 1080p full HD monitor that you're probably watching this video on right now 16 K is 64 times the total pixels your 1080p monitor would be this big that's it now let's talk about how we're planning to drive them we learned a lot from our last crazy experiment when we were the first to game at 8k on YouTube and there were three problems we needed to solve one we were running a mere two graphics cards last time with consumer amounts of video memory that needed to be rectified to Nvidia is consumer grade display spanning NB surround is not very flexible and free when you run a 3d application across multiple cards there can be a desync Rijn eyes jelly effect when you move left and right that's pretty nauseating thankfully guardian angel Nvidia saved the day supplying us with four of their Quadro p5 thousands valued at a total of about 10,000 u.s. dollars I saw a lot of comments on the last video y Quadros Quadros aren't for gaming okay if you went to Linus University you would know that they game just fine and you'd also know that they address a lot of those problems for us each of our p5 thousands has similar performance to a GTX 1080 but with a whopping 16 gigs of VRAM so that it's 64 gigs total for all dim pixels since we're not running an SLI also professional Quadro cards have a different display combining utility called mosaic that can scale to far more displays than NB surround and finally to address the jelly effect and keep this entire wall of monitors in sync they have this extra little connector to plug into a Quadro sync to card and it works hopefully like the last video you told me it was gonna work and it works okay now to be clear this feature is really designed for Jumbotrons and large format digital signage like a Time Square video wall versus gaming but we appreciate NVIDIA agreeing to let us showcase it for that which is coming very very soon now hey you can tell I'm going to be gaming cuz I have a gaming chair oh ok my leg is recovered and more importantly we've got all the monitors arranged correctly now so check this out each row of monitors is running off of an individual card so what we should see if we wiggle something back and forth is we should see some jelly in this line here but because of the sync card it's actually pretty darn clean ok also since we're in here holy crap that's right my friends 15000 360 by 8640 and we are gonna launch some freaking games after we take a closer look at the table so if you didn't see it in part 1 this custom version of I see tables desk expands their normal design from 6 to 16 monitors but everything else about it is actually this cool even if you just get a regular one so the entirety of the desk is customizable from the Bluetooth controllable RGB lighting to the swappable fascia panels which might I mention come in a variety of colors the tempered glass desk can also sport a graphic under it just pretty 6 you can show off your favorite game car or waifu if that's your mojo and there's built-in cable management for the integrated case that they call the t-con this is some desk PC forms right here so are you ready to launch a game yeah which we do first first minecraft we're gonna do some minecraft yeah you almost need a separate desk so you can desk while your desk or oh okay hold on I got this it's like oh my goodness that's a lot of pixels loading world Wow holy actual balls I will confess to you I have never played Minecraft do we have a fraps counter this is probably what like 800 by 600 so f11 so we were at 400 fps it's just gone click f3 I think you can see up there there we go there we go No so we're running at like 8 oh we saw hits there we're running it like 40 to 50 frames per second at 16k 16k that's like 5 billion pixels a second or something like that no we can't see out here and you see I'm just gonna hit give afterburner yeah no way good but every GPU is using exactly the same amount of memory it might be shared Jake yeah alright next game let's do one that we haven't tried yet right rise of the Tomb Raider go low settings just so we like have some vram possibilities there sure okay here we go you ready oh ok game launched 3 FPS remember start benchmark remember there's more there's more to lag about a game than just the framerate quick oh yes holy crap like the game's not even running in real time right now like you notice how long that yeah yeah I mean it looks great even like up close right cuz this is this is still 4k level of detail on every screen right yeah I think this is about one frame per second Lara Croft is actually like your size look at this this is actual size you heard it here first this is video games in real size maybe I didn't hold the Escape key for long enough oh wow yes and oh wow no holy balls I gotta know what video memory I mean it must have just been pinned yeah oh they're purely limited by vram like it was swapping out to system memory so that's interesting that means so we were at 65% so there was 30% more performance in there we could've been running at one point three frames per second look at the power usage we only ever went up to 50 oh that's really interesting so this is like frame frame frame frame frame like frame system memory frame system memory very interest rate well that's just try half-life 2 then there we go I mean this is running on this so oh damn no way no oh look at these tidy options we're at the right resolution go to advance the bottom right now hell yeah can we turn out like that it's like way over here give me the mouse you know no I can do it you can do it and then once you get its our frame rate 100 now 70 no way that's totally playable - - like insane Terry okay let's turn vsync on does it not have built-in D saying oh here it is a name that actually fixed the Terry that's not bad Wow what do we got 40 how's the input leg you know what a lot better than you would think memory usage is only eight gigs yeah so temps are getting up there and powers getting up they're actually not as much as I would have thought very interesting all right so you can play half-life 2 at 16k okay what else we got shadow of Mordor this is a disaster geographical coordinate the virtual putting Billy Bob Thornton on your arm is a disaster I'm just looking for a let's just lunch it oh there you go Wow wicked this is not 16 the right resolution though not even close yeah this is like 1080 or something loading and also it's completely crashed now okay well this game just broke did it manage to lock up the system no no okay system's up all right so we're gonna try one more game then 5500 oh my goodness this is impossible to read Oh oh my God look at the you I got your the mini maps over here they took the mini map we've got the settler over there how am I supposed to choose okay choose production for the might go on where is it oh hi pockets way up there I'm gonna make a granary is it a monument I don't know I can't read it what framerate is this running out honey 20 FPS not bad you have afterburner open not bad alright let's find out sieve 5 medium details 8k not bad 9 gigs ha so there you have it guys once again you saw it here first 16k gaming on the PC let's see you do that on an Xbox so you do 4k on an Xbox there are a hundred reasons for wanting multiple computers at your desk maybe you're a Mac person primarily but you need a non virtualized Windows environment for some reason synergy solves the problem of having to have two keyboards and two mice for two or more separate computers you can share one set of peripheral so you'll no longer get confused and the whole thing is seamless you just drag the mouse from one screen to another we're talking PC Mac and even Linux support they offer a basic and pro option for synergy with a one-time payment and features include advanced stuff like clipboard sharing between computers dragging and dropping files between computers the ability to set up hotkeys and more so use our link in the video description to get 50% off synergy today so thanks for watching guys if you dislike this video go home just go home and if you're at home go home again and if you like it hit the like button get subscribed maybe consider checking out where to buy the 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