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if you're the kind of ultra gamer who's logged more hours and half-life than in real life then the words all-in-one PC will probably make your eyeballs roll out of your head and straight out the front door I mean come on fellas a iOS may be great for your photography business but clearly other all-in-ones don't have all you would need if you're a gamer well blow the dust bunnies off those baby blues my friends because the digital storm era is a 34 inch curved ultra wide AIO with a frickin GT X 1080 inside it the gmm keyboard features cherry gatherin and kale hot-swappable switches with a floating key cap design RGB lighting and minimalistic style check it out now at the link below kicking things off the ARRA is seriously heavy-duty like all of digital storms custom machines it's a low-volume built to order product which explains why the thin bezel is anodized aluminum rather than your usual mass production plastic and also why some of the finishing touches are perhaps a little less finished the 34 inch display is mounted on a rugged AF stand that does offer a generous amount of tilt freedom but unfortunately only stays at a fixed height which given the height disparities found among humans even just within our office is sort of a drag I get it the machine's heavy but it's still unfortunate that a $3,000 computer doesn't include a more feature-rich stand causing some of our more vertically challenged staff to seek out creative aftermarket solutions since you can't even fix this with the good old textbook trick thanks to the Rs long legs and 35 pound heft so now that I think about it if that weight even really unreasonable that's only 12 pounds more than the Acer predator X 34 and that's just a monitor not to mention that the other dimensions impressively are nearly identical except for the Rs extra inch of depth and speaking from experience it wouldn't surprise me if that extra inch was enough to make a lot of magic happen working past then the 11 screws that hold the back panel on we find an entire ball ass gaming rig worth of parts Frankensteined into that extra inch on the back of a samsung panel seriously this thing is like a a crazy science experiment gone horribly right there's even two separate power supplies with like this weird o-genki power splitter in here I mean what else is crammed in this thing our units got 16 gigs of 2666 megahertz ddr4 ram on a standard mini ITX standard MSI gt70 motherboard upgradability my friends crazy it rocks an Intel Core i7 7700 K KB Lake processor and that's cooled by what looks to my eye like a custom 160 millimeter by 35 millimeter ace attack all in one liquid cooling system not too shabby it's got a 1 terabyte hard drive as well as a 480 gig SATA 3 SSD nvme MDOT - equipped models are also available and of course finally the PS de la resistance a full sized GT X 1080 founders edition graphics card which has its display outputs actually looped back into the monitor Tim kayler style to a separate PCB that runs the display and the crummy onboard speakers the fact that this rig is built with mostly off-the-shelf parts gives it that Frankenstein feel but it also gives it some distinct advantages it's completely upgradable as long as your new parts would fit your new parts could fit and if I mean assuming you don't want to use it as a computer forever you could even just use it as an ultra wide monitor this thing has all the i/o of a full conventional desktop setup the monitor itself has all the usual display in port though it does lack an OSD the graphics cards outputs are all there and easy to reach all the motherboard ports are here including USB 3.1 10 gig in both type a and type C flavors though it should be noted those are significantly more difficult to reach and it's even got these Franti Oh with a side located SD USB and set of audio jacks and this is cool up on the top there's even an extra USB port for a you know a webcam or an anti-air missile defense system whatever you prefer but can all this stuff cramped together under a plastic covering stay cool under load well the answer is shockingly yes yes it can we use I 264 and fir mark to simultaneously tax the CPU and the GPU neither of which throttled instead leveling off at 70 degrees and 85 degrees respectively with most of the components hovering around 50 degrees heat gets dissipated through the perforations on the top and back of the chassis and the warmest feeling area is actually beneath the motherboard plate which is perfect by the way for keeping your nachos warm during extended reading sessions the ARRA does start humming under load however adding about 20 decibels to the room's ambient noise in our testing though it should be noted that this is about what I would expect from having a you know thoughtfully assembled gaming rig two feet in front of my face and still way quieter than the HP wave ocean simulator if you don't big synthetic tests we threw some real games at it as well running all of our benchmarks at the native 34 40 by 1440 resolution and then again at 1080p for comparison's sake as expected the 60 Hertz 3000 are curved ultra wide IPS display is awesome to game on with great contrast and viewing angles but it doesn't have G sync and frankly the colors are way off so without a calibrator this one's not really recommended for our friends who are gamers by night and graphic designers or photographers by day so is it better than to buy a fancy-pants monitor and a separate gaming rig or to save faced with an all-in-one like the ARRA I mean now that small form-factor pcs are becoming more and more popular you could make the argument that you're not saving that much space but very few of them are dedicated gaming rigs and even the ones that are like the msi trident aren't necessarily upgradable thanks to the use of proprietary components in fact even some of the ones that are advertised is upgradable like the corsair one void your warranty if you have the audacity to pop the hood so then if you're looking for the ultimate two trifecta of desk space performance and future proof nests and you've got the cash to back up your search then accept no substitutes because this thing is linked as the kids say so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button or check out the link to where to buy the stuff we featured in the video description also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should totally join