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so my original plan for the oboe revolution was to find the most be a monitor setup on the planet and take a look at this thing from a Productivity and gaming perspective all in one shot unfortunately and this is a super-duper first world problem I ended up with a surround setup of 3 LG 31 mu 97 displays which are absolutely beautiful 31 inch monitors but all that up to an ungodly 26.5 million pixel resolution that no current graphics card setup could even hope to drive in modern triple-a titles so in my unintentional part one I talked about productivity and comfort because datte screen real estate and that flexibility of the setup and you can check that one out here while I waited for a soos to send me three rog swift PG 278 cue gaming monitors so that i could actually play some games on the bloody thing and by the way that stick and throttle that you see the X 55 the review of that is coming soon you can ensure swift victory with Corsairs highly responsive lightweight gaming mouse their Sabre RGB click my face hopefully if Nik remembers the annotation to learn more so I'll start with why I picked the PG 2 7 8 Q out of all the 1440p monitors on the market it features lightning-fast pixel response times a 144 Hertz refresh rate Nvidia g-sync while I wouldn't recommend it for a pro photographer for a TN monitor really not bad color reproduction and viewing angles the second of which is especially critical and they surround setup n you know what to screwed if you want to know more about this monitor it's great check out my review of it here the next thing I'd like to address about this setup is that while the PG 278 cues aren't impossible to drive three of these suckers is still about eleven million pixels hardly child's play so everything you're seeing demoed is on a very high-powered machine running an Intel Core i7 59 60 X 8 Core Extreme Edition processor at 4.2 gigahertz even overclocked 16 gigs of DDR 4 memory and two gtx 980 graphics cards in sli so with that out of the way the first step is to gear up the cockpit with my G 25 racing wheel setup this process taught me a lot about both the versatility of the O but oh I ended up moving the chair back quite a bit further moving the foot pad down and reducing the angle of its incline so away from my feet I ended up moving the wheel mount closer to me tweaking shifter height and then I was able to finally bolt the wheel and foot pedals onto the revolution with the conveniently pre-drilled holes and clip the shifter into place and then with that down I sat down and promptly accidentally wrenched the shifter off the mount not because the mount is any less secure than it ever was before you know when I had it clipped onto the table but because driving in the revolution feels truly different from driving at your desk my usual racing game complaints will all still exist until driving cockpits with motion compensation get a lot more affordable but with everything so securely mounted and a more car-like sitting posture I definitely found myself falling into my real driving habits of slouching with one hand on the wheel and just throwing the shifter around into gear so I'd recommend drilling your own holes for your shifter because accidentally pulling it off was the one complaint that I really had about this config because everything else about it is just better than doing this kind of thing at your desk I mean one of the reasons my g25 mostly sits in a closet is that it is so inconvenient to set up and I always end up tearing it down when I do because it takes up so much space the revolution takes care of that by making your keyboard and mouse much more easily accessible something that can be a huge boon even when you are racing since so many games are a pain in the butt to navigate with the buttons built into your wheel so my final thoughts on using the Obot oh and the default racing configuration are these this is the first time I've ever really felt like the g25 s toy grade build quality is just not good enough it takes the experience to another level like to the point where I found myself needing to wear shoes for better control and craving force-feedback pedals and a much more robust shifter unit and just it generally gave me an understanding of why people get really really deep into this stuff but with that said driving has never really been my thing anyway so the next step for me was to use the optional flight stick mount and convert to a flight sim cockpit the whole process took about half an hour including watching the 1-minute guide on a but O's website and involved removing the shifter mount adding the mount on the left for the throttle portion of my X 55 and mounting the joystick mount you can put the joystick over on the right if you want but I went with the center mount for a couple of reasons it does make the seat a little more difficult to get into and out of but I find the center mount more natural and more authentic feeling with my hands on it and I found a great solution to my complaints about the keyboard and mouse tray from my productivity video having it mounted on the right hand side puts more support under my mouse hand and causes it to shift or found a lot less during use it also makes the keyboard and mouse very accessible with the joystick in for games that have FPS and flight elements so you can switch between them really quickly and when you're done playing outright and you don't want the joystick in the way you want to bring the keyboard mouse a little closer you just pull one knob off put it aside and you're ready to use it as a normal computer one thing that sketched me out a little bit about all of this was the double-sided mounting tab tape that Oberto expects you to use to mount your hoe test but I was pleasantly surprised when I simply placed the throttle down on its mount to check the location and almost couldn't get it off to reposition it this is some serious business tape and it should hold out for a long time so let's talk about actually using it go right well if you're into flight gains and all I can really say is loads of fun and then I can try to find different ways to say loads of fun for the next couple of minutes because it's freaking awesome I fired up star citizen elite dangerous and an old favorite of mine x-wing and everything I said about racing games definitely applies here except to a genre of games that I generally find a lot more entertaining and interesting even if I also suck at these I definitely found star citizen a little tough to play because at this resolution I was dipping well under 30fps even at low details but elite dangerous ran at over 60 fps which especially with decent looks bonner smooth and was just a blast to play around with so it's time to draw my final conclusions about the abut Ellucian because there won't be a part 3 to this after my first video I wasn't completely sold on it as a daily driver workstation it's an okay chair on an incredibly versatile seemingly infinitely adjustable monitor slash peripheral mount thing which is cool really cool but not cool enough to justify how much space it takes up in my house after gaming on it I'm really trying to figure out a way to get my wife to let me keep this thing even if I have to put it in the garage and wear a jacket when I use it it's really really freaking cool once you've done it upright with the correct displays and accessories and if you're racing or flight enthusiasts with a couple grand to burn then there's two things I have to say to you number one can I be your friend you seem like a pretty cool baller sort of individual and two don't even think about trying one of these things because you're enthusiast status is about to reach newer crazier heights and that money you had to burn well you won't have it anymore so guys that's pretty much it thanks for watching like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment on the Linus tech 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