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you may recall that we were one of the first to get our hands on an 8k monitor it was from Dell on the thing as a creators dream thanks to its hundred percent coverage of the Adobe RGB color space and true 10-bit color the only problem is that come on to be truly creative especially when you've got a bunch of different design tools and file explorers and web browsers open you really need a multi-monitor setup and now we have just that today we're going to be showing off a badass workstation with not one but two 8k monitors and we're going to be powering those things within videos brand-spanking-new $9,000.00 Quadro GV 100 and this video is brought to you by Mac Weldon Mac Weldon makes high quality shirts socks wallets and more they believe in simple shopping and if you use code tech tips you'll get 20% off through the link below so let's start by having a look at what we would consider to be basically an ultimate workstation at this point we ended up choosing a very subdued case so this is the corsair 600 q and unlike a lot of the really popular options that are out there right now it's got no RGB no tempered glass no nothing it's just a plain black box with a nice included fan controller and ample room for any kind of cooling you could possibly want to put in it for our CPU we went with obviously the core I 979 ATX C so that's an 18 core processor turbos up to 4.2 gigahertz or something crazy like that we've got a hundred and twenty eight gigs of G skills Trident CR GB RAM okay yes I know it's RGB but that's not why we chose it it's just one of the only kits that we had a 128 gig kit of for our motherboard we've gone with these Zeus's WS X 299 sage now we could have gone with the WS c 422 pro SC that we checked out recently but we determined in our video covering the Zeon W for the 2066 platform that the value just wasn't really there unless you need ECC Ram and besides the X 299 sage has seven PCI Express slots meaning we can put basically anything we want in here for our SSDs we went with two samsung 960 pros each of them 512 gig running in raid 0 and then for our power supply we went with a see sonic 80 plus titanium unit it's only 750 watts but quite frankly quite frankly that's more than we really need anyway bringing us to of course the centerpiece the Quadro GV 100 we've only got one of these so we won't be using the envy link connections that you can use to not only double your processing power but also share ran between them but for the kinds of workloads that we're going to be able to put on this thing anyway it's improbable that we will actually need more RAM than one of these cards has a each of them is equipped with 32 gigabytes of high-speed HBM to memory to go along with their 5120 cuda cores and 640 tensor cores so these are designed not just for your sort of traditional workstation usage but also for AI and deep learning applications let's go ahead and get it installed alright now that we've got it in we can see we're gonna be using every single one of the DisplayPort 1.4 outputs on this card because each of our 8k monitors requires two of them okay so while we wait for this to power up I want to take you guys for a little tour of our desk here because as you might have noticed it looks really different from one of our more typical gaming setups because when your focus is productivity the kind of gear that you're using needs to be a little bit different so first of all obviously we'll get to the visuals in a little bit here is sound now gamers might want speakers and the same actually goes for their headphones that accentuate details that are important to gameplay like say for example the frequency of footsteps so that they can pick out where opponents are around them not so for content creators so these here are audio engines a 5 plus bookshelves they have a flatter response curve not quite like you would consider you know studio monitor grade response curve but a flatter response curve and they represent a good value because they can connect directly to your PC unlike some other monitors that used balanced XLR inputs for example now for audio again for the typical gamer pretty much anything will do you can actually use your onboard audio no issues there but we've gone with a combination from shit audio so yes that is what they're actually called I know so we've got our emoti - this is a DAC and then we're using a Valhalla to amp that should pair really nicely with our Odyssey LCD 2s now to be clear the LCD 2s are especially now that they've been replaced by other models not necessarily the be-all and end-all of headphones but what they are is an open backed design giving a very natural sound stage and they use planar magnetic drivers so to put it in layman's terms they sound absolutely bitchin I mean this is something else I obviously we've seen one of them before but this amount of real estate so I mean we're scaled at 300% right now so check this out if I change it to a hundred percent look how small the cursor is look how small the start button is wait here if you open a web browser this is the default window size so while unlike the early days of monitor resolutions increasing we don't necessarily get to benefit from it just scaling linearly the amount of desktop real estate that we have the pixel density though the fineness of the image is absolutely incredible so each of these is 76 80 by 4320 meaning that we've got a total of 67 million pixels total and of course it's being driven at 60 Hertz like you can see individual feathers moving around I'm actually impressed we're running this at full resolution right now is this 8k footage Brendan Poole the computers definitely feeling the burn check this out 82% CPU usage but it's not buckling not bad now that we've got a bigger project loaded up it is definitely suffering a little bit more but I think part of that might be a network bottleneck that's one thing that we're still missing on this particular config but I think that we could fix pretty easily with a 10 gig card or something along those lines it is definitely nice to have all this real estate though like being able to watch at the maximum size of a preview like what is effectively probably what like a 720p video as you scrub through it like this that's pretty incredible check this out we can pick exactly the right moment for a thumbnail without even ever opening it I could actually watch a video like this I gotta say I do wish there was a way with our building layout to reconfigure our editors machines so that they can use monitors like this because like all of a sudden you can actually feel the stereo sound where applicable so like in the game for example and it sounds so much more natural than when you have it pipe through headphones even really good ones but I don't think any kind of extensive renovation like that is on the horizon any time soon and neither is an upgrade to do late K monitors and a 5 pluses for all of our editors anyway so yeah unless of course we can do it with the help of sponsors like fresh books fresh books is the small business accounting software that's custom-built for how you want to work it's a simple way whether you're a freelancer a small business owner to be more productive more organized and to get paid faster you can create and send professional-looking invoices in less than 30 seconds you can set up online payments with just a couple of clicks you can see when your client has seen your invoice to put an end to the guessing games and you can take the whole experience with you on the go they've got apps for iOS and Android so for an unrestricted 30-day free trial go to a fresh ebooks.com slash tech tips and enter lie this tech tips in the how did you hear about us section so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if 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 link down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should totally join