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long story short today I'm going to be doing a hardware upgrade on this system over here I'm doing an in-place upgrade rather than actually swapping out parts in the entire system because this is an X 99 based system which could potentially use an upgrade but it's currently running the 69 50 X which is a 10 core 20 thread CPU which is pretty capable CPU from Intel anyway doing a lot of exposition here let's focus on the parts I'm actually installing a second 4k 60 Pro from Elgato then also this capture device from aged well which is significantly more expensive it cost about $900 as compared to the $400 for the 4k 60 Pro this is the pro capture HDMI 4k plus LTE LTE just means it has looped through so it can do an HDMI IN as well as an output so if I was capturing gameplay while playing at the same time you could pass it through to an external monitor let's take out the 4k 60 pro first I've already done a video at least done installation and with a bit of testing when I originally set up the current version of my main capture system here but this is a pretty good-looking card I will say gamers Nexus actually did some thermal testing on this and found that it does get pretty warm so depending on how you have the system configured you might want to get some active airflow flowing over this because it's got a shroud on the front here as well as on the back but those are not necessarily syncs so does not necessarily keep things cool that said if you're a building system that has a side window or something and you want to make sure everything in there is looking pretty I think this card at least does get that done properly this uses a PCI Express connection that's a buy for connection supports inputs from pretty much any HDMI source so it does supports like PlayStation 4 and Xbox capture it has a pass through so you have an input as well as an output on the back here so lag free pass-through of the game you're playing so you can game and capture at the same time and it supports resolutions up to 20 160 at 60 frames per second that's 4k 60 Hertz as you can sort of tell by the name 4k 60 pros our major well card here has far less pretty packaging it's pretty straightforward but major well has been in doing professional video products for professionals for quite some time one of the big selling points at least from the reviews I've been reading about this card in particular that it just works it's it's very solid when it comes to performance once you get it up and running you should be able to go back and continue to use it and it should still stay up and running it is a bit smaller than I thought it was gonna be but it does actually have a low profile bracket there too so for low profile systems you could fit it in there by swapping out that bracket does have an active cooling heatsink with a fan on it there and other than that's pretty straightforward Green PCB on the back we have HDMI in and outs they're not labeled on here so I'm gonna have to put some tape on there that would be a nice thing you know in and out clearly indicated on there but beyond that we still have a PCI Express buy for connection there I believe both of these are actually PCI Express Gen 2 which is all you need for bandwidth requirements when it comes to an add on capture card like this sports the same resolutions 4096 by 2160 at 60 Hertz so for K 60 and then this does also support 10-bit video processing for for for for chroma sampling or for for for meaning that there is no chroma subsampling and then when it comes to signal detection we have auto detection which is also a nice feature of the 4k 60 Pro supports 3d hdmi timecode which can be very helpful in professional environments and it does support HDR 10 when it comes to HDR support I guess it's also worth mentioning that since this is made for more professional or enterprise environments that it is rated for continuous you should usage 24 hours seven days a week and it comes with a two year warranty from mage will so these are my upgrades for today I'll go over some of the components that already are in this system but you can check out that video if you're interested because it's gone through a few different iterations already and then I wanted to point out that there are already some existing reviews for both of these cards that I will point you guys towards if you want a little bit more information on those I'm not going to be doing very much on the review side today my main goal is to get them installed see if I can install them with the system as is without doing a complete overhaul or reformat or anything like that and then see what kind of performance I can get when it comes to having three 4k capture cards in the same system using them all at once but for today I'm probably just gonna start dabbling with that and then hopefully follow up in a future video sort of going over how I use this system in its upgraded form and I'm very happy to be getting rid of the black magic stuff because honestly it's been causing me more trouble than it's been worth that said let's get started so here's a look at the system as is fortunately it's not quite as dusty and filled with spiderwebs as when I took it apart last time check out that video if you're interested but where that be quiet dark bass 900 case this is an x 99 system so LGA 2011 - 3 so it is starting to get a little older but it does have that 69 50 X processor remember that 10 core when Intel was charging $1700 for 10 core high-end desktop processor fortunately it is a very functional and useful processor so it's still been getting the job done it's cooled by a Noctua NHD 15 CPU cooler pretty much the best air cooler I think that's on the market as long as you can deal with the not so great color scheme I have it oriented vertically here simply because if I had it oriented the other way I was conflicting with some of the top slots on the board there the memory is of course their vengeance lpx kit that's 32 gigs total 4 by 8 gigs and then the graphics card it's running right now is the original founders edition GeForce GTX 1080 Ti for power we have an EVGA supernova 850 g3 850 watt power supply there's a couple WD red 2 3 terabyte hard drives and raid 1 there so that's what I usually copy footage to right off the bat so it's backed up or at least stored on 2 separate physical drives I've used a few different Intel 750 series SSDs because they do have u2 connectivity and that's actually one of the downside to this board right now for my main storage and operating system I have an OC zrd 400 that's an nvme SSD but it's connected to the only MDOT 2 slot that's on this board other than that Asus opted to put a couple UDOT 2 connectors right here that can actually pipe over 2 drives like the Intel 750 series but those actually went out of style pretty quick the m-dot - form factor was just much more popular and usable so really don't see many u dot 2 connectors on boards anymore and unfortunately unless I use some sort of adapter I can't really use those for my existing SSDs so I do want to put a little bit more SSD storage in here I think I'm just gonna drop a SATA 1 terabytes and disc SSD and then for capture over here I have the already installed existing Elgato 4k 60 Pro that's installed in the bottom slot I have a black magic 4k capture card up here and then this final card here is actually a firewire card that I installed from upgrading to firewire video and I don't need that anymore so I'm going to be uninstalling that too so upgrade is pretty much complete right now although I'm still not a hundred percent sure about this can orientation of the capture card since again these do tend to get warm and since I've used em using the reference design or the founders Edition GTX 10 atti up here there's no active cooling since it's only got the blower fan out there there is the fan on the major oil capture card so I put that up on top I remove the backplate from this upper Elgato 4k 60 pro just to provide a little bit more space right there and who knows maybe even maybe now the fan on the mage will will help keep this card a little bit cooler and then I was able to do two slot spacing for the lower 4k 60 Pro cards alright guys I'm back and I had to delay this by a couple of days just so I could do start our proof of concept here I feel like there's a lot more testing I'm going to need to do with this configuration because there's different ways I'm planning to use it but for now I just wanted to setup a single use case that I think makes sense for having a system like this with three 4k capture cards setup in it so here I have a completely separate computer this is arctic panther and it is running 34 40 by 1440 gaming setup and piping that into the mage well capture card and then at the same time I have two cameras that can output a 4k video signal so one is the GH five that's up back there then the second one is down here I might in the future do stuff like live builds where I actually have two or three cameras going at the same time that I might switch between for practical purposes a setup like this might be used for a twitch streamer who wants to game an ultra-wide while showing an image of them on screen and then maybe also showing their mouse movements or keyboard movements because a lot of gamers like myself people don't believe that we're as good as we are at playing video games unless you actually show our hands doing that stuff that they're doing at the same time I know I know that's hard to believe that people people don't trust me about that all the time so I'm gonna just play a little Apex legends here capturing it on this system but one more thing real quick so the way I'm outputting from this computer is just that I have both outputs going on so this allows me to actually game on this monitor the 3/4 GK 950 F from LG at 144 hurts or 143 at least and then it's also outputting to the mage well capture card and it's able to also do 4k at 60 Hertz which is very convenient cuz that means I can output to the stream at a more reasonable frame rate while still enjoying the high refresh rate of my monitor here you might also notice that the active signal resolution is just 4k here but I'm able to crop that down in OBS I'm just showing the 34 40 by 1440 area and then here's my OBS configuration where you can see apex in the top and ultra wide and then one camera and the bottom rates and then the other camera in the lower left and then if I was setting up to stream for a bit I'd probably put twitch chat or something like that right there in the middle so at this point I'm starting a game not streaming over here but I am capturing it so you can kind of see the results of the capture at the same time at this point I think I only have a few more things to figure out one is going to be that the video camera cap sure was actually acting a little weird with the elgato cards but I determined that the same thing was happening even with the brand new card so I think that might be my system as opposed to the capture cards themselves and then also I need to figure out some other configurations to use this setup with obviously gaming and streaming would be really nice but if you guys can think of anything else please leave me those suggestions in the comment section down below also let me know what you think this gameplay is looking like because I only did a couple quick tests captures to sort of make sure everything was looking all right but if you guys have any suggestions for me please let me know them in the comment section down below and I will do my best to check those out I'll Rick's just stole the armor no tell him well well I eventually died but it was only because the other team cheated but thank you guys so much for watching this video again comments in the comment section down below if you have any suggestions how you'd like to see me use this current setup thank you again for watching thumbs up button on your way up and we'll see you guys next time