 Now we show you guys a lot of really cool stuff on this channel. Stay tuned, because our LGA 2011 overclocking guide is coming soon. And we make a lot of really funny jokes on this channel, but rarely do we create the perfect blend of cool stuff and humor the way that I'm about to right now. Okay, get this. What's the only thing that's better than that gigantic curved 3440 by 1440 IPS Thunderbolt monitor from LG that I reviewed a little while back? Three gigantic curved 3440 by 1440 IPS Thunderbolt monitors from LG. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Welcome to part one of our epic surround setup series. Also known as S. Corsair Gaming RGB keyboards feature precision Cherry MX RGB keyswitches for 16.8 million color-per-key backlighting for virtually unlimited customization. Click now to learn more. To start with, I'd like to clarify a couple of the points I made in my stand-alone video about this monitor, the LG 34UC97. One, the complaint that I had about LG not having VESA mounts available for purchase in many countries was only sort of correct. You can't buy one, but you can contact your local LG office and get one for free. So yeah, that's better than being able to buy it. And two, the backlight bleed that I observed in the corners of my engineering sample was something that was addressed before the monitor ever went to mass production. So since then, LG has provided two proper, like the same as they send to customers, units to flank our original one for our surround setup here. And as you can see, they are much, much better in this regard, which is where the joke at the beginning comes from. I love this monitor. I love the size. I love the 21 by 9 aspect ratio for working on things side by side. I love it for movies and for games, and I find the curve just much more natural feeling to use. So the only thing that could be better is obviously more of the same. So here is the setup. We pulled the two tables together so that we could actually fit the monitors and our PC, more on that one later, together on the table and spent some quality time with this setup, trying to look at it from a few different perspectives. First up is content consumption. And here, honestly, I don't think it makes a ton of sense. Most content that's available in this kind of 21 by 9 cinematic aspect ratio is really meant to be enjoyed by itself without distractions, not alongside something else. And if you wanted an auxiliary monitor for web surfing while watching movies, then most people would probably be better served by a more traditional aspect ratio monitor beside a single curved 21 by 9 anyway. Although, if you are an extremely busy person who loves movie trilogies and you figure you could save some time by watching all three of them concurrently, then I guess this kind of thing is your bag, baby. Next up is content creation. And this is where this kind of massive resolution and workspace, we're talking about 10,320 pixels by 1440 for a total aspect ratio of about 63 by 9, really shines. It's not necessarily about needing to work on, you know, a movie that's shot in, you know, super stupid ogre widescreen or something like that. It's more about being able to spread out what you're doing, especially if you're using a machine that has the RAM and CPU horses to keep up, like our editor Edzl's editing rig with its 12 core workstation CPU and 64 gigs of RAM. So I asked him to show me what he would put where if given the opportunity to work on something like this. So as you can see, there's tons of room to spread out, you know, footage over here for a premier project, have a nice large preview window and multiple tracks for, you know, a massive video editing project. And then there's even room to have, you know, multiple creation software applications open at a time. Like, for example, over here, he could have After Effects if he needed another workspace that was... Okay, well, that's not After Effects. That's a Twitch stream, Reddit and some other stuff. So maybe Edz is not getting an upgrade like this anytime soon. But if he did, something like this, maybe not all flat in front of you like this, but in the middle of like a command station type setup with, you know, a chair that swivels in the middle and, you know, actual purpose built appliances or peripherals for, you know, scrubbing through something over here and monitoring over here. Something like that could be absolutely fantastic. Think of the productivity potential for this kind of resolution. I mean, it's unreal the amount of space there is to spread out. And on the subject of unreal, isn't that a game engine, Linus? Why, yes. Yes, it is. And I guess this is the time to introduce the gaming rig that will be powering the second and final part of our series on this setup. I call it the Autobahn Hammer because it has no speed limits and if you question its greatness, then you will get immediately banhammered from life. It's got a Core i7-5930K at 4.75 GHz, 32 gigs of Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4 RAM at 2666 MHz, a Corsair AX1500i 1500 Watt 80 Plus Titanium power supply with an Asus Rampage 5 Extreme motherboard for all the power and PCI Express slots that we could possibly need for our ultimate multi-way graphics card configuration, which leads us to the pièce de la résistance for this stunner of a rig. The up until now very difficult to find R9 290X Vapor X 8 gig from Sapphire. We went with this card for one main reason, and it wasn't the display outputs. An R9 295X2 with its four mini DP connectors would have actually helped us avoid the need to use this DisplayPort hub and have one monitor connected via HDMI at 50 Hz, but it was chosen for its 8 gigs of RAM per GPU because we wanted to see how much performance we could get at this resolution and didn't want to be bottlenecked by our VRAM. The conventional wisdom dictates that as texture quality and monitor resolution both increase, so does the need for larger and larger video frame buffers, and multi-card users have long lamented the amount of RAM on high-end graphics cards because when you run in Crossfire with normal 4 gig 290Xs, the same data actually needs to be duplicated on both cards. So you're multiplying your theoretical GPU horsepower as you add more cards, but your effective GPU RAM is staying the same. Not an issue today, these bad boys have overclocked GPUs, 8 gigs of RAM each for an effective 8 gigs in Crossfire, and lots of room to breathe in the fractal design Arc Excel case. A lot of you were asking what case we were using when I posted on Instagram. So you're probably sitting there at this point going, well that sounds great Linus, so bring on the benchmarks, but this is where I actually want you guys to help me out a little bit. While you watch me dinking around having way more fun than I should be allowed to have at work here, give some thought to the games that you want to see us test when we do our gaming-focused follow-up on this video in a week or so. I would especially love to see suggestions for ones that handle field of view, UI elements, and aspect ratio scaling well and correctly, so that I can talk about the gaming experience with those titles, but then let's also throw in some ones that might not work perfectly, but will be demanding as well, so that we can really get an idea of how these cards handle this kind of resolution, which is very similar actually to the number of pixels on Apple's recent 5K display, like truly next-gen stuff. So look forward to that guys, and we'll see you next time on our ultimate truly one-of-a-kind monitor setup part 2, also known as Project S. Like this video if you liked it, dislike it if you disliked it, leave a comment if your feelings are more complicated than this, and as always check out the link in the video description to buy a cool t-shirt like this one, give us a monthly contribution, or change your Amazon bookmark to one with our affiliate code. 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