**The Future of Gaming: 8K Experience**

As we stood there, gazing at the futuristic gaming setup before us, it's hard not to feel like we're on the cusp of something revolutionary. The display, touted as the future of gaming, boasts an 8K resolution that promises unparalleled visuals. But is it truly ready for primetime? Our host couldn't help but express his skepticism, stating "we don't have the displays that can do it without a gigantic bezel in the middle and based on that we don't have graphics cards that don't cost less than $2400 running an SLI in order to even have a chance of playing games I would say the answer is no." The weight of these technical hurdles seems daunting, but our host's enthusiasm remains undiminished.

**A Unique Experience**

As we began testing the system, it became clear that this wasn't just about raw processing power. The frame rate counter, which initially read 60 or 70 frames per second, was later found to be settling into a more stable figure. But what really caught our attention was the subtle difference in response times between the two GPUs being used. This slight variation resulted in a "slight Jello effect," where the visuals seemed to wobble ever so slightly. It's this kind of nuance that could make or break the 8K gaming experience.

**The Reality Check**

Let's face it: we're not quite there yet when it comes to widespread adoption of 8K technology. The cost of compatible hardware is still prohibitively expensive, and the availability of displays that can effectively utilize this resolution remains limited. Our host's candid assessment was spot on: "are we ready for 8K gaming?" The answer, for now, seems to be a resounding no.

**Beyond Gaming**

However, it's worth noting that there are other areas where 8K technology is starting to make its mark. For instance, mobile carriers like Ting are offering more flexible pricing plans, which can result in significant savings for consumers. Their approach, which involves only charging customers for the data they use, rather than locking them into a restrictive contract, has been met with praise from those who've tried it out. As one reviewer noted, "it's making me sick" – but not in a bad way. With prices starting at just $23 per month per device, it's hard to argue with the value on offer.

**The Lingering Question**

So what can we expect in the future? Will 8K gaming become a mainstream phenomenon, or will it remain a niche interest for enthusiasts and early adopters? Only time will tell. In the meantime, companies like Ting are pushing the boundaries of innovation, offering customers more choice and flexibility than ever before. By taking a closer look at these developments, we can gain a better understanding of what's to come – and whether 8K gaming truly is on the horizon.

**A Parting Shot**

Finally, it's worth noting that our host's love for gaming was palpable throughout the review process. From the setup itself to the software being tested, he seemed genuinely excited by the prospect of experiencing 8K gaming in action. And while we may not have reached the promised land just yet, it's clear that this is an area where innovation and progress are truly taking off.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ento game at 8K resolution one GTX Titan two GTX Titans an entire arm load of GTX Titans on this the 12th installment of holy we're going to find out if I drop all these Titans oh no I won't cooler Masters master case maker 5 features their free form modular system allowing you to customize adjust and upgrade make it yours at the link in the video description okay so first things first the answer is not any of these things because these are all old Titan X's they're like gross and ancient and like I mean look at this this is an original Titan no the answer is going to be nvidia's latest FL ship Titan XPS based on the Pascal architecture now I've heard of people jury rigging them to run more than two at a time but for the time being we only have two and that's all that's officially supported and that's all we have SLI bridges for anyhow so the answer is going to be two of the latest Titan XPS along with one of their fancy new high bandwidth Bridges which looks a little something like that that's how you install it right like that it's a Nikki V SLI Bridge installation tip boom whoa I almost dropped that sorry just put that right there did you get did you get that catch oh that's a shame that was awesome I'm over it now okay that's fine okay so the next thing we're going to need of course is an 8K display of some sort and the aute among you are probably already aware that unless I could get a company to send me some kind of amazing pre-production prototype or something well those don't really exist yet so instead I'm going to be tackling this in a way that I think will give us the performance results that that we're looking for without having to Source a product that straight up isn't available so this my friends is the monitor desk Mount here we go let's get all the pieces out here uh made by Vivo this is a 2x2 quad monitor mount that can accept up to four 27in monitors and we will be using four of our 27in 4K LG displays that are left over from eight Gamers one CPU so it's actually this one only I will need a bunch of them okay well I've never done one of these before so consult the manual oh my God this is not going to be easy to assemble I get it now okay okay so it is fairly obvious from looking at this that I am going to need to make some more room kind of like that actually that's uh that does seem like it's going to work pretty well okay ah now it's not going anywhere okay let's get some more monitors wow this is actually pretty fast to mount by the look at things I thought basically building the multi monitor stand was going to be like half the video so might have more time to actually use it than I thought why did I take them out again oh I didn't oh what am I doing okay why does anyone let me mirror expensive Hardware not sure oops okay not bad at all okay where's my test bench GTX 1080 please we are getting that garbage off of here okay this is more like it um when it goes in what the hell who bent this oops it's fine just very expensive graphics card no big deal okay are they Beauties or are they beasts maybe that was the moral of the story all along you can be both beauty and beast if you're $1,200 graphics card okay so our quad monitor quad 4k monitor effectively 8K worth of pixels setup is now complete so the next step is to hook up our test bench here we go to the monitors and see if she fires up the first time which would be a freaking Christmas miracle because nothing ever works the first time especially when you're working with some kind of Bizarro land experimental setup our test bench machine we hope is suitably badass it's got a core i7 5960x 8 Core Extreme Edition 128 gigs of Dominator Platinum Corsair memory an Asus x99 Deluxe 2 motherboard a, 1600 W power supply because you know YOLO whatever right and even then I'm still pretty skeptical as to whether it is going to successfully Run games at 8K resolution oh man waiting for a computer to post is like torture and I'm not sure if it's going to work oh I don't know if that's a good sign this could just sign in anytime now hey hey there we go okay it keeps kind of bailing on me here okay there we go uhhuh uh-huh okay there we go oh for crying out loud heyy there we go no are we good this time no no we're not how long until it isn't funny anymore still funny that's good that's good that it's still funny oh is that it we good now thank you jeez wow this is something else we could have a problem here it didn't even occur to me for a second that I can't tile the displays in a 2 by two oh here we go here we go here we go 2 by two pH okay oh I was having like a panic attack there okay okay it's confused it's a little confused it's still figuring out its confusion it hurt itself in its confusion oh this is terrible why is this so hard why is it saying 1920x 1080 is my only yeah disable yeah I want to disable it piece of junk so I think I made a small configuration error you'll have to forgive me it's been a very long time since I've set up an Nvidia surround setup but it looks like the way it works these days is you don't want to plug all of the displays into the top graphics card and run SLI it looks like you split up which graphics card the displays are plugged into so hopefully that is going to fix this for me and I will not continue to have trouble here and that means that I can run all them on display port in theory these are HDMI 2.0 compliant both of them but uh in practice I was not able to run at 4K 60 HZ on one of my displays so not sure exactly what any of this means yet but stay tuned it is not even letting me click on the Nvidia control and it crashed nope never mind it's back and it crashed and it's back okay span with surround oh come on okay configure that looks right wait what no that looks right 7680 by 4320 60 htz come on oh I got it wrong oh shoot might be easier to just swap the cables on these ones at this point come on baby okay I think we're good okay so the Nvidia control panel crashed just trying to create this monster but there it is 7680 by 4320 and if we pop into our adapter properties boom 60 HZ this is 8K yes this is 8k my friends let's just put the old Nvidia control panel Yeller here is uh got to put her down there take her behind the barn there you go you're done so this is a first for me let's fire up a game but can it my friends can it run crisis running at 1080p that's 1080 that's full HD that's a joke so this is a common question that people will ask is do games even support 4K well games are actually coded to support whatever resolutions the system supports so yes game support 4K without any additional modifications required in some cases in the cases of poorly coded games no they they might not support future resolutions but in theory crisis is going to fire up in a moment here at 8K oh oh oh yes yes there it is and for some reason After Burner is showing through but hopefully that will go away when we minimize it there it is there it is my friends 8K crisis running at 60 FPS in the menu only mind you but here we go I could get used to this let's see what kind of performance we can get out of two Titan XPS Crisis 3 very high and we crushed it yes my friends 24 FPS fully cinematic in Crisis 3 I may need to turn on bezel compensation if I'm going to play for any kind of extended period of time okay I'm also going to adjust some iname settings here what do you think is that going to be playable hey hey whoa okay medium system spec we're looking at about 50 FPS I am liking that I am not oh oh hold on Run The Benchmark okay we're running The Benchmark benchmarking Crisis 3 at 8K medium settings it's great I love this built-in Crosshair into my uh display here you just aim at the thing you can't see right oh that's funny Crosshair is a little to the left okay well that'll be that'll be trippy as all hell wow this is a gigantic display and wow it looks perfect oh yeah that bezel oh yeah oh delicious having that right in the middle like that yeah just get in my way perfect I mean I'm not saying this is an ideal gaming experience I'm just I'm saying we're gaming at 8K that's all so if we had like a multiable 8K display today this is how crisis would run on a couple of Titan XPS benchmark's done okay let's find out 54 FPS average medium settings no anti-aliasing I would make the argument anti-aliasing completely unnecessary okay so Grand Theft Auto uh sort of a lesser degree of success here it looks like yeah GTA 5 was super unhappy about our 8K resolution yep okay maybe we'll try some other games I can read I can read this one too yeah the town folks were something uh Monday the 16th rode about 50 miles to brother wow brother yeah brother bam County something something circuit weed something is at night I had some spending wherever shall call upon the name of the something saved probably the Lord yeah you really got to move your head all right let's run the Benchmark I got to say this does look like look at the hair unbelievable This truly is the future of gaming 8K gaming friends 8K gaming so do we not have an 8K monitor uh no one has an 8K monitor what about that television we have uh that's not 8K that's 4K we we have nothing that's 8K no one has anything that's 8K un that's not true we saw a bunch of them at na well yes but that's not no one those aren't commercial products you said no one has it you're killing me here you said no one I think things very literally yes you do 20.09.2011 my Crosshair the Crosshair is the is the butthole in the middle there I got one uh the frame rate counter is not that accurate actually you know what it seems to be uh it seems to be settling in a little bit though it and it's saying 60 or 70 but it doesn't feel like it it was dipping more before and this is interesting so the bottom two are running off one GPU and the top two are running off another GPU and there are slight differences in like the uh the response time so you'll actually see some like a slight Jello effect sometimes and that probably could be per are you trying to snipe with that wow I can't believe that just worked so we ran Crisis 3 at medium Tomb Raider at medium and Counterstrike Global Offensive on high and we're getting about yeah it says like 65 frames per second now now that it's settled in a little bit but it really doesn't feel that smooth so uh there you have it are we ready for 8K gaming well based on that we don't have the displays that can do it without a gigantic bezel in the middle and based on that we don't have graphics cards that don't cost less than $2400 running an SLI in order to even have a chance of playing games I would say the answer is no but is this a unique and unreal experience Ed it's making me sick it's making you sick it is so cool he's sick you know what else makes me sick phone trees yes my friends when you call a company and you spend 20 minutes actually navigating through to the right person who ends up not being the right person anyway and Ting hates them too which is why when you're on Ting the mobile carrier that puts customer satisfaction first and you pick up a phone and call them you actually talk to a real live person and no robots whatsoever they're not available in Canada unfortunately but I tried it out just for laws and I was like I knew it was going to happen and I was still amazed someone's like hello this is Ting what can I do for it scared me you know what else is scary the fact that Ting does not have huge bundle packages that they sell to you for like a hundred bucks a month you pay only for what you use and you don't have to try and look into your crystal ball and kind of go yeah I might need an extra 500 gigs of data that month I guess I better buy like a big or more upgraded package nope the average Ting bill is just 23 bucks a month per device and they'll even help you out if you are stuck in a contract covering up to 25% up to $75 of your cancellation fee they actually are now lowering mobile data rates across the board too with data now at just $10 per gig beyond the first gig so if all that sounds like kind of cool but you're not sure if you're actually going to save any money all you got to do is head over to Linus doing.com we've got that Linked In the video description to try out their savings calculator when you sign up at our link you'll also get 25 bucks in service credit or towards a new device so again that's lin.com so thanks for checking out this video guys if you disliked it hit that dislike button but if you like it hit that like button get subscribed maybe even consider checking out the products we featured today your Titan XPS your test bench your LG 4K 27in monitors add our link to Amazon in the video description also linked in the video description is our merch store where you can buy cool shirts like this one as well as our community form which you should totally join now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so maybe check out our last episode of holy where we checked out a $40,000 computer that still couldn't game at 8Kto game at 8K resolution one GTX Titan two GTX Titans an entire arm load of GTX Titans on this the 12th installment of holy we're going to find out if I drop all these Titans oh no I won't cooler Masters master case maker 5 features their free form modular system allowing you to customize adjust and upgrade make it yours at the link in the video description okay so first things first the answer is not any of these things because these are all old Titan X's they're like gross and ancient and like I mean look at this this is an original Titan no the answer is going to be nvidia's latest FL ship Titan XPS based on the Pascal architecture now I've heard of people jury rigging them to run more than two at a time but for the time being we only have two and that's all that's officially supported and that's all we have SLI bridges for anyhow so the answer is going to be two of the latest Titan XPS along with one of their fancy new high bandwidth Bridges which looks a little something like that that's how you install it right like that it's a Nikki V SLI Bridge installation tip boom whoa I almost dropped that sorry just put that right there did you get did you get that catch oh that's a shame that was awesome I'm over it now okay that's fine okay so the next thing we're going to need of course is an 8K display of some sort and the aute among you are probably already aware that unless I could get a company to send me some kind of amazing pre-production prototype or something well those don't really exist yet so instead I'm going to be tackling this in a way that I think will give us the performance results that that we're looking for without having to Source a product that straight up isn't available so this my friends is the monitor desk Mount here we go let's get all the pieces out here uh made by Vivo this is a 2x2 quad monitor mount that can accept up to four 27in monitors and we will be using four of our 27in 4K LG displays that are left over from eight Gamers one CPU so it's actually this one only I will need a bunch of them okay well I've never done one of these before so consult the manual oh my God this is not going to be easy to assemble I get it now okay okay so it is fairly obvious from looking at this that I am going to need to make some more room kind of like that actually that's uh that does seem like it's going to work pretty well okay ah now it's not going anywhere okay let's get some more monitors wow this is actually pretty fast to mount by the look at things I thought basically building the multi monitor stand was going to be like half the video so might have more time to actually use it than I thought why did I take them out again oh I didn't oh what am I doing okay why does anyone let me mirror expensive Hardware not sure oops okay not bad at all okay where's my test bench GTX 1080 please we are getting that garbage off of here okay this is more like it um when it goes in what the hell who bent this oops it's fine just very expensive graphics card no big deal okay are they Beauties or are they beasts maybe that was the moral of the story all along you can be both beauty and beast if you're $1,200 graphics card okay so our quad monitor quad 4k monitor effectively 8K worth of pixels setup is now complete so the next step is to hook up our test bench here we go to the monitors and see if she fires up the first time which would be a freaking Christmas miracle because nothing ever works the first time especially when you're working with some kind of Bizarro land experimental setup our test bench machine we hope is suitably badass it's got a core i7 5960x 8 Core Extreme Edition 128 gigs of Dominator Platinum Corsair memory an Asus x99 Deluxe 2 motherboard a, 1600 W power supply because you know YOLO whatever right and even then I'm still pretty skeptical as to whether it is going to successfully Run games at 8K resolution oh man waiting for a computer to post is like torture and I'm not sure if it's going to work oh I don't know if that's a good sign this could just sign in anytime now hey hey there we go okay it keeps kind of bailing on me here okay there we go uhhuh uh-huh okay there we go oh for crying out loud heyy there we go no are we good this time no no we're not how long until it isn't funny anymore still funny that's good that's good that it's still funny oh is that it we good now thank you jeez wow this is something else we could have a problem here it didn't even occur to me for a second that I can't tile the displays in a 2 by two oh here we go here we go here we go 2 by two pH okay oh I was having like a panic attack there okay okay it's confused it's a little confused it's still figuring out its confusion it hurt itself in its confusion oh this is terrible why is this so hard why is it saying 1920x 1080 is my only yeah disable yeah I want to disable it piece of junk so I think I made a small configuration error you'll have to forgive me it's been a very long time since I've set up an Nvidia surround setup but it looks like the way it works these days is you don't want to plug all of the displays into the top graphics card and run SLI it looks like you split up which graphics card the displays are plugged into so hopefully that is going to fix this for me and I will not continue to have trouble here and that means that I can run all them on display port in theory these are HDMI 2.0 compliant both of them but uh in practice I was not able to run at 4K 60 HZ on one of my displays so not sure exactly what any of this means yet but stay tuned it is not even letting me click on the Nvidia control and it crashed nope never mind it's back and it crashed and it's back okay span with surround oh come on okay configure that looks right wait what no that looks right 7680 by 4320 60 htz come on oh I got it wrong oh shoot might be easier to just swap the cables on these ones at this point come on baby okay I think we're good okay so the Nvidia control panel crashed just trying to create this monster but there it is 7680 by 4320 and if we pop into our adapter properties boom 60 HZ this is 8K yes this is 8k my friends let's just put the old Nvidia control panel Yeller here is uh got to put her down there take her behind the barn there you go you're done so this is a first for me let's fire up a game but can it my friends can it run crisis running at 1080p that's 1080 that's full HD that's a joke so this is a common question that people will ask is do games even support 4K well games are actually coded to support whatever resolutions the system supports so yes game support 4K without any additional modifications required in some cases in the cases of poorly coded games no they they might not support future resolutions but in theory crisis is going to fire up in a moment here at 8K oh oh oh yes yes there it is and for some reason After Burner is showing through but hopefully that will go away when we minimize it there it is there it is my friends 8K crisis running at 60 FPS in the menu only mind you but here we go I could get used to this let's see what kind of performance we can get out of two Titan XPS Crisis 3 very high and we crushed it yes my friends 24 FPS fully cinematic in Crisis 3 I may need to turn on bezel compensation if I'm going to play for any kind of extended period of time okay I'm also going to adjust some iname settings here what do you think is that going to be playable hey hey whoa okay medium system spec we're looking at about 50 FPS I am liking that I am not oh oh hold on Run The Benchmark okay we're running The Benchmark benchmarking Crisis 3 at 8K medium settings it's great I love this built-in Crosshair into my uh display here you just aim at the thing you can't see right oh that's funny Crosshair is a little to the left okay well that'll be that'll be trippy as all hell wow this is a gigantic display and wow it looks perfect oh yeah that bezel oh yeah oh delicious having that right in the middle like that yeah just get in my way perfect I mean I'm not saying this is an ideal gaming experience I'm just I'm saying we're gaming at 8K that's all so if we had like a multiable 8K display today this is how crisis would run on a couple of Titan XPS benchmark's done okay let's find out 54 FPS average medium settings no anti-aliasing I would make the argument anti-aliasing completely unnecessary okay so Grand Theft Auto uh sort of a lesser degree of success here it looks like yeah GTA 5 was super unhappy about our 8K resolution yep okay maybe we'll try some other games I can read I can read this one too yeah the town folks were something uh Monday the 16th rode about 50 miles to brother wow brother yeah brother bam County something something circuit weed something is at night I had some spending wherever shall call upon the name of the something saved probably the Lord yeah you really got to move your head all right let's run the Benchmark I got to say this does look like look at the hair unbelievable This truly is the future of gaming 8K gaming friends 8K gaming so do we not have an 8K monitor uh no one has an 8K monitor what about that television we have uh that's not 8K that's 4K we we have nothing that's 8K no one has anything that's 8K un that's not true we saw a bunch of them at na well yes but that's not no one those aren't commercial products you said no one has it you're killing me here you said no one I think things very literally yes you do 20.09.2011 my Crosshair the Crosshair is the is the butthole in the middle there I got one uh the frame rate counter is not that accurate actually you know what it seems to be uh it seems to be settling in a little bit though it and it's saying 60 or 70 but it doesn't feel like it it was dipping more before and this is interesting so the bottom two are running off one GPU and the top two are running off another GPU and there are slight differences in like the uh the response time so you'll actually see some like a slight Jello effect sometimes and that probably could be per are you trying to snipe with that wow I can't believe that just worked so we ran Crisis 3 at medium Tomb Raider at medium and Counterstrike Global Offensive on high and we're getting about yeah it says like 65 frames per second now now that it's settled in a little bit but it really doesn't feel that smooth so uh there you have it are we ready for 8K gaming well based on that we don't have the displays that can do it without a gigantic bezel in the middle and based on that we don't have graphics cards that don't cost less than $2400 running an SLI in order to even have a chance of playing games I would say the answer is no but is this a unique and unreal experience Ed it's making me sick it's making you sick it is so cool he's sick you know what else makes me sick phone trees yes my friends when you call a company and you spend 20 minutes actually navigating through to the right person who ends up not being the right person anyway and Ting hates them too which is why when you're on Ting the mobile carrier that puts customer satisfaction first and you pick up a phone and call them you actually talk to a real live person and no robots whatsoever they're not available in Canada unfortunately but I tried it out just for laws and I was like I knew it was going to happen and I was still amazed someone's like hello this is Ting what can I do for it scared me you know what else is scary the fact that Ting does not have huge bundle packages that they sell to you for like a hundred bucks a month you pay only for what you use and you don't have to try and look into your crystal ball and kind of go yeah I might need an extra 500 gigs of data that month I guess I better buy like a big or more upgraded package nope the average Ting bill is just 23 bucks a month per device and they'll even help you out if you are stuck in a contract covering up to 25% up to $75 of your cancellation fee they actually are now lowering mobile data rates across the board too with data now at just $10 per gig beyond the first gig so if all that sounds like kind of cool but you're not sure if you're actually going to save any money all you got to do is head over to Linus doing.com we've got that Linked In the video description to try out their savings calculator when you sign up at our link you'll also get 25 bucks in service credit or towards a new device so again that's lin.com so thanks for checking out this video guys if you disliked it hit that dislike button but if you like it hit that like button get subscribed maybe even consider checking out the products we featured today your Titan XPS your test bench your LG 4K 27in monitors add our link to Amazon in the video description also linked in the video description is our merch store where you can buy cool shirts like this one as well as our community form which you should totally join now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so maybe check out our last episode of holy where we checked out a $40,000 computer that still couldn't game at 8K\n"