Welcome to The Ultimate Gaming, Streaming, and Recording Battle Station

We are excited to bring you this special episode, sponsored by LG, who have kindly provided us with the latest technology to create an ultimate gaming, streaming, and recording setup. In this video, we will be building a state-of-the-art system that is not only ready for PC games but also for the next-generation of consoles.

Our Setup

We start with the LG OLED 65GX, one of their highest-end OLEDs and one of those with the flush mount, making it look like wallpaper TV. Beyond this, we are completely renovating this part of the office to create a seamless integration of our new setup. We have replaced the boring white wall with slightly less boring artificial wood, which looks good.

Our goal is to have everything run into our OLED TV. The idea is that this setup should be completely ready for the PS5 and the Series X later this year. But what's even better is that we can play all these games, stream them, and record them for videos. To achieve this, we need to figure out how to mount the TV, have a PC down here, a monitor, and our desk down here, and then have a piece of furniture where all of the consoles will sit and be routed into the TV.

The LG 65GX comes with its own wall mount bracket, which is one of the nice things about this TV. Unlike most TVs that require a standard VESA mount and drilling it into the wall, this flush mount is designed to have pretty much no gap between the TV and the wall, making it look awesome for our setup.

However, we need to make sure before we drill it in and start building the entire setup that we know exactly where everything is going to go, including all of our cables. And not only does this hold the whole TV up but also believe it's actually only two bolts that slide into there. The whole thing pops out after it's mounted on the wall. You then sort of click the TV in and sandwich the whole thing up against it.

HDMI Cables

Wes, why did you spend all our money on HDMI cables? Honestly, they just had the best boxes, and that's kind of how I buy cables. We have a bunch of them that are HDMI 2.0, which means we'll be able to do 4K60. Yeah, but for the newer consoles and future-proofing, we have a few HDMI 2.1 cables, which are much more expensive.

The TV actually has four inputs but for ease of use and because we have so many things going in different directions like if we wanna do a console right to the TV, console to capture cards and TV, you need something like a matrixer. It actually has four inputs but also four outputs. So we can take any combination of things going into this and out.

Averaging Up

The average gamer's Tuesday is what we're calling this setup, because it should be the average gamer's paradise. Wait, that’s Jud's thing. The average gamer paradise. Yeah, just so we don't jinx it, let's call this the average setup.

Setting Up the TV

We are actually ready to finish up the setup today. So we will hang the TV on the wall first and then see how close we got. That's pretty close. We're touch over to the right but honestly, I buy that. Yeah, I think we're close enough where we should go for it.

All Right

The buildings also not particularly straight as well. Oh, yeah, that was part of it. (Austin laughs) Yeah, compensating for the fact that the floor is not level. Alright, all the way in? Go for it. Alright, right inside that circle there is the magnet. What you're gonna do is find a spot to kind of put the screwdriver under and pop it out. Yeah, now you kinda actually just pull it away with your hands.

It's gonna be a little stiff but you should be able to do it. Wow. So that's it.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Hello and welcome to theultimate gaming, streaming,and recording battle station.So, thanks to our good friends at LGwho have very kindly sponsored this video,we're about to build a setupwhich is not only ready for PC games,but also for the nextgeneration of consoles.So, Wes, it starts outwith the LG OLED 65GX,which is not only one oftheir highest-end OLEDsbut also it's one of theones with the flush mount,so it almost looks likeone of the wallpaper TVs.But beyond that,we're completely renovatingthis part of the office.- Yeah.So we've already gone aheadand we've replaced the boring white wallwith slightly less boring artificial wood.- It looks good. You dida good job with this.- No one has to know it'sartificial wood, it's real.- So essentially what we're going to dois we're gonna mount the TV up here,we're gonna move prettymuch everything here.What we wanna do with this setupis have everything run into our OLED.But the idea is that this setupshould be completely readyfor the PS5 and theSeries X later this year.But the best part is not onlycan we play all these games,but we're also going tobe able to stream themand record them for videos.Essentially what we need todo is we need to figure outthe TV being mounted here,we'll have a PC down here,a monitor, and our desk down here.And then we'll have, probablyon this piece of furniture,we'll have where all of the consoles sit,and then they'll allbe routed into the TV.- Correct, and we will actuallybe here holding up the TVwith our hands just likewe're holding it up right now.- So one of the nice things about the 65GXis that it comes with itsown wall mount bracket.Now, unlike most TVs where you would usejust a standard VESA mountand then you would drill it into the wall,this is actually meantto be a flush mount.So if you've seen theLG wallpaper OLED TVs,it's something kind of similar,in that there should be pretty much no gapbetween the TV and the wall,which is great 'cause gonnalook awesome for our setup.But the downside is thatwe need to make surebefore we drill it in and startbuilding the entire setup,that we know exactly whereeverything is going to go,including all of our cables.- And not only is thisgonna hold the whole TV up,I believe it's actually only two boltsthat slide into there.This whole thing pops outafter it's mounted on the wall.You then sort of click the TV inand you sandwich thewhole thing up against it.- Wes, why did you spend allof our money on HDMI cables?- Honestly, they just had the best boxes,and that's kind of how I buy cables.So we have a bunch ofthem that are HDMI 2.0,that means we'll be able to do 4K60.- Yeah.- But, for the newer consolesand for future-proofing, wehave a few HDMI 2.1 cables,which are much more expensive.So normally you wouldnot need one of these.The TV actually has four inputs.But for ease of use andbecause we have so many thingsgoing in different directionslike if we wanna do aconsole right to the TV,console to capture cards and TV,you need something like a matrixer.It actually has four inputs,but also four outputs.- So we can takeany combination of thingsgoing into this and out.- Exactly.- So we can send the samesignal from the consoleto capture card, to TV.But you can imagine whenwe have the TV up here,all of our consoles, all of our lighting.Our Twitch camera, PC monitor, desk.It's gonna be really cool.- Yeah, just so we don't jinx it,we should probably justcall this the average setup.(Austin laughs)This is your averageliving setup.- The average gamer paradise.Wait, that’s Jud's thing.- The average gamer's Tuesday.- Let's fix the TV.- Yeah.- Right. Yeah.- Probably time to stoptalking and start working.So it is day two, and we areready to finish up the setup.- So we'll actually hang the bracket.And this is actually held to the backwith a really strong magnet.So that's why-- Are you tryna tell mea 65-inch TV is being held up by a magnet?- Well, it's not a CRT. So, okay.- The power of OLED beingvery lightweight, okay.All right, I'm sure theyknow what they're doing.- Yeah, but that's why yougotta put the spacer inso it doesn't slam shut on us.- So, you feel comfortablewith me actuallytightening this up?- Pop this guy on firstand let's see what we got.- That's pretty close.We're touch over to the right but-- Honestly, I buy that.- Yeah.- I think we're close enoughwhere we should go for it.- It's fine.- The buildings also notparticularly straight as well.- Oh, yeah that was part of it.(Austin laughs)Yeah, compensating for the factthat the floor is not level.- All right, all the way in?- Go for it.- All right.(drill whirring)- Right inside thatcircle there is the magnet.So what you're gonnawanna do is find a spotto kind of put the screwdriverunder and pop it out.Yeah, now you kind of actuallyjust pull it away with your hands.It's gonna be a little stiff,but you should be able to do it.- Wow.- Yeah.- So that's it.So that's as far as we canactually pull the TV out.Oh, dude, yeah, see thehuge magnet. (laughing)- Yeah, no, it's super strong.Yeah, when I first saw this,I thought it was kind of over-engineeredbut after actually having it on the wall,it's one of those things that'slike engineered to the tee.- Yeah.- It's very purpose-built.- Look, when I have my brandnew LG OLED on the wall,over-engineered, definitelywhat I'm looking for.I don't want like, "Ah, it kinda works."I want it to be firmlyattached to my wall.Now, let's figure out howto get this on the wall.- Yeah, well, so you can see here,the pegs that you actuallyput in a much beefierthan I expected.- Wow.I've never tried one of the wallpaper TVs.I know this obviouslyisn't quite the same line,but it's related just because it hassuch a cool wall mountthat's included in the box.It really is meant to bemore of a display piece.But it has all the featuresof the high-end OLEDs thatyou expect, including G-SYNC.Including 4k, 120 frames per second.Including, obviously, all theexcellent picture quality,the contrast.As far as I'm concerned,this is about the bestpossible TV we could have here.This is our cable solution for this setup.This is what Wes has beenspending the last week prepping.- Basically, I planned it outso not only can theconsoles go into the matrix,but we'll have an extra HDMI 2.1 cable,that will just be free-roaming.So if we wanna bypasseverything, we wanna do 8K60-- Or 4K120directly from a console.- Yeah, which this TV can handle.We'll be able to do that.We have a direct linefrom the GPU of the PCdirectly into the TV if we want to use-- For G-SYNC.- And then we havean auxiliary input, that'sjust gonna surface at the desk.So say that we just get some random PC inthat we wanna try out,we can just plug it inwithout messing up the whole system.- And because we have somany different devicesand we wanna have the flexibility,essentially the matrixer, asbig and expensive as it is,essentially allows us to say,bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo.I made the sound effect again.You can press the buttonsand it will switch everythingin any orientation that you want.That's very cool.So this simple cable cost how much?- I think these were like130 bucks for a 25-foot run.But it's really coolbecause essentially this little unit hereand this little unit herehas an encoder and decoder.It just shoots thesignal over fiber optic,as fast as it can, full 48 gigabits,and then it receives it anddecodes it on the other side.But this is really the only way to do itwithout an amplified HDMI signal.- So we have our cables run.One of these HDMI is a little thick,so hopefully-- A little chunky.- It actually will fit flush.But I think we'll be okay.So, our mounting, very high.This is... (laughs)It's dense.All right, ready? And up.Up, up, up, up, up, up, up.Okay, back, back, back.Up a little higher.I can't tell.- Toward Wes.- Toward Wes? Okay. Yep,we got it. We got it.It's in. It's in.I'm in on this side.Are you in on that side?- I feel like it.- It's on Wes' side.- It's on one side. Okay.- Yeah.- All right, let's make sure-- Oh, see here. Hold on.Oh, that's it. I got it, got it, got it.- That's it.- We're in, we're in.We're in.- All right.- Okay, gently let go.Let go. Let go.(Wes speaks faintly)No, it's okay, it's okay.- Yeah, gotta-- We gotta lock it in.But at least in place now.(TV mount clicks)- Okay. Are they both clicked?- That one click, and I wanna double-checkif this one's clicked.- I can actually reach it.(TV mount clicks)- At this point, we have our65GX mounted on the wall,and when they say flushmount, they mean flush mount.This thing is all theway up against the wall.But with our cables running hereI actually feel really good about this.So essentially, now, well, wehave a lot more work to do.But for now, why don'twe get the TV fired up,run something to it,and just make sure thisis all actually working.So, with the TV hung up,now let's run through the temporary setup.So we have some of theconsoles up and running,but before we do that,shall we actually make sure the TV worksand we didn't somehow horribly ruin it.- Yeah.- Where's the remote?Actually, you know what? Wes,would you just do the honors?Press the power button,make sure we didn't ruin it.- Here we go.- Oh, the light turned off. And?Yes!Ah, dude, it looks so good up on the wall.And the thing about OLED.God, I feel like I'msuch a fanboy right now.The thing about OLED is,is that it has such great viewing anglesthat no matter where we arein the room it looks great.So let's actually putthe TV through its paces.Austin Evans.And, of course, youhave full voice supportfor not only with the remote,but you can also just say,hey, LG.Watch Mystery Tech.(upbeat music)Eh, look at that!Oh, Wes?Wes?We forgot to do the peel!Three, two, one.(gasps) Oh, it's so good.Look at that.- Oh, man.- Oh!Look at all our grimefrom our fingerprintsjust disappearing.Look at that.Oh, it's so good.Yeah!Wow, it actually looks much better.I was already getting usedto it with the plastic.It's like, "All right, itlooks even better now!"You know what I really like about this?It looks great from no matter what angle,especially when we're shooting in here.Obviously one of the problemswe're gonna have with this setup,is we wanna make sure thatwe can minimize reflections.But a lot of that is gonna beonce we get the full lightingrevamped done in here.But with that alpha9 mark 3 processor,what you're getting here isincredibly nice picture quality,especially when you turn on the game mode,because you have a lot of thingsthat will help enhance the image,but also you have a verylow latency experience toowhen you're ready to start gaming.So right now we have avery temporary setup.So, not only do we havea PS4 Pro and Xbox One X,since obviously the newconsoles aren't out yet,but this should in theory work.So we have all three of ourconsoles, including the Switch,going into our matrixer, our matrix.Matrixer or matrix?- Matrix.- Matrix.And then it is going out to the TV.We haven't taken advantageof the extra leads right now.But theoretically if we turnthis on, switch HDMI one,we should be able to playall of these together,and the matrix could alsokick a different signal outto our monitor.So the monitor's gonna roughly live here,obviously once we have the desk.So right now we have ourPS4 Pro and Xbox One Xrouted through the matrix.So PS4 is going up toTV, Xbox is going here.So, first of all, let mesee what the latency is.Oh, that's nothing.So theoretically, can we swap them?Can you push Xbox toTV and PS4 to monitor?- Yeah, so they're in order.The inputs are one, two, three.And then that's output A, that's output B.So you want this guy to havethe PlayStation now, right?- Yes.- Okay.So what output B goes to one.- One, okay.- And actually,while we're here, we should seehow good the sync is betweenthe two of these guys.- Oh!So now we have the PlayStation up on both.- Correct.- Dude, that's trippy man, look at that.- So it can be a splitteror we can route differently.- That is so cool.Okay, wait, so now let's put Xbox on TV.- Okay, so we would select output A.(HDMI matrix beeps)And that is input number two.(HDMI matrix beeps)- Hey! There we go.And now we can just do tap through here.Dude, that is going to be so sick.Especially when you considerthat once we have our PCand our streaming setup really built here,we can very easily streamfrom all these consoles.Instantly we can play onthem, we can capture them.And the nice thing about the OLED,if we launch, say, "RedDead", for example,it has a ton of featureswhich are helpful not only nowbut also going into this next generation.So this TV not only has FreeSyncbut it also supports G-SYNC,the very first TV to do that.Which means that not only,"You need to be online."Okay. One moment, please.One of the nice things about the GX,is it really does haveall the gaming featuresthat we want for the setup.So, of course, not onlydoes it have HDMI 2.1thanks to that a9 processor,which means that we get4K, 120 frames per second.But also we have a bunch of thingsincluding not only FreeSyncbut also NVIDIA G-SYNC,the first time that hasactually come to a TV.So no matter if we're pluggingin the latest consoles,the next-gen consoles, or,of course, a gaming PC,you can get the most out of the TV.It also has a very low responsetime right out of the box,and it has support for thingslike auto low latency mode,which especially for thosenext-generation consolesis going to be really important.As essentially the console cansay, "Hey, I’m playing a game,"the TV will automatically go to game mode,automatically go to the quickest latency.So no matter what you'replaying you're going to getthe best experience right out of the box.It is really cool to see these TVswith things like filmmakermode as well as game mode,so they can automatically takeadvantage of the best modesand the best sort of framerates and everything,for whatever content thatyou wanna watch or play.Especially once we havethe entire setup, well,(coughs) up to date. (coughs)Once we have that alldone, this'll be great.And we have a desk here.But this is so cool to have.The display hung up. Itlooks so cool on the wall.Obviously, we'll hide these cables.We'll have our PC, whichwe're still building,and then we'll have all ofthis sort of nicely done.I'm really excited.This is gonna be a killersetup for streaming,for gaming, for watching, videos, movies,and, of course, for chilling.Are we gonna chill?Are we're gonna just OLED and chill?- We can, like, hang out?- What does that? Hang out?- Relax and stuff.- You mean watch stuff,not for a video?We're just watching contentand playing games for fun?I don't think we do that here.- No.- Thanks very much for watching.Obviously, feel free to gocheck out the wonderful GX TVat the link in the description.And huge shout out to LGfor sponsoring this videoand enabling us to buildthe ultimate setup.Stay tuned.There's a lot more we've got to doto make this thing ultimate.Including update our Xbox.