- Hey guys this is Austin and this

is The Ultimate Thunderbolt Setup.

This is how our project started a few months ago

when I had a conversation with Intel's Thunderbolt team

about what really to me felt like

a very obvious use-case for Thunderbolt.

A single cable powering an entire

crazy, over the top, gaming setup.

Luckily they agreed and alongside Dell, Intel was able to

sponsor this entire setup and make it happen.

The setup is built around the Dell XPS 13.

This is a terrific ultrabook.

Not only is it powered by the latest

eighth generation Core i7 processor

but you have great battery life,

a good screen, all the normal kind of laptop stuff

but what it lacks is some dedicated graphics for gaming

which is where Thunderbolt comes in.

The XPS is connected to the Aorus GTX 1080 gaming box.

This little enclosure here houses not only

a full GTX 1080 graphics card but it also

has a power supply to power not only the graphics card

and the laptop but it also has USB ports

for the rest of our accessories.

What's great about this is that with a single

Thunderbolt 3 cable your thin and light Dell

that you carry around all day long

turns into a full proper gaming setup.

There are a wide variety of Thunderbolt 3

enclosures available most of which

have graphics cards built in and those

start at around 350 dollars or so.

But there are also other options without

the GPU that you can add yourself.

So these start at around $200 and one of the ones

I recently took a look at was the Razer Core X.

This supports a full-size graphics card

with plenty of power for pretty much

anything you want to put in there.

The reason we chose to go with the

gaming box is for a few reasons.

First of all the a GTX 1080 is a lot of power

paired with an ultrabook like this

but it also has some additional features.

So first of all we have a series of USB ports

on the back which is helpful because we wanted to make sure

that all of our accessories could be wired in

with just that single Thunderbolt cable.

And on top of that this does support

a full 100 watts of power delivery

which means we don't have to charge our laptop either.

It really is one single Thunderbolt 3 cable

to make this entire setup work.

To take advantage of all this gaming hardware

we have three full monitors.

And by monitors I mean TVs.

These are TVs, they're 55 inch 4K HDR panels

so this in hindsight may have been

a little bit of overkill but I mean come on

we're building the ultimate Thunderbolt setup.

Overkill's kinda what you're here for right?

Paired with this are my favorite

gaming peripherals right now.

First of all we have the Razer Huntsman Elite keyboard.

I did an entire video about that

you should definitely go check it out.

This is straight up my favorite

keyboard that I've ever tried.

Alongside this we have the Zowie,

what is it the BenQ Zowie, FK1 I knew it it's the FK1.

This is actually the mouse I've

been using for like two years now.

Not only do I use it for editing and general use

but it is really great for gaming as well.

I probably should have know the

the name of the mouse shouldn't I have?

All this is backed up by my favorite game pad right now,

the Xbox One wireless controller.

Now this has seen a few revisions over the years

most notably it now has Bluetooth

and you can also do a cool design lab version

which maybe doesn't match with the setup but I don't care

'cause it's my custom Austin not Duncan one.

But the cool thing is this going to be

a nice benefit for when you want to play

racing games or stuff that doesn't

work well with a mouse and keyboard.

(buttons clicking)

- [Camera Man] Don't do that, that won't.

Don't do that. Stop.

- What's really cool about this is when you

sit in front of it and you realize just how immersive it is.

I mean look at this we've got three displays

all running in surround and it's so seamless.

I mean yeah the TVs have a little bit of a border

but I mean come on this is so cool.

It's almost like sitting with like a

VR headset on as opposed to three giant TVs.

Oh dude, dude (laughing) are you serious?

What? This is the point of the video

where I'm just like freaking out the whole time.

So we're playing on full epic settings too.

So right now the resolution's set to 5760 by 1080

but it's full epic basically everything.

And frame rate wise we're doing pretty solid.

I mean we're pretty much around 50 to 60 fps.

See I do a lot of videos with Fortnite right

and a lot of the time I'm playing on like

$200 PCs or like seven frames per second

on ultra low settings but this totally feels like cheating.

I mean sure when I'm looking ahead

it looks like a fairly standard field of view.

But I look left and right I could

have such a competitive advantage.

The only slight downside is that

some of the information is all the way over to the left

or all the way over to the right such as the mini map.

I mean sure you could go build

an incredibly expensive gaming PC

and get this sort of permanent setup going

but the greatest part is as soon as I'm done with this game

I unplug this single cable and I've got

my normal ultrabook that's completely portable

that I can take with me to school or work or whatever.

Wow dude this is like trippy (laughing).

It's like almost enough to get you

motion sick it's so immersive.

Alright let's do this.

I'm comin'.

(gun report)

There we go I can be helpful.

You have a very cool cape.

Dude this is so immersive I mean it's crazy

just how into the game I feel.

This feels incredibly dangerous.

I shouldn't be hiding underneath this tree right now.

I'm just gonna run, running is always a good option right?

Oh yeah. Ha ha, I like this.

(gun firing) (Austin laughs)

No, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no, no.

That's not how this works.

That's not how this...alright well it's fine.

We came in number two.

I cannot go back to playing games on a mere single display

or a phone or a switch or a $200 laptop.

Ken don't make me go back.

Can I just do this now?

I actually might get good at Fortnite

if I play on this setup.

Next up we have Forza Horizon 4.

Not only is this one of my favorite games out there

but the PC version's actually really good this year.

Which is especially helpful when you have

three giant TVs in front of you.

If you wanna be lame you can drive outside the car

and I mean I guess that's fine but nah.

This is the way to do it.

Something I'm noticing is that the mirrors in the game

I never really paid that much attention to

playing on like Xbox but it makes

a big difference here on PC.

Not only are the reflections nice and high quality

but I can really see especially with this

right hand mirror when people are behind me.

It's a small thing but it really kinda

goes to show just how useful a setup like this can be.

See nope, nope, nope that was too aggressive.

That was too aggressive that's okay I made it.

Oh no you don't, there we go.

Little bump never hurt anybody right?

I do have the same problem as I did with Fortnite

and it's some of my information like the hud

is way too far away but I mean come on it's fine.

It's like a real race I don't need my mini map

I can just kinda drive by the

seat of my pants and the voice of the GPS.

Of course Thunderbolt is useful for

more than just purely playing games.

So not only are we adding a ton

of extra graphics horsepower to our system

but we do have all the extra USB ports and power and stuff

and we also have the ability to hookup multiple 4K monitors.

So that's something that's going to

make a big difference in things like

video editing and racing games.

But mostly video editing and creative

professional activities like drifting.

And that is the ultimate thunderbolt setup.

A lot of work went into not only our brand new set

but getting this all together.

A huge shout out to everyone here and of course

massive thank you to Intel and Dell

for sponsoring this video.

Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go

do some real work on my tiny XPS 13.

(hip hop music)