What's Your Dream Setup?
More inches. More speed. More eardrum-blasting bass.
We're talking, of course, about the things we want in our dream PC setup—the ultimate combo of monitors, headphones, hardware, and all those brilliant tech goodies that we want on our desk 24/7.
The UltraWide Festival is hosting an awesome competition right now, to let you build your own dream setup with their money ($10k to each winner!), and keep it forever and ever. Even if you don't win of the 3 Finalist prizes, they're also giving out 30 of LG's incredible new Curved UltraWide monitors, guaranteed to make even the most tech-casual noob drool instantly.
All you have to do to enter the competition is make a video showing your current PC setup, explain how you would upgrade it if you won the $10 thousand dollars, and fill out a super fast form over on their website. It's fast, it's easy, and it gives you a chance to show off your awesome video-making skills. (Pro tip: make it funny!)
When we heard about this competition, we started thinking... what sorts of things would we want our dream setup to do if someone else was paying for it and we had no budget limit?
Hopefully our ideas help spark some of your own that you can use in your video for the UltraWide Festival Dream Setup competition.
The Hardware
Any respectable gamer starts in the guts of the PC when dreaming big. It doesn't matter how pretty it all looks if it doesn't run like a jackrabbit on ritalin. But let's not get bogged down in the details here and end up bickering about AMD vs. Nvidia for the next 10 pages. We're dreaming—so let's just focus on what we want it to do.
We want double video cards working hand-in... umm, robo-hand with each other to show us aliens, nazis, and zombies on our screens for us to shoot. Powering alongside those duel gods of pixel magic, we want a futuristic CPU with more cores than an apple tree, RAM for every slot, and nothing less than a pile of the finest multi TB SSDs. Someone else is paying for your dream setup if you win the competition, so I'm dreaming big!
I guess we also better toss in a rock-solid PSU, a water cooling system with the coolest neon lights you've ever seen, and a motherboard that fits all that stuff into just the right places that makes it easy to work with.
Oh, a case that looks like a freakin' mechwarrior. With real rocket launchers and a flamethrower that'll toast our grilled cheese. Let us dream!
The Monitor
I thought I was actually pretty happy with my monitor before I saw the website for this competition. They're giving away a bunch of the LG Curved UltraWide monitors, and they look incredible. I mean, that one in the image above has so much screen real estate on its 34-freakin-inch display that the dude is doing like ten things at once. And here I was, like a chump, being happy that I could just play Hearthstone and watch Netflix at the same time on my current screen.
Nope. Monitor envy is a real thing, folks. And I now have it. Thanks, LG. Now every time I boot up Hearthstone, I'll be reminded that I don't have a curved monitor with bleeding edge specs that's editing some cool space battle footage from a game I probably can't even afford.
Oh, man, reality is too painful. Let's go back to dreaming about our dream setup!
We want that tiny PC-deity box we described on the previous page to feed into the fattest monitors that have ever existed. Wait—cancel that. We want that feeding into THREE of the fattest monitors that have ever existed, just like Lewis of Unbox Therapy was showing off in his video about this competition.
Audio/Video
You better believe that if we won this UltraWide Festival competition and got to build our dream PC setup, we'd be livestreaming 24/7 to show it off to the world.
Even though the LG UltraWide monitor has great speakers built-in, we'd still want some slick 7.1 surround sound headsets that make us look like esports pros on stream. Bonus points if that headset has an unobtrusive mic attached, so we can personally thank everyone that donates $100 or more in our Twitch chat—which totally happens every five minutes in my dream.
But sometimes we don't want to use the headset, so we'll need a crazy surround sound setup with speakers and a comfy subwoofer we can rest our feet on when it's not busy shaking the house's walls around us. And I guess we need a webcam so the world can see our glorious faces on the stream.
Everything Else
Phew, all this dreaming is tiring. But we're not done yet! True geeks need all sorts of cool stuff on their desk.
Of course, the gaming mouse with like 20 buttons on it and a wired cable. Of course, the gaming keyboard with mechanical keys and glowing back-lit letters. Of course, the three core gamepad controllers so we can be snobby about which gamepad works best for each individual game we play.
But we also need an amazing chair that magically fixes our posture, a USB flash drive that can store our entire Steam library on it, a real Pip-Boy, a wearable mouse, a thumbs up bottle opener, a USB PICKLE LIGHT!
Uh... okay. I think we've finally dreamed too big. We should've stopped at the Pip-Boy. But I think we're finally ready for the competition.
Win Your Own Dream Setup
Don't let our way-too-big-and-very-fun-until-it-got-a-little-bit-weird-at-the-end-there-with-the-pickle dream overshadow your own dreams, though! Head on over to the UltraWide Festival Dream Setup website and share your own story.
All you have to do to enter the competition is make a short video showing off your current PC setup and talking about how you want to make it better. You have until September 25 (next Friday) to enter the competition, so take your time and dream big!
The 3 Finalists will get $10,000 to upgrade their current rigs to their dream setup, and 30 Semi-Finalists will get the beautiful Curved UltraWide monitor (34UC87C). It's incredible for gaming, but we won't judge if you want to also use it to edit videos, make art, or any of that other awesome creative stuff. Just make sure to frag sometimes too.
Good luck, and dream big!
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