nVidia surround is awesome!!!

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Originally Posted by nasomi

They're also $15,000.

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wow really? Is the screen made out of spun gold or something? wtf

No, just OLED. Which is expensive to make in larger sizes, ie larger than say cell phone sized. At least for now. There's also some curved LCDs out there, not as expensive, but still not cheap. I'd stick with a good IPS LCD til OLEDs come down in price personally.

Personally I couldn't stand the borders between the screens, was semi ok on EvE, but found running 4 accounts on 4 screens looks better and is more useful lol..
Other games it just rubbed me the wrong way all the time.

Soon as they bring out a semi reasonably priced surround screen with 3-4 inputs i'll join you again.

But grats looks like a nice set-up, Need spec and some nerd p*** sots of the Pc though :P

What gets me is the beautiful screenshots:
http://i.imgur.com/XDVeW.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/X9fWe.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/DodLW.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ErjZB.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/EXw02.jpg

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What gets me is the beautiful screenshots:
http://i.imgur.com/XDVeW.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/X9fWe.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/DodLW.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ErjZB.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/EXw02.jpg

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great specs but that case looks awful, I cont believe ur not overheating, and a stock intel heatsink and fan on a gaming PC should be an instant no

I highly recommend getting a new case with better airflow and cable management opportunities, and get rid of that heatsink and fan quick, Coolermaster Hyper 212+ can be had cheap, on second thought get the case and the heatsink/fan at the same time, wouldnt even be able to fit a good heatsink in that case

I'm running an eyefinity setup and FFXIV is amazing in it, hope 2.0 doesnt break it

my Specs
Core i5 2500k @4.8GHZ with a Noctua NH-D14 cooler
8GBs DD3-1600 RAM
3x Sapphire Toxic 6950 2GB Unlocked to 6970
Asus Maximus IV MOBO
Samsung Blu-Ray Drive
Kingwin 1000 Watt PSU
Corsair 120GB SSD
Samsung Spinpoint 1TB
Silverstone Raven RV03 Case
3x Acer LED backlit Monitors 5760 x 1080 resolution

I'll try and post some pics when I get home

Wow nice. It must be very good to be able to see so far left to right without having to spin your camera.

I salute you especially for 2 things;

1) Finding cheaper stuff, yet maximizing the setup for great performance. This is genius.
2) Using old (means existing) stuff you're already using for work, so now haxtastic workstation turned into haxtastic home-entertainment. <<<< This is so much WIN!

I'd love to do this too but I am end-user-only kind of person. So I gotta use what's made for me, and it must be easy to maintain. Ordinary PC setup only for me, it seems LOL.

Hmmm, I wonder if this works.

http://ispano.mine.nu/files/Tiamat/Tiamat-13-800.jpg

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Originally Posted by nasomi

Ah, that makes sense. Do you do 3d and surround for xiv? What resolution? What graphics cards do you have driving it?

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I don't use 3D all the time, but it does work great with FFXIV. I play on pretty moderate settings, my resolution is 5040 X 1050. THat being the case, I can get away with using two GTS 450s.

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Also what monitors are they? I've been looking at 120hz monitors but they're crazy expensive, and since I have 28" now, i can't go back to 21", so I'd have to get the asus 27" which are $650, and thus why I'm enjoying my current monitors.

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Here's what I'm using for my monitors, they are like 1/3 the price and smaller then those you mentioned, but they work great:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824116452

Why would I upgrade my case? I wanted a microatx board with microatx case for a reason, I wanted something small. It doesn't overheat, my temps are well within normal range. Also, the stock i7 cooler is doing a pretty good job considering my temps are in the low 40's. If it's not broke, why fix it? my cards under full load never breach 90c. My old case was the largest case you could buy, a 12u on wheels that weighed 154lbs. It had 16x 5.25" bays and 10x 3.5" bays, dual 750w psu's. It was mammoth. This time around I wanted to go small, as small as I could, so I built a microatx build.

Also, my psu is a 750 PC Power & Cooling. If you want a real, rock solid psu, I recommend them. It's 4 years old and operating at or above the 750w range due to those gpu's.

Thanks Aleczan, I am a deal hunter, I try and find the best deal I can, rather than just throw money at stuff. I reused a lot of stuff, and old stuff I sell off on craigslist.

And please, post pics, I love to see other people's setups. It gives me ideas on how to make mine better.

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After some snags, I finally got FFXIV running on nVidia surround. I have 3x 28" monitors for a total resolution of 5760x1200, and hte game runs AMAZINGLY!!! I reccomend it to everyone.

And before people say "onry for people with more money than brainz!!1!!111" I did it on a budget for under $1500.

Here's a video:

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i have a 5870 which supports this setup, i wanted to do it just to get the menus off my main screen

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Originally Posted by Molly_Millions

I don't use 3D all the time, but it does work great with FFXIV. I play on pretty moderate settings, my resolution is 5040 X 1050. THat being the case, I can get away with using two GTS 450s.





Here's what I'm using for my monitors, they are like 1/3 the price and smaller then those you mentioned, but they work great:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824116452

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That's a nice monitor, but I feel would be to small for my desk. It'd leave a LOT of open room. Plus with the larger ones, it gives the wrap around effect. Still, I would really like to see xiv in 3d at some point. Everyone I talk to that has 3d says that they can only play for a bit because it gives them a headache. Do you experience any problems like this?

Here's a picture from the drivers seat:
http://i.imgur.com/T9FJY.jpg

I want to pull the monitors in a bit I think.

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i have a 5870 which supports this setup, i wanted to do it just to get the menus off my main screen

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That's actually my only qualm, the start menu is WAY off to the far right, I have to turn my head all the way over to see it properly. It'd be nice if it were re-positionable.

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That's actually my only qualm, the start menu is WAY off to the far right, I have to turn my head all the way over to see it properly. It'd be nice if it were re-positionable.

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That's the issue, since it make it looks like one giant monitor. MS would have to make it moveable or someone would need like a skin/theme program or some such to move it. Part of why I stick to the one large monitor, ie:

http://ispano.mine.nu/files/Tiamat/Tiamat-15-1.jpg

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Hmmm, I wonder if this works.

http://ispano.mine.nu/files/Tiamat/Tiamat-13-800.jpg

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Watercooling, dual cpu's, dual gpu's. I would have stuck with a single cpu and used the savings for a 3rd gpu, as my i7 950 hits 30% at MOST when i'm doing everything there is to do. Still, a relaly nice rig. Overall specs? that mobo looks like one I saw a whileago, intel skullthump or something, that did dual procs.

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That's the issue, since it make it looks like one giant monitor. MS would have to make it moveable or someone would need like a skin/theme program or some such to move it. Part of why I stick to the one large monitor, ie:

http://ispano.mine.nu/files/Tiamat/Tiamat-15-1.jpg

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But that's a small monitor... 22? 24?

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Originally Posted by nasomi

That's a nice monitor, but I feel would be to small for my desk. It'd leave a LOT of open room. Plus with the larger ones, it gives the wrap around effect. Still, I would really like to see xiv in 3d at some point. Everyone I talk to that has 3d says that they can only play for a bit because it gives them a headache. Do you experience any problems like this?

Here's a picture from the drivers seat:
http://i.imgur.com/T9FJY.jpg

I want to pull the monitors in a bit I think.

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I don't actually have the room for larger monitors. I don't use the configuration like this \_/ because, as you can see, I use my gaming rig for other things as well, and the flat configuration works better for me when I'm writing music.

As far as length of play in 3D, as long as I'm taking like 20 minute breaks regularly, I can play pretty much all day without getting headaches. Otherwise, it's about 3 hours tops.

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But that's a small monitor... 22? 24?

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LOL That thing's a 30" Dell U3011

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That's actually my only qualm, the start menu is WAY off to the far right, I have to turn my head all the way over to see it properly. It'd be nice if it were re-positionable.

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it'd be so nice if we could move it to the top of the screen or something instead.

you may not be overheating but you are choking the airflow to such extremely hungry components, you are going to limit the longevity of such things if you dont put them in a proper flowing case

and micro atx in a gaming PC doesnt compute...and you are definitely not in the 40s under load with a 950, that is not that cool of a CPU, i've seen those hitting 100C under load with a stock cooler

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Originally Posted by Finuve

you may not be overheating but you are choking the airflow to such extremely hungry components, you are going to limit the longevity of such things if you dont put them in a proper flowing case

and micro atx in a gaming PC doesnt compute...and you are definitely not in the 40s under load with a 950, that is not that cool of a CPU, i've seen those hitting 100C under load with a stock cooler

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40's at idle. The thing never hits full load unless i'm doing video encoding. It has so much raw power it's rediculious.

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Watercooling, dual cpu's, dual gpu's. I would have stuck with a single cpu and used the savings for a 3rd gpu, as my i7 950 hits 30% at MOST when i'm doing everything there is to do. Still, a relaly nice rig. Overall specs? that mobo looks like one I saw a whileago, intel skullthump or something, that did dual procs.

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A few things have changed since that image was taken.

EVGA SR-2 Motherboard
2x Intel X5680 Xeons, 6 Cores @ 3.33Ghz each
2x ATI 5970s, so more like Quadfire.
12GB Triple Channel DDR3(2 sets of 6GB)
Intel PRO/1000 NIC
ASUS Xonar DX
OCZ VertexII 60GB
2x WD Velociraptor 300GB in RAID0

Some of this I already had, like one of the 5970s, sound card, NIC, etc.

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Originally Posted by Molly_Millions

it'd be so nice if we could move it to the top of the screen or something instead.

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This would be ideal. Or just have a box appear in the middle of the screen with menu options, and that way you could drag it where ever you wanted.

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LOL That thing's a 30" Dell U3011

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Wow, it looks REALLY small in the picture for some reason. Maybe because the computer case on the left is so big, I was using it as a size comparrison.

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Wow, it looks REALLY small in the picture for some reason. Maybe because the computer case on the left is so big, I was using it as a size comparrison.

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Yes, that's a Danger Den LDR-29 Double Wide. It's 29" tall.
http://www.dangerden.com/store/doubl...ck-series.html

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This would be ideal. Or just have a box appear in the middle of the screen with menu options, and that way you could drag it where ever you wanted.

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Try something like Slider Dock. I bind the hide/show command to a mouse key, works well.

so heres my build, I returned these three GPUs and got reference Sapphire Toxics that I unlocked to radeon 6970 spec

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-1...280/11%2B-%2B1

and heres the setup playing Dirt 3

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_...0/IMAG0058.jpg(screenshot taken off of old PC before new one was finished being built, was running a single 5870 hence the low framerate)

The right monitor is screwed up in its placement since I had to rig something together until the remodeling on my house is done, I have a much bigger desk I will be moving everything to then, once I move my equipment to that desk then I'll have that small TV mounted on the top right with my PS3 hooked up to it, the other two monitors on the top currently have my older PC hooked to them, put FFXI on those most of the time while I use the new PC to eyefinity game on the bottom

I had a 6870 before the 580's, if i'd have known this was possible iwth that I'd have had multi-monitors a LONG time ago...

This is my old case, so my new case had to be tiny:
http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/cases/...630b/index.htm
http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/cases/...b/IMAGE037.jpg

You have less space in yours than I do in mine. As long as there's sufficient airflow, there's no need for a big open case. Air comes in, air goes out. As long as it moves easily enough, you're fine.

Also, someone posted this for me in a tech support thread, so I thought I'd share. I was shopping for grpahics cards and laptops, and was trying to figure out where hte cards stood in comparrison to my old gtx280. Seems to have everything.

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Hell I won't even use a monitor at 27" unless it's 2560x1440

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yikes, I wouldn't even go above 1920x1200 unless it's at least 30", everything just looks too damn small at that res + screen size for me

play the game on a 120 inch screen projector trust me your wife would think that's cool

That sounds... terrible. Even if it were crazy high res, the quality is misserable. Can you even read the text? and at best you're limited to 1920x1200 resolution, and that's a $10k projector. May be for you, but not my cup of tea.

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Originally Posted by Molly_Millions

haha, I can't stand having less than 2 screens. I use 2 at work and have had at least 2 at home for ages. On my laptop, I always feel gimped on desktop realty.

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Same. Dual + screens are addictive. Once you have them you want more. Kind of like Tattoos lol :p

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Same. Dual + screens are addictive. Once you have them you want more. Kind of like Tattoos lol :P

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I am simply posting in here for one reason...

/wave /wave /wave /joy

Hi Geesus!!!!!!! ^^

The cat is happy =^,^=

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I am simply posting in here for one reason...

/wave /wave /wave /joy

Hi Geesus!!!!!!! ^^


The cat is happy =^,^=

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/joy /cheer /wave
Hey Nadien!!!

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That sounds... terrible. Even if it were crazy high res, the quality is misserable. Can you even read the text? and at best you're limited to 1920x1200 resolution, and that's a $10k projector. May be for you, but not my cup of tea.

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it all depends on how far away you're from the screen. One would assume it'd be in a home theater setting, in which case he'd be at a decent distance away from the screen.

also, good quality 1080p projectors aren't exactly expensive these days.

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yikes, I wouldn't even go above 1920x1200 unless it's at least 30", everything just looks too damn small at that res + screen size for me

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Well the problem with that is they don't really make 1920x1200 anymore. Cheap 27" panels are 1920x1080, where the dot pitch is just too large for me. Good 27" panels use 2560x1440, and pretty much all 30" panels are 2560x1600, like mine.

I understand what you mean, but I like having more area due to the higher resolution.

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That sounds... terrible. Even if it were crazy high res, the quality is misserable. Can you even read the text? and at best you're limited to 1920x1200 resolution, and that's a $10k projector. May be for you, but not my cup of tea.

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Limited to 1080 res yes but on that size it doesn't matter. and projectors have come a long long way a good $2k projector these days beats any LED/Plasma displays on the market today. Research http://www.avsforum.com/

Edit: About reading text, am writing this on it, I watch stuff on it, I play games on it.
I don't even have a monitor.

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Limited to 1080 res yes but on that size it doesn't matter. and projectors have come a long long way a good $2k projector these days beats any LED/Plasma displays on the market today. Research http://www.avsforum.com/

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*twitch* Correct terminology would be LCD/Plasma. The term LED used with modern TVs only relates to the backlighting. True LED displays, like OLED, are actually different, but FAR more expensive in larger sizes. And the resolution at that size DOES matter. Now if you sit an appropriate distance away it's not that noticeable, but I can still see the pixels personally. Unless it's like 20 feet away or something.

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Edit: About reading text, am writing this on it, I watch stuff on it, I play games on it. I don't even have a monitor.

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1920x1080 stretched out to 120"... of course you can read on it.

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*twitch* Correct terminology would be LCD/Plasma. The term LED used with modern TVs only relates to the backlighting. True LED displays, like OLED, are actually different, but FAR more expensive in larger sizes. And the resolution at that size DOES matter. Now if you sit an appropriate distance away it's not that noticeable, but I can still see the pixels personally. Unless it's like 20 feet away or something.



1920x1080 stretched out to 120"... of course you can read on it.

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Thanks for the information, btw i have an ISF certificate, again research what that means.