nVidia surround is awesome!!!

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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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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