Anyone using a serious multimonitor setup? Eyefinity?
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I am so pissed that the needs of TV resolution took over the monitor world. I use 5 LCD panels with 1200 vertical pixels of resolution -- 2 at 1920*1200, and 3 at 1600*1200, and you'll pry them out my cold dead hands. Programmers need all the vertical resolution they can get, because more pixels means more code on display. If I want to watch movies, I have a TV set for that. When I'm working, I want proper resolution, and don't give me this "full HD" crap. Trying to find a proper monitor these days is nearly impossible, and you have to pay a fortune for them.
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AspDotNetDev wrote:
Dude, with that much play you'll go blind.
Oh so THAT'S why he needs 4 monitors... Don't give us this easier to develop with crap! :laugh:
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Is that a pornoramic display :)
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below is the snippet. Seriously thinking about upgrading to three monitors at home with a beefed up server. Now that *nice* 1920x1080 LCDs are below $200, it helps with the eyes that come with older age. Anyone making use of this hardware? happy with it? "AMD Eyefinity Technology Supporting multiple independent display outputs simultaneously, AMD Eyefinity technology delivers innovative graphics display capabilities enabling massive desktop workspaces and ultra-immersive visual environments for the ultimate panoramic computing experience. The new display interface DisplayPort 1.2 boasts features such as 2560x1600 max resolution per display, 21.6 Gbps bandwidth, multi-stream transport and high bit-rate audio, enabling simple, affordable and flexible multi-display configurations. "
Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
I dont have nything that much serious still need to make an upgrade end of this year. Saw some awsome samsung LED 3D monitors and loved them . My curent setup looks like this Dev Faqtory 3 monitor setup
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below is the snippet. Seriously thinking about upgrading to three monitors at home with a beefed up server. Now that *nice* 1920x1080 LCDs are below $200, it helps with the eyes that come with older age. Anyone making use of this hardware? happy with it? "AMD Eyefinity Technology Supporting multiple independent display outputs simultaneously, AMD Eyefinity technology delivers innovative graphics display capabilities enabling massive desktop workspaces and ultra-immersive visual environments for the ultimate panoramic computing experience. The new display interface DisplayPort 1.2 boasts features such as 2560x1600 max resolution per display, 21.6 Gbps bandwidth, multi-stream transport and high bit-rate audio, enabling simple, affordable and flexible multi-display configurations. "
Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Check out MaxiVista.com[^] for a great way to use a laptop or any other physically close windows computer to augment the display on your main rig. I tend to have 2 direct attached and 1 on MaxiVista.
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below is the snippet. Seriously thinking about upgrading to three monitors at home with a beefed up server. Now that *nice* 1920x1080 LCDs are below $200, it helps with the eyes that come with older age. Anyone making use of this hardware? happy with it? "AMD Eyefinity Technology Supporting multiple independent display outputs simultaneously, AMD Eyefinity technology delivers innovative graphics display capabilities enabling massive desktop workspaces and ultra-immersive visual environments for the ultimate panoramic computing experience. The new display interface DisplayPort 1.2 boasts features such as 2560x1600 max resolution per display, 21.6 Gbps bandwidth, multi-stream transport and high bit-rate audio, enabling simple, affordable and flexible multi-display configurations. "
Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
There's no way you would regard my monitor setup as "serious" but it's ideal for me. I have a laptop (running at native 1280x800) and directly above its opened screen, a 17" monitor at 1280x1024. So the two screens form one continuous area 1280x1824. To the right of that I have a separate PC running an identical 17" monitor also at 1280x1024. I tend to develop on the laptop, and use the other machine for communications and general web browsing, plus admin. (I'm freelance so raise invoices etc on that box). The 2-screen laptop setup works well, with typically VS2008 in the larger top screen and a browser (with the site I'm developing) in the lower (laptop) screen. When I occasionally need to view large amounts of code, I resize VS to fill BOTH screens and position the pane split at the physical "join" between monitors. If you routinely work with, for example, procedures that extend beyond the height of a 1024-deep screen, you need to rethink your coding style. Similarly, if you're primarily testing websites on massive screens, you're ignoring how the majority of your users will perceive it. Personally, when working with larger monitors than this, or with 3 or more monitors, it's LESS convenient - more head movement is required, you can't take in the entire visual field in one go. With a 17" monitor at a "reasonable" resolution the default text sizes are comfortably readable (and these eyes are over half a century old) and I can easily assimilate everything on screen. I don't have to move the mouse miles to reach the corners of the screen and I don't have to move my head to see what's at the extremeties. What I DO do, though, is to physically shift slightly when moving between laptop and desktop (separate keyboards and mice) and that slight physical shift helps to shift mental focus from one task to another as well. YMMV of course... :) Derek TP
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below is the snippet. Seriously thinking about upgrading to three monitors at home with a beefed up server. Now that *nice* 1920x1080 LCDs are below $200, it helps with the eyes that come with older age. Anyone making use of this hardware? happy with it? "AMD Eyefinity Technology Supporting multiple independent display outputs simultaneously, AMD Eyefinity technology delivers innovative graphics display capabilities enabling massive desktop workspaces and ultra-immersive visual environments for the ultimate panoramic computing experience. The new display interface DisplayPort 1.2 boasts features such as 2560x1600 max resolution per display, 21.6 Gbps bandwidth, multi-stream transport and high bit-rate audio, enabling simple, affordable and flexible multi-display configurations. "
Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Not sure about any new tech like Eyefinity until I've seen it in action, but I've been using dual DVI out into 2 1920x1200 displays for years. I also use Synergy to span the keyboard and mouse onto a laptop to the right and left for admin related tasks. It seems harder to find the 1200 vertical pixel displays than it should be... the trend seems to be for 1920x1080p, despite the fact that there's more screen real estate with the 1200!
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below is the snippet. Seriously thinking about upgrading to three monitors at home with a beefed up server. Now that *nice* 1920x1080 LCDs are below $200, it helps with the eyes that come with older age. Anyone making use of this hardware? happy with it? "AMD Eyefinity Technology Supporting multiple independent display outputs simultaneously, AMD Eyefinity technology delivers innovative graphics display capabilities enabling massive desktop workspaces and ultra-immersive visual environments for the ultimate panoramic computing experience. The new display interface DisplayPort 1.2 boasts features such as 2560x1600 max resolution per display, 21.6 Gbps bandwidth, multi-stream transport and high bit-rate audio, enabling simple, affordable and flexible multi-display configurations. "
Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
I got 4x1080p monitors, two horizontal, two vertical. Verticals are for code (comparing two files with this is awesome) and browsing (the 1080 width is rarely a problem, but it happens). When you get to coding on vertical screens, it will hurt to go back. One of the horizontal ones is for the palettes from whatever editor that supports placing them on another screen. It may also have a music player, IM, etc. The last one is for porn.
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below is the snippet. Seriously thinking about upgrading to three monitors at home with a beefed up server. Now that *nice* 1920x1080 LCDs are below $200, it helps with the eyes that come with older age. Anyone making use of this hardware? happy with it? "AMD Eyefinity Technology Supporting multiple independent display outputs simultaneously, AMD Eyefinity technology delivers innovative graphics display capabilities enabling massive desktop workspaces and ultra-immersive visual environments for the ultimate panoramic computing experience. The new display interface DisplayPort 1.2 boasts features such as 2560x1600 max resolution per display, 21.6 Gbps bandwidth, multi-stream transport and high bit-rate audio, enabling simple, affordable and flexible multi-display configurations. "
Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
I'm using two 24" Samsungs (1920×1200 ;P ) and, a few weeks ago, I've found an excellent software when I wanted to extend my taskbar to the second monitor: http://www.actualtools.com/multiplemonitors/ It's a bit pricey, I'm still on the trial version. But it's a much better solution than Eyefinity. AND you do't need an AMD card with their crappy drivers.
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I got 4x1080p monitors, two horizontal, two vertical. Verticals are for code (comparing two files with this is awesome) and browsing (the 1080 width is rarely a problem, but it happens). When you get to coding on vertical screens, it will hurt to go back. One of the horizontal ones is for the palettes from whatever editor that supports placing them on another screen. It may also have a music player, IM, etc. The last one is for porn.
I suggest you to move to a dedicated pc (even better a workstation or server with UPS and backup internet connection) for porn: what if the computer you're "working" on crashes?? you'll have to reboot and loose the porn, while you could COMPLETELY dedicate to porn while rebooting!!!! If you have space, take a 50" Plasma and attach it to the wall over the 4 monitors: this way it will be easier to move your eyes from work to porn!!! :D
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I'm doing 4x 24" at 1920x1080 each. Two is probably just about right, but I've grown into using all monitors efficiently. I sit here 16 hours a day (I work from home) and love the large amount of information available with just a shift of my eyes. For most people 1 or 2 is probably enough. If your job is answering email all day, you can probably get by with a laptop. But serious development is easier to accomplish with 2 or more. I don't quite have a dedicated CodeProject monitor yet, however. :laugh:
I'm running four monitors off of a Dell workstation. Do not remember what card it is using, just that it has one output and a cable that splits it into four. All four monitors are a different size. The standard issue here is one monitor. Coming from the military I have learned to improvise. I first stuck a video card in a PC that did not kill the video on the motherboard. That caused another guy to get a dual monitor card for his PC. When he left I borrowed his card for three. I did not expect them to approve this workstation, the gods must have been happy that day. I find it handy using the different sizes. The biggest one is where the IDE resides. The widescreen is rotated 90 degrees and is good for displaying text files.
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I suggest you to move to a dedicated pc (even better a workstation or server with UPS and backup internet connection) for porn: what if the computer you're "working" on crashes?? you'll have to reboot and loose the porn, while you could COMPLETELY dedicate to porn while rebooting!!!! If you have space, take a 50" Plasma and attach it to the wall over the 4 monitors: this way it will be easier to move your eyes from work to porn!!! :D
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below is the snippet. Seriously thinking about upgrading to three monitors at home with a beefed up server. Now that *nice* 1920x1080 LCDs are below $200, it helps with the eyes that come with older age. Anyone making use of this hardware? happy with it? "AMD Eyefinity Technology Supporting multiple independent display outputs simultaneously, AMD Eyefinity technology delivers innovative graphics display capabilities enabling massive desktop workspaces and ultra-immersive visual environments for the ultimate panoramic computing experience. The new display interface DisplayPort 1.2 boasts features such as 2560x1600 max resolution per display, 21.6 Gbps bandwidth, multi-stream transport and high bit-rate audio, enabling simple, affordable and flexible multi-display configurations. "
Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
I saw an add for something called Matrox TripleHead2Go. See this web site: "http://www.matrox.com/graphics"/en/products/gxm/th2go/ This allows you to add three monitors to your laptop. Prices are $300 to $330.