You Cannot Have Too Many Monitors

[bryanzera]

You can never, ever, ever, ever have too many monitors

[The_Dude]

just like a cockpit, wow

[viveleroi0]

holy fricken cow. That guy must have a god complex when he's just in windows...

[tinfoil]

Shit, I thought I felt leet when I had three.

That's it, I need more now

[Hydralisk]

so how exactly does one do that?

I have a few spare monitors in my house, do I need a special program? Is each monitor hooked up to a unique cpu?

[micah67]

wow.

[micah67]

Wow. I'm impressed. I was thinking of going to three - it seems I keep running out of Real Estate.

As I understand it, the XP OS can handle up to 7 monitor cards. I count 13 monitors and they obviously are tied into one system. Does he have 7 dual-head cards?!?

[tinfoil]

Originally posted by Hydralisk
so how exactly does one do that?

I have a few spare monitors in my house, do I need a special program? Is each monitor hooked up to a unique cpu?

A dual head video card is the easiest way. Beware nvidia cards prior to GeForce 3, however, since their implementation sucks. You can also add a secondary PCI card, but some PCI vid (Matrox and some earlier ATi) cards don't care to be secondary and may sometimes require some bios tweaking.

[bryanzera]

This setup (13 Monitors) was done with a program called Wideview.

[Hydralisk]

Originally posted by tinfoil
A dual head video card is the easiest way. Beware nvidia cards prior to GeForce 3, however, since their implementation sucks. You can also add a secondary PCI card, but some PCI vid (Matrox and some earlier ATi) cards don't care to be secondary and may sometimes require some bios tweaking.

I already have a radeon 9700pro and use 2 monitors with that. So you just keep adding video cards to the PCI slots and you can get a set up like that?

My games already slow down when I have 2 monitors, so I'm guessing that you need a lot more power to run that many smoothly. How do you hook up all those comps?

[Sion]

if you look below the desks, you will see no less than 7 cases (and there may be more that you cant see). im guessing seven total systems, each with a dual head vidcard, probably a LAN.

cool setup though.

[darkure]

Jesus fuck! Think of the power bill.

I still wish I could ever afford such a set up though.

[bob32]

Too bad it's just for Microsoft Flight Simulator (assuming he's using Wideview). Imagine doing that with everything...

[gamer715]

that is damn awesome

i need more monitors

i felt 1337 when i got my 2nd...

[freedomdowntime]

OK, this is a robbery. I am taking your chair. By the way, mind if I play flgiht sim for a sec or two?

[The_Dude]

where do you live again?

[sandeep]

i like the 15" monitor up top for msn messenger. nice touch

[Boner]

I think its probably too much when you have to look around the room to find one of the applications that you have running

[YourNeverThere]

i need more!

[sub zero]

can i borrow that?

[rogue49]

Man, I hate that shit.
We've got 6 different monitors for each station in our NOC at work
Layered 3 x 2.
It confused the hell out of me.

Give me one BIG monitor.

[gump]

that rocks i'd love try and play that

[bryanzera]

This isn't my setup. I found the pic online. I wish it was my setup ...

[-z3r0-]

I only have one monitor

[soopafreek]

off the subject, but the dude's got a seat belt for his chair!!!! oh my gawd!!!

[Sion]

Originally posted by soopafreek
off the subject, but the dude's got a seat belt for his chair!!!! oh my gawd!!!

soop, thats not a seat belt, its some sort of strap/harness to hold the joystick in proper position for playing the sim.

[freedomdowntime]

On the subject of the chair I can see it now

"fat boy's lard burns as he he fails to unbuckle his joypad from his chair."

[juanvaldes]

this just made slashdot

[wasapeas]

That is absolutely insane, I thought I was the coolest one on the block with 2 =(

[Randerolf]

Too bad the man will die from radation posioning from the monitors.


heh, all those people who we laugh at who are dying becasue of cigarettes, will chuckle when we, as a generation, all start getting adverse effects from heavy computing.


Err... I mean... HE IS GOD.

[duckduck]

I wonder how he got that to work in windows? I'm pressuming since it's MS Flight simulator that it's not Linux. I thought the max monitors windows supported was 8. Does that limit increase when it's dual view card.

If he's doing it with the other comps, I wonder how he got the image from one prog to be outputted through the other comps.

Really cool.

**EDIT**

Nevermind. Read slashdot and saw he's using Wideview software and that he's using both XP and Win98. Cool

[ireallydontknow]

AWESOME

[jujueye]

The gamer in me says....UT2003....Q3...Undying.....so many games could be 'enhanced' like this....so sweet!

[propaganda]

Damn I've always wanted to play Combat Flight Simulator on muitple monitors. Nice to know that someone actually does it

*edit* wow I didn't even notice that joystick.... hmmmm i should try that out

[SonicRL]

Damn..that is really nice. I wish I had more moniters to try that out. Playing CFS on one moniter seems like nothing compared to that!

[Tandem]

lol - bit obsessive.

I'd kill myself laughing if the owner of that fine array of monitors sat down to start playing and the console displaying the airplane instrumentation died.

[B21]

WOW thats a cockpit

But how does 1 go about doing that?

[Dilbert1234567]

windows 2k only suports 10 monitors what os you running?

[Mr.Deflok]

That's cool and all but where the heck are the candy wrappers and empty coke bottles? No workstation is complete without them!

[Great Scott]

I keep telling myself not to drool. There are more important things to want and do in life. Just wish I could make myself truly believe that. I want that setup too!