Post your gaming setup!

[Wingwraith]

Just built a new rig last night:

i5 2500k
Asrock Extreme 4 mobo
8 gb Mushkin ram DDR3 1600 (7-9-8-24)
HD 6850 card
23" Samsung LED
150 gb Velociraptor HD (till the new SSD's are released)
Windows7 64bit
750w PSU
Antec 900 two case

[FlawlessSoul]

Except that's not multi-monitor....tiling multiple screens onto a single giant chassis doesn't count, it still just amounts to one giant screen. Most importantly, you can't "bend" those around view like you can with 3 individual monitors :P
My point was that LCD/LED technology simply doesn't allow for truly edge-less monitors, atleast a centimeter or two is needed to project the grid of pixels. A new method of display is needed >_<

It is multi-monitor capable. The tiling screens have the ability to be run as a matrix of displays or as individually run displays, and for the most part they have standard mountings (VESA) in addition to their tiling mounts.

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Both screens are plugged into the gaming PC, but little to no point in using two screens like that for the games I play (Though Supreme Command was fun). The right screen is also plugged into the browser PC and the Playstation2 (multi-cable that goes out, lets me plug in PS2/PS3/Wii/360) and the Megadrive hidden behind Altair.

If nothing else, this exercise was a damn good excuse to make me tidy everything up.

[ispano]

It is multi-monitor capable. The tiling screens have the ability to be run as a matrix of displays or as individually run displays, and for the most part they have standard mountings (VESA) in addition to their tiling mounts.

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Both screens are plugged into the gaming PC, but little to no point in using two screens like that for the games I play (Though Supreme Command was fun). The right screen is also plugged into the browser PC and the Playstation2 (multi-cable that goes out, lets me plug in PS2/PS3/Wii/360) and the Megadrive hidden behind Altair.

If nothing else, this exercise was a damn good excuse to make me tidy everything up.

You should use Synergy+, and you can control both computers with one mouse. It will make it seem like it's dual monitor, you just drag the mouse off the side of the screen on the primary, and it pops up on the other.

[Asera]

What the heck, I'll play along...

Prodigy (desktop):
E8500, 4GBram, 6TB HDD, MSI mobo and MSI nvidia 260GTX twinfrozr (how there are still people dumb enough to buy ati, I can't grasp.)

Skinlab (server 1):
AMD64 3200+, 6GB ram, nvidia 6600GTX, 6TB HDD, this one has a chieftec fulltower, wich used to be my desktop case
(dragging a 20kg-when empty- case to lans ftl )
Chimaira (server 2):
AMD64 3200+, 4GB ram, nvidia 6600GTX, 8TB HDD

By this summer my desktop should be updated...

What do your servers do?

[FlawlessSoul]

You should use Synergy+, and you can control both computers with one mouse. It will make it seem like it's dual monitor, you just drag the mouse off the side of the screen on the primary, and it pops up on the other.

Does it work with keyboards as well? Seems like an interesting idea, for sure. What about full screen applications like WoW, how does it work with that?

[Edit] Installed and trying it atm - apart from the usual DX11 fullscreen spazzing, seems to work wonderfully. It lets me lock my cursor to either screen with the scroll-lock button. Fantastic.

[icanwait]

"LED" Technology is nothing more than a different backlight for an LCD, not a different Display Tech at all.

Actually you're wrong, LED (OLED) is a different display tech from what we use now and the person you quoted was talking about LCD/LED which is something completely different all together.

[icanwait]

...how there are still people dumb enough to buy ati, I can't grasp.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourc...e90114a016646c
http://www.google.co.uk/search?aq=0&...dia+rebranding
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourc...rs+brick+cards

[Asera]

Actually you're wrong, LED (OLED) is a different display tech from what we use now and the person you quoted was talking about LCD/LED which is something completely different all together.

It's pretty funny though how stores advertise LED monitors when they are only LED backlit. Granted it's better but it's still misleading. I'm not replacing my screens until OLED is more affordable personally.

You should use Synergy+, and you can control both computers with one mouse. It will make it seem like it's dual monitor, you just drag the mouse off the side of the screen on the primary, and it pops up on the other.

You could also use remote desktop (built in Windows RDP or VNC) and get the same results unless you plan to stream netflix. Even then, if your LAN is gigabit, you could do it.

[icanwait]

It's pretty funny though how stores advertise LED monitors when they are only LED backlit. Granted it's better but it's still misleading. I'm not replacing my screens until OLED is more affordable personally.

Yeah, it's pretty sad especially due to the fact people would still buy them if they were labelled as what they are, the LED light makes a massive difference.

[ispano]

Actually you're wrong, LED (OLED) is a different display tech from what we use now and the person you quoted was talking about LCD/LED which is something completely different all together.

OLED, Organic LED is a totally different tech, yes. But what you see in stores called LED Monitors are nothing more than LED backlit monitors. Still LCDs.

My point is that people seem to be taking these LED backlit monitors as some new display tech, when it's not.

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You could also use remote desktop (built in Windows RDP or VNC) and get the same results unless you plan to stream netflix. Even then, if your LAN is gigabit, you could do it.

Not quite, at least not from what i've seen. Synergy+ pretty much makes it like it's a second monitor on your computer. It's nearly that seamless.
You can't copy/paste files this way obviously, but text works fine. for files you'd have the things networked anyhow.

[Jurwi]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourc...e90114a016646c
http://www.google.co.uk/search?aq=0&...dia+rebranding
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourc...rs+brick+cards

2-3 years old newspieces / forum posts, you really can't come up with anything better? (Talking about bricking cards, couldn't care less about the other 2)

[kidsafe]

LED backlights have several advantages.

1) They take up much less space. LED backlit panels are much thinner than those with CCFLs. My 2209WA is more than 2 inches deep.
2) CCFL based panels will use 2-6 tubes typically. LED backlit panels use many, many LEDs...this can result in more even lighting.
3) More neutral color. CCFLs tend to create warm light.

What's interesting though is that most LED panels are cheaper models. In order to make a truly good LCD panel, you need a good backlight, a good panel type (*-IPS), response time compensation, and factory calibration.

[Hotsforyou]

Core 17-930 @ 3.5 Ghz
6GB Gskill PI 1600
GTX 260 Superclocked in SLI.
spinpoint F3 500GB in raid 0
H50 cpu cooler
keyboard: Xarmor U9Bl
Razer naga.

[Cilraaz]

If you want to have a discussion of LCD vs LED vs OLED, do it in a new thread. Do not hijack this thread.

[Nickle]

It is multi-monitor capable. The tiling screens have the ability to be run as a matrix of displays or as individually run displays, and for the most part they have standard mountings (VESA) in addition to their tiling mounts.

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Both screens are plugged into the gaming PC, but little to no point in using two screens like that for the games I play (Though Supreme Command was fun). The right screen is also plugged into the browser PC and the Playstation2 (multi-cable that goes out, lets me plug in PS2/PS3/Wii/360) and the Megadrive hidden behind Altair.

If nothing else, this exercise was a damn good excuse to make me tidy everything up.

Nice set up you're running there. You mind if I ask what mobo block you're using? Is it the EK UD-7 one?

[FlawlessSoul]

Nice set up you're running there. You mind if I ask what mobo block you're using? Is it the EK UD-7 one?

All the important cooling parts are listed on the first image, but yes, it's EK's block designed for the Gigabyte X58A-UD7. The area the blocks cover is very nearly identical and allows the use of the block on both boards. The mosfets are a different layout, however, preventing me from using the mosfet blocks. Doesnt matter, since the fets on the UD3R dont seem to get hot at all.

[Firatha]

Sniff sniff im so proud of thread

Omg that chair.

[Cilraaz]

Omg that chair.

You see that setup and the chair is what makes you jealous?

[BicycleMafioso]

You see that setup and the chair is what makes you jealous?

Agreed.
It's the couch. I want that couch.

[Nickle]

All the important cooling parts are listed on the first image, but yes, it's EK's block designed for the Gigabyte X58A-UD7. The area the blocks cover is very nearly identical and allows the use of the block on both boards. The mosfets are a different layout, however, preventing me from using the mosfet blocks. Doesnt matter, since the fets on the UD3R dont seem to get hot at all.

Sorry I completely missed that in the picture. I see it says that now. My bad :/