Krisboats Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 I've run loads of setups over the years, dual 20" 4:3 for a while, then went to single 24" widescreen, then to 24" with 20" 4:3 side panel, then 24" wide and two 20" wide, to be honest I'd rank a single 24" way over dual 20", but obviously the ultimate is 24" with 2 supporting monitors.Whatever your settup it just works like one big desktop, and you can move freely between them all, and yeah you can set seperate wallpapers etc.Do any games support 2 screens? Because the only game i've ever found in my life that gave me the option to span screens was flight simulator.I don't know for sure but i guess it'd work, if figured they'd be stretched but it says they wont be.... i dunno, have a look yourself here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexx Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 99% of games have prefexed resoloutions though, so you'd just be streching 1920x1600 or whatever the highest option is wider, so everything would be well distored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 99% of games have prefexed resoloutions though, so you'd just be streching 1920x1600 or whatever the highest option is wider, so everything would be well distored.and you lose SLI - unnacceptable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willy Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 (edited) Hay all,Im just building a new pc at the minute and am debating to get a dual screen set up or just get the one big screen, my funds are fairly limited by the way. I was thinking 20" or two 15". Approve by disapprove, let me know! Willy. p.s. Why do you lose the ability of Sli when using a dual screen set up, surely microsoft thought of this and coded a patch? Edited December 4, 2006 by Willy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 99% of games have prefexed resoloutions though, so you'd just be streching 1920x1600 or whatever the highest option is wider, so everything would be well distored.Thats what i thought till i read this There is no image distortion and no scaling to the original raw pixels generated from the existing graphics acceleratorI don't get what it means really, cant they just say it does or doesnt stretch the image Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 p.s. Why do you lose the ability of Sli when using a dual screen set up, surely microsoft thought of this and coded a patch?microsoft may have thought about it but given that it's nvidia that write the drivers that won't have helped I think I remember reading some half arsed excuse about hardware limitations but I didn't believe it then and I don't believe it now. I expect there'll be a driver version out eventually that supports it - just hasn't happened yet. Failing that I can only pray there'll be a driver version that lets you switch SLI on and off without a reboot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RR_Trials Posted December 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 *you can put one screen above the other with the standard windows display settings* - it'll definitely handle more than 2 screens my home setup is convinced I have 3 displays for some reasonthe quadro nvs comes with fancy drivers for doing multiscreen displays at shows and stuff so you can probably do anything you want with that. btw - **to get the 16 display job you're looking at over £1000 .** the 4 screen one can be got for under £300*I do not have XP pro i have XP home (witch i will be upgrading to XP pro when i get my duel screens) and home doesn't have the capacity to have duel screens it just allows the secondary screen to display the same as the primary screen, and so when i go into the setup for duel screens it dose not allow me to pull either of the two boxes above the other one it just pulls it to either side, is this because i don't have XP pro.**£1000 wow that is alt, then plus the price of 16 screens if i had that type of money i would DEFONATLY have 16 24" widescreen tft displays (if that is possible). Could anyone work out the general price of that?Cheers! Rorz! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willy Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 ^^^ Why dont you figure it out? 250/300 for a cheap 24". 250/300 * 16 = ? If you cant do this, get a calculator... And cheers poopipe didnt know that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RR_Trials Posted December 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 (edited) I would have worked it out if i knew the prices of monitors, i don't even know what TFT is i just know it is good.. Apparently?Cheers Anyway!RorzP.S while i'm on a new post, 197 ( 0.6 posts per day / 0.03% of total forum posts )It said i hade 197 cumulative (i think?) post's when i started this thread why hasn't it gone up? Infact it had said that about 2months ago and i have started atleast 5 topics sins then. Please help because i wont a third block under my name.Cheers!Rorz Edited December 4, 2006 by RR_Trials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoyoyo Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 Posts in chit-chat don't increase your post count. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 (edited) Posts in chit-chat don't increase your post count. no, but they do make you cool TFT means an LCD flatscreen that isn't completely useless (like the old LCD screens) CRT is a proper monitor - the old type that are huge. personally i think TFTs are gash unless you spend an absolute fortune on them (£500 will get you a respectable 19") but i have very, very high standards due to the work I do (realtime 3d graphics - most TFTs can't keep up with the display quite well enough for my liking although things are improving year by year)- most people don't need to spend that much for a usable screen. The same quality, viewable area, resolution etc will cost you around £350 for a CRT - of course you need huge amounts of space if you're planning on having multiple CRT monitors so that's a major consideration. Edited December 4, 2006 by poopipe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spode@thinkbikes Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 UltraMon is very useful, definetely worth getting I've been using dual displays for years - couldn't live with out it! In saying that, I've started using Linux at work now and I've only got a single CRT monitor set up (for reasons I can't be arsed to go in to) and multiple desktops is also pretty useful!At home, I use two 17" panels, and my HDTV. Had to install a second graphics card to get all three going at once though. Considering my panels are 1,280x1,024, running SLI would be a bit pointless - so the fact you can't turn it on for dual displays isn't such a big issue. Although I'm sure they told me that was fixed - I haven't tested it recently.The triple display thing you're talking about is the Matrox TripleHead2Go (http://www.trustedreviews.com/displays/review/2006/04/12/Matrox-TripleHead2Go/p1). They brought it around to our office a while back, and using three 19" screens - let me tell you it's pretty immersive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OD404 Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 The past week or so I've been using two monitors at work (2x 20.1" Widescreens) and I've found it too be very useful.Generally on the primary screen I'll have Pro/Engineer, Ansys, or CFDesign, depending on the nature of the work. And on the second, I'll have a combination of Excel, Lotus notes (for emails and stuff) and Nexus Mainframe (our configuration and Bill of Materials editor).At home I've toyed with it for quite a while now, and it's only been useful to me when the need to browse the internet overcomes me while watching a film and when I've needed multiple applications open (like Word and Excel). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 I remeber having a dual screen set up about ermm..... 2-3 years ago for about a month. It was cool but I didnt really need the extra screen. We used to have a 26 or 28" moniter for our main PC which was crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tank_rider Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 I'm a huge fan of dual screens. I currently have a 19" Iiyama crt and a 17" dell, tis really handy when your watching a film or something to be able to still chat on messenger etc or surf the net.I use it mostly for my degree when, like steve, was doing cad etc and needing to refer to other docs etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Harrison Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 TFTs are gash unless you spend an absolute fortune on themI agree. I have a 19" 'flat' CRT at work and it's miles better than my TFT. They offered to replace it with a TFT but I refused. Yes, it takes up more desk space but the definition is so much better. TFTs are usually fuzzy and shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spode@thinkbikes Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 TFTs are usually fuzzy and shit.Not with DVI.But I do miss my twin Iiyama Visionmaster pro 450 setup... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RR_Trials Posted December 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 TFTs are usually fuzzy and shitWhen you says fuzzy are we talking major fuzzy or just fuzzy to the T-F high standard Rorz! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 (edited) What respsone times do you lot see as acceptable? 12ms seems pretty standard/reasonable? Been looking at a TFT for a while now, got to get rid of these massive CRTS!While im here and kind of on the subject. Is it worth going AM2 yet or spending the extra on a better 939 setup? Edited December 6, 2006 by David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spode@thinkbikes Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 While im here and kind of on the subject. Is it worth going AM2 yet or spending the extra on a better 939 setup?What do you have at the moment?If you're on a single core 939 right now, I'd buy an X2. However, if you're looking at an all out purchase, I'd be looking to go Core 2 Duo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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