Show Your LCD(s) setups!!!

here mine... 26" Samsung Monitor and 40" Toshiba TV

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ktek said:
Hi all, my first post here so be gentle. :)

Some awesome setups here! I've been so impressed and inspired that I finally decided to finish my own corner. 2x 2007FP's and ZR30w. Bigger table is something I've been wondering, now I had to lift my speakers quite high. Couple pics:
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Very nice, congratulations. I am getting a ZR30w in today, and I was struggling with whether to get the two 2007s like you did. On the one hand, it makes everything nice and symmetrical with portrait mode. On the other hand, I can't bring myself to pay $200 for refurbs and Eyefinity/Surround will never support PLP anyway. (Basic marketing: since IPS are expensive, few people will have monitors in portrait; since few people will have monitors in portrait, why bother supporting it?)

I decided to get two current IPS to flank the 30" instead: Dell U221H and ZR22W. I'd already ordered the ZR22W when I noticed the U221H was on sale for almost $100 less...the HP had already shipped, so I'm just getting one of each. Styling seems basically the same anyway. Hopefully have it all set up by Monday or Tuesday.

To answer the Surround questions people asked on the last page: it's the same as Eyefinity in terms of functionality, except that it requires SLI but doesn't require a Display Port input or adapter. Neither one of them support PLP, nor does TH2GO. The only thing that supports PLP is SoftTH, but that is practically useless for most people because it won't work with multiple GPUs, anything above DX9, and frankly most games in general.

Personally, I'm getting rid of the Surround setup in my sig because the tech just doesn't work exactly right in enough games for my satisfaction. When it works, it's awesome, and it's probably best for people who love either racing or flight simulators or play BC2 and COD competitively. But it's not really immersive in TPS, RTS, or the many games where it has niggling issues (cutscenes will be messed up, too much fisheye effect, HUD all over the place, etc.). And it flat-out doesn't work in Unreal engine games except for Arkham.
 
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NickS said:
That TV stand is really nice, where'd you pick that up?
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thanks man. I picked it up for $30 at Cort Furniture here in Richmond. They had posted an ad for it on Craigslist. Had like 20+ in stock as well :eek: but this was last year.

shurcooL said:
Better yet, what software did you use to stitch and perspective-correct those photos?
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would you believe I used Windows Live Photo Gallery? It's pretty damn impressive.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/...oto-panoramas-with-Windows-Live-Photo-Gallery
 
yang88she said:
went back to my usual, can always snag my sons other 2001 for 4800x1200 eyefinity...but I love my 3007 wfp-hc too much

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hi all, this is my first posting here ;)
awesome setup pix here .

I have 2xE2250 (LG 22" LED) setup currently, am thinking of adding a third monitor .
Understand the pix sample is 20 - 30 - 20 ; would it be possible to setup something similar to that using 22" monitors ?
any suggestions are welcome ..
hope i conveyed the question right :)
 
kwiranata said:
hi all, this is my first posting here ;)
awesome setup pix here .

I have 2xE2250 (LG 22" LED) setup currently, am thinking of adding a third monitor .
Understand the pix sample is 20 - 30 - 20 ; would it be possible to setup something similar to that using 22" monitors ?
any suggestions are welcome ..
hope i conveyed the question right :)
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No, Not really. The only thing that would line up resolution wise would be an older CRT with a 2560x1920 resolution. I believe those CRT's were only 24" so physically they wouldn't line up either.

Here are some configurations you can do though:

20"P + 30"L + 20"P
1200x1600 + 2560x1600 + 1200x1600

20"L + 24"L + 20"L
1600x1200 + 1920x1200 + 1600x1200

19"P + 27"L + 19"P***
900x1440 + 2560x1440 + 900x1400

20"P + 30"L + 20"P***
900x1600 + 2560x1600 + 900x1600

***Don't think there are any IPS / PVA panels with this resolution though

ALSO: Make sure to check the dimensions of the monitors you're going to use. I have not checked, I was just doing this off my head. Especially since there are different sized monitors with the aforementioned resolutions.
(I.E. I have a friend who has a 17" with 1440x900 and it's super crisp as apposed to a 19" with 1440x900 in which i used to have and wasn't nearly as crisp.)
 
It seems a lot of [H]ard Gamers would like a triple display option of P+L+P. Why doesn't ATI or nVidia copy SoftTH and make it happen ? Not many people can 3 -30" monitors. But one 30" and two cheap 20" are way easier. Or one nice new 27" flanked on either side by 19" is again affordable, as far as three screens go.

I have always liked the idea of the main center display the big dog and smaller screens on side it just looks right to me
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suiken_2mieu said:
No, Not really. The only thing that would line up resolution wise would be an older CRT with a 2560x1920 resolution. I believe those CRT's were only 24" so physically they wouldn't line up either.

Here are some configurations you can do though:

20"P + 30"L + 20"P
1200x1600 + 2560x1600 + 1200x1600

20"L + 24"L + 20"L
1600x1200 + 1920x1200 + 1600x1200

19"P + 27"L + 19"P***
900x1440 + 2560x1440 + 900x1400

20"P + 30"L + 20"P***
900x1600 + 2560x1600 + 900x1600

***Don't think there are any IPS / PVA panels with this resolution though

ALSO: Make sure to check the dimensions of the monitors you're going to use. I have not checked, I was just doing this off my head. Especially since there are different sized monitors with the aforementioned resolutions.
(I.E. I have a friend who has a 17" with 1440x900 and it's super crisp as apposed to a 19" with 1440x900 in which i used to have and wasn't nearly as crisp.)
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Thanks suiken_2mieu for the feedback.

maybe I'll just get a 24 - 27" monitor to be put in the center, between the two 22" ? :)
 
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30" + 21.5" x2
ZR30w 27.3 x 3.4 x 17.9 in (69.4 x 8.7 x 45.4 cm) +
ZR22w 20.0 x 9.1 x 18.0 in (50.7 x 23.0 x 36.7 cm) x2
Wouldn't this work if the side monitors were in 900x1600? Seems like a perfect match to me.
 
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The ZR22s are 1920x1080 native res. And physically, the measurements are 12" (h) x 20" (w). HP's official measurements are nonsense because they don't correctly list panel-only measurements for this monitor. So if you flip it in portrait, it's 2" taller than the ZR30W. Maybe you can run it in 1:1 in 1600x900 and line it up better, but 900 is a bit squished.

If you want to perfectly match a 30", your only real option is the 20" Dell 2007 FP. But those are all refurbs and run $200 a piece - not paying that for some used monitors with no real warranty. And frankly, there's no real point to it since you can't do PLP gaming anyway. It only makes sense if you really must have the bezels lined up or you really want those extra 120 pixels of horizontal space in portrait mode (1200 versus 1080).

Anyway, since the 30" ZR30W I just got Friday appears to be the only one on earth that arrived DOA, I'm not going to have my stuff set up until Monday...in theory.
 
Zorachus said:
It seems a lot of [H]ard Gamers would like a triple display option of P+L+P. Why doesn't ATI or nVidia copy SoftTH and make it happen ? Not many people can 3 -30" monitors. But one 30" and two cheap 20" are way easier. Or one nice new 27" flanked on either side by 19" is again affordable, as far as three screens go.

I have always liked the idea of the main center display the big dog and smaller screens on side it just looks right to me
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Because there's no real market for it. A tiny vocal minority representing 0.01% of buyers just doesn't cut it. Very few people have 30". And no one even makes a 20" IPS anymore. Even among gamers, people who buy IPS are in the small minority, so very few people have portrait monitors, either.

The best multi-mon config is probably 30"x3 in portrait mode. In theory, if you're not dripping money but still make decent money, you could get one new 30" for your main monitor and try to find a couple used or refurbed ones over a couple years...and then Tri-SLI/Fire the second-highest-end video cards every other generation.
 
Matrices said:
The ZR22s are 1920x1080 native res. And physically, the measurements are 12" (h) x 20" (w). HP's official measurements are nonsense because they don't correctly list panel-only measurements for this monitor. So if you flip it in portrait, it's 2" taller than the ZR30W. Maybe you can run it in 1:1 in 1600x900 and line it up better, but 900 is a bit squished.

If you want to perfectly match a 30", your only real option is the 20" Dell 2007 FP. But those are all refurbs and run $200 a piece - not paying that for some used monitors with no real warranty. And frankly, there's no real point to it since you can't do PLP gaming anyway. It only makes sense if you really must have the bezels lined up or you really want those extra 120 pixels of horizontal space in portrait mode (1200 versus 1080).
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That's disappointing. I agree. I'm not buying refurbs with no warranty

Matrices said:
Because there's no real market for it. A tiny vocal minority representing 0.01% of buyers just doesn't cut it. Very few people have 30". And no one even makes a 20" IPS anymore. Even among gamers, people who buy IPS are in the small minority, so very few people have portrait monitors, either.

The best multi-mon config is probably 30"x3 in portrait mode. In theory, if you're not dripping money but still make decent money, you could get one new 30" for your main monitor and try to find a couple used or refurbed ones over a couple years...and then Tri-SLI/Fire the second-highest-end video cards every other generation.
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All I got from that is that we're a unique breed of gamers? :p It's tempting, getting 3 in portrait like Vega did, but really overkill. He really went overboard with that rig. Removing the bezels too...
 
In NYC, I saw a Craigslist ad last week for a Dell 3007 WFP for $400. God knows if it was legit, though.
 
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Crappy phone pic, but there's nothing wrong with 3x 2209wa, along with some candy wrappers in the bottom left.
 
Matrices said:
Because there's no real market for it. A tiny vocal minority representing 0.01% of buyers just doesn't cut it. Very few people have 30". And no one even makes a 20" IPS anymore. Even among gamers, people who buy IPS are in the small minority, so very few people have portrait monitors, either.

The best multi-mon config is probably 30"x3 in portrait mode. In theory, if you're not dripping money but still make decent money, you could get one new 30" for your main monitor and try to find a couple used or refurbed ones over a couple years...and then Tri-SLI/Fire the second-highest-end video cards every other generation.
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I've got to disagree about the 3x1 portrait 30"rs. I did that for a while, but it just stretches the HUD really badly and does add too much FOV, so you feel like you're way too close to the screen. I basically had to get a wireless keyboards with a Trackball and scootch back or use an xbox 360 controller. Also I had to get used to the vertical height when I first rotated them. I initially only wanted to use the bottom half of the screen.

I moved back to 3x1 Landscape and am much more happy. Also I tell you this, the last straw for me is how terrible upscalling video to 4800x1600 (yes even 1080p video) looks. All sorts of pixelation, or blocking. I think it's because 1080p = 2 MP and 4800x1600 = 12 MP.

Though the one thing I like about 3x1P 30"rs is the awesome photoshop space that you get. You can look at a whole 12MP picture without scaling.
 
Zorachus said:
It seems a lot of [H]ard Gamers would like a triple display option of P+L+P. Why doesn't ATI or nVidia copy SoftTH and make it happen ? Not many people can 3 -30" monitors. But one 30" and two cheap 20" are way easier. Or one nice new 27" flanked on either side by 19" is again affordable, as far as three screens go.

I have always liked the idea of the main center display the big dog and smaller screens on side it just looks right to me
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Actually... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AEAhExuaaM

that guy got it working no?
 
JL6speed said:
Actually... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AEAhExuaaM

that guy got it working no?
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He might be using SoftTH.

As I understand stuff like this works in SofTH but it has many drawbacks.

1.) SoftTH is a direct 3D replacement, so you have to go dropping Direct3d dll's in al your game directories for it to work.
2.) Only supports D3D9
3.) Compatibility issues with many games not recognizing the 3rd party D3D implementation
4.) Does not properly recognize SLI
5.) Requires second video card (not in SLI mode) to connect additional monitors
6.) Transfers data over the PCIe bus to the second video cards frame buffer and then displays it on screen. This incurrs a significant performance penalty, as you wind up bottlenecking the PCIe bus.
 
JL6speed said:
Actually... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AEAhExuaaM

that guy got it working no?
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This is running the game in windowed mode, rather than fullscreen. Then it works across all 3 screens in PLP (or 5x1P etc). You can just about see the titlebar at the top of the screens in that vid. There's a program to automatically move the window to the optimal position to hide the titlebar.. but its name escapes me offhand.

No crossfire running games in windowed mode though, and it doesn't work on all games.
 
And with Nvidia, SLI never runs well in windowed mode, so you'd be going single GPU there, too. I do recall that I could drag Doom 3 across 3 monitors in non-Surround mode (but those were still identical monitors so no guarantees). A single high-end GPU with 30" x 20" x 20" should be OK for Source games, but that's probably about it.

The name of the program to make a windowed game look like fullscreen is Shift Window.
 
There was actually just enough room to do PLP but I didn't really see the point for web surfing and writing. All monitors are new, and I'm really impressed by the HP ZR30W. Capable of being really bright while maintaining deep blacks.

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Hi all,

I am new here and see that you guys have very impressive LCD setups!! Can you help me with this:

I recently extend my desktop with a Dell 2007FP, previously I only have a U2410. But I have some problem:

- when extended, I use resolution 1920x1600 for U2410 and 1600x1200 for 2007fp, which is their native resolution. both monitor are in landscape mode, and at 60hz.

- I am running Crossfire 5850, and use 2 dvi cables to connect the LCDs

- When using I got some flickering on the U2410 when I scroll up/down quicky. The flickering also happens when I game on one monitor, and movies on the other, and only happens on the U2410

I did not have a chance to record, but the flickering is like in this youtube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoHdSNooBvw&feature=player_embedded

I wonder what the problem is and how to fix it.

Thanks very much in advance ;)
 
That flickering is related to the ATI drivers It's a well documented problem for 2 or 3 monitor setups . Just google it and you'll see. had the same problem. First make sure your drivers are up to date. and try disabling overdrive in ccc if you have it enabled. I think the only thing that had stopped it for me was running 10.4 drivers. They may of taken care of the problem in recent drivers.... I don't know. If I recall the consensus was that it's related to the way the card throttles the memory and core clocks? With the fact that i could never go past the 10.4 drivers I ended up just going nvidia for my muti monitor needs.
 
McKie said:
That flickering is related to the ATI drivers It's a well documented problem for 2 or 3 monitor setups . Just google it and you'll see. had the same problem. First make sure your drivers are up to date. and try disabling overdrive in ccc if you have it enabled. I think the only thing that had stopped it for me was running 10.4 drivers. They may of taken care of the problem in recent drivers.... I don't know. If I recall the consensus was that it's related to the way the card throttles the memory and core clocks? With the fact that i could never go past the 10.4 drivers I ended up just going nvidia for my muti monitor needs.
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Thanks McKie, I googled and was able to fix it with the latest 10.11

works great now.

However, if I will switch to nvidia soon
 
The one on the left is the new dell 30" (3008?) and the one on the right is a 3007 WFP. I had twin 3007WFPs, one broke out of warranty and they "repaired" it by sending me a new screen for $200 or so!
 
Ribby said:
The one on the left is the new dell 30" (3008?) and the one on the right is a 3007 WFP. I had twin 3007WFPs, one broke out of warranty and they "repaired" it by sending me a new screen for $200 or so!
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That make me want to have them "repair" 3 of mine.
 
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