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It's not compressed (well barely, maybe a few PSI depending on the container), and it's not at room temperature. It's extremely cold. The dewar is vented and some LN2 is constantly boiling off; this takes away the heat that slowly makes it's way into the dewar. I work with this stuff all the...

No, you don't really need it. I have it turned off for play on my 30" ACD.

Cool, it sounds like you definitely tried hard to find out, and I can understand your subsequent skepticism. However, there seems to be a lot of bad info out there since very few people, even the relevant engineers, have actually used one of the monitors with a top end graphics subsystem. I...

Lol, where to begin. First of all, you got 'talk' and 'walk' backwards. Secondly, I have already shown pics, on multiple occasions. When I first got this monitor over a year ago, when I was one of the very first in the entire world to have it, I posted on the fact that it could be driven from...

Wow, I go away for a few days, and an ignorant teenager slanders me all over the place, while placing a suspiciously advertisement-like post. You have been misled by the 'experts' at these companies; they don't know what they're talking about, and neither do you. Also, you could stand to...

No, you're wrong. I have an Apple 30" ACD and it runs fine at full res off a single 7800GTX or two in SLI.

Naw, just turn off the heater in your house and put on a sweater. Then you don't have to worry about condensation :p

What video card are you using?

FWIW, they have it in store in San Francisco.

What's the problem thought to be? Mine lists 59 Hz and 60 Hz, and it works fine at either. At what rate are people having problems?

Mine has never had this problem. I'd get it replaced.

IBM T221, 3840 x 2400 at 22.2".

Pros: obvious. Still the the biggest, excepting the IBM, which has an unacceptable refresh rate IMO. If you need the real estate as I do, nothing beats the 30ACD. That said, the contrast ratio could stand to be a lot better. It is acceptable, but not impressive. That's really the only thing...

Good idea, so i did that. Though I strongly advocate the 30" ACD, the Westy is definitely an excellent monitor. For me, highest resolution is still most important (I'd get the IBM uber-monitor if I could) but the Westy is no doubt an excellent solution where budget is high but not unlimited...

All depends on the intention of the system. Sometimes purely fast = 'high-end'. This beast is mostly for analyzing mass spectrometry data to identify proteins involved in different biological circuitry in cells, which is what I do professionaly. The app I run for that is kind of like folding...

30" ACD being driven by 2 x 7800GTX @ 520/1350 and an 840 EE running at 4.2 Ghz; all are on water. 'Cunnelatio': As to games advancing faster than video cards: Have you looked at benchmarks on the latest cards at "normal" resolutions? Have you noticed that they're mostly CPU limited below...

Having such a system, and some games rather newer than Quake3, I love hearing from people who've never used one what is and isn't possible on my machine.

Yeah, those will start to push it. I'm going to pick up Quake 4 soon, so I'll have some numbers. The thing is, with this many pixels you don't really need much or any antialiasing, so you have to account for that in figuring what the cards will be able to drive.

No offense, but what experience do you base that on? I can tell you HL2 rocks on my system at 2560 x 1600, but maybe you mean something more demanding.

I'm honestly sure it's fantastic, but the 30" ACD has twice as many pixels. The image quality in games is just astounding. Really, we are arguing McLaren vs. Ferrari here. One is definitely better than the other in terms of pure performance, but I'd be more than happy with either. Which high end...

You should see this kick-ass projection system I set up. The image is like thirty feet across, and all I needed was sixty light bulbs and some cellophane. Sure, there's only 20 pixels, but it's so big, dude it's like you're there.

Each Westy pixel covers 2.85 times as much area as the Apple ACD pixels, so I'd say the ACD is more than a little sharper. And there are no problems seeing POST screens with the ACD. I agree with the rest of your points though. Personally, I'd love to have a Westy as an HDTV, but I wouldn't...

Lol. You're right, I don't know much. But I do know my 30" ACD looks damn fine being driven by two 7800GTX cards and a 840EE at 4.2 Ghz. So I guess I know a little bit about high end systems.

Labrador: 2560 x 1600 Apollo: Yes, it's two GTX in SLI. They are running at 520 core and 1.33 memory. I think a single one is going to be quite acceptable for a lot of games, but will get pretty borderline with some of the newer titles, or games with poorly optimized graphics code. Bottom...

I wasn't running any antialiasing at all on those. They're much less apparent on the 30" 'cause one tends to sit back further.

Dot pitch on the Apple is 100 DPI, or 0.22 mm. Dot pitch on the Westinghouse is 60 DPI, or 0.37 mm. Not having seen the Westinghouse, I would still think you'll be much happier with the image quality frm the Apple. The Westinghouse is going to look pixelated as a monitor. It would make a...

Here are links to some BF2 shots, the cards were driving about 80FPS on these. Pic1 Pic2 Pic3 Pic4

Yes SLI works. I don't have time to run benchmarks for you, but I've run it with a single 7800GTX and the two in SLI, and the performance increase seems like about 80%.

I looked into that a lot in terms of HDTV when I first got it but basically no. The broadcasters have gone to some pretty extensive lengths to keep you from importing HD content into your computer, and without a direct input into the monitor you're pretty much screwed. If that's changed in the...

The thing is, with four times as many pixels you don't really need AA nearly as much; the increase in resolution effectively accomplishes antialiasing. 30" with no AA looks far better than 17" with full AA . That said, I usually run some AA anyway, depending on how demanding the game is.

I don't have time for that right now, but I'll try to put some up tomorrow.

I have a 30" being driven by two 7800GTX cards in SLI. Game frame rates are thoroughly playable, BF2 is on the order of 60fps. I haven't really tried with just a single card though.

I have two EVGA in SLI driving my 30. Works fine.

He didn't mention what monitor this is driving, or what speakers. The rest means little without very high quality output.

Interesting. Do you have to take any security measures in terms of net usage given your location?

Not true. I have an 840EE running four threads in a molecular biology program (Mascot, if you care) right now. This particular app is highly parallelizable and I see an ~26% performance increase on going from 2 threads to 4 by enabling HT. This processor easily goes above 4.0 on water, with no...

You do. I have an 840 EE, and it OC'es to 4.08 easily with no voltage increase. Unlocked multiplier is quite nice.

I have the 30"; the back gets warm but not at all hot.

I've never taken mine off the base, but I would estimate that that would reduce the weight by about 5-7 pounds.

I will be.