8400x1050...

[hughJ]

While Eyefinity is cool, the breaks between the screens really bother me, to be honest, they look shitty. Just come out with a higher resolution monitor so we only have to have one power plug in and no breaks between the screens. What the hell ever happened to those 43" and 47" wraparound monitors that NEC and ALIENWARE were supposedly making 2 years ago? Even if they were based off of old technology, it should be easy enough to tranpose the thought to LED monitors.

The breaks behaves much the same as frames on glasses, even with thick frames, you no longer really notice them once you're focusing on the action on the screens.

I'm going to guess that curved screens will never come to LCD monitors, simply due to the cost of manufacturing giant curved sheets of glass. OLED will probably be the next good option, but that will only happen once the prices come down low enough where people won't have to choose between buying a new BMW or a monitor for PC gaming. I'll bet that even 5 years from now we won't see triple-wide single unit PC monitors being common enough to be affordable. PC gaming isn't enough to push an expensive brand new form factor like that. (And the TV/movie/console industry will firmly hold on to the current 16:9 aspect ratio for a long time to come.) Multi-monitor with thin/no bezel will be the only way to go.

 

[billy.blue]

Just gotta mention that I'm building a 8400x2100 system at the moment. And I only paid $1600 for the screens. Would it be cooler if it was one screen? Sure. Would I be able to afford it? I think not.

 

[GoldenTiger]

I think everyone here has tried 2xAA in most games... and the IQ difference is very low.

Personally I go with 4xAA or none at all. Also, personal experience at 5760x1080, ANY AA drops frames by a considerable amount in most games. Specifically, Dirt 2 suffers a lot from AA... which is why I made that comment.

Ah, I see... many people are under the illusion that resolution dictates the amount of aliasing you'll see alone, not realizing the dot pitch has a large primary effect as well, so I was just pointing it out .

 

[srangara]

Cost? 2880x900 for $8,000 ...not my kinda value play.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/nec_releases_pictures_price_beautiful_43inch_curved_monitor

Ooh! I'll take three.

 

[rodsfree]

Why does this make my ePeen limp???

 

[Exavior]

I've always wondered, whats the purpose of that monitor #2 at the top

Just a guess, but so that you can do something else while playing a game. You can have your email up there so that you can see people sending you stuff and have feeds streaming so that if some new major story comes up you can be right on top of it.

I know people that have dual screens so that while playing WoW they can watch a movie in the other screen or look up information or something like that.

 

[funkydmunky]

I would be annoyed to no end having only 1050 lines of vertical resolution.

Really? So you are saying gaming on a 22" 16:10 monitor is just beneath you? Is 1200 V-pixels less annoying at a mere 150 pixels more? So how big is your monitor anyway?

 

[BHawthorne]

This is a deceptive article. The article example is EyeFinity + SoftTH and isn't true 5x1. True EyeFinity 5x1 Portrait just came out in 10.12 drivers. It's currently only possible with the 5870 EyeFinity 6 card. There are a handfull that have this setup over at WSGF, me included. My particular setup is 6870 Eyefinity 6 + five Samsung 245BW.

I've always wondered, whats the purpose of that monitor #2 at the top

To watch video content of course. Video spanned across multiple-displays cut up with bezels is very destracting.

 

[samuelmorris]

 

[Souljah]

pretty cool.