BloodyIron
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I like the part where the bc2 player wastes the guy to his right who he wouldn't have seen, if eyefinity was disabled.
so good.
so good.
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ATI Eyefinity Experience Tool
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I built mine 2 weekends ago after all of the inspirational videos / postings on this from Kyle. 
3 (NEC EA231WMI - IPS panels) - in Eyefinity setup off of an ATI 5870. I have toyed a bit with both portrait & landscape, have not permanently settled on one yet. Landscape sure does consume desk space! Yes, could use smaller bezels, but I kind of think of it like I am looking through windows. Once you are into the game, it is not a problem.
Pretty damned impressive. My boys are rather taken with it. The wife was even impressed (though she said watching a game on it would make her sick). I have a very tolerant wife. This was an expensive build (AMD 1090t w 16 GB RAM - I run a lot of server VMs for work, so this is actually very useful for me - 8 GB was painfully too small).
Get some wierd flicker on the one using an 8' Displayport cable when playing Dragon Age Origins (4" orange or yellow bar flickers across one entire screen). When I get some spare time I want to swap cables to assure it is not the monitor (99+% certain it is not). I have heard Displayport cables work better when short (e.g. not 8 feet). Might also just be a game issue.
Fallout 3, Dirt 2, look pretty good. Bioshock 2 made me sick playing it (though it could have been a function of the hour I was playing it and lack of sleep).
Need some more spare time to tinker with this.
What are people seeing as "must have" games for this? Right now my copy of Dirt 2 is just the demo - curious to see how much I like it (this looks like a must buy....).
3 (NEC EA231WMI - IPS panels) - in Eyefinity setup off of an ATI 5870. I have toyed a bit with both portrait & landscape, have not permanently settled on one yet. Landscape sure does consume desk space! Yes, could use smaller bezels, but I kind of think of it like I am looking through windows. Once you are into the game, it is not a problem.
Pretty damned impressive. My boys are rather taken with it. The wife was even impressed (though she said watching a game on it would make her sick). I have a very tolerant wife. This was an expensive build (AMD 1090t w 16 GB RAM - I run a lot of server VMs for work, so this is actually very useful for me - 8 GB was painfully too small).
Get some wierd flicker on the one using an 8' Displayport cable when playing Dragon Age Origins (4" orange or yellow bar flickers across one entire screen). When I get some spare time I want to swap cables to assure it is not the monitor (99+% certain it is not). I have heard Displayport cables work better when short (e.g. not 8 feet). Might also just be a game issue.
Fallout 3, Dirt 2, look pretty good. Bioshock 2 made me sick playing it (though it could have been a function of the hour I was playing it and lack of sleep).
Need some more spare time to tinker with this.
What are people seeing as "must have" games for this? Right now my copy of Dirt 2 is just the demo - curious to see how much I like it (this looks like a must buy....).
I built mine 2 weekends ago after all of the inspirational videos / postings on this from Kyle.
3 (NEC EA231WMI - IPS panels) - in Eyefinity setup off of an ATI 5870. I have toyed a bit with both portrait & landscape, have not permanently settled on one yet. Landscape sure does consume desk space! Yes, could use smaller bezels, but I kind of think of it like I am looking through windows. Once you are into the game, it is not a problem.
Pretty damned impressive. My boys are rather taken with it. The wife was even impressed (though she said watching a game on it would make her sick). I have a very tolerant wife. This was an expensive build (AMD 1090t w 16 GB RAM - I run a lot of server VMs for work, so this is actually very useful for me - 8 GB was painfully too small).
Get some wierd flicker on the one using an 8' Displayport cable when playing Dragon Age Origins (4" orange or yellow bar flickers across one entire screen). When I get some spare time I want to swap cables to assure it is not the monitor (99+% certain it is not). I have heard Displayport cables work better when short (e.g. not 8 feet). Might also just be a game issue.
Fallout 3, Dirt 2, look pretty good. Bioshock 2 made me sick playing it (though it could have been a function of the hour I was playing it and lack of sleep).
Need some more spare time to tinker with this.
What are people seeing as "must have" games for this? Right now my copy of Dirt 2 is just the demo - curious to see how much I like it (this looks like a must buy....).
Wow, the monitors look fantastic. When looking for near-bezelless monitors, I don't only want minimal and matching bezels on all sides, but also minimal brand label and buttons (especially lit buttons) on them to distract you. The NEC you mentioned seems to fit the bill.
Here's a large image of your monitor:
http://www.tdb.com.ua/shop/img/34543b6ebcc7b63e9bc339cf726abad8.jpg
Yep, no complaints whatsoever about the monitors - very nice. Newegg had a good deal on them (IIRC $60 off per monitor). I'm sure I'm not the only person who bought 3. The bezels are reasonable (would naturally prefer them to be even smaller, but that will come with time).
There really is two ways of looking at the bezels. For a casual observer (not sucked into a game), it can be distracting - and as Kyle pointed out, there is a "fracturing" of characters where they are split by Eyefinity. But, once you are sucked into the game, you really notice it much, much less. I'm happy with it (actually, extremely happy).
There really is two ways of looking at the bezels. For a casual observer (not sucked into a game), it can be distracting - and as Kyle pointed out, there is a "fracturing" of characters where they are split by Eyefinity. But, once you are sucked into the game, you really notice it much, much less. I'm happy with it (actually, extremely happy).
Thanks, I did have bezel management turned on in portrait mode (and it helped). For some reason, it was a bear to get the monitors into landscape mode (the rotate option was disabled on the menus). Took quite a while to figure it out and in that process, I never turned bezel management back on.