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I'm not in the AMD or NVidia fanboy. Personally I think you should have as much loyalty to a multi-national company as they have to you i.e. none but its definitely true both AMD & NVidia have their fortes. AMD do seem to be the pixel pushers of the two. Shame they can't push out a driver in less than 6 month intervals though. My other machine runs a GTX 780m 4gb which as a mobile variant NVidia don't even allow triple surround which is just stupid on a 4gb card. As you said Eyefinity is much more flexible than NVidia surround and running 6 monitors the green team just couldn't work for me so red team is was. Advances in VR will make systems like mine effectively obsolete so I can see why NVidia aren't too pushed with going above 4. Its not exactly a mass market audience outside of nuts like me, or traders. Would be nice to see NVidia SLI with DX12 allowing each card to output to 3 monitors using their own ports just as vram stacking will allow full ram usage of both cards but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Couldn't agree more on using triples. Anyone on 1 screen considering going triples or 3440x1440 really should. For gaming and general productivity its a revelation.
Spot on re power consumption for the monitors its 150W. Main PC is approx 230w at desktop driving 6 monitors with movies, browsing, twitter, email, all active going to 650w approx when gaming full throttle on the 6 so not all bad. Probably 200w extra for everything including the buttkicker & surround going so 1kw total full pelt. I'm Irish so I calculate in the pint vs performance system. If one beer in a pub costs €5.50 & lasts 20 mins and 1kw ph of electricity costs 15c I get 36.67hrs of gaming for the price of one beer which is a great deal imho. If anyones other half ever complains just do that calculation and thats the argument over.
Damn your beer is expensive O_O. We pay so much only for imported irish beer, the local brands are cheaper. 3€ average in smaller towns, 4€ in the capital, so at least getting drunk here is cheaper
Power costs more, 25ct here. But a really nice way to calculate the price for fun per hour
And for the power.. I have a small issue with the CPU being overclocked that hard, it pulls almost 200W alone. Its a beast, that allows me streaming 1080p 60FPS in ANY game avaliable (well we dont count star citizen cause meh - thats the next game that will move my behind into the lovely PC shop instantly).
I can see where Nvidia is going with the current multimonitor setup - 3x high resolution should be enough for anything, be it 4K or 21:9 1440p.
The 4th monitor, usually above, is nice to have but really nothing that can be useful in most games. Sure you can put your infos from BF4 on it, but most games dont support this config at all. Multimonitor gaming was always a mess, AMD is doing way better in this area. Maybe the new 390X will be worth it, because anything below it looks like a rebrand (again). Generally AMD gives you more bang for the buck specially at high/highest resolution, but your setup is really crazy.
DX12 and SLI with the new driver by Nvidia.. Would be cool, but i doubt it. They will most likely stick to the current idea of how it should work, but the card itself could use all ports. The main point for me was the triple displayport output on my 970 and displayport is way superior than DVI & HDMI and i hope most next gen cards will have it.
Whats the app you have running on your 2nd screen?
ThunderMaster, an oc/monitoring app for the GPU. I'm testing supersampling trying to keep the GPU load under 90%
Ahh cool. Thought it was some wicked Joystick app to tweak it on the fly. Thanks anyway!
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Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3
ASUS Maximus VII Ranger
Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3-1866 LP
ASUS GTX 980 Strix
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Creative X-Fi Titanium PCI-e
Be Quiet! Silent Base 800 black
Enermax Platimax 750W
Dell Ultrasharp 2312HM IPS (main, no input lag!)
Dell Ultrasharp 2209WA IPS (secondary)
Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
Logitech G5 V2
Edifier S530D 2.1 Black
DS4 Controller
200/12mbit fiber
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Nice..but should have gone rift. Doesn't matter what tracking device you use, how many monitors, what size monitors, or what resolution you run... In a rift, you are literally teleported INTO the spaceship. Can't be beat.
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Very true but it also means I can't locate my beer. When they make a Rift beer hat I'm in
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Ill say its pros and cons.
While a hardware setup cannot get you into the game the same way VR can, there is another sense of immersion from being seated in the middle of screens, switches, buttons and controllers.
Flipping switches and buttons to control your ship "feels" much more real.
I would take a fully blown simpit before VR anytime. Its way more expensive though.
That and the beer issue
Same here. A full cockpit is great and gives you the feeling like you are really in control. And its also great for other games, just change the stick for the wheel and do racing games, they work best with multiple screens. And also for streaming and general work the multimonitor-setup is the best way to go.
I think VR still needs a couple of years to catch up and be avaliable for anyone, with enough different devices on the market. It actually still has some problems, not anyone can use it for a long time, my head will kill me after 2-3 hours so i prefer my 3 screens over any VR solution right now.
I think VR still needs a couple of years to catch up and be avaliable for anyone, with enough different devices on the market. It actually still has some problems, not anyone can use it for a long time, my head will kill me after 2-3 hours so i prefer my 3 screens over any VR solution right now.
Simpit vs. VR? why not a merger?
here's my home inside my home.. I've run 16hr sessions in this thing many times. it's just that comfy.. as you can see, I use an oculus for ED but right in front of me theres a 48" LG 1080p @120hz to play other games. for audio I have a yamaha RX-v375 DTS receiver setup in 5.1. the center/sub are low end yamaha(soon to be replaced) and my sats are klipsch PM ultra's. I have a BK mini LFE mounted under thee seat and powered by a crunch gpv 1000w amp(125rms/ch@4ohm). I use a razer naga lefty and a deathstalker expert. I also have a set of razer's kraken 7.1 but I rarely use em'. My PC would probably qualify for the mid high-high end range. it' has an i7 3820 on an MSI bigbang II mobo. I have 16g 1600 ram, 2x msi 670 PE in sli, 4TB hdd cap powered by a thermaltake 850w. oh, and the saitek X52.
here's my home inside my home.. I've run 16hr sessions in this thing many times. it's just that comfy.. as you can see, I use an oculus for ED but right in front of me theres a 48" LG 1080p @120hz to play other games. for audio I have a yamaha RX-v375 DTS receiver setup in 5.1. the center/sub are low end yamaha(soon to be replaced) and my sats are klipsch PM ultra's. I have a BK mini LFE mounted under thee seat and powered by a crunch gpv 1000w amp(125rms/ch@4ohm). I use a razer naga lefty and a deathstalker expert. I also have a set of razer's kraken 7.1 but I rarely use em'. My PC would probably qualify for the mid high-high end range. it' has an i7 3820 on an MSI bigbang II mobo. I have 16g 1600 ram, 2x msi 670 PE in sli, 4TB hdd cap powered by a thermaltake 850w. oh, and the saitek X52.
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Vic20's date to around '84, I believe
++++EDIT++++ oooopps, my bad, I guess you were talking about the game, not the computer...
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VIC-20 1980/81, Commodore 64 1982
Despite how it looks, it is NOT held together with duct tape.
- 0 gravity chair with 3" memory foam pad wrapped in polar fleece.
- 4' ceiling mounted rail allows me to slide the screens backward when I want to get out.
- 5.1 surround sound. Front Right / Front Left / Front Center speakers mounted on screens, Rear Left / Rear Right are behind me, the same distance apart as the front speakers are. Subwoofer is beneath the chair.
- Saitek x52 H.O.T.A.S. Currently working on a chair mount for them, that will incorporate my keyboard and mouse, which is why they're tied to boxes (that are measured to just the right height). Will be on an extending swivel arm (the kind you see DJs in movies using to hold their mics). I might use 2 or three arms, haven't decided yet.
- PC is (already!) 3 years old, but still does everything in ultimate with no signs of surrender yet.
Just got it up and running last Friday. I'll be using it a lot for about a month before accepting the design and then finalizing everything by painting it black and generally prettying things up.
I also have an Oculus Rift. Used it for a little while. Loved it. Found out after getting this chair and falling in love with it that the Rift cannot be used lying down. Stupidest thing I've ever heard of. Put it back in the box and selling it on Ebay soon.
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Despite how it looks, it is NOT held together with duct tape.
- 0 gravity chair with 3" memory foam pad wrapped in polar fleece.
- 4' ceiling mounted rail allows me to slide the screens backward when I want to get out.
- 5.1 surround sound. Front Right / Front Left / Front Center speakers mounted on screens, Rear Left / Rear Right are behind me, the same distance apart as the front speakers are. Subwoofer is beneath the chair.
- Saitek x52 H.O.T.A.S. Currently working on a chair mount for them, that will incorporate my keyboard and mouse, which is why they're tied to boxes (that are measured to just the right height). Will be on an extending swivel arm (the kind you see DJs in movies using to hold their mics). I might use 2 or three arms, haven't decided yet.
- PC is (already!) 3 years old, but still does everything in ultimate with no signs of surrender yet.
Just got it up and running last Friday. I'll be using it a lot for about a month before accepting the design and then finalizing everything by painting it black and generally prettying things up.
I also have an Oculus Rift. Used it for a little while. Loved it. Found out after getting this chair and falling in love with it that the Rift cannot be used lying down. Stupidest thing I've ever heard of. Put it back in the box and selling it on Ebay soon.
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