Awesome Wallpapers for your Multi-Screen Displays!

[cepheus]

Sounds like you have done a lot of work with your workstation

while some people wonder why the hell people bothers, other people think half the fun is just building it all by yourself.

Personally I think there is nothing like when you have built something cool yourself from scratch, may it be computer rooms, houses, cars or other stuff.

Btw, why do you use VNC? I find that rdp is much more efficiant and lagfree. It might be because youre running some other OS than MS though, I wouldn't know.

[Xzin]

I use Tight VNC. It is more or less real time but most things except 3d rendering. Regular VNC.... is not very good at all. Gigabit network of course. I am open to other suggestions but I do run Linux systems.

And I build it myself because I need something custom fit for ME. I need something that meets MY needs and allows me to spread out and have a TON of information at my disposal. It also has to be comfortable. In order to achieve my goals, I had no choice but to custom build it. It took me about 6 months to build it all and finish my boxing setup but to me, it was completely worth it.

Although once I get my new CNC fabrication equipment and 3d printer... I may be tempted to improve on things further

We will see

[Xzin]

Also, you can only have one active Remote Desktop session under XP. I regularly run 3 - 5 Tight VNCs.

Tight VNC implements a video hook driver - so it doesn't poll for changes like regular VNC does.

Regular VNC is simply unusable even on a local LAN.

[Heenan]

Thank you for this link

[cepheus]

Also, you can only have one active Remote Desktop session under XP. I regularly run 3 - 5 Tight VNCs.

Tight VNC implements a video hook driver - so it doesn't poll for changes like regular VNC does.

Regular VNC is simply unusable even on a local LAN.

Ok, I've only tried regular VNC, and thats a long time ago.

I usually use remote desktop to win2003 servers instead (work as an it-admin)

However you have given me ideas for a better workstation setup. For now I only use my 4x17" on my boxing computers, but maybe I should get some kvm's and additional graphics cards on my main computer as well, so I can use them for work too. It could be nice to have 4 extra monitors for remote administring servers.

[Xzin]

I highly suggest you do that, for non 3d apps, video cards are ULTRA cheap these days. You can even get USB ones (although eventually you max out the USB shared bus).

So you can literally have well over 10 monitors on a single computer.

For normal 2d work, thats so easy and cheap.

[zanthor]

I will post pictures at some point - it will make sense then.

This is a day I can't wait for...

[cepheus]

I will post pictures at some point - it will make sense then.

This is a day I can't wait for...

Thats no problem, i'll poste the pictures for you

We only take my setup:


Duplicating the 30" and moving the 17" a bit around with my uberz mspaint skillzzZ:



Voila, I'll bet xzins' is just like this, just switch the paladin with mages and priest (and maybe some warlocks?) :lol:

[Xzin]

Uhhh... not really.

My 30" monitors are mounted vertically, not horizontally. And they are suspended in mid air rather than on a desk.

And there are 3 17" monitors on each side, stacked vertically as well. They are about 80% of the height of the 30"s.

[Xzin]

More like this:



Only it gradually curves around to maintain the direct 90 degree viewing angle for each screen.

And well, it is literally suspended in the air....... it weighs about 250 lbs.

Nor is it to scale....

But you get the gist.

Close to 7' by 7' - fills up 100% of my vertical FOV and about 75% of my horizontal. But I will spare you all of the details about vertical vs horizontal FOV and which ones humans are more sensitive to and why.

Suffice it to say, I REALLY like my setup.