Tri-screen Setup. Need advice.

[Kaynin]

I'm thinking about it of going to this set up. But I'm a bit hung up with my laptop. Got a decent laptop able to quad-box and I love its mobility. Obviously a tri-screen set up is out of the question for it. :<

[Clanked]

Couldn't start WoW at work today because the boss stayed there late (up til 1 am)

Will try again tomorrow

No worries, I have a few months before I get home anyway.

[not5150]

Computer specs

Dell XPS 630I
Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00 GHZ
4 GB RAM
Vista 64-bit

On 3 monitors (main on center, two toons on each of the others), 100% pegged CPU, 20-25 FPS
On 2 monitors (main on right, four toons on left), cpu 75-80%, 45-50 FPS

Two WoWs running on SSD, three running on 7200 RPM HD
No tweaks done to registry for the SSD

With such high cpu usage, it's pretty obvious that the dual core cpu is the limiter.

[Clanked]

Alright, thats really good to hear.
Your monitors are higher res than mine (I'm going with 3x 1680x1050) and I'll be using an i7 920 w/ 12GB or RAM. I don't imagine my CPU being the bottleneck.
Thanks for the help guys.

[not5150]

Yeah, you'll be just fine with that set up.

[Bovidae]

Great ASCii engineering, love the mockup.

I originally set mine up exactly like that, but found that placing anything on my desk blocked the lowermost part of my screens. So I raised the verticle monitors so their bottoms were even with the center monitor. Just food for thought.

[-silencer-]

I had 3x 24" LCDs set up like this for 2 days for 5-boxing, then removed one monitor from the setup (it's now a full-time TV/PS3/2nd computer monitor) because it's just too much area to look around at. It's a lot easier to control characters when you don't have to move your vision too far to see certain characters, and having two characters on the left side of main with two characters on the right side was a lot more difficult than just having 4 smaller windows all on one monitor. Performance is much better too.

[not5150]

I had 3x 24" LCDs set up like this for 2 days for 5-boxing, then removed one monitor from the setup (it's now a full-time TV/PS3/2nd computer monitor) because it's just too much area to look around at. It's a lot easier to control characters when you don't have to move your vision too far to see certain characters, and having two characters on the left side of main with two characters on the right side was a lot more difficult than just having 4 smaller windows all on one monitor. Performance is much better too.

To add to what silencer said... I five box on one monitor and prefer it to work's two/three monitor setup. The 1920X1024 size is more than adequate to show a big main window and 4 smaller ones.

At home I peg 60 fps on the main window.

You can keep the other screens for web pages and stock quotes

[pinotnoir]

My eyes are getting worse and I struggle to read text on my 3 LCD. If I had to read anything from tiny boxes on one screen I would cry. I love having large windows of my characters. More power to you guys who box with tiny windows. I couldnt do it.

[Clanked]

I tried doing the dual monitor thing with the team I had before I deployed.
I didn't like how small the 4 clones were.

On a side note, newegg took $10 off the 4850x2 so I went ahead and bought it today. Not much of a discount I know, but better than nothing.