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After watching Matrix and The Dark Night, dealing with a lot of share market clients who boast huge multi-monitor setups, and doing some research of my own, I cobbled together a thin yet serviceable 6-monitor setup using some various utilities and screensavers. Quite a site. I like the “cobbled together” look, hence the crookedness of the monitors. They are ASUS series 16 inch (3 on top, one on the right) and 2 x 22 inch.

Set-up: Since I didn’t really intend on upgrading my computers, but I did want a lot more desktop real-estate, I used 2 x USB “UGA” SVGA plug-in devices to power the top two 16″ monitors at 1360 x 768 16-bit (it can do 32-bit, but due to the limitations of USB 2.0 it can’t do full screen at 32-bit) affecting video fluidly…. so I settled for 16-bit col and a slight grain/dither on the DivX/Mpeg renderer and it looks pretty good.

The 2 x 22″ monitors are powered by an 8800GTS 320MB (the older slower card). This does not phase me, since I’m only running an AM2 chip 5600+

That leaves the monitor on the right. That is actually an old P4 2.4ghz chip with an upgraded AGP graphics card that has 2 outs, 1 analog and 1 dvi which can be used simultaneously. At the time of the video, it was 3am and I didn’t have an adaptor plug for the dvi. As in, the 16″ monitor only accepts analog in and so I couldn’t really plug in anything to activate it. Still, it’ll work after the adaptor gets plugged in. Thanks to maxivista.com, the AM2 machine can remote-control the P4/AGP set-up via LAN, so it feels like one giant 6-screen behemoth.

I even ran an old matrix screensaver which looked pretty slick in the video. Thumbs up from me!

PS: After you’ve watched this for your monitor-setup ideas, check out my buddy’s submerged oil-PC here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9v7_RRcc7s

Duration : 0:1:14

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