Development Desktop
I got the two 20" monitors flanking the 30" monitor, rotated into portrait mode.
The left monitor keeps Firefox up with e-mail, news, Twitter, etc., but also with the current bug I'm working on. Center monitor has Visual Studio + Firefox + IE 7. Right monitor has Opera + VMware for IE 6.
The extended task bars come from Ultramon (http://www.ultramon.com/).
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jasra (56 months ago | reply)
Greedy. Trying to have allll of the monitors in the whole world?
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Brad Wilson (56 months ago | reply)
As many as I can get. :)
chris_arndt2003 (54 months ago | reply)
Brad, what graphics card do you have driving all of these??
Brad Wilson (54 months ago | reply)
The center monitor (30") is bring driven by a single 320MB GeForce 8800GTS, and the outer two monitors (20" x 2) are being driven by a single 512MB GeForce 8600GT.
Both are PCIe x16 cards, although my motherboard (Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI) downgrades to x8 when both video card slots are in use.
JFKewley (51 months ago | reply)
What resolution do you have your 30" at? What about the others?
Brad Wilson (51 months ago | reply)
The 30" monitor is 2560x1600. The 20" monitors are 1200x1600 (because they are rotated 90 degrees).
JFKewley (51 months ago | reply)
Do you run that 2560x1600 at 120 DPI, or at 96 DPI? I have the 30 incher, and sometimes find myself straining to read at 96DPI. I just changed to 120 DPI - we'll see how that works out.
Brad Wilson (51 months ago | reply)
I leave it at 96DPI. There are two problems with changing the DPI in Windows: (1) it fundamentally breaks MANY applications, because almost nobody tries it; (2) you cannot set different DPI for individual screens. It's one setting for everything.