3600x1200 setup?

[6./ZG26_Emil]

Anyone ever though of a triple monitor setup but in portrate instead of landscape?

 

I've got a 2560x1440 27" monitor which is plenty wide enough for me but I always dislike the letterbox feeling I get with this ratio. It got me thinking about maybe getting 3 24" IPS monitors and putting them in portrate mode, with three of them it should be wider than the view I have with my 27" but I would get much more vertical space to look at.

 

My GTX 580 3Gig VRAM card does ok with ROF on 2560x1440 but three 1920x1200 monitors would have an extra 600,000 pixels or so....would a 780 GTX power three of those monitors or would I need a pair of 770s in SLI?

 

Any thoughts would be appreciated

 

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[TP_Merlin]

what monitors are you thinking of using? I have considered using 3 x Dell Professional P1913S which would give 3072 x 1280 in portrait, however NEC Multisync EA192M 19 inch have the thinnest bezels with displayport.

[Dutch2]

Or get two 27"  1920x1080 and a second GTX580-3Gb if your mobo can handle SLI without throttling the PCIe down, which normal this is a problem.   

Do your readings on SIMhq rof section few guys are running this setup. 

[[JG2]Surf]

I built an Eyefinity rig running @ 6040 x 1080 on 3 ea, 23" LED's in 3 x 1 horizontal orientation. I have run the same rig in 1 x 3 orientation. The advantages over horizontal is a better FOV when in a high G turning fight. The disadvantage is that it's really only good for flight sims. For normal computer operations profile is vastly inferior and inefficient...ymmv.

 

i7-860 @ 3.6 ghz on air.

HD 7950 w/3 gig

Samsung 840 EVO SSD boot drive

8 gig RAM

Edited October 26, 2013 by [JG2]Surf

[[JG2]Surf]

Just to clarify, it's the monitor's bezels that get in the way of normal desktop viewing/window size_placement. There is a trend with some display manufacturers to reduce the size of bezels. If you use an Eyefinity setup, the smaller the bezels...the better.