Dual 23" LED Monitors and Video Cards

bingoo said:
If you don't use it for gaming, video encoding or brute forcing stuff than go for a cheaper card (with a silent cooler) and spend the extra money on the CPU and RAM. There's no point in an expensive video card if you're not gonna use it.
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i7-930 + 3 x 2gb Corsair.

Gaming I do, just not... 40 hours a week, ya know? (and I don't want an ATI card, and I want DirectX11 and to future proof myself)

If I don't put together the computer I want... I will buy a new one in a year and just spend more. lol.
 


the reviews on that TV were funny as shit

Pros: Pretty awesome gigantic box! The box provides me weeks of fun! It even came with a free, 82" complimentary TV so you can watch a life-sized Dr. Phil LECTURE people in 1080p. But I don't use the TV, so I put it out in the alley for the garbage truck to pick up. Cons: The wife often escapes when she's placed inside the box. Other Thoughts: Once you receive the awesome gigantic box, throw away the useless complimentary TV. You won't be watching TV once you crawl inside the box.
 
Ardoris said:
Go for quad monitors.
You'll never regret it ;)

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Orgasmed. What's powering those?
 
I got two 25.5 inch monitors hooked up to my 480 GTX right now. It's very sexy, but the Fermi based cards get VERY HOT! Make sure your case has a lot of air blowing through it to cool it off.

I burned myself on the heatsink the other day. I have the side of my case open (Antec 1200 with 10 fans in it... yeah overkill lol), ambient room temp of probably about 25 C and a pretty strong fan blowing directly at the CPU and GPU and the video card idles at around 70 C.
 
dchuk said:
damn, that's way too hot for a chip to be idling at

water cooling? Better heatsink setup?

Desktops should be cooler than laptops, and laptops shouldn't really ever go above 60 or so...
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Well, his card is the step up from mine, but most people are saying mine idles @ 40-45c , load @ 60-70.

Also - Laptops do not generally have a $350-600 video card.


I just looked up reviews on that 480... some people say 45c idle... some say 75.... seems alittle... crazy?
 
You guys really just need to change VGA coolers, those which comes with curent video cards sucks ass! I use ASUS radeon 4850 for like 1.5 years and it cooler was dying last half year, I tried all like cleaning, take it and place again and so and so on, but it simply died.

It was 65c at best time in idle when it worked or half worked and 75-85c in games, but when it was slowed down it was like 90c idle!!!! imagine that ? Then in games simply went to 120c and turn pc off.

I simply bought zalman vf950 led, very great thing also comes with memory radiators and manual thing for cooler speed. It now 39c idle!!! and not more than 47c in VERY hot situation in games.

Radeon costed me $180, cooler $30. But feel the difference!!!

P.S. Oh...and I forgot last 2 years NVIDIA really sucks, in ALL - cost, temperature, power consumption, current technologies (software and hardware both), speed. Why people still buy it, not sure.
 
Dell Ultrasharp 24" or higher FTW. Yeah, I know they cost a couple hundred more than some 24" but the difference in picture quality and color reproduction is well worth it IMO. I have the 24" now with two 17" in portrait mode but the 1200 and 1280 vertical res is kind of gimped.

My next setup will be a 30" in the middle with 2 x 24" on either side in portrait so the vertical res on everything will be 1600 px.

Jeeze, 70C idling is a bit high. My GTX260 is idling at 47C. I'd say that even though you have that many fans there's some issue with the airflow right around the card. Is the fan on the card working right?
 
juntao65 said:
Orgasmed. What's powering those?
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Not sure.
I can't remember. It's old system.
I got them about 4 years ago :D
I know I installed two ASUS EN7800GTX.
4 x 1 Gb memory each costed about $150 - $200, I think.
Now, it cost what? Under $200 for 4 Gb stick?

Monitor price was the killer each costing
about $850 at ebay back in 2006.

I wonder how much comparable monitor cost now.
 
070707 said:
Except the price tag. $499....

I'll go with the LED with 5,000,000:1 Contrast and almost half the price. (23")
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LoL at the 5 million to 1 contrast ratio. I'm not gonna get into the marketing hype BS behind that statement. Apple's LED Cinema Display is only advertised at 1000:1 and no one would claim that has poor picture quality.

More importantly what make and model did you buy? Samsung? These perhaps? 23? Widescreen LCD Monitor with LED Backlight PX2370 - Premium - Monitors | SAMSUNG
 
Also Coolermaster case all the fucking way. Also the card your looking at now is a bit overkill. You could cheap out a bit and save some dough without really loosing anything. My GTX 275 eats everything up and spits it back out and should still do so for at least another year.
 
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