Show Us Your Rig [2]

brayway said:

biggles1000 said:

ah, i guess that must be the best way, as I do find the gaps between monitors annoying (and in my case, the completely different picture height )
i wish streaming worked for us Orb would be great, but the interent connection here is really slow. Over the lan was strangely also slow, and the closest I currently have to a HTPC is a half set up XBMC

Yea, I just stream over LAN from the file server. My htpc is just an old pc running xbmc, with a media portal backend for recording tv.

ah, sweet. I really must get round to sorting everything out
I think first on the agenda is a screen that can have as many of my retro consoles connected at once, then next up is a scarily good home made PC, then a pretty decent HTPC (along with a completely new home network ) and finally a really high spec MacBook Pro (with W7 under bootcamp, naturally ). That should make me happy with my PCs for the next, say, 5 years, for about the cost of a good car
time to start saving

Haha def get yourself a good MacBook pro lol. Love mine. Of course I have win7 on it

Hanging tongue syndrome!

xarden said:

Hanging tongue syndrome!

yeah, I use IRC and Twitter a lot, but they are normally in shorter 'bursts'/messages, so doesn't seem apparent then. However, it does on here

ZaLiTH said:

biggles1000 said:

and yes, before you ask, the size difference between the monitors is annoying for web browsing and videos and VLC. It isn't too noticeable when on the desktop, which looks pretty cool. Resolution is 2048x768. Maximum is 2560x800, but that cut the taskbar off on the sharp monitor

I see from your system specs that your laptop has an Nvidia graphics chipset... Why don't you set the drivers to use dualview instead of just extending your desktop? Then you can set each monitor resolution independently and you shouldn't have the taskbar issue.

yeah, I used to do that, but I disliked having it just as extra space
Silly, I know, but I decided to choose the nicer looking rather than the most productive this time round

ZaLiTH said:

biggles1000 said:

and yes, before you ask, the size difference between the monitors is annoying for web browsing and videos and VLC. It isn't too noticeable when on the desktop, which looks pretty cool. Resolution is 2048x768. Maximum is 2560x800, but that cut the taskbar off on the sharp monitor

I see from your system specs that your laptop has an Nvidia graphics chipset... Why don't you set the drivers to use dualview instead of just extending your desktop? Then you can set each monitor resolution independently and you shouldn't have the taskbar issue.

brayway said:

Finished my PC the other day for now.....

Finally got all the waterblocks for the GPU, nearly 3.4KGs!!

Damn..... That's some serious cooling equipment you got there! How much were the three cards with their standard heatsinks though...?

Best i've got

brayway,
You're a sick man ! Hope the breakers hold when the rigs fires up?
Cheers, the Cheese

Haha, yea it's holding for now.... 1.1KW on load :S