Computer Desktop Replacement (c. 2002)

Woodworkers can never have enough clamps, programmers can never have enough monitors :)

-- JJ - Northern Illinois

I know theres a birch top some where. LOL I do not know anything about computers. Your set up is what impressed me. Nice layout.

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

Just wondering, why not just fewer bigger monitors? The whole idea was screen real estate right?

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I need to show this pic to the wife, and she thinks I have allot of computer stuff.

-- Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

You forgot the “s” on computers. Nice setup.

-- If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!

Sure makes my two-monitor setup look puny. :-)

I saw a photo a while back where a guy had set up a flight sim program on an array of monitors like this, so the effect was just like looking out of the cockpit of a 747.

I’ll trust you that there is a woodworking project in there somewhere. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

You need to build yourself a divider to keep all of the radiation from those monitors away. :)

-- You may delay, but time will not. --Ben Franklin

And I thought I was bad with my dev setups… You’re flippin’ nuts! ;)

Wow that’s a lot of monitors.

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Mulit-tasker extraordinaire.

-- Davo in Texas

I bet it stays pretty warm in there.

I also like a lot of real estate for displays. Can you recommend a particular video card for such a setup, since you obviously have worked through a bunch of the issues? Thanks.

-- Barry, http://BarrysWorkshop.com/

Awesome set up.

-- John

I think I need to add 6 more monitors to my system. I am jealous.

-- Brian Meeks, http://extremelyaverage.com

I have three aging 21” standard aspect monitors, and three computers to drive them, the newest computer in the middle and two older computers on the sides. These are modern enought to be flat screens, and not crts.

The amount of heat given off by these three monitors and their computers definitely heats up my rather large office space. I can’t imagine the heat, both convection and infrared, given off by that setup. Gad zooks!

I have the same question as dbHost….....why not fewer bigger monitors?

-- Jim, Anchorage Alaska

The reason fewer bigger monitors won’t work is resolution. Sure you could just buy a couple 50” HD tv’s and take up as much space, but you can’t display small detail like text on them if you try to put more than two screens on each tv. Look at how many windows are open at once and how much text they can contain.

-- "We are what we repeatedly do; excellence then is not an act but a habit." ---Aristotle