Surrounding Gaming Poll

[Rimfaxe]

running over to my friendly friend and borrow his two EIZO T57S will give me enough monitors to try it, if i like it i will buy two 17" myself.

[Ryu Connor]

I have dual 21" Sony's at the moment, but I think I can squeeze in a 15" Sony. Haven't decided if I would want to use the 15" as the center and have the larger monitors provide peripheral or having the 15" as a peripheral side.

I thinking having the 21" monitors act as the peripheral may be the best way. I would think any sort of action on them would prominently catch your attention even if your focus is tunneling in on the center monitor.

Sony E540 21" = 135W or 2.0a of juice.
Sony E100 15" = 95W or ~1.5a of juice.

Bigger monitors don't necessary translate into using an inordinate amount of extra electricity. TFT's are a little better on the energy usage. Though not immensely so considering the size disparity.

Sony SDM-N80 18" LCD = 67W or 1a of juice.

[moreau]

I'm already set to. I posted in another thread that I bought 2 MAG 17" 770FS monis to add to my CTX VL710.

The MAGS aren't the cat's meow, as they won't do better than 60Hz at 1280x1024... But...

[frankymail]

About power consumption: a 19 inches CRT consumes a hundred-something watts AT FULL POWER (when the screen is completly white). I don't know is you are familiar with those number, but electrical standards in residential criteria in North America call for 1800 Watts per outlet. Besides, on average, a CRT consume 70-80 watts, which is about 1/10th of what a microwave oven draws, 1/20th of what a air dryer consume, or about 1/150th of what a cooking oven draws. Let's get practical here: say you have a 300 watts PSU running at %75 of it's full power (225 Watts), thre 19-inchers at 80 Watts each, a nice speakers system drawing about 50 watts. This gives you a total of slithly more than 500 watts. I don't know about you, but here in Canada, electricity cost about ¢5 (CAN) per KW/h (¢3 (US)). Suppose it runs with everything turned on 8 hours per day, and hte remaining 16 hours in in idle (internet on, but no monitors and speakers on). This equals (8*0,5*0,05) + (16*0,2*0,05) . . . ¢36 (CAN) A DAY (a quarter a day for our friends south of the borders. Now, remove the two additional monitors and you get (8*0,35*0,05) + (16*0,2*0,05) . . . ¢30 (CAN) A DAY... wow, I really cannot afford paying $0,06 more per day :P

[GNEP]

Fair enough on the cost - I am just worried about the dodgy wiring in my house. I don't think cowboy builders 20 years ago thought ahead to 3 screens, a computer and speakers running in a bedroom... with a multiplug attached to the socket (there's another consideration - have you got enough power sockets around - you don't want to plug one multiplug into another!).

gnep

[The PIT]

So far it's looking Matrox got this right. I would expected less than about 50 - 50. It would be interesting to conduct the pole again in 6 months to see how many are using it.

[Zao]

I remember the old times when I played DooM 1 in Surround.

Now most of you are probably wondering, what the **** are he speaking of.

Doom 1 had a half-hidden network feature which allowed you to designate a computer as either 'look 90 deg left', 'normal' or 'look 90 deg right'.

So what I did was to set up three screens on my desk and it felt so great compared to a single screen setup.

So, one could say that Carmack invented Surround Gaming

[The PIT]

For the first time the go for it's are leading.

[Fenrir(AVA)]

WOOT! My third ViewSonic G90fb came today.....now how to fit it on the desk..........