Just thought I'd let you guys know what it's like to have a 30 inch monitor and play at 2560x1600. It's quite incredible.

Just so you know, it's 4.1 megapixels compared to 2.1 megapixels for a Full-HD 1080p signal. PC gamers really are winning over console gamers when it comes to image clarity and performance.

I'll link some screenshots.

Desktop: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/ ... f25547.jpg
Lots of windows open: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/ ... 54a537.jpg
iTunes: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/ ... 7993c7.jpg
Display properties: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/ ... 6f23a8.jpg
OpenOffice.org Writer: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/ ... 0x1600.jpg
Picasa: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/ ... 0x1600.jpg
TrackMania United: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/ ... 0x1600.jpg
Enemy Territory Quake Wars Demo: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/ ... 0x1600.jpg

Moved to Hardware...

Awesome stuff, and this cost you how much?

£824 for the monitor and £475 for the graphics card, and £190 for the power supply so that I could use the graphics card.

nice to see another trackmania united fan, im so addicted to it

That is so damn sweet. I wish I could do that!

This demo from Nvidia is almost photo-realistic. And it runs very fast on this graphics card too...

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/ ... 0x1600.jpg

Those are some insane graphics. Think we'll be seeing similar stuff in UT3 and Crysis, aswell.

I hope so. I'm pretty sure than Crysis is going to kill my system at 2560x1600.

:/

Over 2 screens i have 2224 by 800...Uber widescreen :p That first screeny u sent me i stretched it over both and still didnt have enough width! Crazy!

Aaron, 2 8800Ultras/9800GTXs will probably just cope, maybe not quite max settings, though.

And DHR, that kind of resolution is insane. I have 1600x1200, which feels like a lot, but this is 60% wider and 33% taller, for a total of over double the total screen real estate. Those numbers are just insane!

Hopefully, what with Crysis' LOD techniques the GPU's won't die at maximum settings. And hopefully, a quad-core processor should keep those physics instructions rolling at a steady pace. I remember reading at InCrysis that a multi-cored CPU will always increase the performance of the game; it is truly multi-threaded and will take advantage of as many cores as it can see. Physics instructions are sent to the CPU as SSE3/4 commands.

Basically he has pwnage hardware that costs the world.

It needs to be at least good enough to play Crysis and UT3. It will cost about £3500 overall.

To get a decent performance out of Crysis, though, you do not need to spend that much money, especially if you cut down on the insane monitor. You could probably build a sweet Crysis machine for a tad over £1000.

You're right, hence why I am about to start a new topic to surprise you all...

Link to new topic

Doesn't really surprise me, was only a matter of time till you decided you wanted more computers aswell as powerful ones.

Some more pictures...

FEAR Combat at 2560x1600: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/ ... 0x1600.jpg
Techious at 2560x1600: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/ ... 0x1600.jpg

£3500??? o_O

Where on earth do you get the money? I am really feeling the envy here.

Work

Blimey, you must get paid a lot.

I take it you have lots of qualifications for such a high paying job?

Yes, I have 11 GCSE's.

What is your job exactly? The only thing I know about it is when you posted that youtube vid of you being bumed by your workmate.

He works in an IT support department. The thing is he lives with his parents (after being unable to afford renting an apartment). This basically means a lot of his income is classed as "disposable", to spend in wastefully large quantities such as this!

Mostly correct I guess. I am an 'IT Support Specialist' but it doesn't really mean much. I do everything from modify power management settings on desktops to building servers. I am the general IT bod.

I could have afforded the flat, but.. I spent a lot of my money on other things and the flat just ended up being not as important as everything else. Then my girlfriend moved out of Newent anyway, so it got boring. Seems like everyone is moving out of Newent at the moment... and all the Polish are moving in!

By "couldn't afford" I meant couldn't happily afford!

And not many people are moving out of Newent, that I know of...