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 Post subject: Four Portraits?
PostPosted: 15 Jan 2016, 22:52 
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So I have a lot of weird ideas, many of which never come to fruition for many various reasons. Currently, I was thinking of the benefits of portrait mode vs. landscape mode, for most everything outside of gaming/HTPC stuff. And I was thinking it might be cheaper/easier to come by 3 or 4 smaller monitors, that when combined in portrait mode, are as large or larger than a decent sized TV, and present an overall better resolution.

So I got out some calculators and tried to figure out the minimum height and width desired for this setup. I decided I wanted the equivalent of a 43" 16:9 tv as the minimum. Rough measurements would be 21" x 38". So which monitors are 21" wide, giving me that height in portrait mode? 24" seems to do the trick, at 11.75 x 21. And 4 wide in portrait mode would be 47.75" x 21" - almost the same as a 53" ultrawide.

Assuming I could find 4 with thin enough bezels, or remove the bezels and reframe myself, I would have 4320 x 1920 resolution on a slightly wider than normal 43" screen. Not quite the same as 4k/UHD, but similar.

Sounds great to me! And I can find some refurbished 24" widescreen monitors in the $30 - $50 range, making it about $160 for the displays. About half to a quarter what a 43" 4k TV would run me.

How stupid does this sound? Should I even bother thinking more on it, and how to accomplish it?


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 Post subject: Re: Four Portraits?
PostPosted: 17 Jan 2016, 01:00 
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The one problem with his setup is that you will have a bezel in the center of your screens.
So all FPS Games or others that use a crosshair will be really annoying.
If this wont bother you.... Okay.
And you'd need an AMD GPU to run 4x1P I think.

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 Post subject: Re: Four Portraits?
PostPosted: 18 Jan 2016, 21:40 
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If I recall, standard Eyefinity does not support 4x1p however does 5x1p.
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4x1P would be supported with the AMD FirePro cards which support a greater selection of eyefinity configurations over the consumer eyefinity found on the non FirePro cards.

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