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So more or less rearranging the usage of your current wealth/money.

Looking at my desk I "might" be able to pull off triplehead if I had the funds. It would be hard but I could maybe fit 3 monitors with one partly over edge of desk (base on desk, monitor above base not)

I bought monitor 4 and 5 as im having a lan party soon and i like to make things easy for people. But i guess it gives me a reason to really sell off my stuff now.

Well I sold the projector, I have $450, I figure I should keep the money for the eyefinity 6 card on march 11, and save up money for the remaining monitor, mounts and adapters. What do you guys think?

monitors came in, For now I have everything in a line (5x1). But I notice this way i need longer cables... so I found 1 VGA extender and am using that :(. So I have 4 hooked up, im going out to see if i can get a bigger DVI cable. I really hate VGA, it looks terrible on LCD's and you have to mess with pixel clocks, oh well. Anyway Ill get some picts up when i have all of them connected.

I think it depends on the TFT... VGA through to my HDTV looks great. And it's way, way less hassle than using HDMI from a PC - that underscans terribly for some reason. VGA on my 2405 looks good too.

You know what? I'm having a hard time figuring out what I'm supposed to do with the other two monitors, they kinda just stay there doing nothing.

EDIT: Here's Some Pictures

Update your sig, and nice though for me that would be way too much horizontal real estate, I see why people go portrait for 5 monitors (or are planning on it)

Update your sig, and nice though for me that would be way too much horizontal real estate, I see why people go portrait for 5 monitors (or are planning on it)

I haven't chosen yet, I'm thinking about going 3x2 landscape more than 5x1 portrait (Due to Desk Space).

My desk has a weird little shelf that I'd like to get rid of and do 5x1 landscape and maybe something on top. But I figure with 3x2 format I can play 3x1 or 3x2 or 1x1 monitor when ever i feel like it.

Just an update, I bought 2 mini-DP -> VGA adapters from monoprice. I found a $50 Visa gift card I lost a while back and treated myself to some adapter niceness. I also got two HDMI->DVI adapters for xbox goodness and 1 of those RCA couplers to get rid of the change, i have 0.22 cents left.

Another Update, bought the 5870 E6 card, put it in (barely) now my room is toasty. Really hot in my room for some reason...

Here's the Unboxing Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYsjXx9cmUM

Took me a while to post. :p

Ordered mounts, adapters, and cables. I'll do an unboxing, and will document the build. Dunno if i should film the whole build, i think it'd be boring.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/suiken_2mieu/1101_2689.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/suiken_2mieu/1101_2688.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/suiken_2mieu/1101_2687.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/suiken_2mieu/1101_2686.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd77xqjnK3E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KG3kO8nhOk