My triple monitor gaming setup (with pics!!)

Hey guys just wanted to throw up my pictures from my build. I started from the ground up...new case, mobo, monitors, desk, etc.


specs:
i7-930
6GB-1600 Corsair Dominator RAM
Gigabyte X58A-UD5 mobo
64GB Patriot SSD
1TB Seagate Barricuda storage drive
x3 Dell U2410 monitors
Corsair H70 CPU cooler
Silverstone FT02
G15 logitech keyboard
G7 logitech mouse

First the finished product...








Next, more pics of the building...









This was the old setup

Thanks guys...I do love the case. I had some problems with stripped screws and trying to get the mobo in because of it. Other than that this case is excellent for air cooling.

I haven't had a chance to do much game testing, but will likely tonight. Will try and upload youtube vids when I can. I'll link those here.

So far so good Korn, but ask me in a few weeks. I've only used it briefly

Getting this all up and running hasn't been exactly smooth. TF2 works flawlessly. Borderlands is the other one I've tried and so far it haven't worked. I haven't tried other games as I just got this up and running on Sunday. Actually, here is DA:O too





You can see how Borderlands is screwed up by looking at the lettering on the left. Not sure if there is a fix or not.

Updated with specs.

I've developed some thoughts and opinions, but let me give it some more time. I can tell you right now that Just Cause 2 and Bad Company 2 so far look AMAZING in tri-monitor mode.

Update for anyone who cares:

Point of clarification...this is Nvidia Surround, NOT 3D surround.

I had to add a sound card because, I like a lot of people, just assumed that onboard sound would do 5.1 surround through SPDIF. Anywho, so now I have a Auzentech Bravura sound card.

I wanted to comment and say that Nvidia surround is NOT exactly plug and play. It is not ready for main stream. There is simply too much tweaking and annoyances it seems. Of course, it's possibly just me. With that said, once you get it set up it's awesome!!!! It takes some getting used to, but it is awesome!!

I purposely waited to play Just Cause 2 for this setup and it feels like Just Cause 2 was MADE for triple screen gaming. IT IS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. It doesn't hurt that JC2 is one of the best games I've played since Crysis either.

My intent is still to take some video and through it up on Youtube. I'll post links when I do that.

This was recorded with my iPhone so obviously it doesn't look great. Also anytime there are bright colors on the screen the video washes out. You get the idea though. Take my word for it though, it's beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdKZ2RzCbjw

At a res of 6022 x 1200 I'm getting avg of 30 FPS with most things on high. I do have to drop the anti-aliasing to 4x and a couple things to medium. So it's certainly not maxed out graphically. I could probably max it all out if I was just doing 1920 x 1200. As you may or may not know Just Cause 2 is a VERY taxing game. With that said, I'm a little upset my build can't max out everything currently out there. If I would have known how beautiful JC2 is, I just may have pissed my wife off more and gotten some 480's. She already doesn't comprehend 3 screen glory.
The reason I went with the 460's is because of lower energy (saved on higher PSU), lower cost and 2 of them was roughly 15% better performance than a single 480. On "lesser" games like TF2 I'm getting 100 FPS 6022 x 1200 with it COMPLETELY maxed out. Although it looks like I had money to burn on this set up, I bargain hunted everything. The only thing I really paid at MSRP was in fact the video cards. These are the EVGA 460 1GB superclocked versions with lifetime warranty. Newegg had them for $250 each.

(*sorry for any spelling and grammar, I'm heading out the door*)

Isn't there a fan site or online resource that has every little thing discovered?

Can confirm that Dirt 2 and Psychonauts work and looks very good!! I can also confirm now in hindsight that pushing pixels on 3 monitors I should have probably done 470's or 480's in SLI... That is expensive like mentioned earlier, but for many games to run at 6022x1200 I have to turn some settings to medium and turn AA to 2X or 4X. Most modern games I'm getting around 30fps, even then it drops to low 20's often. It's not consistent as maps and environments change.

I've also noticed that I can't record with Fraps movies because the extra demand on the system is enough to crash the game...that's pretty disappointing too.

They come factory overclocked:
# Core Clock: 763MHz
# Shader Clock: 1526MHz
# Stream Processors: 336 Processor Cores

Is there a way to "safely" unlock more cores or overclock even further? I'm always a bit hesitant to OC stuff.