So what's your excuse for not having at least three monitors user?

so what's your excuse for not having at least three monitors user?

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I don't have autism

the feds seized my shit and I'm stuck on a shitty laptop

i'll bite. what did you do?

I spent to much money on this case.

Desk space, mostly. Although I've recently moved from a tiny studio apartment to a two bedroom house, so I suppose I could get a bigger desk.

jesus my eyes!

I have two, looking to upgrade to dual 480/490 and get a 4k to place above them.
Sooon

I used to, sacrificed the 3rd monitor for room for a laptop dock and a Trinitron PVM

i only need two and a laptop. i really don't even need to go online.

LMFAOO NICE, I was about to say the same thing.

No desk big enough and no car get one.

>arma
Disgusting

sorry you pc isn't beefy enough to run such a huge sandbox shooter bro

all cleaned up

> one monitor has nothing but the steam client and a bunch of ego stroking statistics software

Oh user, try harder next time

I only have one set of eyes, so I can't look at three monitors at once.

it's called hardware monitoring. i have a water cooled system and i need to know if there is a problem before it melts my tubing. gr8h8m8!

I have four.

I get ~50 fps
Its only fun with friends

small desk

do you not have peripheral vision or possible a neck brace that keeps you from turning your head?

I've got no reason or desire for having more than one monitor.

It's bad to have three arranged symmetrically because it makes you look like a gamer. Landscape + portrait has been working pretty well for me.

because two is plenty for me!

Have you even experienced the glory of more than one monitor?

A mini itx of this case would be sweet.

I was running three for awhile but never used the third one.
I can't stand not having two though.
I have them stacked on a vertical stand though.

because i already have 2 and i don't think a third would be useful at all

portrait makes you look like a weeb

Wait, you don't have an automatic alert? Like if it gets to a certain temperature?

You have to keep an eye on the temperatures at all times, and manually adjust if necessary?

Because that's probably not the best or easiest way of doing things, especially when you're concentrating on one of the other monitors.

Shitters/gamers/Arch users need their computer to need them, so they can feel accomplished despite not actually doing anything.

I have a MacBook Pro and an iPad Air 2. I use a utility called Duet Display to use the iPad as an extra monitor. *Portable* dual monitors.

i just keep an eye on it every once in a while. that shit just sits there on the desktop but the far right monitor is my dumping ground. chat windows, secondary web pages, other misc programs.

left monitor is media, center is whatever i'm focusing on, right monitor is hardware monitoring + misc bullshit.

I actually got this case it's not as bright as in the photo

>sorry you pc isnt beefy enough
>only plays on one monitor

I've been looking all over for this case. Where can I get one?

I don't have an excuse, I have three monitors.

tried it. games distort the left and right screens because it's supposed to be your peripheral vision so you can really only use the center screen anyway. gave me no advantage.

>only 1080 tall
heh.

Ebay

rocking three. Best is making /vr/ turbo butt jelly at emulating N64 / Dolphin / PSX / PCSX2 at 5760. They flip shit every time and start spouting "muh hardware" and "muh original experience" as they cry into their flashcart they overpaid $400+ to play common games. Suggest you make a screenshot or two or head on over there for some lulz. not my pic

I was on your side initially, but if you have three monitors and don't use them as a surround display then you have an extra monitor taking up desk space desu

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Get a headtracker you noob

to spergy

Link please. I don't see it on eBay.

>left monitor is media, center is whatever i'm focusing on, right monitor is hardware monitoring + misc bullshit.

I've seen these and they do support one of the only games I care about, Freespace 2 Open, but last time I checked they were $200. Had a ton of support for racing sims, not really into those anymore.

If your game supports it without making it look shitty, turn up the FOV to the max. On Wolfenstein : Enemy Territory, 180 still looked great and not too warped and after getting used to this, I was untouchable.

Says the guy playing ArmA while he watches a benchmark and jerks off to CPU-Z

>wide screen Zelda
Bruh

Because I'm shit at focusing on more than one thing at the same time.

They internet has plenty of walkthroughs for making one out of a regular webcam and some infrared LEDs for under $50 if you're willing to do some finagling. Definitely makes a bigger difference in immersion and gameplay than an extra monitor.

I don't care what anybody says, the best way to play a game is on the console it's made for. If that means a $400 adapter then so be it

more like
>widescreen everything
what's your psuedo-excuse on why this sucks tho?

Never said it sucks, it would be epic.
You didn't get tussled did you :^)

only two fit on my desk

I know I'm getting baited, but what about if the "anybody" is the developers themselves?

there's a ton of N64 and gamecube games that had high res textures the entire time and the console has always resized them. Dolphin on 4x internal res is beautiful and looks like something from 2008.

So what happens to your "best" way when you have all this evidence that they were being severely limited by the console hardware of the time?

>not masturbating to glorious triple monitor porn

It exists user, and it is glorious.

what benchmark? that's not cpu-z you dummy it's gpu-z. it's there to make sure the gpu is actually applying the OC settings given to it by the precision x software. for some reason these settings just don't like to stick all the time. precision x will report it overclocked but GPU-Z tells the truth. precision x shows me how hard my gpu is working. for instance, i'm playing arma and getting abnormally shitty frame rates. is it my computer or is it a struggling server? well i can see my gpu's clock speed isn't maxed out so the card isn't being needed to its full potential and i know the arma server is the cause of the low fps.

knowing your hardware is doing is important.

yup got anal aggravated already, burned my ass from being on /vr/. It was fun for about 3-4 months but then hipsters showed up who formed flashcart clubs saying muh hardware then play zelda/mario64 and nothing that would validate buying the cart like the 4 games or whatever that the emulators can't play. Thought I was getting trolled over there but there's like 40 different people in this club

>I know I'm getting baited
You're actually wrong to think that.
>So what happens to your "best" way when you have all this evidence that they were being severely limited by the console hardware of the time?
A legitimate experience.

My only monitor is high enough resolution and virtual desktops are a thing.

my favorite is to get flash based stuff and zoom in

If using only one, why bother with the inconvenience of a desktop when you could dock a laptop?

Not him but i'll answer

Laptops are fuckshit

>technology board
>lol just use a laptop
What the fuck are you doing here?

waiting for the animated corpse below to shut off a tv so I can code on my portrait monitor

Because I have way more pixels than that.

You could have put on a facade of being a productive human bean but instead you flaunt your lolicon collection. Why?

Honestly I just had that open from earlier.
This is how my desktop usually looks.

That's not much better.

What do you mean better? I'm showing you that it was just piled under all my other main windows. I usually have a Steam window open too.
Of course I could go full autist and do this.

Laptop is only convenient for travel which is why I also have one. I need/want the processing power of a high end desktop. I play games, edit a lot of photos and frequently encode videos. I despise laggy/poor laptop screens, laptop device drivers, I need a lot of hard drive space, I have dozens of devices hooked up to my PC which would require me to get a USB hub, external DAC/interface/headphone amp/preamp, external hard drives(which would likely be annoyingly slow), mouse, keyboard etc. I would literally clutter my desk with hubs and devices because a single laptop wouldn't do the things I want my computer to do.

>what benchmark
Whatever you're running on the left. Benchmark, video, screenshot, godzilla r34, whatever.
>that's not CPU-Z dummy its GPU-Z
Same shit. I really didn't spend a long time analyzing your shitpost.
>I'm playing Arma on one screen at 1440p and I have bad framerates, I'd better check and see if my video card is maxing out even though it was fine 30 seconds ago and literally nothing has changed since
If you have your graphics turned up too high for your shit, and game-changing slowdowns occur so frequently you can't tell if it's the server or your PC, that's your own problem. "Knowing your hardware is important."
>I need to watch my temps at all times to make sure my tubing doesn't melt
Buying a water cooler for your CPU is not the same thing as having a water cooled system you scrublet. The fact that you think some warm water is going to melt your tubes is proof enough that you don't even have a custom loop in the first place.

You don't need three monitors. Hell, you don't even WANT three monitors. That's why you cover all that glorious real-estate with stupid horseshit. Don't come on here and presume to imply you're tweaking your gaming experience by fine-tuning your afterburner settings a millivolt at a time, or that the GPU-Z window with your hardware stats is there to do anything other than show off your e-dick (which by the way, is monumentally average). And are you watching your dragon porn or are you playing Arma? Pick one. Autistic or not, you can't do four things at once. Face it, you are a two-monitor end-user at best. You could probably accomplish just as little in just as much time with a single monitor and alt-tabbing.

Fuck right out of here with your misplaced elitism, and take your shitty 780 with you. I hope to god you actually overclocked your GPU, and didn't just buy a water cooler because you liked the LEDs. Wait... you multiplier overclocked with autovoltage, didn't you? Fucking christ.

I have 2 and barely use the second; it prevents alt-tabbing. I suppose if you traded stocks; 3 or 4 4k monitors or at least 1440p, because having an extra 1080p screen does nothing for real productivity.

Seriously this is totally shilling. You post this shit in many threads. Delete this mod.

Miles why are you using my steam profile pic?

What is your excuse for not having at least three monitors and three graphics cards?

>only 1080p and only 60 Hertz at the same time
Heh.
Are they at least IPS?

Because my chinkpad only supports 2 and i would never use the 3rd one anyways if i had it.

It literally said LCD

IPS is a type of LCD, nerfherder. The other kind is TN.

are you retarded?
serious question

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Heh

reddit.com/r/coaxedintoasnafu/

I didn't click on that.

I am a normal human being

>IPS

You do realise IPS variants in it's current form is utter rubbish, right? Awful colour reproduction, awful backlight bleed (worse than cheap TN panels), awful input lag and response times across the board. IPS is still in it's infancy and maybe in 5 or more years it will be beautiful but until then buying into it is like buying into Blueray DVD players in an era where everyone buys and watches digital copies online.

Normal human beings are able to turn their heads.

Then why is he playing a game and watching a movie and opening his desktop at the same time?

I'm not saying you should mimic OP

because peripheral vision is a thing?
because a lull in the action in the game might yield a moment to pay more direct attention to the movie?
because occasionally wanting to see some stat on his computer shouldn't necessarily force him out of the game?

i'm not even in favor of the OP's configuration, but don't act like you're retarded. there are intelligent ways to reason about why someone would do something. you don't HAVE to be them to understand them. you just have to not be a fucking idiot.

>because a lull in the action in the game might yield a moment to pay more direct attention to the movie
Meaning you're not paying proper attention all the other time.
I have a dual monitor setup myself and when I got it the first thing I tried was to play a video and a game at the same time. It doesn't work for shit. The desktop is appropriate, since glancing over every now and then for information works, but game and movie at the same time do not work, unless you just want background noise.

>using the smiley with a carat nose

>using meme arrows

>Meaning you're not paying proper attention all the other time.
i don't know how to parse out what you consider to be "proper" for a schlocky movie. it's not a lecture on astrophysics. it's not a skype session with someone.

if you really care about a movie, or if you're watching it with someone, you should pay attention to the movie and block out distractions just to ensure you share the same experience. otherwise, who gives a shit?

>Game only using one monitor
user...

Only the very center of your vision is sharp. Everything else only appears to be sharp because the brain fills it in.
If you're reading these words right now, then you probably can't even read the words that are 5 words next to the one you're currently looking at, without shifting your vision, unless you stare at it for a long period of time and try really hard.
Pic is being extremely generous with the field of vision. There's no way you can see shit in the movie without directly looking at it. Peripheral vision pretty much only tells you that something in that area is moving and gibes an approximate color on that, that's it.