I'd recommend getting an Ergotech Group Hex Stand. I purchased this when I went three monitors. For $150 it is solid, easy to set up and allows for easy configuration of your monitor's vertical height and tilt adjustment (both horizontal and vertical).
This thread has pictures of what my setup looks like. You'll notice that the right monitor looks to be floating.
To run off 290X CF. If I can figure out how to mount a fourth monitor on the top of that monitor stand I'll keep my 20" Apple Cinema Display as a tertiary monitor.
The monitors themselves have HDMI, DP, and mini-DP connections. Apparently you can daisy-chain from a DP-out to a second monitor. Can I just use the DP's on both GPUs to power two of the monitors, and have one monitor power the third? Wondering what I need in terms of cabling...
i'm curious about eyefinity also, but I'm planning on picking up Krisnatharoks 27" Aria monitor to match the one i have currently, but i think this will require upgrading from my X-fired 7950's to run both of the 27" monitors. any thoughts? I currently i have the one 27" 2560x1440 resolution monitor with a 24" 1920x1080 secondary monitor. I only game on the 27" monitor and use the second monitor for TS, etc.
I'd say wait and try it with your 7950s and see what you can do. I am guessing you'll get by if you set all three to 1080p, but you'll want to eventually upgrade and go back up to 1440p for the pixel density at 27".
290s or 290X's would be good choices for powering three 1440's.
So the tl;dr on the Dell U2414H is that it's a fantastic looking IPS monitor with great colors and brightness, virtually no bezel and a stable base, but the Displayport implementation is fucking atrocious.
The monitor has: DP in mini-DP in DP out (daisy-chain) 2x HDMI in
In all three monitors, the DP in was non-functional, the DP out was non-functional, and mini-DP in only worked on 1 monitor. Daisychaining is non-functional on all three monitors.
Because all three cards have to be plugged into the same GPU for Eyefinity to work, I went with 1x mDP-to-DP, 1x HDMI, and 1x HDMI-to-DVI (adapter). I really pissed and will be talking to Dell, but I don't expect much help as they are pretty quiet on this subject: »en.community.dell.com/su ··· 839.aspx
That said, once I got everything up and running, it looks amazing:
Screenie:
Potato pic:
I'm still learning tips and tricks of Eyefinity, so if anyone has any tips on reducing the distortion at the edges (especially in BF4), please let me know. It looks like looking through a fish-eye lens!
Congrats! It's looks awesome. That sux about dell, hopefully dealing with them is not too painful. Benchmark Crysis 3 for me! I wanna see what those 290x's can do. I tried it back when I had crossfired 7950's overclocked to hell and I immediately hit the VRAM cap. I couldn't get over 10 fps with all the settings turned up no matter what I did. Lol.
Any idea what FOV should be in a shooter? BF4 can go up to 120 degrees, but it looks like a bubble. I was 95 on one monitor, and tried 105 with three, but still looks bubbly.
Any idea what FOV should be in a shooter? BF4 can go up to 120 degrees, but it looks like a bubble. I was 95 on one monitor, and tried 105 with three, but still looks bubbly.
Jay from Jayztwocents on Youtube just did this video recently on Surround/Eyefinity. He basically said that after going surround for FPS games, actually hurt his game play performance. No matter what FoV was set to, the side panels are always stretched so far out that it makes getting targets on those games very difficult and just screwed with his hand eye coordination over single display.
His opinion on surround for playing simulators though, is that it's totally worth the money.
There was a post on r/Pcmasterrace recently where a guy was running a non stretched resolution at a certain FoV setting across his 3 monitors. He posted some pictures of it running BF4.
It looked absolutely bad ass. I can't find it though
This isn't the exact picture, but it was something similar to this on Reddit. The bottom with 270 degree FoV across 3 screens looks so much better to me. Can you setup a customer FoV in BF4 through file changes?
Like Tiger, I really like the ultra thin bezels, but in order to get some decent looking FPS action the way to go is supposedly portrait mode, so I don't know if you're willing to try that and report back.
Either way, that's a fuckin' hawt setup. Good job!
Kris, which stand did you end up getting? I was also about to pull the trigger on 3x U2414's and came upon the DP issues.
The stand in your pic looks to be a flat, squarish base vs the Mount-It! U-shaped base. I hate the U-shaped bases, and prefer the flat square ones, similar to the Dell dual monitor stands.
I got a stand, but haven't set it up yet as the included monitor stands are pretty awesome. I'd like to eventually use a Mount-It! stand to put a fourth tertiary monitor above the center one, however.
