Monitors

bjaxx

How many monitors do you have? or should I say how many video cards, do you have in your system?

undomiel

One video card, but I have two monitors on my desk one for each system.

bjaxx

undomiel wrote:

One video card, but I have two monitors on my desk one for each system.

Just curious,

my buddy has 4 monitors going, I wanted to see the norm?

astorrs

I have 2 and have for probably 8 years. I would say 2 monitors is the norm for most in IT these days (at least at the companies where I work). NOC/Service Desk people often have an additional monitor dedicated to just running the status page from the monitoring system and the phone system (ACD) queue/status.

tiersten

Two graphics cards and one monitor.

nicklauscombs

one at home
everyone at work has at least two and some even have three

dynamik

One card, two monitors (or an external 24" with my laptop).

ULWiz

I also have one video card currently with a 19inch dual monitor setup. I use this setup for running my VMWare labs on on screen and whatever else i am doing on the other.

cacharo

@Home: 1 Video card and 2 monitors
@Work: 1 Video card and 2 monitors with and additonal monitor on a KVM for all my monitorring machines.

networker050184

I use two computers (desktop with two monitors and my laptop) with synergy running on them to get twice the computing power but half the mouse and keyboard.

jibbajabba

There you go



I used to have a 8600 GT HDMI as well which was connected to my 42" Panasonic .. Unfortunately due to my new Raid card there is simply no room anymore

Work : just one 8600GT with same 30" Dell ..

RTmarc

1 video card, 4 monitors.

jbrown414

Both PCs at home run dual monitors off of one card. My system here at work has two monitors off of 2 cards.

When I told my wife that I was going to make our home PC run off 2 monitors, she told me that it was pointless and a waste of money. I bet if I took one monitor away now she would probably have a fit.

dynamik

On a somewhat related note, at work I occasionally have an external monitor connected to my laptop along with a second laptop doing some miscellaneous task. I swear, nearly every person here came by and asked why I needed three computers...

jbrown414

You should tell them that it's because you work 3 times harder than they do.

vCole

2 19" 's at work
2 monitors at home too:
22" Widescreen & a 19" Widescreen.

1 vid card for each

Home has a 8800GT 512mb

bjaxx

dynamik wrote:

On a somewhat related note, at work I occasionally have an external monitor connected to my laptop along with a second laptop doing some miscellaneous task. I swear, nearly every person here came by and asked why I needed three computers...

seriously gets me riled up when, people nag about us having "3 monitors etc"....

scheistermeister

2 video cards (both 9800 GTX+), 1 22", 1 19", and 2 17" flat panels. Only use the 22" widescreen when gaming with SLi though.

HeroPsycho

2x 19" Dell Ultrasharp monitors on one 8800GT gfx card. Thinking about adding another card just to have 3 monitors.

jbaello

1 24" - I wanna get another 24"
1 17"

jbaello

scheistermeister wrote:

2 video cards (both 9800 GTX+), 1 22", 1 19", and 2 17" flat panels. Only use the 22" widescreen when gaming with SLi though.

Nice video card scheister...

jryantech

2 cards, 2 monitors... both 22 inch...

Pash

One card 8800 GTX Nvidia and 2x 22" widescreen monitors at home

Quadro nvidia card at office with duel 17" monitors.

royal

Just my work laptop for work.

For home, I have 1 computer with 1 21" monitor. I'll soon have a second computer but will hook that up to my existing monitor and use a button on my monitor to switch between dvi and vga. I've debated getting a second monitor but just don't see the use for it.

Lee H

1 X 19" (square - this needs sorting out i know)

2 X 8600 cards on sli


I have plans to buy a 22" very soon, i built a PC for a customer a few days ago and the price for a 22" widescreen was only £105 all in.



Lee H

Pash

royal wrote:

Just my work laptop for work.

For home, I have 1 computer with 1 21" monitor. I'll soon have a second computer but will hook that up to my existing monitor and use a button on my monitor to switch between dvi and vga. I've debated getting a second monitor but just don't see the use for it.

See you say that, and I thought the same. But I can't live without duel monitors at work or home. For study having vmware open on one monitor and browser opened on another for example is so very very handy. For my graphic work i do at home it's pretty much essential. At work, most useful example i can give is comparing network device configurations or reading ACL entries from spreadsheet on one monitor, while entering to notepad++ on other. It's honestly too useful to go back once you have. Of course this is my opinion and it may vary but hey!

snadam

I rock the 'dualies' at work, and a single 20"(16:9) monitor for my personal, and a 19" (4:3) for my lab. I eventually would like to get 2 wide screen monitors...that would be great!