To go along with my new build, I got a new 28-inch monitor

[hobbit709]

actually a Hannspree 28-in TV, but it works nice as a 1080P monitor too.
Here's the details on the build.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=242x35254

Everything, including both my folding@home apps appear to work much better in Windows 7 HP X64. I would have liked to remain on XP X64 but the new UEFI BIOS didn't like it-I could get it to install and work but performance was degraded.. Linux works but I'll put it on another drive and change boot order when I want to use it on this computer.

But it runs stable OC'd to 4.5GHz.

[HopeHoops]

1. Yours is bigger than mine.

My largest monitor is a 27", but I've got a 19" secondary on the same machine. It's fun to drag shit from one monitor to the other.

[uriel1972]

2. double barrel 27"er's

Now if only I could find a use for both of them /sigh

[canetoad]

4. I noticed something many years ago

If you ever used a larger monitor than you were used to, it was almost impossible to go back to a smaller screen.

I've used 2x22' for a while and am so spoilt that it's hard to go back to one screen. I use many Adobe apps. for work, many layouts being in A1 size so it's practically essential to have a second screen for the menus, the first being for the layout I'm working on.

How you chose to configure a multi-screen config makes a difference too. My media computer has two screens configured independently but cloned. My work machine has the desktop extended over the two screens.

[Warpy]

3. Even when my sight was at its worst, I couldn't justify more than a 20

but the one I have now is a 23 inch touch screen, the touch feature actually coming in handy from time to time.

[OriginalGeek]

5. wait til you get WIn8

with the touch enabled metro interface...the beta has been fun-ish...lol

[uriel1972]

6. heh I don't have a touch screen

and found the metro interface a pain. Is it in beta now?

[OriginalGeek]

7. yep - i got it a couple months ago from the microsoft site

installed it on a spare laptop at work just to play with.

The laptop in question is a verrrrry low end thing we buy in bulk to give to users who need to run a few proprietary programs that don't need hardly any processing power. The graphics are miserable and the cpu is weak but the Win8 beta runs more smoothly than the Vista that came on it.

There aren't a ton of desktop widgets for it yet but I can kind of imagine some pretty cool things to put on the metro interface...just extrapolating from smart phone widgets...which is a big complaint I often see - folks don;t want a big a phone. they want a computer. I think it will just take some getting used to.

[uriel1972]

8. Yah I got it too

but at the time it was the developer preview, I hope it has evolved I found not having the desktop come up first off a pain, but it ran quite well. I'd put it on my spare computer , but it is no more (it has ceased to be), damn thing keeps eating graphics cards, time to gut it and build a new one methinks.