Question About The X1900XT(s)...

[Nugget]

but that's not one big screen, that's still 2.

I guess we just have different definitions of what "one big screen" means. It's the same workspace; windows can be dragged fully or partially between the two displays; the whole space is usable for applications. How isn't that "one big screen"?

The OS is just smart enough to confine the dock and menubar to just one of the physical displays, presumably because to do otherwise would be unwieldy and not useful.

 

[Lord Blackadder]

There is a way, but not quite at the resolution the OP might want. The Matrox TripleHead2Go Digital Edition can make one "display" out of two 1920x1200 monitors, or one "display" out of three 1280x1024 monitors.

That still has one card driving the whole thing though...I know I've seen setups where people have done what the OP is talking about but they were designed to play video , so their ability to handle 3D games would be weak.

Crossfire/SLI are designed to produce maximum performance on one large display - adding two displays complicates things unnecessarily.

 

[Erasmus]

I mean, if you were willing to buy four X1900XTs, and four 30" ACDs, you could maybe rip the screens apart, put the panels back together in a custom made housing, so they don't have gaps between them, and have the world's first 60" ACD. Then you'd probably have to write your own drivers to make the computer "forget" that the screen is actually four different screens, which might not be too hard. I should think that if you were willing to do some serious coding, you could get games to run as if the 4 screens were 1. Well, at least it should be easier than writing Crossfire drivers for OSX, as each GPU only has to worry about its own quarter, instead of talking to each other.

So, how willing are you to get your hands dirty with grease, bits of ACD, and crazy code?

Now I think about it, that could actually be a good way of easily scaling up GPU performance...

 

[PCtoMac-change]

I mean, if you were willing to buy four X1900XTs, and four 30" ACDs, you could maybe rip the screens apart, put the panels back together in a custom made housing, so they don't have gaps between them, and have the world's first 60" ACD. Then you'd probably have to write your own drivers to make the computer "forget" that the screen is actually four different screens, which might not be too hard. I should think that if you were willing to do some serious coding, you could get games to run as if the 4 screens were 1. Well, at least it should be easier than writing Crossfire drivers for OSX, as each GPU only has to worry about its own quarter, instead of talking to each other.

So, how willing are you to get your hands dirty with grease, bits of ACD, and crazy code?

Now I think about it, that could actually be a good way of easily scaling up GPU performance...

If only I had that much money .

 

[Erasmus]

If only I had that much money .

Well, there is that...

Here's to large amounts of disposable income! Or at least here's to wishing that we had large amounts of disposable income...

So, what, entire project is like 15 grand, and a couple of months coding...
...Still would be worth it...