Got 4K?

[Obsoleet]

And by the way, the necessity of 1440p minimum means that Sony's VR project is doomed, because this console generation even struggles with 900p, so forget 1440p and especially 4K.
This is also why Valve believes VR can only work on PC.


Question to OP: do you do a lot of reading on that setup, beside web-browsing? PDF's and filetypes like that? If so, can you comment a bit on it, aside from the obvious "its better"?

PS4 has a chance, they could optimize the game and probably squeak out 1080 in some titles. Thinking TF2/CSGO type stuff. PS4 has good bandwidth. But yeah, still be a struggle/stretch for the PS4 I'm sure.
Actually no, considering it would be 1440 times 2 for the PS4. I'd have to agree, not going to work. Maybe if they keep it to really playful / fun stuff, but there won't be any Titanfall type games in VR on PS4.

I'd probably rather be in Microsoft's shoes with the XB1 and Kinect thing. No worries about attempting to VR since it's probably not even in the realm of possibilities. May as well just offer more Kinect and online services to the XB community. Makes more practical sense.

My bad.. just saw this.

Specs are:
Monitor used: 3x Dell UP2414Q (4K) in Portrait Mode (6480x3840)
GPUs: 4x EVGA GTX-Titan SC in 4-Way SLI @ 1150MHz
CPU: i7 3970X @ 4.8GHz
RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum 2133Mhz (32GB)
PSU: Antec HCP-1200
OS: Corsair Force GT 120GB SSD
Games/Programs: 8x Vertex 4 128GB SSD in RAID-0

Ok first, you win the internet alright? Really. Nice rig bra.
No one can really poo poo that rig, but I'm not sure on your choice of SSDs. The sight of so much SandForce with the rest of your male-dominance-enforcing rig make me puke a bit in my mouth. Just a personal choice I suppose. Though I give man love to anything that has Corsair on it in general.

I'm not sure how 1080P looks on a single monitor since going to single screen is not a option for me - 3x1 Portrait makes it hard to view thins with one screen.

However, I have watched several 1080P videos full screen with this setup and it doesn't look half-bad.

Even that 4K Surround video I posted is 1080P - viewing it fullscreen I thought would make it look like dung. It looks pretty good. 4K videos on the other hand, look incredible (doh!).

That's a little negative sounding for my taste. "Not half bad". I'm waiting for 4K 60hz and may pickup a single one to replace my center screen which is 1080.. but not until software catches up at least a little bit.

 

[Mondozei]

PS4 has a chance, they could optimize the game and probably squeak out 1080 in some titles. Thinking TF2/CSGO type stuff. PS4 has good bandwidth. But yeah, still be a struggle/stretch for the PS4 I'm sure.
Actually no, considering it would be 1440 times 2 for the PS4. I'd have to agree, not going to work. Maybe if they keep it to really playful / fun stuff, but there won't be any Titanfall type games in VR on PS4.

I'd probably rather be in Microsoft's shoes with the XB1 and Kinect thing. No worries about attempting to VR since it's probably not even in the realm of possibilities. May as well just offer more Kinect and online services to the XB community. Makes more practical sense..

Nope, since even 1080p is pixelated on VR.
Agreed on Kinect, it is more useful than VR on ps4 but that doesnt mean it isnt pretty worthless(it is).

Word, PDFs, Excel etc. scale beautifully with Win 8.1 Pro's built in DPI scaling. I have it set at 200% so most of the regularly used programs scale well.

The issues arise when certain programs don't scale their UI, like Sony Vegas or Photoshop. The words, menus, etc. are incredibly tiny and are a nuisance.

Other than this little niggle, I am loving this setup!

How much of an niggle is it, just the specialized professional programs?

 

[_Rick_]

Well, let's hope some pro-screens with reasonably-sized bezels come to market soon.
Those bezels are about twice as wide as I'd like them to be for a multi-screen setup.

Even the <20mm on my mainscreen are somewhat annoying, coming from a dual 19" setup, where the sum of the bezels was less than an inch wide.

Do you actually notice the difference in resolution to a single 60" 4K screen though? Especially with dynamic on-screen content.

 

[cyclohexane]

Impressive as hell. How much did you spend for your whole setup? And what kind of job do you do to afford this luxury?

 

[Baasha]

Ok first, you win the internet alright? Really. Nice rig bra.
No one can really poo poo that rig, but I'm not sure on your choice of SSDs. The sight of so much SandForce with the rest of your male-dominance-enforcing rig make me puke a bit in my mouth. Just a personal choice I suppose. Though I give man love to anything that has Corsair on it in general.

lol.. thanks!

The Vertex 4 SSDs I got instead of the Corsair ForceGTs that I had - I had Corsair Force GTs when I first started the X79 build w/ this MoBo when I still had the Mountain Mods case.

The performance of the Vertex 4 SSDs was much better compared to the ForceGTs across the board. That's why I got those instead. They've functioned very well so far.

In fact, my most recent thread was about the main OS SSD (Corsair ForceGT 120GB) not booting into Win 8.1 Pro (x64). The drive became inaccessible and I had to reimage it after secure erasing it using Corsair's Toolbox. I am actually thinking of getting a new SSD for my OS - which one do you think is the "best" for SATA 6Gb/s (SATA 3) right now that's available? I was leaning towards the Samsung 840 Pro but that's kind of old since it's been out for a while.

That's a little negative sounding for my taste. "Not half bad". I'm waiting for 4K 60hz and may pickup a single one to replace my center screen which is 1080.. but not until software catches up at least a little bit.

Hmm.. maybe that came across bad. lol...

Viewing 1080P content is fine on this setup - but remember I am viewing it in 4K Surround (6480x3840) and NOT just ONE 4K monitor. With one 4K monitor, it should be even better.

The DPI scaling sucks on most professional programs - Photoshop is the biggest PITA. A company like Adobe should really get their stuff together given that they're in content creation and 4K monitors are geared towards color/image obsessed folks.

 

[Baasha]

How much of an niggle is it, just the specialized professional programs?

Well, I do quite a bit of content creation and photo/video editing. And so it's quite a niggle. Adobe should really get their act together and allow the menus etc. to scale properly with DPI scaling in Windows.

I bet it's rank laziness on the part of some dev team @ Adobe that's not implementing this.

I actually figured out a way to get Vegas to scale the menus - it's great now.

Adobe apps are almost useless unless you know where the stuff is. Thankfully, since I use them so often, I almost have a photographic (pun not-intended) memory of where each item in those apps is located so that I can easily access it. I also use a LOT of keyboard shortcuts (anyone doing content creation would) so that helps. The menus etc. are literally microscopic at this resolution.

And enabling that option to disable DPI scaling in the Compatibility section does nothing for Adobe apps.