New Monitor Set-Up

Monday, February 04, 2008

I only played long enough today to get my 200 points for Iron Man purposes but spent most of the day faffing around setting up my new monitors and sorting out other admin such as listing stuff on ebay and getting the advert redone for the car. I'm really pleased with my monitors although my graphics card only has a single DVI and a single analogue output and my critical eye can tell the difference when both monitors are side by side displaying the same image. However, it's not enough to irritate unless you go looking for it. As you can see my set up now allows me to run 12 good sized tables with no overlap and clear HUD stats. With only some overlap on the vertical I could run up to 18 tables. I have played a few hours of 15 tabling now and it's mad but manageable however, I think 12 is around the sweet spot for me so I'll primarily stick to that for now. The picture quality on the monitors is excellent, there is no ghosting at all and with their thin piano black surrounds they look quite classy. I badly need to replace my chunky creative speakers though as they are clearly letting the side down visually.

As to the question regarding how to play as many as 12-15 table at a time, I can categorically say it would not be possibly (for me) on a site that doesn't allow extra time such as Full Tilt and Poker Stars and would be a lot harder without Full-Tilt-Shortcuts, which auto scripts actions such as reloading, hitting the extra time button, etc.

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