Flat pannel / LCD displays?

[gdusek84]

I'm in the process of building a bit of a "super" computer, lol. I'm calling it my "super" computer because my current desktop is 7 years old and way out of date. So I'm investing some money into my current build.

With that being said I will be purchasing new displays, and I plan to run 2 if not 3 displays on this system. My plan is to have one that's more of a studio type of display. I've taken a look at a few here and there and I do like some of the HP displays that are the Brightview but I haven't had the chance to take a good look at some others.

What are some of the displays out there that a photographer would be interested in?

[gdusek84]

I'm in the process of building a bit of a "super" computer, lol. I'm calling it my "super" computer because my current desktop is 7 years old and way out of date. So I'm investing some money into my current build.

With that being said I will be purchasing new displays, and I plan to run 2 if not 3 displays on this system. My plan is to have one that's more of a studio type of display. I've taken a look at a few here and there and I do like some of the HP displays that are the Brightview but I haven't had the chance to take a good look at some others.

What are some of the displays out there that a photographer would be interested in?

No one? What are you guys using?

[basroil]

I'm in the process of building a bit of a "super" computer, lol. I'm calling it my "super" computer because my current desktop is 7 years old and way out of date. So I'm investing some money into my current build.

With that being said I will be purchasing new displays, and I plan to run 2 if not 3 displays on this system. My plan is to have one that's more of a studio type of display. I've taken a look at a few here and there and I do like some of the HP displays that are the Brightview but I haven't had the chance to take a good look at some others.

What are some of the displays out there that a photographer would be interested in?

If you want yourself a "super" computer, get an i7 860 rig with dual 9800 or 4350 cards, that should support up to four 30" screens.

As for screens, many people like the 2209WA from dell, cheap enough that you could buy two or even three for the price of one HP, and it's still IPS

[ChasP505]

This is one of those "if you have to ask..." questions. I agree with Basroil's recommendations.

No offense intended, but I had to chuckle when I read "super computer". My son-in-law and many local friends actually work on REAL super computers here in New Mexico. In fact, the current world's fastest computer is not too far from my home.

[basroil]

No offense intended, but I had to chuckle when I read "super computer". My son-in-law and many local friends actually work on REAL super computers here in New Mexico. In fact, the current world's fastest computer is not too far from my home.

Better not be talking about the old cray machines in Los Alamos, my house has more computing power than the one my father used to have access to..

[gdusek84]

This is one of those "if you have to ask..." questions. I agree with Basroil's recommendations.

No offense intended, but I had to chuckle when I read "super computer". My son-in-law and many local friends actually work on REAL super computers here in New Mexico. In fact, the current world's fastest computer is not too far from my home.

Lol no offense taken, pretty much anything that's relatively new is super fast compared to the old fossil computer I'm currently running on. We're talking first gen P4, 512mb RAM, 128mb video card, lol you get the idea. This time I'm going the route of building something that'll be much easier to upgrade components in the future if needed.

But along with purchasing a nice videocard I want something nice to view it on. I know there's tons of options out there and it'll essentially come down to cost, but I was curious to see what others like and use.

[RDKirk]

You want an Eizo monitor.

[basroil]

Lol no offense taken, pretty much anything that's relatively new is super fast compared to the old fossil computer I'm currently running on. We're talking first gen P4, 512mb RAM, 128mb video card, lol you get the idea. This time I'm going the route of building something that'll be much easier to upgrade components in the future if needed.

But along with purchasing a nice videocard I want something nice to view it on. I know there's tons of options out there and it'll essentially come down to cost, but I was curious to see what others like and use.
Looks like my old desktop... It was and still is fairly fast... Yes, my i7 is technically about 40x faster, but old comp ran photoshop cs just fine... and now it makes a great home server.

[ChasP505]

Better not be talking about the old cray machines in Los Alamos, my house has more computing power than the one my father used to have access to..

"Holding onto the No. 1 spot with 1.105 petaflop/s (quadrillions of floating point operations per second) is the Roadrunner system at DOE’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) which was built by IBM and in June 2008 became the first system ever to break the petaflop/s Linpack barrier. It still is one of the most energy efficient systems on the TOP500."

[basroil]

"Holding onto the No. 1 spot with 1.105 petaflop/s (quadrillions of floating point operations per second) is the Roadrunner system at DOE’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) which was built by IBM and in June 2008 became the first system ever to break the petaflop/s Linpack barrier. It still is one of the most energy efficient systems on the TOP500."

Yea... forgot they commissioned the roadrunner to replace their aging systems (which included some machines from the 80s)