dual monitors, dual processor

Syntheme · Post by **Syntheme** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 9:19 am

Hi

I'm looking to upgrade from my 1.73 ghz pentium M computer (laptop) up to a dual processor desktop. Also, rather than get one large monitor (1600x1200 pixels), I could get 2 cheap smallish monitors and have a combined resolution of 2560x1024 or vertically: 1280 x 2048.

but, how would the live screen appear on such a setup?, would it just be split straight down the middle?

If you use a dual monitor setup, do you find it works well with live?

P.S. my current monitor is 1200 x 800.

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 9:45 am

hey

if you wait till end of july, you should be able to afford a quad core cpu for the price of current dual cores.

live sux on a dual screen at the moment. i use it best in that capacity by putting fx etc on one monitor and live on another.

if i could do it all over again i would get one bigass screen.

Syntheme · Post by **Syntheme** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 9:54 am

thanks, i'll wait and see what happens at the end of july, plus i'll go for one big monitor. I suppose even going to 1024 vertical pixels from my current 800 pixels will make a big difference. At the moment, I seem to spend a lot of time resizing the 'frames' within live (esp. in arrange view)!!!!!!!!

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:07 am

yup
try to save yourself a few shitty moments and just get ASUS for all the parts (motherboard, video card etc) and motherboard preferrably intel p5k and up (dont get 965 chipsets).

i saw you're looking into a rackmount case.

get one where the internal components are shock resiliant as opposed to rigid fixtures.

if you take it to a show, you dont want the sub bass making your hard disk platters dance to the beat.

Syntheme · Post by **Syntheme** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:22 am

it'll just be for studio use. I want a rackmount only because i think they look cool

most PC cases are really gross looking. It seems impossible to find a plain case (without any fancy fins or shapings or etc)

sporkles · Post by **sporkles** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:31 am

Syntheme wrote:thanks, i'll wait and see what happens at the end of july, plus i'll go for one big monitor. I suppose even going to 1024 vertical pixels from my current 800 pixels will make a big difference. At the moment, I seem to spend a lot of time resizing the 'frames' within live (esp. in arrange view)!!!!!!!!

I'm using one 20" widescreen and one 17" monitor side by side, and this is an awesome setup - one monitor for Live/VSTs and one for Reason. It's very handy, cause you can maximise one app on one monitor and one on the other - also, it's great to keep those pesky VSTs away from the session/arrangement view

I don't think stretching Live across two monitors is an ideal solution. Maybe Ableton should make Live splittable, so that all browsers could be kept in a separate window...?

I'm not completely up to date on the monitor front, but last time I checked, you still got a lot more pixels for the money with two smaller monitors as opposed to one large.

tc · Post by tc » Sat Jun 30, 2007 3:01 pm

Inwin is a company that makes sturdy, fairly plain cases.

I have the J-523, and it's a very solid case.

yourmom · Post by **yourmom** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 3:18 pm

i agree with the notion that DAWs arent as fulfilling on 2 large monitors as they are on ONE BIGASS MONITOR.

30" lcd is REALLY where its at. 2560x1600. hellz yes.