Computer Setup

Sorry for taking so long to get back but that's our new setup at work. We set up a second 110 inch setup before I left, and last I heard they are putting two more up.

I was thinking of McDonald's. Make use of their Wifi

Does your Starbuck's not have wifi? I mean McDonald's is fine I suppose, but if you really want to piss of the pretentious crowd, ya gotta do Starbuck's.

Yes! That is brilliant! I should also install OSX on it and call it the new Macbook. They'd want to kill me!

The Revolutionary New iWall, Apple's incredible reimagination of the way we partition our floor space. Wonderfully fantastic.

Only $5000 with year-old dual Xeons and dual 6990's!

I mean... I haven't price checked what a normal 110 inch monitor go for, but 5,000 for the monitor with halfway decent integrated specs doesn't actually sound outrageous at all.

Mac Pro, but you get the idea.

I see you're one of them

I? Appleist? You are veeery wrong, my friend

Good shout, I mean the burgers suck but free wifi is always welcome.

Hnnng dat fork. I can't wait until we move to a bigger warehouse. We can't even use our teensy fork in most of our current place.

So where is a pic of the biggest?

Thats unbelievable. why so big? haha

Surprisingly we've all come to the conclusion that it is a bit too SMALL. If you look at that first photo everything just barely fits on there.

What is that "everything" you are trying to fit on there.

The entire electrical layout for Forklifts looks like

That's actually only one of the harness layouts. There actually HUNDREDS of layouts, and we can only fit one at once.

I kinda wish we had something like this when I last worked with CNC machines. Nope, all we got for fun toys was a third hand robotic welding machine that always crashed..

Yeah this was the first of the fun toys we got. If I return next summer I'll be sure to show you guys the robots and machines that are supposed to come in.

Looks like it's time to get 4 4k monitors.

How is it "small"? It the screen size not big enough or its just the resolution?

Why didn't you go with projectors?

Any reason why you are going with this seeming custom solution instead of just buying a few massive 720p/1080p flatscreen TV's?

That 70 inch 1080p TV has at most 1/4 the resolution of those four monitors. Each monitor can individually probably give a higher resolution than 1080p, and he has four of them.

From what I see, the data being presented is for the most part extremely basic, there would be little reason for a high resolution display. If it means saving maybe 5 grand going lower resolution but more display area, then I think it would be worthwhile to increase the font somewhat to allow larger text while keeping the picture size constant.

When companies make millions/billions each year in revenue, I've found that a couple grand here or there just goes right over their head.

Yes but 4 of them at 1080p instead of 1 at 1080p.....

Yeah I get that... I was just pointing out that the person I replied to said each monitors in OPs setup could probably show a resolution higher than 1080p. Which is impossible since they are 1920x1080 panels.

The reason we can't use projectors is that it is too bright and no way to physically hang cables from the screen. The reason we don't need higher resolution is that yes we can fit more lines and text on there with 4k but then the physical actual wires won't fit. Those lines are 1:1 scale with real wires if we make them thinner the wires won't fit. As for the text we can just always make it smaller. Higher resolution does not help.

For anyone wondering why we didn't go 4k. That wouldn't help as the lines must be 1:1 scale with the actual wire. If we were to put a higher resolution to put more lines on there it wouldn't help as the physical wires wouldn't fit so the setup would be useless.

Sorry if dumb question But how are both of those computers linked together to run simultaneously?

Each computer runs 4 screens as the each GPU has output for 2 screens. And each computer has two GPU's.... They aren't Physically linked to run together. Each 4 monitor display is independent of the other

What was confusing me is it says its an 8 core processor in windows. I wasn't sure if they had an 8 physical core I7 out or the computers were linked together in a way that both CPUs and GPUs were splitting the load.

They have two big screens I think so each computer runs one big screen which is made up of four smaller ones

All that hardware and screen esate for flipping forklifts? :mindblown: well ill be damned...

Thing is they aren't average forklifts.... Some lift up to 10-20 tons and are designed to literally pick boats out of water. Think of them more as mobile cranes.

DAAAAAAMMMMMMNNNNNN (i think that is appropriate)

Seems like a lot of work for something a computer/projector could likely do for less money. This seems like more fun though!

I don't think you can get a projector that does 2160p for this kind of money.

So buy two. There's no reason you can't use them as dual monitors.

The reason we can't use projectors is that it is too bright and no way to physically hang cables from the screen. The reason we don't need higher resolution is that yes we can fit more lines and text on there with 4k but then the physical actual wires won't fit. Those lines are 1:1 scale with real wires if we make them thinner the wires won't fit. As for the text we can just always make it smaller. Higher resolution does not help.

If you're talking about a normal projector, those are only usable in a pretty dark environment. From the pictures, that's not the type of environment OP has.

What is the resolution of that screen?

There's your problem, no wonder you still think these are too small. Why such a low resolution on such large screens?

Those are 1080p TV's with a native resolution of 1920x1080, we can't go higher. :(

Sure you can, 4k tv's are a reality now, and they only cost as much as that entire array probably cost.

But if they need a 110in screen, they most likely want to see it from a distance

IIRC, they lay out the electrical wiring on these screens (theres plexiglass over them) for some pre-fab for the forklifts.

Son... you can ALWAYS go higher....

Seiki has a 37" and 50" 4k display (although with only a 30Hz refresh rate) for a reasonable price if you ever look at doing another one.

Not until the ultra 4x HD TV's!

Yeah, unfortunately this displays just as much info as a 17 inch 1080p display. 2560x1440(1600) or 4k would be more appropriate for this size.

Your work has atrocious cable management.

Ironically that's what the screens are for.

It looks like they're debezeled... What screens are those?

Some 55 inch Vizio 3D 240hz smart tvs.

Boss is a little crazy haha

I'd love to watch porn on that.

I think these huge screens would make me slightly self conscious of penis size.

Bigger screen with same screen resolution = bigger pixels != more pixels. You can buy a 1000inch TV @ 1920x1080 you would still see the same portion of image and the quality would be bad. You must buy a screen with a higher resolution. I think you company just wasted a lot of money with theses TVs.

Either way for 110 inches I'd want a lot more pixels.

What kind of software did you use to make the schematic in the first picture?

You might be shocked to hear this, but we use Sketch up. Nothing at all fancy. after all, were just drawing lines!

I think he stated last time he works in custom fork lifts and needs to see the whole system diagram at one time, which is why he needs such a large monitor.

Didn't you used to have an old computer running Windows XP hooked up to those displays before?

That's not one monitor, that's four! This guy's a phony!

Just curious but why do you need something so massive? I am guessing the idea is that you can see the schematic from across the shop?

Device manager displays each core as an individual processor. Since the 4770 is an 8 core, you have 8 instances of it.

It actually shows threads. So even on some quad core ships it'll show eight as each core has two threads.

I remember reading up on your first post with this. Nice update, great build :)

Just reapin' link credit from this, aren't you? Still jealous AF that I don't work there.

I know your boss goes crazy buying whatever but you only need one GPU to run those 4 screens. I have 4 monitors running off a single GTX 650 Ti at higher resolutions than you and it is still overkill.

What, in the name of all things holy, do you do for a living young man!

Is this a different one than what was posted a couple months ago or so? I'm having deja vu. Definitely seen one of these on here before.

It's the same one. You guys just asked to repost when I put Windows 7 on them. It just so happens we got a few more screens in the process :P

I didn't ask you to repost it.. besides I was just curious thanks for the downvotes guys. I didn't realize my post didn't contribute to the discussion.

Not at all sure why you got down voted, either.

I know why. It's coolcomputersetups.

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