8k Anyone?

[Pemalite]

caffeinade said:

Pemalite said:

I used to run 7680x1440 over 3 panels which is more than 4k. (And before that, 5760x1080)

It was glorious. The reason for the downgrade to a single 2560x1440 panel was due to the hardware required to push such insane pixels and I got tired of constantly upgrading hardware.

Nice, 1440p is still much better than 1080p at least.
I only use my 4k for games, but multiple monitors are fantastic for productivity, currently I have a 4k TN and a 1440p IPS.

What are you thoughts on ultrawides?

Triple monitors was amazing for gaming. It's just not worth the expense unless you are going to be using all those panels for tasks other than gaming.
You literally need the best GPU's money can buy every single year (Remember, 7680x1440 is higher than 4k). And you need several of them if you intend to be a serious PC triple-monitor gamer.
I was often running triple Radeons... And some games I still couldn't max out. (This was the Radeon 5000/6000 and 7000 era.)
But when a game works and worked well with Eyefinity, it's immersion was next-level.

Can't say much about ultrawides, never used or seen one. But the caveat with those just like with triple monitors... Is that it's not really great for 4:3 or 16:9 or 16:10 content such as movies.
With eyefinity, movies and such would only display on one 16:9 panel at a time, unless you want some serious funky warping/stretching of course. - AMD will allow you to set your default display for such content too, so when watching a movie it would turn the two side screens off.

You would actually need three screens across and two screens high to get a proper 16:9 scale. And then we start getting ridiculous with costs.

The ultrawide would have big black bars on the side with the video centered, which IMHO is a waste of screen real estate, you might as well start looking towards 32-43" 4k 16:9 monitors if you need some serious workspace.