2 hours ago, Farlis said:

Yes, you do. Do you think the energy comes out of thin air?

No, mine comes from the sun and is stored in batteries for consumption overnight but trying to lecture people on their use of electricity for their home cockpit is just rude to be honest...  Do you stand outside and yell at your neighbor for using the water for their grass too?  Do you walk up to the guy who worked his butt off for his supercar and tell him he should be in a Prius and he is killing the environment?  My car gets 3.5 miles per gallon and goes through 4 sets of tires in a weekend.  Powering a flight sim setup isn't even a blip on the radar LOL.  Talk about a buzz kill.  If "YOU"  don't approve that's your choice but to come into a thread with pictures and videos of probably one of the best sim setups on the site and start lecturing on power use and imposing your view on the environment is absurd.  

@Mike_CFII_MEL I remember when you first set it up (did you have health challenges, for some reason I have breathing or lung issues in my head or am I remembering incorrectly) and it STILL looks absolutely incredible!  Much respect for doing you!!  

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2 hours ago, Farlis said:

Yes, you do. Do you think the energy comes out of thin air?

Huh?  I BUY my electricity and the cost of powering  TV's does not matter to me.  If you cannot afford it, so be it.

Just now, Blueline308 said:

Huh?  I BUY my electricity and the cost of powering  TV's does not matter to me.  If you cannot afford it, so be it.

I see you completely miss the point of energy saving... Have fun in the desert of the future.

45 minutes ago, Farlis said:

person to measure their enviromental impact.

I do not care about my environmental impact.

Just now, Farlis said:

Have fun in the desert of the future.

We will all be dead before then.  Your comment was about electricity cost, not environmental impact.  Now you turn it around. Bye.  Off to the ignore list for you. 🙂

Just now, Blueline308 said:

I do not care about my environmental impact.

 Après nous le déluge, eh?

What a joke...

30 minutes ago, psolk said:

 

@Mike_CFII_MEL I remember when you first set it up (did you have health challenges, for some reason I have breathing or lung issues in my head or am I remembering incorrectly) and it STILL looks absolutely incredible!  Much respect for doing you!!  

Hi psolk,

Yep, you have it correct. A couple of cancers, minus a few organs, breathing issues, on oxygen. My parting gifts from 9/11 in New York, but I'm still kicking. Getting hard to do some of the maintenance, may have to send parts out... If that's even possible. 

Thanks

10 minutes ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

Hi psolk,

Yep, you have it correct. A couple of cancers, minus a few organs, breathing issues, on oxygen. My parting gifts from 9/11 in New York, but I'm still kicking. Getting hard to do some of the maintenance, may have to send parts out... If that's even possible. 

Thanks

I thought I remembered that.   Glad you are still kicking and have something (besides your wife of course) that brings you so much enjoyment!!! 

Wishing you nothing but enjoyment with the setup Mike, we all deserve to do the things that bring us enjoyment on our one lap or one flight around the planet... 

Be well!!! 

4 hours ago, Farlis said:

LED's are energy efficient already. But if you keep it just to deter possible burglars, why not put it on a timer that sets it to on after dark only. Would save money and energy.

 

It's the little things. They add up.

I'm not interested in saving tiny bits of energy. It is dirt cheap here.

19 hours ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

Hi B777ER,

I'm sure there is more than one way to run a multi-monitor setup, but this is how I did it on my end. I have my three exterior visuals plugged into my Asus tuf 4090 board via three HDMI to Display Port cables, they go right into the video card itself no splitter! I then setup the views via MS2020 Experimental sub page by adding the additional views and adjusting the settings so they line up correctly.

Just make sure the cables you select can give you the resolution you're looking for when running your flight simulator.

Thanks Mike. I've been reading up on this and it seems that if I want to run 3 screens off a single 4090, only one of them will be able to push 4k 144hz and the other 2 will need to be 1440p or less and both probably around 60hz. A single 4090 cannot do triple screens all at 4k and 144hz. How is your 3 set up with regards to 4k or 1440 or 1080 and at what Hz?

23 hours ago, Ron Lefebvre said:

Wow. Just wow.

New respect.

My wife just looked at me and said.....no.

You need yours wife’s permission? I’ve never understood this. 

4 hours ago, B777ER said:

Thanks Mike. I've been reading up on this and it seems that if I want to run 3 screens off a single 4090, only one of them will be able to push 4k 144hz and the other 2 will need to be 1440p or less and both probably around 60hz. A single 4090 cannot do triple screens all at 4k and 144hz. How is your 3 set up with regards to 4k or 1440 or 1080 and at what Hz?

Hi,

I can run all three of my exterior views at 3840x2160 @ 60hz and a fourth monitor HDMI at 1366x768 @ 60Hz, on my 4090. The other three monitors plug into my motherboard HDMI/DP connectors and a USB-2 to VGA connector.

Gives me seven monitors on one computer.

3 hours ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

Hi,

I can run all three of my exterior views at 3840x2160 @ 60hz and a fourth monitor HDMI at 1366x768 @ 60Hz, on my 4090. The other three monitors plug into my motherboard HDMI/DP connectors and a USB-2 to VGA connector.

Gives me seven monitors on one computer.

Ahh, gotcha. So limiting to 60Hz is how your doing it. I love the 120Hz with frame gen I have now on a single 77in OLED so something to think about.

28 minutes ago, B777ER said:

Ahh, gotcha. So limiting to 60Hz is how your doing it. I love the 120Hz with frame gen I have now on a single 77in OLED so something to think about.

Hi,

Believe it or not, during this test the monitors are running at 30Hz with frames locked at 30fps. Still looks nice and smooth.