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6th December 2004, 06:47 | #1 |
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| Got an idea...wondering if its possible So here is the plan. I like being able to have my instant messangers open or music playing while I am murdering people on Halo, or whatever game I am into at the moment, but I cant because I dont want to minimize to change music or have messangers popping into the middle of battle. I thought this would be a kick *** mod. I would like to attach a small 5-7 inch lcd to the side of the main monitor and run my music or maybe my messanger programs from it. Could this work. The setup would be easy enough, but I need help with the application. could I just run it like dual monitors and have my game on the main screen and the others on the small one? Thanks for any help guys. |
6th December 2004, 15:39 | #2 |
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| The performance may not be ideal unless it is dual-procs setup. Intel HT is just a better way to isolate portion of idle CPU for better use. Others may have better inputs.
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6th December 2004, 15:48 | #3 |
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| the only way to do this is to have a device on your printer/com/usb port which allows you to send commands to the PC, and have a program running which can interpret them and change what you want accordingly. there are all-in-one LCD/VFD screens out there with button control , and they should allow you to change Winamp tracks. if you want to display winamp/msn in high res, then a small TFT would suffice, if room/space is no problem, go for cheapo 15" CRT
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7th December 2004, 00:14 | #4 |
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| So running it like dual monitors wont work. I can imagine that it I would need dual cpu's to run a game and msn etc. I was looking at some cheapy 15" LCD last night and maybe the way to go. |
7th December 2004, 00:28 | #5 |
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| "So running it like dual monitors wont work" why not? MSN/Winamp does not take that much CPU power
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