You Will Never, Ever Game On A Rig This Expensive

One of our readers - who would prefer to remain nameless - installs PC rigs for a living. He helped install this one, in a government office, then proceeded to do what anyone confronted by twenty-seven 67″ HD monitors would do - he played a tonne of BioShock and WoW on it. For reference, 27 panels equates to a display that’s 40 feet wide and 15 feet high, with a desktop resolution of, oh, 12600 x 3150.

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    This is the new WOPR.
    Global thermonuclear is imminent


    sander_dutch

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  • Acseru

    Nice 1. Every gamers dream. (Not the WoW, but playing on those screens)

    Acseru

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  • Cosmitz

    Requote of above..

    Defcon whould have been extremely fit for a Goverment place. Imagine someone coming in and going..

    What... did... you... do?

    Cosmitz

  • scumm_boy

    Bioshock I can understand, but WoW? Lackluster graphics at best. He should have tried running Crysis on it ;)

    scumm_boy

  • Xavior

    "YOU WISH"
    Damn username -_-.

    Xavior

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    The Feds are probably using it to play HD Pong.

    MentalNote

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    Does it come with a truckload of aspirin? (And I do mean an actual truck full of aspirin.)

    Antiterra

  • placebofud

    twenty-seven 67" HD monitors

    Sounds like the government and money well spent. Why save funds by using projectors instead of monitors?

    placebofud

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    "Joshua called me..."

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    my hero!!!!

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    Switching between live Iraqi satellite footage and World of Warcraft? Priceless.

    gencid

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  • Mikey

    Still got him beat! ^_^

    Remember last september when they had the contest where you could go play Halo 3 on an IMAX screen in NY?

    Well, I did just that! (only 1 out of the 8 in your match could play on there and I was lucky enough to be the one on that screen)

    Fun times, fun times

    Mikey

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    I once played Goldeneye Multi-player on a Movie Theatre screen back in the day. Now that was awesome, and it dwarfs this tiny thing.

    Xerxes 8933A

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    @pandafresh: Yes, its wise to watch your wording. We all know Jack Thompson probably browses our comments looking for video game influenced killers.

    GcRayden

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  • Jazhuis

    @Kotakufan777: When we get our new video wall equipment set up, I will take your request under consideration when we do the initial testing.

    Maybe half DEFCON, half Uplink. :)

    (Note: I am not the person from the above story, but I do work someplace that has a similar setup)

    Jazhuis

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  • FutureEmperor

    I used to work at a movie theater and we hooked up some consoles to the projectors and played on the big screens. This is nothing to me.

    FutureEmperor

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    Seriously, WoW on that screen? Boo-urns. Theres much better stuff to be playing on a monitor of that size.

    Ashkihyena

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  • ArgentAngel

    @Paul Soth: I though the exact same thing.

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  • Refused

    ....WoW....literally.

    Refused

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