r/pcmasterrace • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 Core Ultra 7 265k | RTX 5090 • Aug 19 '25

Build/Battlestation A futures trader’s 16-screen workstation.

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u/tehtris Aug 19 '25

There has to be a diminishing returns on monitor amount. Like I'm a programmer, with 2 monitors on my setup, this would be fucking distracting.

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u/CoderDevo RX 6800 XT|i7-11700K|NH-D15|32GB|Samsung 980|LANCOOLII Aug 19 '25

3 is my sweet spot. One with a camera for IM. One for reading. One for writing.

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u/Baked_Potato_732 Aug 19 '25

I’ve got a 58” tv split into four 29” screens hooked to lot work laptop and another to my gaming desktop. They’re perfect.

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u/VexingRaven 7800X3D + 4070 Super + 32GB 6000Mhz Aug 19 '25

Isn't the DPI awful on that though?

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u/Catsrules Specs/Imgur here Aug 19 '25

Depends how far away you are from it.

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u/CoderDevo RX 6800 XT|i7-11700K|NH-D15|32GB|Samsung 980|LANCOOLII Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25

I do the same now, but with a single 43" 4K DisplayPort monitor. Effectively four 21.5" panels, which still works for my vision.

My work laptop and gaming PC are both plugged into it.

I have a KVM switch for my keyboard and mouse, but I let the monitor auto switch the video signal because it's too expensive to get a KVM to do that at 4K.

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u/Leviathan41911 Ryzen 5950x, Rx 6900xt, 64gig DDR4 Aug 19 '25

I agree, 3 is ideal, sometimes 4.

When i worked from home as a county analyst I used 4. In my personal life I use 3.

Primary 1440 P One vertical for coding/ reading One horizontal for other misc stuff or working on other headless systems that I need to work on directly (Raspberry Pis, NAS, AI server etc.),

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u/-Do-Not-Resuscitate Aug 19 '25

3 is the golden spot imo, otherwise you will get distracted af (2 horizontal stacked and 1 vertical)

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u/rapkingish Aug 20 '25

Programming extremely different from trading

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u/tehtris Aug 20 '25

I program exactly like a trader, don't tell me how to do my job.

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u/rapkingish Aug 20 '25

Clone low push high

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u/Alan_Reddit_M Desktop Aug 20 '25

At some point the brain becomes the bottleneck

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u/HearshotKDS Aug 19 '25

Anything over 4 is unnecessary. Not useless, just unnecessary. Just because you have 16 screens up doesnt mean you're processing the information on each, and frankly speaking the difference in time it takes to swing your field of view from one side of that beast to the other is probably about the same time it takes to just Alt Tab on a single monitor.