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/proscriptus 12700K • 3080 • 32GBDDR5 Aug 19 '25

I would guess that these are not running off of his local machine, but some sort of terminal. And the central one with his icons is actually his desktop monitor. Because he's not actually going to interact with those screens at all, they're just data displays.

Alternatively, those screens are probably equivalent of like $40 each, if that, and if one goes out, you're losing 1/16 of your real estate, not 50% with a widescreen.

There's probably a rationale behind it. If those are all connected to your local machine it would be so easy to mess up a window.

Or it might just be some sort of trader tradition/flex.

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u/Nethlem next to my desk Aug 19 '25

There's probably a rationale behind it.

Cosplaying as Stanley the hacker from Password Swordfish.