I stumbled across Car Masters: Rust to Riches on Netflix this past week. As a bit of a petrol head I’ve always enjoyed a good car restoration show and I found the ‘upgrade and trade’ business model that was central to the series story line extremely interesting.
Watching the team from Gotham Garage upgrading and transforming old cars into new, it got me thinking about my own recent upgrade project. I like cars, but I’ll never be the type who restores an old one in my garage as a project. I like cars that are new and shiny and go fast now. What I do like doing for fun, is fixing and upgrading computers.
This is, in part, what lead me to upgrading my old gaming pc and turning it into my current development workhorse. This is also what lead me to finally get something I have wanted for many years, a proper multiple monitor setup.
A few months ago I purchased a new Dell 27 inch LED monitor, and the Zotac graphics card I purchased has support for up to 5 screens. I still have a Samsung 23 inch monitor my wife purchased for me over 7 years ago for the original desktop build, and a few hours of scouring local online classifieds, led to me picking up a Phillips 24 inch monitor to complete the set.
I was able to work on a three monitor setup very briefly using my old Dell 17 inch laptop, which had both an HDMI and VGA output, and I found it very productive, so being able to work this way for the past few months has been amazing.
I don’t think I’ll be doing any upgrades to this set up any time soon, as for now I really feel like I’ve upgraded to my perfect development workstation.
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