*UPDATE: We have added a followup article with a lot more info, a video, and some user Q&A.

When friend of QJ.NET "Crazy Jon" called us up and told us about a project he was working on, we didn't believe it at first. But when we got to his house, sure enough -- twelve 30-inch Dell flatscreen monitors are sitting in his office, and he's grinning from ear to ear. Also among the pile of goodies are six NVidia GeForce 7900 GTX 512mb video cards, and three Turbo-Cool 1KW 1000-watt power supplies. Soon the QJ.NET crew was busy unboxing and tackling the project of mounting these bad boys.


Blank wall. Boring huh? Let's spruce it up.

Step one: First, we installed three 1X6 boards which are anchored to the studs in the wall. This is helping to support the weight of the monitors and the mounts.

Step Two: There was concern that the monitors would create too much heat, so we mounted 48 quiet running fans.





Step 3: Mount the monitors! Only 11 out of the 12 monitors showed up, one got lost in shipping. But we went ahead and pulled all wires for the fans, power for monitors, and EXT-DVI-141DLB DVI DL booster cables for video extension.



Step four:
Matrix screensaver. It was a must! Still waiting on the last monitor to arrive.

Ahh, there we go. The 12th monitor has arrived and been mounted. After a week of work, the Wall-O-Monitors is finally complete. We've loaded up live traffic and security feeds, a web browser, World of Warcraft, and of course, Fish tank screensaver. Looks nice! 3000 watts of power seems to be powering the wall just fine. The fans are working well and dispersing heat very well. There were some concerns that the power cable extenders wouldn't do the trick, but it has been very stable. You can click on any of the thumbnailed images to view the full resolution version.



Oh, and did we forget to mention the five 30-inch apple monitors that are on Crazy Jon's desk? Here's a peak at the desktop setup. And a shot looking over the desk. Unbelievable. How much desktop real estate do you really need man!



And finally, a before and after shot. Simply amazing. Give me Quake 3 on all twelve of those bad boys and I'd never leave. It was really fun to be part of this project. Thanks Crazy Jon!