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im wanting to buy 3x 20 inch widescreen monitors.Viewable Area: 20â€

Hello (again)
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Does 1280x1024 (5:4 aspect ratio) look good on 1680x1050 monitors (16:10) ? Well, no. :( Image stretching would make it look painfully unnatural, and using correct scaling wouldn't help (thick vertical black bars everywhere = no more surround gaming, really)

Your cards are not limited to 1280x1024 though, and although 3x 1440x900 would probably look a bit blurry in typical TFT fashion, it'd look wayyy better since it's the same aspect ratio (i.e no stretching).

Hmm, I suppose screenshots would help...

Hello (again)
Feel free to group multiple questions in a single thread ;)

Does 1280x1024 (5:4 aspect ratio) look good on 1680x1050 monitors (16:10) ? Well, no. :( Image stretching would make it look painfully unnatural, and using correct scaling wouldn't help (thick vertical black bars everywhere = no more surround gaming, really)

Your cards are not limited to 1280x1024 though, and although 3x 1440x900 would probably look a bit blurry in typical TFT fashion, it'd look wayyy better since it's the same aspect ratio (i.e no stretching).

Hmm, I suppose screenshots would help...

hi thx for your speedy responce.
the problem im going to have is on matrox site if i got o 1440by900 it says crossfire dont work. even on my 4870 cards. does this meeen i may be better just getting 3 19 inch 4.3 screens. ty again sorry for all the questions but im ordering my monitors in about 2 hours and want to get it right . ;)

The Matrox site says unsupported, not that it doesnt work at all. If you search the forum youll find this was already answered, mosty recently about 3wks ago.

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