Widescreen Gaming Forum

Hi all,


I've been a lurker on these forums in the past and finally joined; I am expecting my second 480gtx soon thanks to an awesome deal on Newegg and am considering going wide. It sounds awesome!

I currently have a 23.5" Asus 3d monitor (1080p). I don't use the 3d capabilities of it atm, sometimes it seems cool, othertimes it just 'feels' like work looking at the images.

My second 'moniitor' is a 32" Samsung TV, also 1080p.

So now I wonders to myself, self, what should I get for a third? If this were your setup, what would you do? I like the size of the 32" and don't really want to sacrifice on the screen that I will be focused on mose of the time.

Thanks for your comments!!!
Xyrxes

Greetings :welcome

If your looking to get 1 monitor, I would preolly go for another 23.5" monitor, maybe a matching Asus if I could, then sit the 32" in the middle.

However from experience with eyefinity and a bit with surround and matrox, the image does not look right when spanned across different size screens in that way.

In an ideal world, I would invet in 2 more Asus 23.5 monitors, and use the Samsunsg TV as a forth monitor somewhere.

I use 3x Dell S2209W's for eyefinity with a 42" Panasonic plasma sitting on top of them as a 4th display.

Thanks for the welcome! It sounds like you have a nice setup there. In all honesty, I could swing picking up 2 of the smaller monitors and re-purpose the tv somehow. I've just been concerned that I've been spoiled by the single 32" and the 3 smaller monitors would pale by comparison. I understand that I would have far more width, but wouldn't the objects themselves seem smaller? Would I get the same distortion by parking a 27" in the middle?

Thanks for the reply!

Xyrxes

Hi and welcome mate! I understand what you mean about giving up one large screen, but I personally prefer 3 screens of the same size. It sure makes it easier when gaming too, as far as setting it all up to work in games.

Thanks for the welcome and the input! I may bite the bullet then and just get 3 27" screens. Was just hearing rumors though that there are some ultra slim bezel monitors coming out before the end of the year, so I may hold off since I will want this to be a long term investment.

Any thoughts on 3 of these? http://www.samsung.com/us/video/tvs/UN32EH5050FXZA

Could I make this work with 2 480 gtx cards in sli? I see the monitors don't have pc connectors....

Considering you're going to be using the DVI output of the NVIDIA card, you could probably use an DVI > HDMI cable. You can get them cheaply from monoprice.com. Can't promise anything, as I've never tried it personally.