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Dual monitors at work and at home. I could never go back. Administration console or IDE in one window and Google open in the other for work. Logic open at home, samples on the second monitor. It's just so damn useful.

If my iMac would drive a third monitor, I'd already have one.

Cool bump! I actually stopped using my second screen haha, the difference in quality was really giving me headaches. The difference between LED and LCD is pretty staggering when you have them side by side.

Also, one monitor in 1920x1080 and the other in 1280x720 is stupid to handle.


I will upgrade back to a second monitor, once I have enough money lying around to buy a proper pc monitor.

Originally Posted by Auto-Reply

For work, yes. 2 or more. For gaming, no. I flip when i have a dead pixel on the screen, i couldn't deal with a line across my screen no matter how thin.

Didn't they want to invent LCD foil or something? A big roll of flexible plastic that you cant put on your desk and bend it as you like 180-360 fov gaming without vr glasses?

That's the thing. For productivity multiple monitors can only be a good thing, but for gaming? If it's not an odd number your reticle is barely visible thanks to being split across two screens, and if it's an odd number you have multiple bezels to deal with. You could in theory strip the bezels off, and I'm sure I've seen that done before, but it's a lot of work.

Quad Monitors for life.

My setup is usually stream chat on one screen, game on one, Steam on another and Gaf on the last. Information overload.

I prefer 1 big-ass monitor... 42 inches.

Originally Posted by Chumpion

I prefer 1 big-ass monitor... 42 inches.

With the same resolution as a normal sized monitor? Have you actually tried dual/triple setup? It's magical.

dual monitors is fucking excellent at work. GAF on one screen, work stuff on the other. technology, man. beautiful stuff

I have been doing dual monitors since around 2005. I have an older 2004 19 inch LCD monitor that I basically use to chat/email/iTunes which I used as my primary monitor for a bit before that. It works perfectly for what it basically is, "a secondary monitor".

I enjoy it for everything but gaming. I just can't do the breaks in the screen. Certain DS games like that annoy me too.

Two monitors but different aspect ratios. Can't stretch out movies but I love the multi-tasking.

Originally Posted by Vandrar

How's that RAT mouse? May get one in the future.

Edit:

Well, there's dual and triple monitors...

And then there's this.

That guy's PC setup probably uses more electricity than my entire apartment. Damn.

How come when I use a custom resolution (like 3k) for a game on one screen, it fucks up the resolution on the other (1080p)? Is there a way to fix this? Both monitors are the same, I'm using nvidia.

yup i love dual monitors, i will never go back to one screen, I'm probably getting another one soon

Originally Posted by Krappadizzle

Quad Monitors for life.

My setup is usually stream chat on one screen, game on one, Steam on another and Gaf on the last. Information overload.

Agreed, quad setup myself (2 x 27" & 2 x 22"). I run dual quadro's in my home office PC and could up the monitors to 8 or 16 output if I cared to. Occasionally I've plugged in a 46" TV as a 5th monitor.

You just get so much more done having multiple displays, one display is terrible.

How does gaming work with dual+ monitors? Do you confine it to one, or do you have really obvious breaks in the screen where one monitor ends and the next begins?

I can do my job nearly twice as fast with dual monitors. I can't properly function without them. When I'm working at home on my laptop I feel like I'm trudging through mud or sand. Hate it.

My second monitor crapped out a month ago, still haven't gotten a replacement. Feels bad to be down to a single screen. :(

Originally Posted by CornBurrito

How does gaming work with dual+ monitors? Do you confine it to one, or do you have really obvious breaks in the screen where one monitor ends and the next begins?

I just use one monitor

Started at early 2003 with a second screen, added another one in 2009. I couldn't go back too double let alone single screen right now.

My setup atm:

(left)19 inch (4:3) 720p, (mid)27 inch (16:10) 1200p, (right)19 inch (4:3) 720p

Left and right screen are connected towards a low budget gpu specially bought for it ( 30 euro's or something ) so it doesn't drag my main gpu down on performance.
Middle screen is connected towards my main gpu.
I actually have a 3rd gpu, just for physics games in order to not drag my cpu / gpu performance down. But its a old gpu a 280 gtx which frankly doesn't do much anymore ( probably gona replace it for a passive cooling cheapo gpu soon for display connections).

Every screen has its own bar with its own icons. I can play a game in full screen, but still be capable to move my mouse directly to another screen to operate directly in that screen without having any delay.

What i mostly do with the screens is the following:

left = forums / social media / radio ( rarely tho ) / playing around with programs if needed.
middle = game screen, there is always a game going on.
right = 24/7 streams or movies or series.

I basically play a game + watch a movie/serie/stream at the same time, and also read forums / social made in between that. Not being capable to do that, makes me extremely bored fast.

I'm already thinking about setting up a fourth and even fifth screen. Both will be allocated for 24/7 live stream following, so my right screen can be completely dedicated to dvd/serie video material 24/7. Because i feel the need lately to switch a lot on that screen.

My screen setup will then be like this ( will start on this next year )

left above ( 24/7 live stream ) "speedrunner, to watch his progress instantly when i want"
middle above (27" sized television "i already have this one and placed there for years" )
right above ( 24/7 live stream ) "game that i play, to see how i can improve myself, example League of Legends"
left below = forums / social media etc
mid below ( mainscreen ) = games 24/7
right below = dvd/series etc

I do have issue's that there are live streamers i follow that only stream like 2 hours a day on some random times, i could put additional screens just to track those streamers down 24/7.

I have enough room.

My screens are not close to each other, its more like this. works better for the eyes somehow :

[ tv ]

[ ]---[ ]---[ ]

Originally Posted by CornBurrito

How does gaming work with dual+ monitors? Do you confine it to one, or do you have really obvious breaks in the screen where one monitor ends and the next begins?

When i had dual screens, it was always one screen. The performance hit and massive black bar in the middle was just not worth it in my eyes. Besides that you had to tinker a lot to get stuff working in that time. I had the game screen aligned right in front of me, and the second screen to the left or right of it. So i wasn't looking in the middle of both screens :P.

With three screen setup right now, its always the middle one which is also aligned right in front of me. Game screen = main screen as it has always my main focus.

Dual screen rocks at work. One screen for documents, the other for whatever actions. At home, stream something on one screen, and browse gaf on the other lol.

It's so hard going back to 1 monitor after having 2 for awhile now. Damn limited space

I have two monitors at home and at work, and if I had more space on my desk at home, I'd have 3. I've been dual monitor for at least the last 6 years and I could never go back to a single monitor setup (I merely tolerate it on my laptop, but even then I sometimes wish I had the extra screen space...)

id like to throw out a recommendation for displayfusion. its awesome software for people with multi monitor setups and configs.

Originally Posted by Slavik81

It's not the same thing. You can use window layouts to augment your memory. Systems like "Reference materials go on the right. Work goes on the left." are actually helpful.

There's a big difference between a stack of information and a spread of information. The spacial positioning the later provides is actually quite valuable.

This is exactly what I do, using a single wide screen. Vim on the left, PDF or web browser on the right. I can just Alt-Tab anything else I might need.

Windows + Right/Left are also very useful shortcuts to quickly get the layout right.

Wrong. 3 monitors are the best thing ever.

Originally Posted by Husker86

With the same resolution as a normal sized monitor? Have you actually tried dual/triple setup? It's magical.

Yeah, but my eyesight isn't that good. A single big screen suits me better.

At work, dual monitors are a necessity, but not at home. I'm strictly a console gamer, and I only do lite web browsing at home. Thus, dual monitors at home are overkill.

I have been using two screens (2x23") for years now. I could not go back to a single screen. I absolutely love it.

It started out when I got bored bored waiting around in Final Fantasy XI for a party invite, figured I'd get a second monitor to do stuff on while FF was running on the other. Then it just became second nature: FFXI/WoW on one, video/shows on the other :P