2 work monitors and 1 gaming

Jaymie Jeffrey

Jaymie Jeffrey

Jaymie Jeffrey

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Hey all. I'm hoping someone can help me. I want to change my current monitor setup. Currently I have a 34" ultra wide-screen IPS monitor, but its on its way out.

I would like to change it now for 3 monitors, preferably all the same size. I'm thinking of the middle monitor for gaming and the outer monitors for work. I'm unsure what to get though. I would also like all three to be on monitor arms.

My pc is not bad, currently running 1080ti, 24gb memory with Intel i7-8700k. I was hoping that someone can give me some advice on what to get. Ideally for less than £1k, but can stretch if necessary.

Cheers
 
Well; I was thinking of not using an ultrawide. I am a programmer by trade and an ultrawide was fine for work, but not for gaming. Ideally, I thought, that having the gaming monitor in the middle and the work monitors on the outside, that would allow me to have the best of both worlds. I could extend games (like wow) onto all three monitors or games like dota2 could just be on the middle monitor. For work, I can have one screen for programming, one for looking at my application and the other for fun :D
 
I do this, also a developer, however I have 3 different monitors of 3 different sizes. :p

Dell 1080p left, Dell 165hz 1440p middle main desktop/gaming, and Samsung 1200p on the right.

For 1k you could get 3 of these (with an appropriate discount code they are £331)

https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/del...dgf/apd/210-avwe/monitors-monitor-accessories

The bezel is reasonably small and would look pretty good on monitor arms.
 
I am a programmer also. I have 3 Viewsonic 24 inch VP2458 displays. They have very thin bezels and look great. They are only 1080p 60hz though, so depends what you want. They do have larger and higher resolution models, but the VP range are 60hz only I think. Three 27inch 1440p displays (VP2768) would fit in your budget.
 
As programmer don’t you need 1200p @ 24inch and 1440p @ 27inch

otherwise the text is not nice to look at and the real estate is lacking.

probably get a gaming 27inch 144Hz in the middle as main and 2x24 side @1200p 60Hz
 
pc-guy said:
As programmer don’t you need 1200p @ 24inch and 1440p @ 27inch

otherwise the text is not nice to look at and the real estate is lacking.

probably get a gaming 27inch 144Hz in the middle as main and 2x24 side @1200p 60Hz
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More screen space would be useful. 1440p probably is ideal. I didnt have the budget to do so, so three 1080p suffices. I don't find it restricting to be honest.
 
chroniclard said:
I do this, also a developer, however I have 3 different monitors of 3 different sizes. :p

Dell 1080p left, Dell 165hz 1440p middle main desktop/gaming, and Samsung 1200p on the right.

For 1k you could get 3 of these (with an appropriate discount code they are £331)

https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/del...dgf/apd/210-avwe/monitors-monitor-accessories

The bezel is reasonably small and would look pretty good on monitor arms.
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3 27 inch monitors are going to require a very large desk - my desk can comfortable have 2 monitors on it and that is 140 long. 3 of those monitors would require 1.8 metres of space before anything else but 24" monitors won't be much smaller.

You would probably be better off with 2 1440p monitors (it's what I use).
 
eeek said:
3 27 inch monitors are going to require a very large desk - my desk can comfortable have 2 monitors on it and that is 140 long. 3 of those monitors would require 1.8 metres of space before anything else but 24" monitors won't be much smaller.

You would probably be better off with 2 1440p monitors (it's what I use).
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My desk is 1.7m wide, and comfortably fits the 24 inch screens. Three 27inch ones would be the limit.

I don't have them in a line, I have them like this:

\__/

Normally I am looking at the centre screen for what I need to see most and use the two side ones for secondary functions. Having two screens is not ideal if you are proposing to have the bezel in the centre.
 
Xyclops said:
More screen space would be useful. 1440p probably is ideal. I didnt have the budget to do so, so three 1080p suffices. I don't find it restricting to be honest.
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Get a decent 27inch 1440p for your gaming needs and get some cheapy 1080p for now. Those 1080p likely to have heavy screen burn in so cheap as chips would be ideal.
 
2x 32" 1440P here - similar DPI to 24" 1080P, so no eye strain which is ideal for long periods of coding

The above also has enough horizontal resolution to snap windows to each side of the screen (effectively giving the same as 4x old 1280 screens, but with extra vertical e.g. for webpages)
 
pc-guy said:
Get a decent 27inch 1440p for your gaming needs and get some cheapy 1080p for now. Those 1080p likely to have heavy screen burn in so cheap as chips would be ideal.
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I have had the three screens over a year and no burn in so far. They are in use at least 10hrs a day

Oh, and I find it annoying to have screens of different DPIs. It is best if all screens are identical size and resolution. Even better if they are the same model so no colour differences also. Thats important to me, as I also do photo and video editing. Thats another reason to use 1080p over 1440p. My home videos are all 1080p so its good to have preview window take whole screen. If I move to 4K at some point, then the preview window will be exactly 1/4 of the video resolution so no scaling artifacts.
 
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eeek said:
3 27 inch monitors are going to require a very large desk - my desk can comfortable have 2 monitors on it and that is 140 long. 3 of those monitors would require 1.8 metres of space before anything else but 24" monitors won't be much smaller.

You would probably be better off with 2 1440p monitors (it's what I use).
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Personally I have the room, however I agree. I would probably just get two monitors, then not worry about multi screen gaming.
 
Xyclops said:
Oh, and I find it annoying to have screens of different DPIs. It is best if all screens are identical size and resolution. Even better if they are the same model so no colour differences also.
My home videos are all 1080p so its good to have preview window take whole screen.
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agreed. however more than often money become a real constraint :D
 
The reason I want three is because my work will buy the two work monitors and I can purchase the gaming monitor :)

My desk area is 1.5m wide but I want to use monitor arms as stated. I think I have enough room to mount them like \_/ which should save me some space. Also, my room is wide enough to accommodate all three in a line. I guess the arms matter.

The games I play most are wow and dota2. I don't really play anything else, but will probably play games like Witcher3, etc. My current monitor is:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/LG-34UC97-Ultrawide-3440x1440-Thunderbolt/dp/B00UHDWOKY

But it doesn't have a mounting plate and it's skewed when playing games (like dota) which is why I don't want widescreens anymore.
 
Jaymie Jeffrey said:
I want to change my current monitor setup.
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I have a 27" high refresh 4k Acer Nitro, a 34" UW Asus and a 24" 4k Dell Ultrasharp. The last is in portrait mode and is the monitor I use for text work. The other two are for gaming.

Have you considered two 34" UW monitors stacked plus a 27" 4k monitor at the side in portrait mode? The lower UW will be your gaming monitor; the upper 34" will be for monitoring - debug windows, VMs, and the like, and the 27" will be your main programming monitor.
 
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