3 New Monitors for Programming

gpherber · 25 Nov 2012 at 21:21

Looking to buy 3 new Monitors in the new year. Anyone have any suggestions for 23" or bigger monitors with good viewing angles, slim bezels and vesa mounting holes. Display Port connection would be preferable as my Radeon HD6870 only supports 3 monitors if one uses Display Port.

Monitors will mainly be used for Programming work as well as the occasional game. My total Budget is £550. Thanks for any input you can give.

Gary

gpherber · 25 Nov 2012 at 22:51

The UltraSharp is what I'd been looking at as I also do photography, so the IPS panel will give me great colours and a good viewing angle. The bezel isn't that large either as most the monitors around that price seem to have even larger ones. The 4 port USB hub on each will be very handy too.

Only other monitor I'd looked at is the Iiyama Prolite E2481HS-B1 24" because of the super slim bezel but its a TN panel the same as my Current (8 year old) LG 22" monitor and I was worried about the viewing angles being just as poor. Also I'd require an active display port adapter as it doesn't have a display port connection. Anyone have any experience with this monitor?

gpherber · 25 Nov 2012 at 23:21

The cheapest 24" with that resolution is £220 which is way over budget (£660 vs £450). I'll be using Xcode which is designed to make use of horizontal space more than vertical space. I currently use a single monitor at 1680x1050 and find vertical height to be fine, but I dont have enough horizontal space available. the almost 50% extra outlay per monitor for 120 pixels extra height doesn't seem worth while to me.

I like to keep the documentation available while I'm working too so at the moment I've resorted to having it open on my iPad hence wanting to add more monitors to add extra space to keep it handy (I miss copy and paste).

gpherber · 28 Nov 2012 at 15:12

I really want to get identical monitors, and if I buy one now I might not be able to source the same monitor later. I have settled on the Dell Ultrasharp U2312HM which I've found for £147, keeping the cost of 3 identical monitors way under budget. My current monitor is going to be used for my previous build (Q6600, Asrock P45XE, Geforce GT240) wallmounted for iplayer etc viewing in bed.

If i were to use this monitor alongside a new one i think the change in PPI between the two would irritate me, already have an old 15 inch 1024x768 monitor going between the two feels weird because of the change in PPI.