Dual screens or Ultrawide?

dymetrie

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Hello monitor experts of OCUK!

I've recently resurrected my desktop PC (including some juicy upgrades and a move to Win11), and next on the list is my monitor set up.

The desktop was brought back to life as I wanted to streamline my desk space and switch from a laptop+monitor for working and a second monitor for not working whilst working :p

So I've ditched the work laptop and am now working and not working on a mismatched dual screen (21.5" Samsung & 24" Philips) set up plugged into my desktop.

I have, however got my eye on a couple of ultrawide screens and quite fancy switching out my dual screens for one of those. They're both 34" 3440x1440, one flat and one curved.

I know that an ultrawide has slightly more screen real estate, and will place the screen directly in front of me, rather than the split between the dual screens being in the middle, but will there be any obvious drawbacks (other than completely blowing my colleagues mind if I accidentally share the whole screen rather than a window in a Teams call :D)?

I don't really game much, but I like to now and then, and have an RX550 to drive the display. Mostly the setup is used for work (Outlook, Edge, Teams) and not work (Edge, TV/films).

So the question is, which is the better choice, dual 1080p or single ultrawide? And if ultrawide then flat or curved?
 
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Slam said:
Personal taste but for desktop use I prefer a curve for anything 27" and above. I had 2x 27" 1440p monitors, 1 curved and one flat and was always changing the angle of the monitor depend on if what I was focusing on was to the left or right of the screen.

Full screen gaming or video didn't matter much because I was mostly looking at the centre.

Now I have 2x 34" curved ultrawides, very happy.
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My old setup was dual curved 24" monitors (now stolen by my wife) which were lovely! Not sure I can fit two 34" on the desk I have, though :(

But good call on reasoning for curved :D

Mujja said:
When I used multiple monitors it had to be triple screen. Get the ultrawide and install FancyZone, part of PowerToys, and create a custom layout which suits your work flow. This is mine.

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For Teams resize the window before you share. What a lot of participants don't realise is you can zoom in to the shared content, like you would on a web browser, hold CTRL and +/= or scroll the mouse well.
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I did some reading up on FancyZones last night (while explaining snap layouts to a Mac user :rolleyes:) and think I can make some good use of that on an ultrawide!
 
Whilst I'm not a big (or at least, modern) gamer, I had a fun weekend enjoying Halo, Half Life 2 and Fallout 4 in gorgeous 3440x1440 :D

Have got about 30 games in my Steam library which I'll be testing out on Ultrawide (including Bioshock remastered), but for the primary purpose of the purchase, working, I'm finding that the Ultrawide is just as good as dual screens :)
 
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