Monitor...

[jcb33]

Well this monitor is messing up, and im told if i sell it i can get £200 for it, but if i am to do that i need a new one, so few questions

1) What is a good 17" tft, with relativly low risk of problems, and should it develop a faulty pixel etc could be replaced on site not repaired

1) As above but 20" tft

3) What is a better set up, 2x 17" tfts, or 1x20"

4) If i got 2x 17" How would it work? Could i for example have my desktop spread accross both, watch a movie accross both screens in full screen mode, without having the middle of the image cut out, play games accross both, without it looking wrong, only showing on one monitor etc...

TY

 

[FrankJH]

you get more screen real estate with 2*17" screens than you will from one 20" and its easier to work etc with more screens (upto a point) once you get used to it

You will have to look into each seperate manufacturer's spec sheets etc to see what tollerances they have for number of faulty pxels before its replaced (it also depends on the placing on the screen also sometimes)

You can have two entirely different desktops, one desktop over both screens (of course most dont do the latter as then you get distracted by the 2 bezels inbetween) remember of course with two screens using one destop the resolution goes dramatically higher so you therefore need a much more powerful graphics card to power any game to the same standard.

Someone else may be able to tell you whether its beneficial to performance or takes a toll but as far as I know quite a few games dont like being in a window - so if you had one desktop spread across both screens just to have game on one screen would effectively be having it in a window rather than full screen

Of course there are apps like multimon which can help with this and give a lot more functionality as apposed to "basic" XP functions / options

 

[GhostRider]

Multimon is a great program

When watch a movie or play a game it will only play on the one screen or you can mirror the image so it plays on both and there is not much performance cost. Clicking on the other screen will then minimise the movie or game when not in mirror mode.

To make it play as you want then you need to buy the Matrox TripleHead2Go - Retail Price: £159.95 (£187.94 Including VAT at 17.5%)

This I think will have a big performance cost as it tricks your graphics card into thinking you have one larger monitor.

For a cheap 20" screen you could get 2 19" monitors like the Acer widscreen. The 20" monitor whoever use a better panel (like P-MVA) rather than the TN. These give more colours and better viewing angles