Spec me a monitor for a 3 monitor setup!

[azzerz]

Hey,

I'm planning on getting an extra 2 monitors to go with my Samsung 226BW, but i'm not having much look choosing between them

19" ? 19" widescreen ? 20.1" (with the same res as my current) or a 22"

I can't really afford another two 226bw's but i have a budget of around £300, maybe a little over

Can anyone help me out with some suggestions?

Thanks

oh, and my pc specs:

abit ab9 pro
c2d 6400
2gb 800mhz
xfx 7900 gs

also, i was gonna buy a pci graphics card for the extra monitor... would this work ok? those matrox splitter things seem very expensive!

 

[unwashed potato!]

do you mind me asking what its for? not exaclty the advice you want to hear but imo its better to get one really big monitor then 2 medium monitors as bigger is always better, but this is down to personal opinion.

also again with the monitors its down to personal choice as there is quite a lot out there these days with similar specs its down to how good it will look with you current screen

 

[azzerz]

Well i recently borrowed a 19" and it was awesome, i could watch movies while surfing the web or while video eiditing or just leave it fullscreen on IRC while i played counterstrike on my main monitor

i was planning on having IRC on one and my web browser on the other, but after having 2 monitors im lost without the space... specially during video editing!

Plus a bigger screen, maybe a 24 i dont thing would look good next to mine - ive thought about another 226bw, but i really like the idea of 3 so i have a main monitor right in the middle

 

[unwashed potato!]

but i really like the idea of 3 so i have a main monitor right in the middle

yeah me too, defiantly looks good. well tbh i would look online, find any that will look good with your current, check google/the site its from/this forum etc for reviews and then buy 2. i just bought the 19" widesreen for £130 purely because it looks almost identical to me main 20" viewsonic screen. It's fantastic screen but the back is stupidly designed that you can't put a wall mount on it that it bigger then 75 which almost all are as they are both 75/100

 

[azzerz]

i'm having no trouble finding monitors... i'm just really unsure of what size i should go for

i love the idea of having 3x1680x1050, but a good 20.1" with that res might be weird next to my 22", or 2 lower end 22" with that res that maybe wouldnt look as good...

really confused, i need opinions!!

 

[lolage]

If you have a 22" atm you could use that as your main screen and have 2 19" 4:3 (non widescreen) monitors either side. They are almost the same height so would look brilliant.

 

[malcolm]

If you have a 22" atm you could use that as your main screen and have 2 19" 4:3 (non widescreen) monitors either side. They are almost the same height so would look brilliant.

Exactly what I was going to say, but what about the PCI plus PCIe gfx card set-up? I tried to get something similar working on my son's set-up, he has a 1950Pro that he uses for mon 1 plus TV (32" Toshiba) and wanted to add a Pci Radeon 7000 for monitor 2. Just could not get the system to initialise both cards. On his previous Skt A system with an AGP DV8500 the Radeon 7000 worked fine to drive a second screen. Maybe it's too old to pair with the X1950.