Switch u2711+u2410 for single equivalent monitor?

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Looking for some advice as much as anything.

Made some big hardware changes at home, main one being scraping my desktop as i now have a surface book 2 15in

but i want to keep the large monitor(s) set up.

little bit of gaming, photography, 3D design.
with that in mind a nice IPS panel with good colour space is more important than 144Hz.

my surface book will probably struggle to drive games at 4K but anything else will be ok at those resolutions.

FYI hardware is
i7 8650U quad core cpu
16GB ram
Nvidia 1060 6GB GPU

im considering one big monitor rather than 2 smaller ones

 

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Yes, I was thinking of a curved ultra wide. With monitors like this now available it seems pointless having an arbitrary bezel in the total real estate

 

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Ive been reading about g-sync and I'm not even sure if my surface book 2 supports it.

If not I guess the dell alienware would be a waste and the dell u3415w would be sufficient and much cheaper?

I don' tthink I need any bigger than 34. I sit quite close to the monitors at present

 

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yes it surprised me too.
but it does take any decision out of it.

i dont really play game that require this anyway.im more of a borderlands/civ/fallout kind of player.

more of concern is from the curvature affecting any graphics work. im not really sure if it makes a difference or not.

 

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And then throwing away that one area where even worst LCDs actually improved from CRTs: Image geometry not being distorted by screen curvature...


With power&heat limitations it won't be exactly hot performing for just little lower resolution.
Surface Book simply isn't some big and heavy draggable gaming stone sled.
So wouldn't expect it to be that great for any higher resolution gaming.
Actually 4K can show 1080p image without detail loss by simply doubling size of pixel.

And super low screens give miserably low image height for their hogging of desk space:
34" super low screens don't give any more image height than 27" 2560x1440 while consuming lot more desk space.
32" 4K would give also vertically more image for consumed desk space.
Here's visualization: https://goo.gl/JiJfV5
And as far as I know there are no apartments with roof at 1½m height from floor limiting monitor height...

thats a very good point that i could run games at 1080p and scaling would be fine due to the simple x2.

 

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Gonna have to do some research. A lot seem to say curved is a no no if you are doing photography type work

 

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Good points. I'm not a pro.
Minor curvature would probably be best for a 'fits all' scenario

 

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I sincerely reckon that as well.

If you were to do photography work, 3800R will be fine. Stay away from 1900R coz that’s a lot more curved. (So don’t get the U3417W or AW3418DW since they’re both 1900R)

I'll make my decision soon. I'm getting to decide between 4k and ultra wide 1440p