Which monitor for triple screen eyefinity setup ?

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Just about to press the button on a new system - the titan spinosaur i will order that with a radeon 6950 and a 60gb ssd drive. i may also add another 6950 for crossfire either immediately or if necessary.

i will be using a triple screen set-up for mainly racing (iracing plus others), flights sims (rise of flight, il2 : cliffs of dover) and some fps such as bfbc2.

the 2nd 6950 is not really necessary for my main use of iracing - it doesn't work well but i think i will see worthwhile gains for the other stuff. so .....

i now need to decide which monitor to buy - i will be using an Obutto gaming cockpit

Low input lag and good responsiveness are probably the most important consideration plus as thin a bezel as possible. Viewing angles shouldn't be too much of a problem as the side monitors will be angled towards me but

I am tempted by :-

Dell U2311H which as we know can be had for a good price at the moment

Samsung P2405H which nobody seems to have a bad word to say about it - is the bezel thin enough though ?

Benq XL2410T 120hz - many people seem to rate this on the racing forums for improved smoothness but the image quality itself seems to be average.

Getting a little greedy and looking at larger monitors like Hanns G HZ281HB - 27.5" and 1900x1200 which is a nicer format in triple screen although is more taxing or it's 25" sister which is a little unknown but may be a nice size for this setup.

One of the Ilyama 26" or 27" monitors - the 26" is a 1900x1200.

The latest batch of the racing cockpit should now take 3 screens up to 28" each.

Can't quite stretch to the Dell U2410 - too expensive for 3 of them.

As you can see I'm lost - I can't choose which sandwich to have for lunch let alone make a decision costing up to £1,000 for 3 monitors !

Thanks for any experience or guidance.

Cheers
 
I am in the same boat as you - looking for a tri-monitor setup for EyeFinity, and for use with similar games.

Bezel has been the major concern for me, and having looked at a lot of setups on YouTube, I feel that getting the right monitor with the thinest bezel can be crucial. But sadly finding a decent display matched with a thin bezel is tough.

I still have not found a cheap solution. I have been toying with the idea of Samsung's MD230X3 setup but minus around £100 for the stand (maybe more) at today's prices that makes each screen around £433 each, a little OTT for a 8ms display, but wow, what a thin bezel!

Looking around, some setups use the Samsung 2443BW, which looks like it has a fairly slim bezel and good feedback from its owners, I don't know what the guys on here think of that display?

Still hunting...
 
I can't really help on specific monitors, but I ran 3 screens on iRacing for a long time and have just upgraded my PC ready for Cliffs, so I know where you're coming from. :-)

Everyone's going to be different when it comes to three screens, but when I made my purchase (two years ago now), I went for 3 £105 20" Samsungs with quite chunky bezels. I even bought a spare when I saw one going cheap on Ebay because at some point one is going to die and replacing matched screens isn't simple. (Though I suspect an unmatched peripheral screen is not a big deal as long as it's the right size).

However even my chunky bezels aren't a big deal. I overlap my screens slightly on a purpose built (DIY) stand, and that cuts down about half the gap. As for the rest, well, you'll probably find that -- like most people -- the bezels are less of an issue than you expect. The wraparound immersion fools your brain very nicely, and you ignore the bezels in the same way you ignore pillars in a car. Obviously less "missing" display would be nice, but there's no sensibly priced way of avoiding the issue yet.

You'll also find (particularly in iRacing) that the various software solutions for the bezel problem help considerably in improving immersion. Having said that, I rarely bother with them because those side screens are only there to suck my brain into the action and they work exceptionally well without additional messing about. And Although I've given up iRacing now (in the same way that alcoholics give up booze! ;-) with a 5870 & 5040x1050 I still preferred to run the standard display rather than iRacing's more intensive option... though it is superb.

If you have access to the England forums on iRacing (I've no idea where you are) there are a lot of folk there running three screens and may be able to poitn you at some decent screens. I suspect that you can probably buy whatever you wan though, input lag's not really an issue these days. It pays to double check though, I suppose.

Good luck making your choice. Even though I still prefer to use one screen for mainstream gaming (though Battlefield2 looks stunning in surround mode) moving to three for sims is the best hardware decision I've ever made.

Andrew McP
 
Thanks chaps.

Yep - I have access to England UK forum and also use Racedepartment - involved in there weekliy MX5 league at the moment. I will try there too but you tend to find better technical knowledge here to be honest - a good gaming screen should be equally good in CoD as on iRacing the same principles apply to low lag - decent responsiveness to avoid ghosting / trails etc and nice colours. Then add on the three screen issue which is bezel and overall size.

The 120hz monitors seem to be getting good write ups on iRacing but not convinced what I read here about image quality.

The Dell U2311H is tempting at the current price available although PCM has worried me mentioning that the colours can appear a bit muted on that screen for gaming purposes - I thought one of the advantages of that panel was it's better colours which I assumed to be more vibrant but seems to be more natural. Looks like it has thin bezels and a displayport which will simplify things a little with eyefinity. Reviews well enough for input lag and responsiveness.

I do come back to the Samsung P2405H though which seems well liked - not sure how thin the bezels are - a chunky bottom part of the screen but that shouldn't affect landscape eyefinity but may do if I ever decide to try potrait mode which I know some have (though not really with 1080 screens - a bit thin).

Also tempted to go look at the Hanns G 28" screen - 1920x1200 which is nice - may be a bit overwhelming though (Or the Ilyama 26" / 27"). Tempting given that they are about the same as the Dells normally and cheaper than the Benq 120hz - although close at the moment given that the Benq is on a weekly special.

Does anybody with those screens have any views how they would work in a triple screen setup - size, bezels and general gaming performance ?

What would YOU buy for triple screen gaming ?

Thanks
 
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I don't like to dismiss what is otherwise an excellent monitor for the sake of my personal tastes. I know it's not a perfect solution but I would suggest you buy a U2311H and see how you find it. If you don't like it you can exercise your rights under DSR and return it, no questions asked, being charged return postage costs at the very most. I didn't find the image was at all washed out and there were many areas of the image that were above and beyond anything else in the price range - so I wouldn't dismiss it. I just thought it should be mentioned as people often think that all IPS monitors will give them vibrant and dashing colours but that's really not the case.
 
Thanks for that.

Still not sure - my first problem is the size of monitor - probably will stick at 23"/24" range x 3 monitors on a triple screen mount is likely to be overwhelming enough to be honest.

So stil in the market for low input lag, good responsiveness and punchy colours with slim bezels.

Will probably hold off on 120hz monitors - I have read that there may be some difficulty in getting 3 monitors operating at 120hz working reliably.

So looking for a good 23"/24" screen unless I can be persuaded to look at a 25"/26"/27" model - if it fits the criteria above.

Cheers
 
Bezels shouldn't be a problem. The surround monitors should only be used for peripheral vision only. Then again, I only play FPS games. I guess even with car games they should only be background vision... nothing that needs you to actually look at that screen?

I am going EF soon with the Iiyama 26" 1920x1200

Not really bothered about bezels but maybe I should be :)
 
That is one I have looked at too - I do like the 1900x1200 resolution so it's not so squished. I also looked at the Hanns G 28" model too which seems to be de-listed here.

I am after low lag (under 10 ms if possible - like my 24WMGX3) and good responsiveness though too. I haven't found any detailed tftcentral or pcmonitors.org type detailed reviews for those screens though.
 
Not sure if it matters to most people but ive noticed led uses about half the power consumption of lcd, ive looked at the 23" aoc razor but at £150 im not sure if its too cheap and nasty, but realy thin bezels though
 
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