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Hey y'all. I'm a membet of wsgf.com as well as anandtech.com etc, but thought this would be the ideal place to ask regarding my monitor(s) that I'm in the market for.
The new rig is going to be a hoss...at least a e6600 dual core w/ 1 (maybe a 2nd) 8800GTX, 4Gig ram etc. Long story short, a beast. But what I come to you fellas for is monitor advice. I have narrowed this down to 3 general choices and I haven't a clue as to which would be better for me: 1- a single 30" monitor (Apple, Dell, or Samsung...tbd later). Res: 2560x1600 Price: $1300 2 - Dual 24" monitors (Samsung or Dell or ??? TBD) Res: 1920x1200 Price: $1200-$1400 3 - Triple 22" monitors (hooked up with a Triple Head 2 Go ) Res: 1680x1050 Price: $900ish Now, this monster rig will be used for my poker, gaming, as well as day-to-day use. No video editing etc. Just everyday kinds of things. Now with that said, multitabling is essential to me. I currently have a 24" Sony widescreen CRT that is dying and I can play 4 tables at a time w/o overlap (1920x1200). I need more desktop space, for sure. So the better the resolution the better. But dual 24's would be sufficient as I'd have enough room to 8 table. But I would only be able to game on one, since the "split" between the monitors would be a serious PITA. That's where the idea of the TH2G came from. I'm all ears on that one as well Now, price-wise, all 3 options are comparable. The price really isn't a big issue for me. I just want a quality, high-end system that I will be able to multitable with as well as have a fantastic gaming experience as well. What say you and, please, if you don't mind, the reason for why you'd go with one setup vs another. Thanks fellas! eta: clarified some details |
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isnt gaming on a 30' not so good because you would have to lower the resolution, correct? but i think i read that more and more game/ graphics cards work well with 2560x1200.
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isnt gaming on a 30' not so good because you would have to lower the resolution, correct? but i think i read that more and more game/ graphics cards work well with 2560x1200. [/ QUOTE ] On older games, yes. On the newer ones, notsomuch. My video card(s) will have enough horsepower to be just fine. |
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Why not 2x 1600x1200 non-wide screen LCDs? This is 8 tables without resizing and you won't have to worry about wide screen incapabilities with older games that don't support wide screen resolutions.
If you're hardcore into gaming I'd probably goto craigslist and see if you can pickup a top notch CRT for 1 monitor. Use this to game on, then grab a 1600x1200 LCD for non-gaming. The CRT I have here cost almost nothing and surpasses any LCD I've seen to date in overall performance. It's an NEC FE1250+. I imagine it would cost about $40-50 off CL. |
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Personally I find Dual 24" or Triple 22" to be too wide physically, you have to actually turn your head to see it all, which is a pain in practice. A single 30" or just two 22" works much better.
Triple 22 would be cool for like wrap-around flight sims or something but not for normal use. It's also good for like finance people who want to pull up a ton of charts and mainly use the center screen and just look to the side occasionally. |
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Aren't there 22" monitors with 1920x1200 resolution? If you're going to get 3, why not get 4?
Just get two video cards and you won't have to get a triplehead2go. |
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30" hands down... unless your content (games, movies, whatever you use it for) is restricted to 1920x1200.
i enjoy playing a movie/whatever full screen on one 24", and 4/tabling etc. on the other one. also, a 30" with two 20" 1600x1200 monitors rotated to portrait besides it is pretty cool. |
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Well, for those that care, I've decided on the following:
The HP LP3065 30" LCD monitor for the main screen, run by a 8800GTX vid card (links to reviews of said monitor): ExtremeTech Review Anandtech review Hot Hardware review (last page compares the Dell and HP) Widescreengamingforum User review w/ pics! This will then be flanked by dual 20" monitors in portrait, run off of my current 7900GT vid card. Thanks for all your help fellas and I can't wait til next month when I get these!!! |
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