So, I am about to buy a new desktop PC, why? because I want a good computer to play skyrim in the soon future.
I know about dual monitors and @#(!, but is it really better?
For example, I think the edge in the middle of them would bother me, and if you really want dual monitors because it's bigger, isn't it better just to get a big one single instead of 2?
This is mainly aimed to people who have dual so I can hear their opinion
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I've never used multiple monitors before, but yea, the middle of the two monitors would be hindering your view in the center. I suggest triple monitors.
The middle is a non-issue. You'll have one of the monitors off to the side anyway. Go for it Buyo, you'll love it. It's a huge increase in productivity. The second monitor ends up as a fairly independent area so you don't need to worry about maximized or overlapping windows. Besides, you can't (easily) get a monitor with 4K horizontal resolution
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Use dual monitors for work. I tend to use the secondary monitor as a parking spot for things Im not concentrating on atm but may need info from while doing the main task. For gaming, never use them but the image split across the gap, where a good portion of the action occurs, seems to me, to be to distracting
It's not all too bad, I don't have dual (or triple etc...) but have played on a triple monitor set up (Arma 2 with TrackIR) and it was pretty sweet, for me the middle bars thing wasn't too annoying, it felt more like columns of a car windscreen although without a gap of visual data (not like someone can sneak through the black bits) although to be fair this was an expensive set up so the gap between screens was tiny, don't think it would have worked with dual screen though.
I've never had much fun using dual screens when working, I can see why they are useful but I guess i'm just far too used to alt+tabbing all the time that I don't mind having a few dozen windows on my desktop and I don't mind tiling windows if I need to see multiple things at once.
HSharp wrote:QUOTE (HSharp @ Jul 23 2011, 04:30 AM) It's not all too bad, I don't have dual (or triple etc...) but have played on a triple monitor set up (Arma 2 with TrackIR) and it was pretty sweet, for me the middle bars thing wasn't too annoying, it felt more like columns of a car windscreen although without a gap of visual data (not like someone can sneak through the black bits) although to be fair this was an expensive set up so the gap between screens was tiny, don't think it would have worked with dual screen though.
I've never had much fun using dual screens when working, I can see why they are useful but I guess i'm just far too used to alt+tabbing all the time that I don't mind having a few dozen windows on my desktop and I don't mind tiling windows if I need to see multiple things at once.
A triple monitor pushes the bars away from your focus, a dual monitor puts them directly in the middle
As for the to cool to need a dual monitor bit. Get out of them ivory halls and into the real world. You'll wish for two heads, four arms, and eighteen monitors
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I used to have dual screen, set it up one in front one to the side. Put your word doc / whatever on the main screen, reference stuff in side screen and you're rockin.
Dual screen sucks for games though (unless it's sup com which is designed for dual screen), for FPS / anything not sup com or FSX on dual screen I just turned one screen off.
Now I have 3 screens and it is AWESOME! Especially for games. You don't notice the vertical bars between the screens, because you still look at the middle screen, but the side ones fill up your peripheral vision so it's really immersive. I do often find my self not just looking at the middle screen - I often look around the scene with my eyes / head rather than moving the in game camera.
3 screens is great for work too - reference stuff (browser) on one screen, code in middle, test on other screen. Alternatively I operate like I did with 2 screens and dump email client / media player on the 3rd, or just turn the 3rd one off to save power if I'm not doing much.
For me dual monitors was like "This is awesome... I want a 3rd". Single screen computers just feel so cramped now, you really notice the benefits of multi-monitors when copy-pasting things.
edit: Oh btw, try to get screens with the same vertical resolution (better yet, 2 or 3 of a kind) so they all line up and form one long rectangle with no bumps in screen space (if the monitors are all of the same kind then they line up in real life too which is nice).
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I can't imagine doing my job without three monitors. It would be hell, and I would probably get a cushy number designing thermal solutions for the auto industry or something if I didn't have them.
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