Cant decide on monitors size! Please help.

[Zer0Cool]

Hello,

I’ am having a very hard time trying to determine what size of a monitor or monitors to get? My main one as you will see on the link below is a Dell 24" 2407WFP-HC my original thoughts is ether get 2X 22” inch monitors and place them on both side of my main one, or gat one 24”. My budget is not that crazy because I also need to get one for my younger brother and having a hard time deciding what to get him as well… If I would to get 2X 22” monitors for myself, I was thinking about $170 each, newegg has some interesting choices. However If I would to go for one 24” I would spend about no more then $270 as I don’t believe spending more on a single secondary monitor is needed. I am linking some pics for you to see how my current setup looks like. I’m kind of leaning toward getting a 2X 22” monitors, but very interested in your feedback. Main usage for the extra monitor’s will be probably playing WoW (yes I know, I’m a lost case). The pics are few month old, but the current layout is about the same.

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m62/MALOI2006/DSC06033.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m62/MALOI2006/DSC06037.jpg

Also what adapter do I need to get in order to have 3 monitors hooked up? And what type of a layout am I looking at with 2 addition monitors, Will I be able to extend it on both the left and the right? I currently have one 9800GTX.

Thanks

 

[zandor]

You'll need another video card for the 3rd screen. Unless you plan on running games or other 3D stuff on it just get a recent generation low end card with a chipset from the same manufacturer as your primary card, so in your case NVidia.

You can set up pretty much whatever layout you like by dragging them around in display properties. Getting the 24" set up as screen 1 and putting it in the center with 2 and 3 on either side won't be a problem. They'll also snap to edges, so getting all the top edges lined up is easy.
One thing that is kind of annoying is that Windows forgets where a monitor is if you disable it, which is sometimes necessary when gaming. The most common problem is games that let the mouse wander off onto the other screens. You end up clicking on the desktop which minimizes the game.

 

[Zer0Cool]

Thanks for the reply bro.

Does tt matter if I don’t have the SLI capability on my MOBO? And are you sure it’s the only way? I was like 100% sure there is some adapter that will allow me to do this..