Dual 19 inch Monitors or 1 23 inch Monitor

[Confusednewbie1552]

I was just wondering, especially from the people who play games, whether you rather have dual 19 inch monitors (1 to play your game and the other to watch pr0n at the same time) or just 1 23 inch monitor?

Right now I have a 19 inch monitor and I'm wondering if another 19 inch monitor has any purpose. Nef on ATOT and pwn on CS at the same time? Is it possible to make the dual monitors one screen when, say, on your desktop and have them be split with one on games and the other on something else?

How does it work? How do you turn around in an FPS without going to the other monitor? Is the mouse locked onto one screen? Then how do you select an application on another screen? Or is it like hold control and move your mouse to get to the other screen?

Is it possible to have 1 23 inch monitor and a 19 inch monitor? Assuming they are the same height (and 23 inch monitors are usually widescreen) , I don't see a problem with this.

I also have a 6800 GT, it has one analog (blue thing) port and one digital. Can I do dual screens with one being analog and the other being digital? Or do I need both of them to be analog? Im guessing ther isnt an analog to digital converter.

Will my 6800 GT be able to handle two 1280X1024 resolutions? What about 1 1600X1200 resolution? Playing Battlefield 2 of course.

 

[slpaulson]

You probably aren't really going to be able to play games and surf at the same time.

In my experience, you can have whatever you want on your 2nd monitor and it will show fine during games, but your game will probably need to be in windowed mode to do what you want. If it's in fullscreen mode and you click on a window on your 2nd monitor, the game will usually shrink before it lets you focus on the new window.

 

[Confusednewbie1552]

It looks like the 23 inch monitor is winning..

 

[ribbon13]

Budget?

23" are usually 1920x1200, which will tax your video card.

 

[DBSX]

When you play most games, that's it, you wont be surfing or typing your term paper at the same time. Unless you play the game in a window Windows gives total control to the game. So, if your goal is to surf and frag simultaneously, forget it, get the 23"

That being said, i would never go back to a one-display solution for my personal computer. I am so used to dual displays (one is my "primary" the other has things like WinAMP, system monitoring utilities, various other info) that it is almost physically painfull to work with one display. I also do spreadsheet work, and a lot of comparison tasks that greatly benefit from having two displays.

I voted for the dual displays, but you could also get a 23" to use as your primary and then use the 19" as the secondary display. That's really what I would do.

\Dan

 

[foodfightr]

Originally posted by: DBSX
When you play most games, that's it, you wont be surfing or typing your term paper at the same time. Unless you play the game in a window Windows gives total control to the game. So, if your goal is to surf and frag simultaneously, forget it, get the 23"

That being said, i would never go back to a one-display solution for my personal computer. I am so used to dual displays (one is my "primary" the other has things like WinAMP, system monitoring utilities, various other info) that it is almost physically painfull to work with one display. I also do spreadsheet work, and a lot of comparison tasks that greatly benefit from having two displays.

I voted for the dual displays, but you could also get a 23" to use as your primary and then use the 19" as the secondary display. That's really what I would do.

\Dan

Depends what you're doing. Right now I have 2x 17" CRT monitors. I'm going to get the 2407FPW when it comes out I think. You'll probably make a trade off (soon, if not now) between a larger image and slow refresh rates.

Originally posted by: DBSX
When you play most games, that's it, you wont be surfing or typing your term paper at the same time. Unless you play the game in a window Windows gives total control to the game. So, if your goal is to surf and frag simultaneously, forget it, get the 23"

That being said, i would never go back to a one-display solution for my personal computer. I am so used to dual displays (one is my "primary" the other has things like WinAMP, system monitoring utilities, various other info) that it is almost physically painfull to work with one display. I also do spreadsheet work, and a lot of comparison tasks that greatly benefit from having two displays.

I voted for the dual displays, but you could also get a 23" to use as your primary and then use the 19" as the secondary display. That's really what I would do.

\Dan

Thats what I'm worried about haha... I can do SO MUCH on two displays, but I factored the pixel count and the screen size and one large lcd will have more screen area, but it just won't feel and react the same way.