Question Has anybody migrated over from triple headed Crossfire/Mosiac to a single display?

[BurnItDwn]

So' i've been running 3x cheap 21.5 inch 1080p panels for like 10ish years or so.
Games that cant handle the resulition/dont support super super crazy widescreen 48:9 ratio tend to all work ok when just displaying to the central monitor. However, most games tend to work OK out of the box.

These 3440x1440 displays look interesting.
Something like a MSI Optix MAG341CQ would be a big upgrade in terms of faster refresh rate, highre verticle resolution, and less crazy aspect ratio, and no more bezels from using multi-displays.

Would lose a little bit of overall resolution, but, the monitor would fit better on my desk and the small sacrifice in overall resolution would allow the GPU to push the framerate higher (since my old cheap displays are basic 60hz units)

i do not really game competitively, mostly just mess around/tinker with stuff like Rimworld and Kerbal Space Program, or play online with friends & wife with some WOW.


Have other folks here gone from 3x cheap displays to 1x better display?
Do you have regrets?

I likely will keep what I have at least for another year or two, but, might take the plunge next time i find a deal on a decent 3440x1440 display depending on advice/suggestions/recomendations. (note: i'd be looking at entry level 3440x1440 displays. probably will wait until they come into the $300 price range, or, maybe will change my mind and consider 4K)

 

[thesmokingman]

3440x1440 is a pretty great resolution. You get most of the same effect of triple screens w/o much of the issues. Here's a relatively example of a 3440 screen inside a triple setup. This is my triple setup showing a 3440 wide panel. it's not exact but gives you a good idea. My kid is using a Nixeus EDG34 and loves it. It's a decent panel imo.

 

[BurnItDwn]

3440x1440 is a pretty great resolution. You get most of the same effect of triple screens w/o much of the issues. Here's a relatively example of a 3440 screen inside a triple setup. This is my triple setup showing a 3440 wide panel. it's not exact but gives you a good idea. My kid is using a Nixeus EDG34 and loves it. It's a decent panel imo.

Yea, that seems like a nice improvement for day to day use, and not a lot of sacrifice/loss vs what Im already running.
I might have to scale things up in windows a little bit since i'd be moving from around 104 PPI to around 108 PPI, however, it seems like most of the displays tend to be curved, which might help keep the sides of the screen from being too far away to see well.for racing and flight sims, I would be tempted to flank it with a couple more displays, but, really want to go down to single display for this PC...

Thanks for sharing

 

[mnewsham]

I might have to scale things up in windows a little bit since i'd be moving from around 104 PPI to around 108 PPI

Within 5 PPI is going to be hardly noticeable, and since windows GUI scaling only goes by 25% increments, it simply wouldn't really be worth it to GUI scale, just move it slightly closer if you need to.

 

[john3850]

Nice looking anyways.

 

[Hans Gruber]

I didn't take the 3 displays side by side or even the same resolution. I have a 43" TCL 4k TV mounted to the wall front and center and a 1440P 144hz 31.5" curved gaming monitor on a gas spring arm drilled into the top left side of my desk. On the right side a 27" 1080P monitor with a gas spring arm drilled into the right side of my desk. It's kind of like a dentist office, I can move the monitors around a couple of feet.

I could not go back to a single monitor.