Monitors: two smaller vs. one bigger

[legocitytruck]

What size single monitor equals two smaller 19" monitors? Would it be 22" or 25" or .... Can this determination be made on area alone?

Also, how do you know if you will exceed the maximum output of the on board video of most newer motherboards?

 

[brianlee2007]

i dont think such comparison can be made b/c there are no exact equalivance 2x 19"... nor is there way for one monitor to make sure for the convenience of having two monitor OR the other way around for 2 smaller monitor to make up for the real estate of a larger monitor. to your second question, when you exceed the max resolution supported by a monitor, the monitor will likely to stay black with no signal sign showing. under your settings the max resolution displayed is the max resolution supported by the motherboard/video card... these are some rather odd and confusing questions..

 

[brblx]

if you go by pixel area, any 1920x1200 monitor is going to be about the size of two 19" (1440x900) monitors.

 

[somethingsketchy]

Originally posted by: legocitytruck
What size single monitor equals two smaller 19" monitors? Would it be 22" or 25" or .... Can this determination be made on area alone?

Well as brianlee and brblx have mentioned there is exact comparison with 2x 19" monitors. You can always get a nice 30" LCD monitor and it might equal the combined resolution of the 19" monitors. With that in mind you would be better off going with some bigger monitors (i.e. 21" and up). I personally use 2x 22" Acer monitors for school work and personal projects.

Also, how do you know if you will exceed the maximum output of the on board video of most newer motherboards?

It's a little difficult to answer this question as it is subjective to personal preferences. Most motherboards nowadays don't have integrated video (unless you specific buy a motherboard with integrated video), but if you have a discrete videocard with two display outputs, usually it would be:

The number of Videocard Slots (on the mobo) x Maximum Resolution Per Slot(i.e. 2560 x 1600) x Number of Video Output connectors.

However trying to play videogames with multiple monitors at a high resolution can have a significant impact on the frame rate.

 

[WildHorse]

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