24" Monitor

[dze_vinda]

morning ladies,

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =MO-028-NE

i was thinking of purchasing 2 of these bad boys to have side by side at home.

is it worth getting them, or (is there/will there be) something better on the market?


cheers in advance

the vindster

[snoopy]

you want to buy me a couple of them as well

[IXL]

Think it would look wierd, being double widescreen. Id get 4 and mount two above...

[Nemes1s]

looks cool only thing i think is u dont really need ur second monitor 2 be that big as well do u ? oh and if u are buying snoopy one il hav one 2 would look great between my two 19" dells lol

[Schlack]

screw 2 X 24

[dze_vinda]

heheh... well i'm a programmer in the real world, so i'm used to working with 2 monitors.... obviously not necessary having 2 for gaming.

but 2 the same would also look better aesthetically.

[dze_vinda]

also - i've been looking at upgrading my keyboard and can't decide between the 2 options below

logitech illuminated keyboard
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001 ... d_i=468294

Saitek Eclipse III Backlit Multimedia Keyboard
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Saitek-Eclipse- ... 504&sr=8-1

i was thinking the logitec one because i do a lot of typing and this is supposed to be pretty good, but i'm not sure it would be that great when playing css and other stuff

i'm torn!!!!

[Mseries3]

Erm... neither

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-G15-Ke ... 652&sr=1-1

[smithster]

yeah i like those low profile keyboards,

i got the razer lycosa

but the WASD keys are wearing out coz its that funny rubber texture coated stuff or whatever.

im liking that logitech one, not the saitek though. In fact i might go get the Logitech one if i can find a shop near my work!

[Legato]

Erm... neither

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-G15-Ke ... 652&sr=1-1

got this, mines blue tho.

great keyboard, tho i dont use all the macro keys.. so tbh its wasted on me.. i just paid $60 because i looked nice and had lights

[Gavac220]

Also got the Logitech, but the painted area above the right arrow key is starting to wear (yes ARROW keys - to hell with you WASD shit )- other than that, by far the best keyboard i've ever had.

[JazzyJay]

I have two LG 22" next to each other and it works a treat. Now because of Windows/games limitations, you cannot easily use the other screen for IM, email etc. while gaming as switching between them can be buggy.

In my opinion, 24" is still too expensive compared to a 22" one.

JJ

[Legato]

I have two LG 22" next to each other and it works a treat. Now because of Windows/games limitations, you cannot easily use the other screen for IM, email etc. while gaming as switching between them can be buggy.

i think thats why god invented Xfire

why you would ever need to be browsing the web or checking emails while gaming has always eluded me.

only thing i could get a use of 2 monitors from would be video editing that would be sweeeeet

[bambam]

I've used multiple monitors for years and IMHO *3* screens is much better than 2, because the center of the combined real estate isn't the crack between two monitors. CSS gives you a wider field of view (see below) rather than just stretch the 4:3 image.





The trick is to use 20" 4:3 monitors (widescreen also works tho) and Matrox triplehead2go (200 quid). Your graphics card thinks you have a single screen and all the acceleration still works efficiently, unlike trying to plug multiple screens into multiple cards.. the th2go card maxes out at 5040x1050 resolution which is a lot but less than the max resolution of the screens you could buy. I run *my* th2go at 3840x1024 because that gives me good CSS fps and higher is too much for my 8800GT (each of my screens is natively 1600x1200 so I throw some of that away). *Everyone* that uses th2go agrees it's totally badass for gaming - for desktop use there's a compromise on the max resolution.

[Legato]

and people thing having skins is hacking!!!

look how much more BamBam can see than the rest of us!!!

pfffft!





im actually just jealous mate, im deffo tempted to stick 2 together for a bit of hardcore big screen gaming, wish i could do this with the sexbox360 tho i dont think its possible tho is it?