What size of monitor are you using?

[_Randolph93]

Single 24" Benq, I don't understand how can people use multi-monitor setup and not get bothered with the frames haha.

[wavn]

Take a very long and hard look, in person, at ultra wide monitors. Yes, the wide view is nice but the increase in screen space is only about 1/3 more than a 16/9, while the down side is that it is only about 14" tall.

 

If I played racing sims, I might think UW would be great. However, since a flight sim is a more three dimensional (in terms of the fact that up and down views are as important as left and right) environment, I feel that you sacrifice far to much vertical view for what little you gain in horizontal view.

 

Three full HD panels, side-by-side, is a completely different thing and you don't even come close to it with a single UW panel.

 

EDIT: I play with a single 40" 4k monitor for display and a 22" touch screen below, for Helios. Otherwise I have an Oculus Rift.

 

There, you have a point (with the 40" monitor): I'am still in doubt: buying the 40" (not curved, but bigger overall) or buying the 34" (curved)...........

 

Edit: may I use this topic, to ask some more advices about using the 34" curved or the 40" 4k flat monitor?

Edited September 16, 2016 by wavn

[Icefalcon]

25" Acer G257HU 25-Inch WQHD (2560 x 1440) Widescreen Monitor. 2K monitor, not as fancey as the 4K ones, but good enough resolution, got it earlier 2016 for $250. Couldn't afford a 4K, they were still in the $600+ range. Big noticeable difference between the 2K and the 1920x1080 I was using.

[cichlidfan]

My personal feeling, just from looking at them in stores, is that a curved monitor provides a 'very' limited improvement over a flat panel. For the difference in price I just can't see it as being a viable choice unless cost is not significant to you. This is definitely a case where size does matter, IMHO.

[wavn]

Thanks cichlidfan: must decide in the coming time about a whole new system: PC and monitor.

[wavn]

My existing LG 30" is broken and unrepairable.

For the time beiing (until I buy a complete new system), I now plan to buy an Iiama 27" / 2560*1440

[Pilotasso]

27" ASUS PB278Q IPS 1440P

 

Huge difference to my previous 1080 27".

Edited September 18, 2016 by Pilotasso

[Von Esch]

3 24" Asus PA248Q's. I really liked the 1920x1200 for the little bit extra real estate and the matte screen. Beautiful color reproduction.

[Cibit]

I hijacked the family TV 40" 1080p I could not go back to my Dell 27" monitor even though the graphics are marginally better, the experience is not one to give up easily:)

[wavn]

Still doubting which monitor to buy for my current system:

- Iiyama 27" / 2560*1440 (B2783QSU-B1)

- Samsung 28" / 3840*2160 (U28E590DS)

the price difference is only about Eur 60,--

 

My current system is:

-I7 950 / 3.07

- AMD 6990 / 4Gb

 

Any advices?

 

I plan to buy a new system and don 't know yet if I also buy then a bigger monitor such as 40"

Edited September 18, 2016 by wavn

[Von Esch]

Still doubting which monitor to buy for my current system:

- Iiyama 27" / 2560*1440 (B2783QSU-B1)

- Samsung 28" / 3840*2160 (U28E590DS)

the price difference is only about Eur 60,--

 

My current system is:

-I7 950 / 3.07

- AMD 6990 / 4Gb

 

Any advices?

 

I plan to buy a new system and don 't know yet if I also buy then a bigger monitor such as 40"

Monitor size won't affect your performance. Resolution will. You can always see what kind of performance hit you'll take with your current card super sampling to 4K

[frodrigues2016]

i use 3 monitors

 

2 24" fullhd and a 3rd 22"

[wavn]

Just bought the Samsung 28" / 3840*2160