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New Monitor(s) Day!

DJfern94
By DJfern94
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So after working some night shifts at my local ASDA (Walmart) I got enough money together for a monitor upgrade, I set myself a budget of £300 max... 

 

What I eventually decided to go for was two Asus VS239HV monitors with IPS panels coming to a grand total of £260. http://www.asus.com/Monitors_Projectors/VS239HV/

I just thought I would share that with you guys? Also as I am a virgin to the whole multimonitor set up I would like to know, what are the best uses for dual monitors?

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Productivity and having the second display having info of the game you're playing eg: GRID: Autosport and Battlelog Battlescreen.


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snippty do da

 

 

Congrats on your new purchases

 

It really depends, while I have 2 monitors the second one is rarely on. I normally use when playing a game and leaving sometihng open I want to watch like a movie, twitch, youtube, skype etc etc,  or monitoring software

 

Also useful when doing things ike photo or video editing or editing multiple documents

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Congratulations, once you've experienced dual monitors you'll never go back.  Since experiencing dual monitor as a student, its been something I've asked for in every job since graduating.  Indeed just started a new job, and got dual monitors second day - I think some of my colleagues wondered how I did it as none of them have a dual monitor set up.  Its the cheapest way to improve productivity of PC based staff, absolutely love it.  Any time you're working with documents where you're referencing another one, such as writing a policy or strategy which fits underneath or alongside another policy or strategy, I have them both open on each monitor.  Anything with Excel, I typically have on dual monitors.  At home with video/photo editing, just general web browsing - I'll watch a youtube clip on one screen while reading or posting to a forum in another. 

 

Enjoy

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When I'm not gaming I'll typically have Youtube open on my 28-inch, and whatever else I'm looking at at the time on my 24-inch.

 

When I am gaming my 24-inch is largely ignored and all the action is on the 28-inch.

 
 
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