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Worth adding an ultrawide into an existing multimonitor set up?

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I am really considering purchasing an ultrawide, but am wondering if its worth adding into my existing multimonitor set up (2x Dell u2713hm's). I wonder if it'll look odd having slightly mismatched monitors, and I wonder if I should just dump the u2713's for 1 ultrawide.

 

What have other multimonitor user done?

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I just got a LG 29"  21:9 monitor, and I must say its pretty nice..  I could definetly see where using a couple of 27" monitors off to the sides would be very nice, but all I have is one r290 gpu.

CPU:I5-6600k@4.5ghz/AMD FX8350 CPU Cooler:Croyrig H5u/CM Hyper 212evo GPU:Sapphire Nitro Fury/MSI R290 Gamer Motherboard:Gigabyte GA-Z170x Gaming5/Gigabyte 990fxa ud3 Memory:16g Gskillddr4 3000/16gb Gskill Ripjaws DDR2400 HardDrives:Samsung 850evo m.2 250gig/Samsung 850 Pro 120gig, WD 1tb Black Monitor: LG29um55

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What are you doing with it?

 

Why not a third u2713?  Those look way better than my current 24" Dell monitors.

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I have 5 monitors (on two computers), and they are all different. Doesn't look weird to me. (If you want a picture, please ask)

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I am really considering purchasing an ultrawide, but am wondering if its worth adding into my existing multimonitor set up (2x Dell u2713hm's). I wonder if it'll look odd having slightly mismatched monitors, and I wonder if I should just dump the u2713's for 1 ultrawide.

 

What have other multimonitor user done?

if they are the same or similar height it suod be fine, ive actually thought about this aswell

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I have 5 monitors (on two computers), and they are all different. Doesn't look weird to me. (If you want a picture, please ask)

pics plez

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pics plez

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PC SPECS: CPU: Intel Core i7 3770k @4.4GHz - Mobo: Asrock Extreme 4 (Z77) - GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 680 Twin Frozr 2GB - RAM: Crucial Ballistix 2x4GB (8GB) 1600MHz CL8 + 1x8GB - Storage: SSD: Sandisk Extreme II 120GB. HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB - PSU: be quiet! Pure Power L8 630W semi modular  - Case: Corsair Obsidian 450D  - OS: Windows 7

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What are you doing with it?

 

Why not a third u2713?  Those look way better than my current 24" Dell monitors.

 

Photo and video editing. I'm considering a third u2713hm just because theyre so cheap now. But I love the look of the ultrawide.

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if they are the same or similar height it suod be fine, ive actually thought about this aswell

 

I honestly don't know if the heights match. I am tempted to go to the store and check.

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AYK1aOi.jpeg

 

This looks like it was a mission to get aligned within Windows. Looks cool.

 

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This looks like it was a mission to get aligned within Windows. Looks cool.

 

Wasn't too difficult, as the left two screens are for a different computer than the right three screens. Thanks :)

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