Which monitor to use?

[PilotA256]

Hi all,

 

So I've got my new laptop recently, it has a 17" 1080p IPS display, which I currently use to display Spotify and teamspeak, and I have it hooked up to my 24" LG D2342 (1080p LCD) via HDMI, which I currently use for the game I'm playing.

 

I've been wondering though, for games (dota 2 basically), which one would you personally use? Ordinarily I'd go straight for the 24" one because it is bigger, but it's a relatively speaking low quality compared to my laptop screen.

I'm not sure whether to place a weight on quality or that bit of extra size, so if anyone has an opinion either way, that would be good.

 

Thanks,

 

Anthony

[flibberdipper]

I'd use the external for shit like Afterburner, Spotify, and so on and use the laptop as the main one all the time lol

[PilotA256]

Hmm, yeah I just gave it a go, it does appear everything is noticeably nicer on my laptop display, think I'll keep it this way round!

Only took a drastic brightness decrease in my NVidia CP for my external monitor and an increase in Command and Control on my laptop monitor, and now I can focus on my laptop monitor without being distracted by the bigger one

Of course the only issue is that it's a fair distance away because my external keyboard+my laptop keyboard=a big gap, I can get used to that though haha

 

Cheers,

 

Anthony