Multimonitor

[apaar123]

I have seen almost people use dual or triple monitor setup but I have never understood its excitement or use. I will be buying a 4k monitor as my main monitor but I might be 1080p monitors extra if it is worth it. So is dual/triple.monitor setup worth it for me? How can it help me?

[Randomguy1911]

depends on what you would use it for.

eg. gaming: main monitor is game and secondary is for discord or teamspeak or such stuff.

for working/studying it is useful to have more screen real estate so you can have more documents or webpages open at the same time without having to switch tabs 

[apaar123]

Well I will be using for gaming,work,editing,studying etc

[HunterSkater429]

i use three just so i can do more then just play a game, i can play a game and watch videos at the same time, kinda the only need for them is if you want to do more then one thing at a time and dont want to cram 4 different applications on the same moniter giving you no room to use them proficiently  

 

so its worth it if you need it

[Wano97]

3 minutes ago, apaar123 said:

Well I will be using for gaming,work,editing,studying etc

Not having to resize all different programs u wanna see? Just drag each app to the top of each screen if u want to fullscreen them

[Enderman]

Just now, HunterSkater429 said:

i use three just so i can do more then just play a game, i can play a game and watch videos at the same time, kinda the only need for them is if you want to do more then one thing at a time and dont want to cram 4 different applications on the same moniter giving you no room to use them proficiently  

Unless you get a bigger higher resolution monitor, then it's basically like 4 separate monitors together

[apaar123]

I will be getting a 32 inch 4k and I don't wanna use all of them together

[HunterSkater429]

1 hour ago, Enderman said:

Unless you get a bigger higher resolution monitor, then it's basically like 4 separate monitors together

trueee but I feel multiple would be better, wouldn't have to have applications all cornered or split screen,

 

gaming on huge monitors not my cup of tea, 

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, HunterSkater429 said:

trueee but I feel multiple would be better, wouldn't have to have applications all cornered or split screen,

 

gaming on huge monitors not my cup of tea, 

There's pretty much no difference between using 4 monitors or just putting 4 windows on a large screen.

The benefit is no bezels when watching videos/movies or gaming, and a much larger and immersive 16:9 image.

[apaar123]

I think 2 monitors will be more than enough for me because I won't be doing lot of multitasking but will a 1080p monitor will be good in support of a 4k monitor of should a buys cheap 4k?

[User Name]

I have a 4k next to a 34" 1080 ultrawide. What I will say that can get annoying is windows 10 scaling. I run the 4k at 150% and sometimes apps will for no reason at all go 150% know the 1080 monitor. This happens to me often. Also moving a window from 1 screen to another can be strange. I think if the dpi is the same or close it is great but if not just know that this can be somewhat annoying 

[HunterSkater429]

1 hour ago, Enderman said:

There's pretty much no difference between using 4 monitors or just putting 4 windows on a large screen.

The benefit is no bezels when watching videos/movies or gaming, and a much larger and immersive 16:9 image.

to each their own, id pick multiple over one big one just becase when I do use it for one application only I rather not have it be enormous or have to keep its windows so its not so big. 

 

1 hour ago, apaar123 said:

I think 2 monitors will be more than enough for me because I won't be doing lot of multitasking but will a 1080p monitor will be good in support of a 4k monitor of should a buys cheap 4k?

1080p is fine, i like having my main to be bigger and nice and have cheaper side monitors,

 

my main is a 27inch freesync 1440p monitor and my side two are cheap $100 1080p monitors,

 

only downside to using different ones is if you have three and want to use it for gaming on all three I dont think it will work, doesn't for me atleast 

[apaar123]

I will be using only 1 for gaming which might be 32inch 4k and other for some other tasks 

[Guest]

I have three monitors as it's useful for streaming (chat, discord, spotify on left monitor, game on middle, Twitch dashboard and browser on the right). 

 

I also use my middle monitor for my PS4, so I can use my PC on the left and right monitors whilst gaming on console whenever I do so.

[apaar123]

For chat I might need a dual monitor but for rest now elgato has released streaming deck 

[Salacious B Crum]

I have 3 of the same brand and model and love it nice to have editing software running on 1 Facebook/twitter/email on 1 and weather radar/ITunes /anything else you can think of on the other I am not really a gamer but I have played a few and liked turning them to surround as the 2 ends are tilted inward so it gives you peripheral vision during game play pretty neat stuff!

[Mick Naughty]

I game on three. Unless im forced to play on one, then its a handicap. Cant shoot what you cant see but I only play fps games. Even just watching youtube or anything else I prefer a second monitor so I can watch stuff in full screen and surf the web or work on the other monitors. No reason not to have 2 or more monitors.

[elkenrod]

Once you go Mult-monitor, it's hard to go back.

 

Using one large monitor to simulate separate monitors doesn't quite work out the way that the marketing intends it to.

[apaar123]

Pros of cons of monitor in portrait mode ?

[Salacious B Crum]

4 hours ago, apaar123 said:

Pros of cons of monitor in portrait mode ?

This one is a little more difficult to recommend, I had 1 in portrait and 2 in landscape it made for a unique perspective for instance if you get large amounts of email, or you frequently communicate on Facebook or similar situation the aspect of the screen is a plus because you cane see many of your replies along with the responses, I did find that some web pages didn't format the way I would like them to and made you scroll around more best suggestion is to try it and see if it fits your style/workload