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Right now I have a 1080p 150hz (yes 150) monitor, another 1080p ips monitor, a corsair strafe non rgb with brown switches, a 10$ decent leather chair from goodwill and my mom has a shitty office chair hand me down basically, i have a galaxy s6 and i wanna use my phone in the shower, a g900 chaos spectrum. I want a third monitor for watching content like anime, youtube, linus and a little bit of productivity, my mom just broke her keyboard by spilling water on it and if i got a new kb i would give her my old one. (Sry for wall of text) now for the options. My budget is around 160$, i can go like 15$ over, id prefer ebay or refurbished/used stuff if its better and no tax lol. If you have any suggestions for something better at the same price then go ahead and tell me.

 

M50x - 117.95 New, openbox

GT racing chair / Techni Sport chair 159.99 (i can get a deal on them, my team is sponsored)

LG 29UM67 29" 2560x1080 175$ Refurbished

Sceptre C278W-1920R 27" 1080p 1800R 157.84 New (maybe the 32" or if you have anything big for a similar price)

Samsung CF390 24" 1080p 1800R 149.99 Refurbished

Corsair K95 Platinum RGB MX Speed 169.99 New

3ds, dslite, games 160$ Refurbished/Used

 

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@Ashiella As you probably know from me already ultrawides are the best for a main screen however due to your interest laying on a screen mainly for YouTube and Anime 16:9 aspect ratio does makes better sense, it mostly depends on how distant you'll be from the screen, if you'll watch sitting right in front of it I'd go 24inches Samsung one but if you plan on like lying down on bed or sofa with a comfortable distance the 27inches Sceptre would fit nicer.

 

I would not get a 32 inches 1080p monitor though, as pixelation is fairly big and not worth it... might as well buy an used 40'' 42'' 1080p TV and watch from a comfortable distance.

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CPU: Intel Core i7 10700K @5ghz |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock Pro 4 |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Z490UD ATX|~| RAM: 16gb DDR4 3333mhzCL16 G.Skill Trident Z |~| GPU: RX 6900XT Sapphire Nitro+ |~| PSU: Corsair TX650M 80Plus Gold |~| Boot:  SSD WD Green M.2 2280 240GB |~| Storage: 1x3TB HDD 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda + SanDisk Ultra 3D 1TB |~| Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini |~| Display: Toshiba UL7A 4K/60hz |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro.

Luna, the temporary Desktop:

CPU: AMD R9 7950XT  |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock 4 Pro |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Aorus Master |~| RAM: 32G Kingston HyperX |~| GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX (Reference) |~| PSU: Corsair HX1000 80+ Platinum |~| Windows Boot Drive: 2x 512GB (1TB total) Plextor SATA SSD (RAID0 volume) |~| Linux Boot Drive: 500GB Kingston A2000 |~| Storage: 4TB WD Black HDD |~| Case: Cooler Master Silencio S600 |~| Display 1 (leftmost): Eizo (unknown model) 1920x1080 IPS @ 60Hz|~| Display 2 (center): BenQ ZOWIE XL2540 1920x1080 TN @ 240Hz |~| Display 3 (rightmost): Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 3840x2160 IPS @ 60Hz 10-bit |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro (games / art) + Linux (distro: NixOS; programming and daily driver)
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2 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

@Ashiella As you probably know from me already ultrawides are the best for a main screen however due to your interest laying on a screen mainly for YouTube and Anime 16:9 aspect ratio does makes better sense, it mostly depends on how distant you'll be from the screen, if you'll watch sitting right in front of it I'd go 24inches Samsung one but if you plan on like lying down on bed or sofa with a comfortable distance the 27inches Sceptre would fit nicer.

 

I would not get a 32 inches 1080p monitor though, as pixelation is fairly big and not worth it... might as well buy an used 40'' 42'' 1080p TV and watch from a comfortable distance.

I like to l33n back in my chair, my 24" looks too small from that distance, i have my pc and my 21" perfectly in my view, but the samsungs colour is supposed to be nice af, right now its the UW vs the samsung i think, the Uw is equal to the 24" vertically right?

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5 minutes ago, Ashiella said:

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Yes vertically it is the same height as a 24,5inch 16:9 monitor I personally always liked mine 29UM68-P I think it is super balanced size wise not to mention 29 inches is the only size 2560x1080p is actually good.

Personal Desktop":

CPU: Intel Core i7 10700K @5ghz |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock Pro 4 |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Z490UD ATX|~| RAM: 16gb DDR4 3333mhzCL16 G.Skill Trident Z |~| GPU: RX 6900XT Sapphire Nitro+ |~| PSU: Corsair TX650M 80Plus Gold |~| Boot:  SSD WD Green M.2 2280 240GB |~| Storage: 1x3TB HDD 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda + SanDisk Ultra 3D 1TB |~| Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini |~| Display: Toshiba UL7A 4K/60hz |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro.

Luna, the temporary Desktop:

CPU: AMD R9 7950XT  |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock 4 Pro |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Aorus Master |~| RAM: 32G Kingston HyperX |~| GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX (Reference) |~| PSU: Corsair HX1000 80+ Platinum |~| Windows Boot Drive: 2x 512GB (1TB total) Plextor SATA SSD (RAID0 volume) |~| Linux Boot Drive: 500GB Kingston A2000 |~| Storage: 4TB WD Black HDD |~| Case: Cooler Master Silencio S600 |~| Display 1 (leftmost): Eizo (unknown model) 1920x1080 IPS @ 60Hz|~| Display 2 (center): BenQ ZOWIE XL2540 1920x1080 TN @ 240Hz |~| Display 3 (rightmost): Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 3840x2160 IPS @ 60Hz 10-bit |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro (games / art) + Linux (distro: NixOS; programming and daily driver)
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6 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Yes vertically it is the same height as a 24,5inch 16:9 monitor I personally always liked mine 29UM68-P I think it is super balanced size wise not to mention 29 inches is the only size 2560x1080p is actually good.

Are movies nice to watch like that? I dislike black bars, i was gonna try for a 4k 28" but no one wants to loan me 75$

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Cpu: Ryzen 9 3900x @ 1.1v / Motherboard: Asus Prime X570-P / Ram: 32GB 3000Mhz 16-16-16-36 Team Vulcan (4x8GB) / Storage: 1x 1TB Lite-on EP2, 2x 128GB PM851 SSD, 3x 1TB WD Blues / Gpu: GTX Titan X (Pascal) / Case: Corsair 400c Carbide / Psu: Corsair RMi 750w / OS: Windows 10

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