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Best monitor setup (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 days ago by theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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I currently use my laptop next to a monitor with 21" but I am thinking about an upgrade. I casually play some light games, nothing competitive. The rest is a lot of reading, office or coding work and some multimedia.

What is a nice setup in your opinion? One big screen with 27" or two smaller ones with 22" or 24" each?

I did some research and found for a 24" screen 1080p and for a 27" screen 1440p as a minimum. So I figured a 24" 1440p screen would look awesome. Do I miss something about this finding? Is 2K too much for 24" to even notice it?

The problem I have is my desk is only 65cm wide and I frequently have a book or a piece of paper between me and the keyboard+monitor. The monitor uses 22cm and the keyboard another 14cm so there is just enough space for a piece of paper. Many of the modern monitors have huge standing feets and there are not always good measurements given.

I also thought about a monitor arm but I don't know if that would help with my small desk or just create more hassle after all.

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[–] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I also have a pretty small desk, and I use a desk mount monitor arm. It's got two arms holding 2x 27" 1440p monitors, which works great. I usually have papers or even another laptop on front of the screens.

Though I recent started to contemplate switching to a 4k ultra wide, since I don't play any competitive games realy, and the single wide monitor seems like it would be sweet for the single player games I do play.

[–] theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What I don't really understand about using ultrawide monitors and gaming: Not all games can scale, how do you handle that? Do you just live with dark-grey to black bars left and right of your game?

And thanks, I should really consider a monitor arm!

[–] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That's a fair point, I didn't see what supports it or not. I guess I like the idea of it more than anything. I guess I have more research to do!