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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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[–] theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For gaming the GPU is for sure very important. But office work and so also a iGPU should be able to handle 1440p right?

But yes, using two screens with the same size but different resolution will always feel weird. I should consider this and settle for one resolution and size.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, no problem. I ran dual 4k displays of of Intel HD 4600 for years.

I'd say spend decent money on your main monitor, then just find some random trash picked display for a secondary later on. I'm using my 28" 4k 144hz display next to a 1280x1024 display. Having two different resolutions isn't too bad, but you will want their scaling settings to match. Windows handles mixed scaling resolutions relatively well, but some programs still dont.

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

Yeah I think I will do that. I will get a double monitor arm and use my current monitor (it has the screwholes for VESA, I just found out) and use that for a bit to test out the tilting and turning and height change. Then I will try to figure out if I want a 27" or just go with a 24".

I saw a 24" IPS 1440p 180Hz screen for AOC so I will keep that saved for now.