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.
It depends more on the specs of your computer imo. If you have a GTX 1050 you should probably should stick to a smaller 1080p display. If you have something that can actually run your games then yeah get a bigger 1440p.
That said I had a 25” 1440p display for years and I loved it. Just high enough ppi that you don’t need scaling in windows. But you can absolutely tell the difference in game. You pretty much don’t need anti aliasing. 2x and the game looks flawless.
That said I’m a heavy multi tasker and I need two screens.
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.
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.
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.