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Its 34" and I use it for gaming. I like it.

Its 34" and I use it for gaming. I like it.

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[–] • 5 pts

What I find is that I run out of space vertically, not horizontally. There is so much fucking crap at the top and bottom of the screen on some sites, it's like looking through a letter slot in a door.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts (edited )

I love 16:10 monitors. I got one in my setup right now and it's great for watching videos. The player controls like the progress bar overlaps the letterboxing and none or very little of the video. I imagine they'd be great for video editing as well for the same reason.

[–] • 0 pt

There is so much fucking crap at the top and bottom of the screen on some sites

This

also resizing doesn't help either, the crap just gets bigger

although I'm still moaning why texting involves typing into a 1" square box instead of using the rest of the screen

[–] • 0 pt

Protip: Windows taskbar can be moved to the side rather than along the bottom.

Also, monitors used to be offered in less-rectangular formats, e.g. 1920x1200 (16:10) instead of the usual 1920x1080 (16:9). Damn movie format causes those to be far more popular, pushing up the price of 16:10 monitors.

[–] • 0 pt

If it's something you never use, your browser's adblock can remove it with a custom rule.

[–] • 4 pts

More like ultraGAY

[–] • 1 pt

Really nice for watching movies too if you get one with at least HDR 1000 and use something like mpc-be + madvr to autocrop black bars.

[–] • 1 pt

I've been running 3x 24" monitors for damn near ten years now. I cannot ever imagine changing it.

One monitor for comms and instructions.

Middle for ide

Final monitor for output.

[–] • 0 pt

Easier to just buy one of these and use snap windows: https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-40wp95c-w

Essentially the same thing as your 3x monitors, much cleaner.

[–] • 0 pt (edited )

same, 32" for gaming/video/CAD, flanked by dual 24" monitors for youtube, emails and reference pdf's

Why people use laptops for anything just baffles me, they must just do one thing at a time or something. iPads are fantastic though, I'm carrying one around all day

typing this I'm noticing I probably use computers way too much :/

I thought about an ultrawide, but I don't really need one for gaming, and I think a 16:9 is easier for internet

[–] • 0 pt

Curved?

[–] • 0 pt

And they say size doesn't matter.

[–] • 1 pt

It does matter, 65 inches is just about enough

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

I keep asking people who own these huge ultrawidescreen (21:9 or wider) monitors why they like them and I've yet to hear a good explanation.

Right now I have a 32" monitor in my setup, just a normal 16:9. It's nice for videos but really it's too big. The guy who sold it to me told me it was too big for him and that's why he was selling it cheap. An ultrawidescreen 34" is roughly the same width as my 32" 16:9.

What do you like about it? I assume it's a curved gaming monitor, with low latency, and 144hz refresh rate?

[–] • 0 pt

They are great for gaming because most games support 21:9 and this gives you a huge FOV with less screen movement while playing. Outside of this they just look cool. This is why I like them.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Here's a thought experiment. Let's say you had the same monitor as you do now, except it was taller, adding pixels above and below to make it 16:9. If you wanted to, you could still game on this monitor at 21:9 resolutions with letterboxing, but also giving you a choice to game at 16:9 and giving you more vertical space for web browsing. It would be the same monitor as yours, only taller with more pixels. Would you swap for it?

[–] • 0 pt

I would have to try them each. I'm probably less picky about monitors than most people because 1080p still looks great to me and 75Hz is perfect in my mind. What is important to me is good color accuracy.

[–] • 0 pt

Also no mine isn't fancy. Its a $300 LG IPS not curved and only 75Hz but can OC to around 100Hz. I have never cared about anything over 75Hz.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

High refresh, low latency monitors are really nice for gaming. Once you try them you wouldn't want to go back. One time my frame rate got locked to 60 in a game I often play and it felt very wrong, like I was drunk. It's that big of a difference.

[–] • 0 pt

Eh, depends on what you play. I find most of my games struggle to keep 60fps @ 4K on decent hardware, so it's better to have something like G-sync. Having a higher refresh rate can help a little bit. Plus, I mostly play strategy, so the higher FPS isn't that important.

If you play FPS, for sure, it helps, and most of those games can be adjusted to keep high FPS.

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I had a 4k Asus 144Hz 28" TUF with 1ms response, its actually what I traded for this monitor. This is 5ms and only 75Hz and I cannot tell any difference at all except resolution. I don't competitive game and high refresh rate has just never been something I noticed after 75Hz. My 3060 wasn't powerful enough for the 4k monitor.

[–] • 0 pt

If you code, you can put more simultaneous editor/reader windows across.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Wouldn't a 16:9 be better in that case? Why get an ultrawidescreen 3840x1600 if you can get 3840x2160 for the same price?

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In general, wider is better for putting more windows onscreen across, whereas the amount they can fit on vertically matters less. I don't know about the resolutions. That's sort of a different question than the aspect ratio.

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A bigger monitor is better if you can fit more on screen. A 32" had better be at least 4K to make sense.