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Triple Monitor setup question

If they are 3 individual display pipes, you can plug in 3 different monitors - they don't need to be alike in way.

I have a 16x12, 19x10 and 12x10 all connected right now -
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If you are going to use all 3 for gaming, I would suggest sticking with matching size and resolution. It will work mismatched, but it gets annoying when your cursor jumps from one resolution/size to another.

Also keep in mind that the higher spanned resolution is going to cut your frame rate a bit.
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Good to know, assuming I stay with 1920x1080, @23" but go for a LED with a 120hz would this cause any type of grief gaming wise?
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That I don't know.

reply to El Quintron
Compare your fps with one, or two monitors. More memory, cpu power, more gpu power, and more gpu memory.... Those demo systems have chained multiple high-end video cards. Many games likely won't run as well as we would like on more than one monitor, but if they support amd eyefinity there's a better chance they might, however it might only be eyefinity.
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reply to El Quintron
You do not absolutely have to stick with the same monitor, but you'll have some issues otherwise. If you put in a 1920x1200 in the middle, that would likely to be run at 1920x1080 (at least that was the case with my AMD based card) and it will most likely to run only at 60 Hz as well. If you can live with those restrictions, by all means, get a 120Hz, 1920x1200 monitor.

Personally, I have a 27" 1920x1200 monitor in the middle with two 19" 1280x1024 monitors on each side in portrait mode. The 19" monitors run at 1024x1200. The height of the displays are roughly equal, so my 3 monitor setup actually looks OK.
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reply to El Quintron
Asus VE276Q, VE278Q and VK278Q triple 27” (1920x1080) Widescreen Monitor setup (Dual Link DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort).

That’s on an XFX HD 6870 video card. Since they are all the same resolution and frequency there aren’t any inconsistencies.

reply to El Quintron
This is awesome... the only problem I have with this thread is that all of a sudden I want another GTX670... ya know just to future proof my setup.

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reply to El Quintron
I have a 30" Dell 2560 x 1600 LCD sandwiched by two vertical HP 27" 1440 x 2560 's (well, 27" 2560 x 1440 tilted vertically).

I've also purchased displayfusion to get a task bar with start menu on every monitor - »www.displayfusion.com/

Their software is good, but I only use it to provide the 'move to next window' button, something I've been missing since nvidia no longer included nview with their drivers.

On Win 8 you can have a taskbar on every monitor now, and call up the metro start button on every monitor, however having an old style start button is nice.
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Start8 will give you the option for the classic start menu on Win8. Or you can use Ultramon on Win7 to get the taskbar options. It also includes the move to monitor button.

reply to urbanriot

Right but I think the suggestion also extended to resolution not just an issue of physical dimensions,...

Well if you are happy with those monitors I see no reason to replace them,....

One other thing to consider is that the Acer V233H and Acer H233H are more or less value based monitor solutions. As such their stands don't have rotation support that would allow for a vertical configuration in a triple monitor setup.

So unless you already have one you would need to buy a triple monitor stand / mount or two individual monitor stands for your current 23" monitors should you wish vertical monitors at the end of a triple monitor configuration.