Need a little advice.

I'm building a new computer; it's going to be used for video editing/effects. I'm wondering what the benifits of running dual monitors are and if it is worth the price to invest in 2, or just use 1?

why not use 3??

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http://www.matrox.com/graphics/offhome/th2go/home.cfm

For video editing, I'd stick with one moniter, but get a super huge widescreen one.

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Originally posted by Kai:
For video editing, I'd stick with one moniter, but get a super huge widescreen one.

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Super huge widescreen? I'm not made of money.
2 17" Viewsonics go for about $430. The best 20" I can find is about $440.
Between the 2 of those, which would be the better deal?

20"

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Originally posted by Kai:
20"

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I personally havent used a dual monitor setup that much, but some programmers I know find it useful for their work. My old roomate had a set up like that, he mainly used it to watch movies while surfing the web. I currently have a 17" LCD, im considering getting a better/bigger one sometime in the next year or so, if I do that I'll probably use my current monitor as a secondary.

Just get what I'm getting.

Samsung SyncMaster 320P 32" 8ms HDCP LCD
http://tinyurl.com/lqmqp

It's awesome.

Eh dual monitor comes in use from time to time. Usually when playing games, one game for one monitor and instant messaging for the other. So I know when people message me and see if I need to get out of the game to text back or not.

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Originally posted by Grammar_Whore:
Eh dual monitor comes in use from time to time. Usually when playing games, one game for one monitor and instant messaging for the other. So I know when people message me and see if I need to get out of the game to text back or not.

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Or you can just run the game windows, if that is an option.

That 32" screen sucks, its resolution is waaaaay to low.

I personally have dual screen(17" lcd and 19"crt) i frikkin love it, IM on one screen surf on the other, its also very handy when doing 3D modelling or stuff like that, i would take 2 medium sized monitors over one big low res one every day.

[This message has been edited by Tod (edited 03-19-2006).]

Yeah I love my dual monitors, your effiencency doubles. If you have the cash I'd say that is definetly worth it.

I love dual monitors. I have 2 20" CRT monitors hooked up now. I used to have them, and a 15" too. My main card is a 128mb Geforce and the other one is some old pci card. They both run 124x768 @32 bit. I can get my main monitor up to 1920x1200, and I sometimes do!
I usually have my brouser window on the main one and MSN and WMP on the other.

I use dual monitors with a 19" samsung LCD, and a 17" some blah crap monitor (soon to be upgraded to another 19" samsung LCD). I love it, you have alot more workspace doing anything. Gaming, websurfing, image/video/sound editing. Even when i'm DJing it helps alot having a folder with all my songs in it, and Traktor on the other monitor. It's great.