- Feb 25, 2014
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1. What Is Your Country Of Origin?
Minnesota - United States
2. What do you plan to do with this monitor? (ex. Games, Movie Watching, Photo Editing, etc.)
* Software Development
* Photoshop Work
* Potentially watch movies.
3. What resolution and screen size do you want?
I originally wanted to do a 20-30-20 PLP setup. (30" @ 2560x1600 and 2 x 20" @ 1600x1200).
It turns out people don't make 1600x1200 anymore. The ones they do make are well over $1000 /ea.
I'm pretty sure I want at least one portrait monitor for software so I can see many more lines of code at once.
I also want at least one landscape monitor because viewing webpages or doing Photoshop work on a portrait monitor sucks.
Anyway, If I can't get a sweet setup right now, I'd rather just settle for what I can get now and upgrade 4 or 5 years from now to 4k monitors when they're much cheaper.
4. What refresh rate do you want? (ex. 60 hz , 70 hz.)
Doesn't matter. 60hz would be nice.
5. How much are you looking to spend?
Total with a monitor stand, I'm hoping to keep this under $800.
6. Brands Preferred (ex. Samsung, Acer, Asus, AOC, HP, Viewsonic, etc. )
N/A.
7. Brands Not Preferred (state reason why)
N/A.
8. Are You Buying More Than One Monitor?
Yes. At least one portrait and one landscape.
9. How Many Displays Can Your GPU Support Maximum? And what GPU and driver version are you using if applicable?
It's a new build. I haven't totally solidified my GPU quite yet.
Budgeting ~ $200 for a GPU. Right now I have it set to the GTX 660 but I'm open to opinions.
I'll be running an i7-4770k if that helps.
10. What Port Do You Want To Connect To (ex. DVI-D, HDMI, etc).
Doesn't matter. Something good for the future. (HDMI, DVI-D, thunderbolt (ha)). Not DVI or VGA preferably unless you can convince me otherwise.
11. Is This Monitor A Primary Display Or A Secondary Display?
Primary displays.
12. Is This A Secondary Display For A Laptop? No.
Noticed this didn't ask about color, etc.
My photoshop work isn't too serious. I don't need perfect color. I just need something that won't hurt my eyes after looking at it all day. Also, better than HD is preferable. 1080 is a minimum for coding.
Thank you!
-Billy
Minnesota - United States
2. What do you plan to do with this monitor? (ex. Games, Movie Watching, Photo Editing, etc.)
* Software Development
* Photoshop Work
* Potentially watch movies.
3. What resolution and screen size do you want?
I originally wanted to do a 20-30-20 PLP setup. (30" @ 2560x1600 and 2 x 20" @ 1600x1200).
It turns out people don't make 1600x1200 anymore. The ones they do make are well over $1000 /ea.
I'm pretty sure I want at least one portrait monitor for software so I can see many more lines of code at once.
I also want at least one landscape monitor because viewing webpages or doing Photoshop work on a portrait monitor sucks.
Anyway, If I can't get a sweet setup right now, I'd rather just settle for what I can get now and upgrade 4 or 5 years from now to 4k monitors when they're much cheaper.
4. What refresh rate do you want? (ex. 60 hz , 70 hz.)
Doesn't matter. 60hz would be nice.
5. How much are you looking to spend?
Total with a monitor stand, I'm hoping to keep this under $800.
6. Brands Preferred (ex. Samsung, Acer, Asus, AOC, HP, Viewsonic, etc. )
N/A.
7. Brands Not Preferred (state reason why)
N/A.
8. Are You Buying More Than One Monitor?
Yes. At least one portrait and one landscape.
9. How Many Displays Can Your GPU Support Maximum? And what GPU and driver version are you using if applicable?
It's a new build. I haven't totally solidified my GPU quite yet.
Budgeting ~ $200 for a GPU. Right now I have it set to the GTX 660 but I'm open to opinions.
I'll be running an i7-4770k if that helps.
10. What Port Do You Want To Connect To (ex. DVI-D, HDMI, etc).
Doesn't matter. Something good for the future. (HDMI, DVI-D, thunderbolt (ha)). Not DVI or VGA preferably unless you can convince me otherwise.
11. Is This Monitor A Primary Display Or A Secondary Display?
Primary displays.
12. Is This A Secondary Display For A Laptop? No.
Noticed this didn't ask about color, etc.
My photoshop work isn't too serious. I don't need perfect color. I just need something that won't hurt my eyes after looking at it all day. Also, better than HD is preferable. 1080 is a minimum for coding.
Thank you!
-Billy
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