Two monitor setup, need some advice.

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Wagzy

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Hey, So I have a Asus PB278Q monitor and I'm wanting to add a second monitor to make my life easier whilst gaming etc.

I was thinking of getting a cheap monitor compared to the $600 I have, I was looking at the Asus 24inch 1080p which is only $189. Since my main one is 1440p and the second one is only 1080p, it should still show the second one as 1440p resolution as well right?

I'm pretty certain it does, I'd just thought Id check before I went and bought it. I don't want 2 monitors with different resolution.
 
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No, your second monitor will not be 1440p just because you pair it up with one that is. Pixels are physical spots on an LCD screen that are immutable -- they physically exist as a part of a screen and cannot move or change shape or number. If a monitor has a resolution of 1920x1080 (1080p), it means that there are 1,920 columns and 1,080 rows of pixels that physically exist there. They cannot be created or removed from a screen. Even when you play a game on a 1080p monitor at, for example, a resolution of 1280x720 (720p), there monitor still has a physical resolution of 1920x1080. All that's happened is that a game renders the image in 720p, and then it's blown up or stretched out to fill the rest of your 1920x1080 screen. This is known...
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No, your second monitor will not be 1440p just because you pair it up with one that is. Pixels are physical spots on an LCD screen that are immutable -- they physically exist as a part of a screen and cannot move or change shape or number. If a monitor has a resolution of 1920x1080 (1080p), it means that there are 1,920 columns and 1,080 rows of pixels that physically exist there. They cannot be created or removed from a screen. Even when you play a game on a 1080p monitor at, for example, a resolution of 1280x720 (720p), there monitor still has a physical resolution of 1920x1080. All that's happened is that a game renders the image in 720p, and then it's blown up or stretched out to fill the rest of your 1920x1080 screen. This is known as upscaling, and this is why you may have noticed that certain things, such as a standard definition (480p) movie, look slightly better on a standard definition screen rather than a 1080p screen, because the image isn't being upscaled to fit a larger space.

So no, a 1920x1080 monitor cannot have a 1440p resolution, unfortunately. You can have a game render at 1440p and display it on a 1080p monitor, but the image will then be downscaled to 1080p in the process of displaying it and a good amount of detail will be lost.
 
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