The most suitable monitor for me? Putting your knowledge to the test!

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1. What Is Your Country Of Origin?
UK

2. What do you plan to do with this monitor? (ex. Games, Movie Watching, Photo Editing, etc.)
Equally gaming and photo editing.

3. What resolution and screen size do you want?
I'd prefer around 24"

4. What refresh rate do you want? (ex. 60 hz , 70 hz.)
As high as possible whilst maintaining graphical fidelity

5. How much are you looking to spend?
£500 per monitor if three, £650 if two and £1100 if one

6. Brands Preferred (ex. Samsung, Acer, Asus, AOC, HP, Viewsonic, etc. )
No

7. Brands Not Preferred (state reason why)
None

8. Are You Buying More Than One Monitor?
I'd like to buy two or three

9. How Many Displays Can Your GPU Support Maximum? And what GPU and driver version are you using if applicable?
I'll be using - Evga gtx 980 SC SLI

10. What Port Do You Want To Connect To (ex. DVI-D, HDMI, etc).
Whichever is best

11. Is This Monitor A Primary Display Or A Secondary Display?
Primary (I want all identical displays or at least near identical)

12. Is This A Secondary Display For A Laptop?
No
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So far I'm thinking of getting three EIZO FS2434s, I would link but my phone is playing up.
 
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I think you are looking at one or three monitors for gaming.
Two leaves some sort of a blind spot right in the middle where you are aiming or whatever. Most games will scale to many resolutions. Few games will use two monitors. It depends on the game so check that out if you will play just one game.

With funds not an issue, I might look at a 27-30-32" g.sync enabled 4k monitor for gaming, and a similarly sized 1440P side monitor.
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What about input lag, Response time etc, I can blow plenty on a design monitor but I want decent gaming capabilities as well

Regardless, pretty sexy monitor
 
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With such serious graphics muscle, you can run whatever you want.
If you will be playing games that are triple monitor enabled, the ezio units you named would be good.
On the other hand, 4k gaming is coming. Look for one of the new g.sync enabled 4k monitors as a primary gaming monitor. Larger is better. Add a similar sized regular monitor as a side monitor for email, performance monitors...etc.
 
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Should be more than good enough, however you cannot have best of both worlds.

TN panel will give you response than you cannot get from an IPS/PLS, but they dont look anywhere near as nice and the colour production for design work would be crap.
 
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Got any links? I might do as you suggested, it's not half bad.

Although, I'm only slightly competitive, I don't play FPS shooters at all. I play Dota 2, console games, Eve Online etc...

Ideally I'm looking for 3 IPS monitors that are decent for gaming, views on the EIZO FS2434?
 
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How much desk space do you have?
I am guessing that the eizo will be about 22" wide.
Three of them will be a wall 66" wide.
I like the small bezel of the ezio monitors.
I can't comment on the quality which should be ok. Look for some reviews.

If you can, go look at a 4k monitor in person. You will be amazed.
I am planning on one, once I can find one 40"-50" with 60fps capability. I feat that anything smaller will have text too small to read well.

Since you will not be doing fast action shooters and such, then the slower ips monitors will be fine. A gaming monitor is usually considered to be one with fast response times.
For normal strategy games which is what I do, ips is fine.
I have two ips monitors; a nixeus vue 30" 2560 x 1600 and a yamakazi Sparta 301 from Korea. They are identical in performance and quality.
A GTX780 runs them well, I think a single GTX980 would be more than enough.
These monitors measure 17" across the bottom.
Do you have room for 81" across your desk?
Or... could you use portrait mode which would be 18" along the bottom each.

Another interesting choice, a 34" double wide monitor:
http://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-34UM95-P-ultrawide-monitor?cmpid=2014HEMonitor_SEM_US_Google_Generic_new_Generic_016&gclid=CMGbhtih-sACFaQ7Mgod4QMA_w

 
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Yes I have room on my desk.

I'd like to be able to see a wide field perspective of the games I play, like what triple monitors bring, I'd see about 60" horizontally.

But as stated in this thread, I'd lack the graphics for design because of the 1080p monitors... I'd buy two 1440p 30" monitors if the bezel didn't exist in the middle as that'd be perfect...

Also, don't a lot of the 34" monitors just scale (magnify) everything up? Or would you see a lot of the periphery?

Such a hard choice.

 
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I think you are looking at one or three monitors for gaming.
Two leaves some sort of a blind spot right in the middle where you are aiming or whatever. Most games will scale to many resolutions. Few games will use two monitors. It depends on the game so check that out if you will play just one game.

With funds not an issue, I might look at a 27-30-32" g.sync enabled 4k monitor for gaming, and a similarly sized 1440P side monitor.
 
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