I see so many people with 2 (or more) monitors on here. What do you need more than one monitor for? I have my last monitor (BenQ 1080p 144Hz and my wife uses it to connect to her work laptop when working from home) sitting next to my 4k one, but:
A) What would I need it connected to my PC for?
B) How would I connect and use it like a second monitor?
#help
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3 monitors for Richard Burns Rally cockpit view
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Using 3 monitors is great, i middle one for gaming etc and the other two for steam, Facebook, GTribe, msi afterburner etc etc..
If not gaming, middle one for watching YouTube or movies and the other two for everything else.
I would never go back to just 1 monitor
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There are also games that benefit from a very wide view like driving simulators. To use a second monitor just plug in to a second monitor output on your graphics card. Stupidly many GPUs have different types of graphics port on them. you may need an adapter for a second monitor
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streamers need multiple monitors for chat interaction and stream quality monitoring while gaming. People who do CGI or other computer design functions frequently use multiple monitors for multitasking.
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I have 3- 1 for gaming 1 for chat &/or maps & 1 for social media... also helps with more space when doing work & art projects
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I use 2 monitors and can never go back to one. For me it comes down to multi-tasking, I like playing a game in one window and having GTribe open in the other.
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I have 2 monitors cause 1 I game on the other is net browsing and social media or watching how to videos for advancing on games
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Using two monitors is quite good for multitasking (duh) - for instance you game on one monitor and watch a movie on another. Or you can have a photoshop on one and a reference images/videos/project files on the other. Or you can game and have a browser window open. It's useful, since you don't need to alt-tab or have small windows.
And to connect it you just need a cable and a free video output, there's not much to it. Then adjust some stuff in Windows and you're all set. And you don't really have… See More
to worry about them being mismatched or having different native resolutions - in some cases you can force a different resolution (even widescreen on 4 /5:4 monitors, you'll just have black bars top and bottom) or they will run at their native resolutions, only then you'd have steps between screens where the mouse will not transition between them.
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I have two because I do a lot of work where I need to have multiple things open and it is nice to just not have to switch over all the time. I can see it all in a glance.
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I use multiple monitors because I am a multi-tasker. I have destiny 2 on my gaming monitor and I have twitch and GTribe open on the second monitor. I am a moderator for several streamers on twitch so I need to keep an eye on multiple windows at once, and alt-tabbing is hard on my pc
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