Anyone running twin 32 inch panels?

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    I am just curious as I am trying to visualize 2 32 inch flat screen monitors side by side - boy oh boy does that seem like a LOT of screen real estate. Sure, I could push it back say 5-6 inches from where my current twini 27s sit but still, its very hard to visualize in reality.

    I just know I like twin 27s, would like more but there is no intermediate step other than ultrawides but I am not a fan of the 'low' height aka sure they are wide but they are not picking up any height. One 32 with a 27 on the side would trigger ocd so its a pair or a single but a single 32 would be less screen real estate than twin 27s (which I have had for 15 or so years so certainly don't want to give that up).

    I currently sit about 3 feet back from twin 27s. I figure there is about 6=8 more inches I could have 32s back from me but not much more.

    What say ye, too much? Or is it one of those things where you will initially go 'what was I thinking' and then 3 months later go 'why didnt i do this sooner'?
     
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    The thing that keeps me from it is the stupid border exactly straight ahead, but if you're already used to twin... Sure I guess?

    My two screens were always 24/27/30" + smaller one on the side, rotated. Or three, main 30" 16:10 + 2x portrait.

    In the home office I have a single 38" ultrawide, 3840x1600, so same height as rhe 30" in px, but much wider. Just don't maximize one window, explorer.exe, Word etc look stupid at that size, better use left + right or three columns (PowerToys FancyZones or Win11 native)
     
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    @w00key The border is no bother for me at all. I use the left screen primarily and drag secondary stuff over to the right keeping things in their own 'place'. The bezels on these are huge (well vs today) at 2cm so my middle section is 4cm total of bezel; any replacement would be a lot thinner and probably more like 1cm tops total eyeballing an Asus 32inch oled. I currently have the one 27 on the left face me dead on as I sit on the left near the integrated amplifier for headphone control/speaker volume control and the other panel slightly tilted toward me. I like it, I am used to it and a curve spanning the whole width would seem odd to me (my wife has a curved 38 upstairs and I am a nope on that).

    @Andrewcw I have twin 27s at 2k; Eizo CX271 model

    @fellow human These would be going from 2560x1440 to 3840x2160 so if it is indeed less PPI it also is going to have to be a bit further back which would likely ameliorate that
     
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    Interestingly, I just checked.

    My Eizos are 109 ppi. The Asus PG32ucdm are 140 ppi. So that sounds like a win to me - its a bigger panel and the pixels are more dense (excluding video card required to drive said panel at up to 240hz vs 60hz).

    edit - I have to say ranger6, without much context, those twin 32s look totally reasonable. I am trying to visualize on my desktop what the tape measure tells me and hoooooboy, do I think there is a LOT of screen space. I suspect I would get use to it quite quickly though, just hope it wound't screw up my chicken dinners.
     
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    w00key said:
    The thing that keeps me from it is the stupid border exactly straight ahead
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    Yeah, it's not ideal. I'd definitely recommend setting aside a few dollars for good monitor arms. With that it'd be a lot easier more possible to position them exactly how I'd prefer.

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    I suspect I would get use to it quite quickly though, just hope it wound't screw up my chicken dinners.
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    You'll definitely find a way to use the space effectively. As for your dinners, that might just mean it's time for a new GPU. :)
     
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    Ardax said:
    Yeah, it's not ideal. I'd definitely recommend setting aside a few dollars for good monitor arms. With that it'd be a lot easier more possible to position them exactly how I'd prefer.



    You'll definitely find a way to use the space effectively. As for your dinners, that might just mean it's time for a new GPU. :)
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    Sure, go ahead and spend more money. It's not yours. :p
     
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    yd said:
    @ranger6 How far back are you from those when using them? If I reach out from my seat, the closest monitor on the left is probably 5 inches away from my finger tips.
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    I'm anywhere from 42" - 48" from the center of each monitor, so add a couple of inches to get to the edges. If I'm not having to read anything, I'm 54" or more back. I don't like being close to monitors 😎

    Don't know if this helps give a better idea of total screen real estate, but here you go:

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    How about twin 43" monitors? I sit about 3-4' back, typically. On the left, an Acer Predator43" 4K monitor, on thew right, a Samsung QLED 4K TV. I originally was looking for a 32" 4K monitor/TV, but at the time (2020) there wasn't much of any selection for 4K monitors in 32". So I ended up upsizing. When I first got them, the combo seemed unusually large, but I've gotten used to them.

    On the downside, they both radiate at about 90F so in the summer, the room gets oppressively hot unless I turn on the AC.

    The Predator's great for gaming. Really immersive. Do I ever actually use all that real estate? Yeah. Working on something, I can have spreadsheets on the right monitor and Word on the left, with multiple browser windows here and there. Or watch a video on one while I have browsers open on the other side. Or stress testing, HWinfo64 with a bunch of sensors/charts/etc on the right while P95/3DMark/whatever is going on the left.

    I could never go back to a one monitor setup. Or smaller monitors.
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    I run a 32, a 32, and a 27.

    I set up my main monitor where you would put just one monitor...right in front of me. The left 32" is off at an angle similar to Mike's above. It holds work email and teams windows. The 27" is at a similar angle on the other side. Works great. With this set up, the borders/bezels never bother me.

    I think having the bezel sit right in my line of site would drive me batty.

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    EDIT: This looks a little funky cuz I took it at 0.5.

    Also, please ignore my terrible cable management, I'm too busy to deal with that mess.
     
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    I agree, a center bezel in the center of your seat - nope nope nope. As mentioned, I sit to the left near the integrated amp controls so am centered on the left panel (actually a smidge left of center). I don't have room for 2x32 and a 27 but 2x32 baaaareeeeeellly. I would be pretty much perfect centered on a left side 32. Annoyingly, I had planned to do this purchase this week and now....no stock.
     
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    This is my old setup. Two matched 32" 1440p monitors. The right one is centrred on my seat and the left one is mostly for monitoring Slack, project management apps, and to put references windows for drafting proposals or putting together reports.

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    This is my current setup after giving my wife my screens and taking her 4K 43" monitor, and adding a 32" portrait mounited 4K screen to the left of it. Her laptop and dock struggled driving both the 4K external display and her laptops built in screen. My prior Thinpad X1 Carbon and the new work MBP do not have thet issue, even with the middling quality Dell dock.

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    papadage said:
    This is my current setup after giving my wife my screens and taking her 4K 43" monitor, and adding a 32" portrait mounited 4K screen to the left of it. Her laptop and dock struggled driving both the 4K external display and her laptops built in screen. My prior Thinpad X1 Carbon and the new work MBP do not have thet issue, even with the middling quality Dell dock.

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    Is that the logitech mx-keys? how do you like it and is the angle in the picture its normal angle?
     
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    I like it, though I remapped the Command and Control keys to each other to make key-combos easier to use since the Command key is too close to the C, V, and B keys.

    The keyboard itself is great and has both the Mac and Windows tags on the keys, so it works well with my Windows tower as well. The key feel is very good.

    The battery life is great too, and it can be used while charging, as can the mouse.

    The angle is way too shallow though, so I glued some 3/4 inch tall rubber feet the bottom pitch it better.
     
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    papadage said:
    I like it, though I remapped the Command and Control keys to each other to make key-combos easier to use since the Command key is too close to the C, V, and B keys.

    The keyboard itself is great and has both the Mac and Windows tags on the keys, so it works well with my Windows tower as well. The key feel is very good.

    The battery life is great too, and it can be used while charging, as can the mouse.

    The angle is way too shallow though, so I glued some 3/4 inch tall rubber feet the bottom pitch it better.
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    Thank you, nice setup.
     
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    I am not ocd but, I really would have a hard time with a mismatched pair. Two 27s, great...put one on the opposite axis......mmmm, not so happy. So I am all over twin 32s but they will be side by side. Sadly, no stock and at the rate that is going, I will be gone for almost a month in a couple weeks, then back for a couple pre being gone again for 5 weeks. Well surely there will be stock in September
     
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  • #29
    I am NOT running two panels right now but I used to. I now have a 3840x1600 single wide panel.

    Am I happier now than with two 1920x1200's, one being landscape? Somewhat, overall I lean towards the single wide being better for games and media consumption. For work, the dual monitors beat it because you've got separation when you maximize an application plus you can have one (or both depending on your use case) in landscape which beats any widescreen for documents.

    The borders in the center just disappear over time. I am VERY very anal about all my peripherals and the bezels disappeared from my view after a few weeks. Only thing I did have to do was to align either top or bottom bezel of the 2 or I'd ocd until they were aligned.

    Like I said, media and gaming, the widescreen wins by far (to me) but for work settings, the 2 monitors were better. The Windows mechanics are one thing, the other thing is that the curvature of my widescreen is nice and all, but being able to set the angle of 2 monitors to my liking does exceed the static setup of the widescreen.
     
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