QOTW: Do you prefer single or multiple monitors?

[deepblue08]

I have 2 monitors, both 1440p. I tried using three, but I found it too much as I underused the third one.

[Normanyakuza]

single mingle monitor for me

[DevDrake]

I prefer a big space, it is hard to answer this just by single or multi not taking market into the account - i would prefer single monitor that have 70"-80" with ~32:10 with ~6K (two times 4k side by side) a descent curvature and 120Hz, but something like that doesn't exists yet.

Currently i use:
-single 40" 4k at home (i have additional 22" vertically positioned monitor but i don't use it as it have bad color compared to my main)
-multi 3x 24" FHD + 1x 17" FHD at work

[TooNice]

I prefer multiple monitor, but I move a lot, so it's a 15.6 laptop screen for the past few years.

[darcotech]

I used to have two them but I bought myself an LG ultrawide 34" and boy, that changes everything.
One of the best upgrades I did last years. Including going for Ryzen after i5-2500k and from Radeon 7950 to GTX 1070.

[aidanjt]

I would like two,but space and cost are the issues,since I would want an identical monitor if possible and it is now £400ish from Dell!

^ This. Really need to replace my existing monitor though, the backlight lamp on my ancient 24" is getting to the stage that it's producing very noticeable flicker in the image.

[philehidiot]

I have always had widescreen monitors since the flat ones came out and have always gone with bigger is better. I've had a 27" monitor for the past ten years at least. Most of the time, especially with Windows now being easier to arrange multiple windows around the screen, I've found one large monitor to be useful. Two means you can't focus on it all at once. With these giant curved screens now available, I'll be going with one of those when I have the chance. As for now, I find I can do everything I need on a decent 27" widescreen of 1440P resolution. I had the chance to keep my old one as well but I gave it away as I just did not see the utility for myself. I don't have the GPU chooch to drive two monitors for gaming, the line in the centre would really off put me (could maybe deal with 3 monitors, one central and two for perhipheral) and I've adapted to arranging my windows in a suitable manner on one large monitor. I'd rather spend my budget on one great monitor than two mediocre ones. The one I have now was end of line, an amazing price and has great colour accuracy and blah blah. I would far prefer this to two meh monitors. If I had the cash, I'd go for one of those bent ones which is really wide and curves around you. But I don't. I can see how some people have a use for two monitors - I see it all the time at work.

[philehidiot]

I would like two,but space and cost are the issues,since I would want an identical monitor if possible and it is now £400ish from Dell!

^ This. Really need to replace my existing monitor though, the backlight lamp on my ancient 24" is getting to the stage that it's producing very noticeable flicker in the image.

Just as a thought and I know I'd never attempt this but you may be able to, could you perhaps see about getting a new backlight and installing it? You could be cheeky and order a new monitor and a new backlight and, if you were able to fix it, return the new monitor under distance selling regs. If you fail to fix it or botch the job, you've got a new monitor ready to rock. That said, it may not be the actual backlight (which should be relatively easy to replace) but the PWM circuitry or rectification circuit.

[jnutt]

I have a 24" for general stuff and a curved widescreen for gaming

At work I use 3

[wateva76]

I've had two 24" Asus LCDs, plus one LG 29" Ultrawide on my desk. It gave me plenty of room, but took up a heap of space, so I've downgraded to one 24" and the 29". The remaining 24" is now a spare. When I get the chance, I'm planning on replacing the 24" and 29" with two 32" curved monitors and using those instead. They will take up a fair bit of room on the desk, but it will be less than the two 24" and the 29", and will still give me as much, if not slightly more desktop space.

[enemys]

I currently use 3x23'' 1080p screens, but I want to add a huge 4K screen and replace one monitor with a 24-27'' 1440p one. I like screens.

[tonyd2233]

3 at home, 4 at work... but that doesn't really count the number of screens on my desk - phone, tablet, smart watch...

[aidanjt]

Just as a thought and I know I'd never attempt this but you may be able to, could you perhaps see about getting a new backlight and installing it? You could be cheeky and order a new monitor and a new backlight and, if you were able to fix it, return the new monitor under distance selling regs. If you fail to fix it or botch the job, you've got a new monitor ready to rock. That said, it may not be the actual backlight (which should be relatively easy to replace) but the PWM circuitry or rectification circuit.

It may be possible to replace the backlight (although ordering a new one to do a sneaky swap is off the table, I wasn't joking when I said it's ancient, it's over 10 years old). But I'm well overdue for a replacement, lots of new tech has gone into monitors since I bought this.

[gordon861]

Currently running 3x 27 inch monitors at the moment. I also have a couple of 4:3 7 inch USB monitors that sit under the main monitors that I use for gadget windows like HUD displays in DCS World. Gaming is normally just run on the middle monitor with YouTube or browsers as needed on the outer monitors.

My plan at some point is to replace the centre monitor with a 40 inch 4k and rotate the out 27's into portrait mode. Just need a GFX card that'll run 4k well for a reasonable price.

[Ttaskmaster]

Have a single 27" 1440.
Would happily try three, if I could eliminate the bezel, maybe with that new microfibre plastic thing I saw in a CES video.

[bitbucket]

Curved ultra-wide. Best of both worlds, in my opinion