There's quite a difference between the requirements for TV and a computer monitor. The latter have much higher resolution than even HD TV. But that's not to say Samsung don't make both equally as well.
I fairly recently got a 24" ViewSonic VP2365wb which is truly excellent. It's more used with my Acorn machine (with a much later video card) and copes with all the odd resolutions I use on that, as well as the more usual PC ones.
Though with some cards the required resolution appears not to be available but becomes so when the monitor's driver is installed. I met this with a Samsung monitor with (I think still fairly rare) 2048x1152 native resolution.
I am not so sure you can, but you can always turn sli/crossfire off and run them as separate cards. In sli/crossfire the workload is spread across the cards but still goes out on the one card afaik. I haven't tried it so I will yield if someone has done it.
Thanks for all the replies so far. I did use two screen set-up once and it was very useful. Now I am confused: do I go for two 4:3 screens or 1 wide screen one... or two wide screen ones!
However it can be disconcerting if things change size as you drag them from one screen to another. So same physical height and same number of pixels vertically is recommended (though I manage with three different heights and numbers of pixels).
Yup, I found a 23" CRT beside a 20.4" TFT worked really well at
1600x1200 on both - almost spot on alignment. With my current 1980x1200 LCD in place of the CRT its about 3/4" taller at the same resolution, so the alignment is not spot on over the full height.
Of course there is no such guarantee. But as I understand, there is also rarely any need for software monitor "drivers" just to identify to the driver what the monitor could support if sent the right stream. And I was surprised that Robin seemed to have found a case where such was necessary.
I bought a new one about 18 months ago. I had had a very good (for its day) 1600x1200 LCD HP monitor, but at 5 years old, it had got a fair amount of screen burn from a window manager I no longer use, resulting in an old ghost on the screen. Also, it would not run properly at a PC BIOS's 24x80 resolution which was a pain on rare occasions I needed to get into the BIOS.
My requirements were at least as high resolution as the HP one, and at least the same screen height. I would have been happy with another 1600x1200, but 4:3 monitors no longer exist, so I was pushed up to 1900x1200, and 24" to keep at least same screen height.
When you go over 1080 vertical, there's a price hike as these are manufactured for monitors only, whereas 1080 screens are made for HDTV too, which makes them cheaper in volume.
There were also two different response rates - one is high response for gaming with fast movement without blurring, and the other is slower response for normal computer use. I don't do gaming, so the slower response was fine. I think the slower response has a higher contrast ratio, but this sort of thing may have changed 18 months on.
So I went for a Sansung 2443, which is of course obsolete now, but it's been fine. Went to see it in operation in Novatech, and then bought it from them.
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