OT: one huge monitor or 2 smaller or bigger ones ?

[Andrew Haley]

On 04/01/2011 05:16 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:

> e) Upgrade to 1 30 inch monitor, like the Dell U3011.  [2]560x1600, cost
> $1300)

That's what I do.  Good for photo editing too.

Whatever you choose, make sure it's an IPS monitor.

> How does one find out the pixel limit of a video card ?

The DVI interface maxes out at 2098 × 1311.  To do better than that,
i.e. to drive the Big Dell, you need a "dual link DVI" video card.

Andrew.