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28 inch 16:10 wide screen i-inc $199.99 right now

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=IH282HPB-PB-R

Wow! I have one of these monitors in my simpit, I paid 300.00 a few months ago though...

Great find Mastiff!

But who wants to game at a max res of 1920 x 1200? That's very little game world visible on such a huge screen, and the point of eyefinity is to see as much of the game world that approaches full situational awareness as possible. HEck, I find 2560x1600 on a single 30" monitor still not enough to lend a sense of peripheral vision to games.

It won't be 1920 x 1200 at a max res with 3 monitors/Eyefinity. It will be 5760 x 1200 which will give you plenty of situational awareness and peripheral vision.

To chime in: That's what sold me on Eyefinity. For all practical purposes (with the two side monitors angled towards me), my entire useful eye-field-of-view is filled edge to edge. In most games I've played so far (only a few), the two side monitors ADD more game world (the center monitor shows the "normal" single monitor view of the game world). So, in a very real sense one's vision sense is overwhelmed with new information. Very immersive -- more immersive than gaming on a 54 inch monitor (which I have tried and was great)

I calibrated the center monitor (Dell-u2410) to sRGB with the Pantone hueyPRO hardware. The color hardly changed -- a selling point of the Dell is that each monitor is factory calibrated to sRGB and the profile is provided to Windows. The HP ZR24w needed only small manual brightness adjustment to coincide. Perhaps it was easier because both are IPS monitors (Dell H-IPS and HP S-IPS) and both have an sRGB mode (like a lot of monitors).

FWIW: With Eyefinity, the hueyPRO only adjusts the center monitor. The other monitors go along for the ride and must be "manually" tweaked for all to match (assuming one does not have 3 monitors of the same make and model). To get it exactly right, I made a simple color chart (fully saturated one of each R,G,B,C,M,Y,K) and used a precision light meter to match the brightness of the individual colors on the HP to the Dell -- I used the manual HP On Screen Display. If one had a "normal" Windows multi-monitor setup as used in an office, each monitor is automatically adjusted separately by the hueyPRO.

Thus is my Eyefinity experience. I recorded it here because I post a lot and thought this might be of interest to some considering Eyefinity or the Nvidia equivalent.

In a nutshell, Eyefinity is easy to set up (ideally need at least one Displayport monitor), makes a huge subjective difference, in many games the new resolution choice (5760x1200) shows up automatically, in others manually edit .ini or .cfg file, Eyefinity is not practical in some older games which automatically play on the center monitor, the side monitors don't have to be identical to the center monitor or even the same diagonal measurement (in fact all 3 can be different -- I tried that and though I could see the differences it looked better than playing on a single monitor), color matching across monitors can be done manually. I like the 3 monitor desktop; however, one can setup hot keys to provide different arrangements for different applications.

Though my monitors work very well, I do not recommend them as being "better" than other monitors. IPS panels apparently don't have the black levels of CRT, Plasma, or cPVA. The color gamut is excellent -- which is my reason for buying. The view angles are good relative to cheap LCD monitors but not nearly as good as for cPVA -- and they are not nearly the 178 degrees advertised (well, they are, but the contrast ratio is 10 to 1!!! -- a joke, right?). The IPS are not economical; however, I did like the promotional-price on the HP monitors relative to other IPS monitors.

Wanna trade one IPS for my cPVA?

My wife has one same make/model as yours on her desk -- about 20 feet away from where I'm sitting. That's why I know its a toss up

And, I can steal hers anytime -- she offered it to me because she knows I like it. I have the best of both worlds -- zig or zag on a moments notice

A smaller resolution (not that 1920x1200 is small) does not mean one sees less. Conversely, a larger resolution does not mean one sees more. The only thing that will get one to see more of a game, assuming that the game functions properly with widescreen and ultra-widescreen displays, is to make your monitor wider (through the use of 16:9 and 16:10 monitors as well as triplehead monitor setups).

2560x1660 will give you no more or less virtual peripheral vision than will 1920x1200, 1680x1050, or 1440x900. Why? Because all of those resolutions have the same aspect ratio. The point of triplehead is to create a wider aspect ratio, allowing you to see more to the left and right in a game.

Bigger is not the same as wider.

Most Applications dont support Direct Draw / Overlay on Mulitple displays OR on displays that arent digital.

my PowerDVD is constantly giving me an Error if I use Analog outputs to either my TV or VGA to a 2nd Monitor, but if I use HDMI/DVI to the 2nd Monitor/TV, it will play on both duplicated. Even if it stretched across you'd still have the bezel edges.