I recently put together a new machine with the idea to get a single 3D vision 2 monitor, with Lightboost, to start and get two more down the road. I had a devil of a time deciding between the BenQ XL2420T 24" $400 and the Asus VG278H 27" $700 because whatever I got I would be stuck with forever. The thing that hung me up was that everybody says that bigger is better especially with 3D. The BenQ looked better in every way except size. The Asus had the size but was having bleed problems, a flimsy stand, wasted money on built in speakers, and no usb router. I finally came to a quick decision when I stretched a tape measure across my 6' wide game table to see what three 27" monitors would look like and saw that would be overkill for me. I would have to set them back a fair bit for the side monitors to even be in my peripheral vision. I can't see how there is any difference between sitting closer to a smaller 1920x1080 monitor and further away from a larger 1920x1080. It seems simple arithmetic to me that the FOV angle is the same. Anyway, I'm glad I got the BenQ and saved the money because that monitor seems to be the highest quality anything I've ever purchased. So, if that makes sense, 24 inchers could save you some bucks. Also, the BenQ has a matte finish screen, which isn't my preference, but when 3D is on that matte finish disappears completely and you're looking at a crystal clear glass window.

problem with 3 screens (I'm using 3 24")is that once you have gained the peripheral vision you can't go back without feeling that something is missing no matter the screen dimension. If only i could find a way to switch on the fly between 3x1 eyefinity for gaming and 3 discrete monitors for "productivity" without loosing settings i would have the perfect system!

I can disable and re-enable my eyefinity setup for gaming using a HOTKEY. when i Disable it to goes to Desktop extended mode.

Switching back and forth even saves my desktop's icon positions...

Agree with ease of setting up and using different combinations of monitor settings.

With a single HD7xxx card (assuming it has 4 connectors), one can preset any combination of monitors and characteristics in Eyefinity or simple 1, 2, 3, or 4 screen multi-monitor or even Eyefinity plus multi-monitor (for example, I've successfully tried 3x1 Eyefinity plus a 4th extended monitor). You can stack multiple monitors horizontally, vertically, or both (e.g. 3 across plus one over the middle monitor for 4 total). Once all desired presets are defined, just pick the preset you want at that moment and you get it.

Yup, I have this as well. Set up Presets in CCC for ATI card users. Be in the Simple mode when you do it though, or it might not save all settings set in CCC. I have Presets saved to hotkeys for a single monitor, single extended, double extended, Eyefinity without bezel compensation and Eyefinity with bezel compensation. Set up and save your extended Presets first, then do the Eyefinity group last.

I know that it should be possible to save presets an change them but either im too dumb or i botched the installation

I love 3 monitor gaming and have been running it for some games since I bought my first 5870 3 years ago with 3 x 23" DisplayPort monitors, the main reason I didn't run it for all games was lack of horsepower with the 5870s at 5760x1080 for everything.

I liked the Eyefinity presets and hotkeys feature for CCC, although it seemed everytime I updated AMD drivers the CCC profiles got hosed up and had to be recreated.

This year I did a temporary switch back to single (plus extended second) monitor with a GTX 560 for 6 months because I needed more horsepower and Nvidia support for a few key sims I'm addicted to that run better on Nvidia (FSX, rF2, ClOD) while I waited for Kepler to come out, but I really missed the 3 monitor gaming in sims like iRacing and ROF during that time.

Two weeks ago I returned to 3 monitor gaming with a new GTX 670/4GB and I am really enjoying finally having enough horsepower to run most games at 5760x1080. It works pretty much the same with Nvidia "surround" mode as AMD "eyefinity" the only difference being that NV drivers don't yet have any shortcuts or profiles to switch between 3 monitor "surround" mode and 3 monitor extended desktop mode, which is something I miss from the AMD drivers, supposedly this is a feature that is coming in the future.

Overall I am just so happy to finally see 3 monitor gaming becoming more mainstream now that both video card makers support it on a single card and even more importantly the top end cards actually have the horsepower to deliver good performance at those resolutions, unlike the situation a couple of years back where only AMD supported it on a single card and even then there was not enough horsepower to drive those resolutions acceptably IMHO except for a few games that had specific coding to do it efficiently (iRacing). Hopefully this will really accelerate the adoption rate amongst hardcore simmers and FPS players (big advantage) and more game devs will apply specific coding and optimization toward triple monitor gaming (remove the stretch).

After the last week of playing iRacing/rF2/Arma2/DayZ/BF3 at 5760x1080p and good framerate (finally!), there is no way I would go back to single larger monitor permanently the only close thing is maybe someday adding a second 670/4GB SLI and going with bigger monitors, for now my 3 x 23" work great.

For me 3D has never been much of an attraction both in gaming and even movie watching because I already wear vision correction glasses, and the situation of having to add 3D glasses is always a pain and something I avoid.

i dont save presets for the bezel corrections, i just not the resolution after i run the bezel correction.

I kept my desktop running the normal 5760x1080 non bezel corrected resolution, and run games at the adjusted resolution, some games i run a Tick lower and let it scale,

BF3 I think i run with MSAA off and the res 1 or 2 ticks down from the bezel corrected res, which was like 6000x1080. Running BF3 on High/Ultra with frames/sec cap on 60, and Shader AA looks good and plays smooth (i may try capping it to 30 to see if it makes it smoother),

MSAA only drops the frame rate in BF3 w/ Minimal gain, i can care less if the fences are clearer, im still gonna target bad guys through them, and they are usually destroyed before the round is 5 minutes old anyway, and when they arent destroyed im not gonna sit and admire the fences.

@ Craigmire

Thank you very much for mentionning the BenQ monitor.

I knew its existence, but I had dismissed it because none of the reviews I had seen even mentioned its 3D capability... BenQ is REALLY NOT pushing it as a 3D screen. Returning to my searching I noticed this time around that there are actually two versions of this monitor: the T version which is 3D Vision 2 certified, and the TX version which is the same but with the emitter built-in and glasses in the box. Now by searching for the TX model I found some reviews that actually talk about its 3D performance.

And I agree with you that 27" is overkill (at least for a surround config).

FT

The benefit of 3 screens with 3D together must be, that you already can see what is behind the bezel, so wouldn't need bezel correction.