Upgrading to better monitors?

jtpetch

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So I'm planning on upgrading my PC in a couple months (from FX-6300 and R9 270x, to i7 5820k and GTX 1080 along with everything required) and I'm also looking to upgrade my monitor setup.

I've currently got an old 27" 1080i TV (looks terrible), and a little ??" 1280x1024 square monitor as a secondary. Those would absolutely not to a 1080 justice, and I'd like to actually not see in pixels for once.

So I was looking to get three ~23" screens.
I'd rather not go much over ~120-30$ per, since I'm getting 3, and most likely a vesa mount (small desk), as well as whatever adapters I'll need.

Don't care about Gsync (and I know I won't be getting it for this price)

Response time is important (I suppose?) I'm not sure what the time on my TV is (can't even find the product page anymore), but I imagine it's pretty bad. I do play FPS's like CS:GO, but nothing competitive (my response time is the limit for that), so it doesn't need to be the fastest.

Resolution doesn't need to be higher than 1080p (and probably shouldn't for optimal FPS playing on all 3), I haven't seen 1440 or 4k, so it's gooood enough for me (also I'm pretty sure there'll be nothing above 1080 at this price)

The thinner bezels the better, but it's not a huge selling point. For the most part, I'll just be gaming/etc on the main one, multitasking on the others, but I may do some surround gaming.

As for inputs, the 1080 I'm looking to get has 3 DP, 1 HDMI, and one DVI, so preferably ones with DP input, but adapters are fine as well.

I was looking at this monitor: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008DWITHI/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008DWITHI&linkCode=as2&tag=techriggstwo-20&linkId=XOL5S2764JD23E3G

Seems to have good reviews, and it's at a great price. Would this be pretty much the best screen for the price range?
 


Side question, to use Nvidia Surround for 3-monitor gameplay, would using three of these cables work?
(Or two of them and one regular HDMI)
https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Gold-Plated-DisplayPort/dp/B00K2E4QJK?th=1
 
If you are palning to get 3 monitors for gaming then i would say no get 1 better monitor as you will notice the side monitors just looks stretched in most games and you will find the borders annoying even if they are slim.

I muself did buy 3 monitors like 2-3 years ago for the reason to play with all 3 but most games just dont look good and the borders is annoying so i did dissable it and just use them for multi tasking, and just play on midle one and i am planning on getting a forth mounted ontop of the midle one i would never go back to less then 3 monitors. but i dont want to play on all 3 with nvida surround or eyefinity as most games dont have it optimized and it just looks weird
 


It's gonna be mostly for multitasking/editing and stuff like that, but I would probably use surround in future games like Star Citizen and such. Definitely not the main purpose, though.
And honestly, I don't really want to go above 1080p until there's a reasonable card that could do 1440p (or 4k) at a solid 60FPS. (I'm sure the 1080 could do 1 or 2 1440p screens at good framrates, but I'd rather have 3 of the same)

Also, really anything will be an upgrade from the 27" 1080i (720p?) TV I use now.
 


True, and for multitasking it is awsome with 3 screens and the gtx 1080 can do 60+ fps easy in all 1440p and almost all games even in 4k it can push 60 fps max settings with some tweaked settings.

But yea as R4DIO4CT1VE said any asus monitor would be fine i have 3 27" asus monitors 1080p ones 2 ips ones and 1 older TN one.