Tom’s Hardware’s 2009 Gift Guide: Part 2, System Add-Ons

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By: Ed Tittel

With 30″ monitors still priced at $1,400 and up (in some cases, way up), PC aficionados in need of lots of screen real estate might consider purchasing a couple of quality 24″ monitors instead.

With just about every graphics cards able to handle at least a pair of digital display outputs with ease these days, working with two 24″ screens is just a matter of hooking them up to your graphics card’s single- or dual-link DVI ports, and then extending the desktop from whichever screen takes the primary position to include the secondary. From there, you’re ready to enjoy more room to work than you’d otherwise get from a pricier 30″ model.

And with a list price of $599 (currently on sale for $529) buying a pair of Dell U2410 monitors will set you back at least $100 less than the least-expensive 30″ models, $200 less than the UltraSharp 3007WFP, and $500 less than an UltraSharp 3008WFP (though it’s hard to deny the sexiness of the 3008WFP, too).

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