from the outside ergotek's triple monitor desk stand with telescoping
wings comes in about the most unassuming brown packaging that i've ever seen once
you get inside everything is well protected in bubble wrap but frankly
since it's made of almost entirely solid metal even if it wasn't protected in
bubble wrap would probably arrive functional anyway
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taking everything out of the box it looks a little bit intimidating but the
install process was actually finished in less than 15 minutes simply screw the
shaft into the base then tighten the screw at the back with the included
allen key slide the triple monitor ARM over the top of the shaft then tighten
the little vise style handle until it doesn't move anymore make sure you put
this at the height that you want it now you will need to remove at least some of
your monitors if you want to adjust it later now it's time for the monitors any
monitors can work as long as they fit on the stand and have four vasa compatible
mounting holes at the back the non-telescoping version can handle up to
three 24-inch monitors while the telescoping version that i have can
handle up to three 25-pound 27-inch
monitors i'll be using two pb278qs on the sides and a pa279
in the middle so just take them off their stock stands and these ones come
off with four screws then put the included screws somewhere safe lay the
monitors flat on a safe surface and mount the included quick release pivots
to the back of them you may notice that two of the quick release pivots in the
box are different from the third use these ones for the outside monitors
because they have a knob that allows the height of the connected display to be
adjusted slightly to compensate in case the rear ARM or your desk or whatever
else isn't quite level once that's done fold the stand's arms out straight and
simply hook the pivots onto the back ARM they lock into place and can only be
removed if you lift up the little pin on the top these pivots are actually where
all the magic happens here they can be tilted up and down swiveled left and
right and even pivoted to portrait mode
going either way it gives you a lot of options for adjustment i didn't need to
change it but if you want you can also use the included larger allen key to
adjust the tension on them to make it easier or harder to move your monitors
around once all the monitors are in place bend the back ARM to the correct
angle so whatever will be most suitable for your desired sitting position make
any last-minute adjustments then run all the cables across the ARM and down the
back with the cable management clip for an extremely clean looking desk now
having set up a triple monitor gaming rig only once before with three 24
inchers and an xfx ifinity stand i'd say
the biggest difference this time around was ease of use everything went together
so quickly and so easily that compared to before i'd be much more likely to
recommend this another thing that i liked was the large
flat metal base its size gives the whole apparatus enough stability that even
with just two monitors attached say while you're putting it together it
won't fall over and even though it actually takes up almost as much desk
space as three normal monitor stands because it's so low profile you can
easily put stuff on it so you end up with a lot more usable room on your desk
with that said it's not perfect so my
biggest complaint i guess is that well they say it can handle 27-inch monitors
it barely does it if i strip the bezels off
something i wouldn't mind doing as a crazy project sometime it would be fine
but with the bezels on the telescoping arms needed to be fully extended and i
had to have the pivots hanging off the end a little bit to get the angle that i
wanted and i guess that's about it i mean the price is solid considering what
competing products go for and how well built this is and the fact that it's
upgradable is a big bonus that last bit was
actually a pro tip from the guy who runs widescreen gaming for him if you don't
buy a telescoping triple stand in the first place you can add telescoping arms
for larger monitor support you can add an additional monitor up top for a three
plus one config or even go full on crazy
and grab like a six panel setup the sky's the limit
this modularity is actually what allowed the widescreen gaming forum folks to
have their own edition of the product that uses solid aluminum throughout
making it a bit more premium feeling they reached out to me about reviewing
that one but the timing was funny i told them that i already had this one in the
review queue so this is the one you guys are getting a video of but if you're
considering buying something like this you might want to check out the widescreen gaming forum one as well it's
a great forum over there if you're looking for tips and tricks on how to make your games work in weird aspect
ratios particularly wide ones it's definitely a good place to go anyway
that's pretty much it um i guess if i had to come up with another complaint
about this setup it would be a self-imposed one and that's that at
about megapixels this setup is almost 30 more difficult
for your pc to drive than even a 4k monitor so you're going to need to
gather up as much GPU horsepower and video RAM as you can if you want to
stand a chance of playing computer games at this res but
if you're one of those people who's into the whole surround gaming experience and
you know who you are then you probably know what a blissful gaming experience
it is at this kind of a res and at this kind of a size once you get it up and
running unlike anything else it's only the beginning of how i would describe it
oh and i guess the stand comes with a lifetime warranty too so that's uh yet
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