What would you rather look at?

[Byzantium]

I'd go with the 2/3 24"s

30 just seems a little bit excessive.

Plus, 2/3 monitors would be of more use since you said you multitask a lot... would help to keep things more organized.

[saulin]

...plus you don't have the video card to game anyways.

I have a 7900GTX and run every single game I play on 1280x1024 and the highest graphics settings possible. I'm fairly certain the 8800 is a superior card to mine. The only game I can't thus far is Crysis, but who can?

Is there a card that can run Crysin on max settings?

I have a 8800 GTX, probably a much better card than yours and I can't say I can play every game at max settings. If I'm going to game at 1280x1024 I need to use FSAA and Anisotropic Filtering. These are settings that many don't count and are the ones that really hit performance.

On a 30" monitor you need a resolution of 2048 x whatever. You need the best video card that you can afford to pull that off.

[ryan20021982]

This is just from newegg so you may be able to get it cheaper but the 30 inch is $1,149.99

Thats retarted when you can get a 24 inch for around $250, I would just get 2 of the 24's, I use 2 22's and love it really I think any bigger would be too big I sit kinda close so these are perfect for me.

[kaiweiler]

Ignore prices of either option.
I would get all 3 24" (Samsung T240) for $368.55 USD shipped and the single 30" (Samsung 305T) for $405 shipped so the price difference is negligible.
I think I might get the 3x24", I just have to be sure I have the space...

[ryan20021982]

Even at those prices I would still get the 3 24's theres so much more space there, and personally I like having the separate screens to divide things up.