
Whenever I'm having a problem installing a new product or trying to fix something, first place I go is Google. The beauty of the internet is that dozens, hundreds, or thousands of people have experienced the same problems as you and are happy to photographically share their solutions.
This is true even of problems you're only thinking about having. During a recent search for the best way to set up multiple displays (which I will one day be hypothetically able to afford), I came across Mitch Haile's Flickr photostream. The persistent Mitch has been playing around with multiple displays since way before they were flat, and his year-on-year progress is fascinating to watch:

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2008
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The lotion in the 2008 shot is a clue to what he uses all those monitors for.
Masturb....uh, I mean, hand lotion seems to be a recurring theme interrelated with obsessions over monitors and his OCD.