3 30" Monitors
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seumasbeathan
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I wouldnt recommend 3 30" monitors, it wouldn't look very good IMO, Up close 30" 1080p will look pixelated
And what cards are you planning on running?
seumasbeathan
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Your gonna need a monster graphics setup to run 3 2560x1600 monitors
jamesriley94
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...Here we go again...
I'd probably say build it yourself. Could be worth a look round Ikea though.
Have you already bought the monitors? and are you actually planning to?
Bearing in mind getting monitors that size is likely to cost over a grand, plus the additional 2...
Also, as Seumas said, 1080p looks pretty bad with anything over about 24 inch, so you'd be looking at 2560x1440/1600 - which then puts the price up to around £1500 for just monitors...
Then you need to find graphics cards capable of running that, which currently no combination of graphics cards in today's market are even capable of running 3x 2560 screens in gaming well.
I'd probably say build it yourself. Could be worth a look round Ikea though.
Have you already bought the monitors? and are you actually planning to?
Bearing in mind getting monitors that size is likely to cost over a grand, plus the additional 2...
Also, as Seumas said, 1080p looks pretty bad with anything over about 24 inch, so you'd be looking at 2560x1440/1600 - which then puts the price up to around £1500 for just monitors...
Then you need to find graphics cards capable of running that, which currently no combination of graphics cards in today's market are even capable of running 3x 2560 screens in gaming well.
3x 30" is madness. even 4x 680's will struggle.
Just buying "the best of everything" normally means youve got no idea
Just buying "the best of everything" normally means youve got no idea
jamesriley94
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Anything over 2 cards in SLI/Crossfire makes no difference to performance - and in some cases actually decreases performance.
Max you should have is two cards - and two 4gb 680s aren't enough to run triple screens.
This is *beginning* to sound more and more like a dream build...
Max you should have is two cards - and two 4gb 680s aren't enough to run triple screens.
This is *beginning* to sound more and more like a dream build...
robertmarcus
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actually, quad x-fire has the capabilities to run 3x 1600p monitors. Take a look at CallsignVega on youtube (he might be on this forum, not sure). He runs 3x shimian 120hz at 3/5 way portrait. At least he did.
But assuming money is no issue, quad crossfire is fine for what you are doing. Desk wise, i would try the Ikea Galant series. Their confrence table is ginormous, but it should do the job. Keep in mind i do not have it, but i have seen it and it makes a 30 inch monitor look like a 24 inch monitor.
Good luck, and post pictures.
But assuming money is no issue, quad crossfire is fine for what you are doing. Desk wise, i would try the Ikea Galant series. Their confrence table is ginormous, but it should do the job. Keep in mind i do not have it, but i have seen it and it makes a 30 inch monitor look like a 24 inch monitor.
Good luck, and post pictures.
seumasbeathan
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As James said, 4 cards is likely to actually decrease your performance when compared to 3 or even 2 cards, if you want triple screens I would recommend 3 22" 1080p screens
Jeremy1998
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Buy a dinner table. It's about all you're gonna find big enough.
As for graphics horsepower, I think the Powercolor 7970 GHz Toxic 6gb card would probably be about all that can handle that... but I don't think you can fit 4 of those all side by side, and they also can not be watercooled. Don't expect any high FPS outputs to those monitors...
As for graphics horsepower, I think the Powercolor 7970 GHz Toxic 6gb card would probably be about all that can handle that... but I don't think you can fit 4 of those all side by side, and they also can not be watercooled. Don't expect any high FPS outputs to those monitors...
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Dgreen2298
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It is possible check out Barnacules he games on 3 x 46" monitors with a massive desk
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Kaapstad
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Forget the GTX 680s that 256bit bus kills them at hi resolutions.
4 cards in SLI or CF actually works very well. The big problem with them is using settings and resolutions high enough to avoid a CPU bottleneck.
Most of the time 4 cards work well but the problem is the review sites when they do get to test a 4 way setup. They will use the same test setup as they would with a single card which will lead to bottlenecking.
If you do encounter a game that does not run well on 4 cards it takes seconds to turn the unneeded cards off and run on 1 or 2 cards.
The PC I am typing this on has 290Xs in quadfire and I have just finished a few hours playing Civ5 without any problems.
3x 1080p is not the same as the 3x1600p that they were talking about.
I do find it a bit bothersome that so many games keep using old engines. I'd love to see more game engines that are optimized for core scaling and gpu scaling. I love the idea that they could check how many cpu cores you have and adapt to use all of them as well as on the gpu side.
jamesriley94
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lol, look at the date of the thread guys...
