Replacement for 560ti sli for 3 23" monitor setup

[betoxord]

Hi guys,

Like the tittle say I have 2 Galaxy 560ti 1Gb running in sli but I'm looking to run my 3 23" monitors. My problem is Nvidia surround. I have to turn sli off if i want to run the 3 screens at 1920x1080 for productivity(doing a doctors degree) and it's a waste of power to use the second card just for a single screen.

I want to run a single card that is similar in horse power to my setup but more efficient and can run games in 5760x1080 for when I need to release the stress. (some FPS RPG and MMO action)

My idle power draw is around 140w-180w but jumps to close to 500w(UPS Read out) just playing playing WoW.

I was looking at the MSI HD7950 TF3 for the swap but I can't find any good numbers on benchmarks comparing my SLI 560ti to the HD7950, how would the single card stack up.

Stability and durability are a must, my rig will be holding research and all my work from my doctors to the point I'm considering building a new Fx-8350 on an Asus 990 Sabertooth mobo just because of the military standard and the true 8 core design.(Thoughts on that will also be appreciated)

My current setup is:

Asrock Extreme 4 Z77 mobo.
i7 2600k running stock clock.
16 gigs of 1600 ram.
2 Galaxy 560ti 1Gb 835Mhz running stock clocks.
Creative Sound Blaster fatality champion sound card.
Ultra 850w 80 silver modular PSU.
H-100.
Cooler Master HAF-XB.
2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD.(Adding a second drive for raid 1 soon)
128Gb Samsung 830 SSD boot drive.
Blue-ray drive.
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[jamesriley94]

Wait - you're wanting to swap from a 2600k to a Piledriver?
....don't.

Your 2600k performs far better than any AMD to date.

As for the card, I run a single 670 with 3 screens and it runs pretty much fine on max settings on most games, and at medium settings on demanding games like BF3. I like the Nvidia surround settings, so I'd recommend that. I don't really know how eyefinity compares in that aspect.

 

[betoxord]

The ram on the 670 is 2 gigs or is there a 4 gig version, Video ram on 7950 is 3 gigs on a 320 bit buss that's the main reason i was looking at it. Also it's $300.00 dollars on the internet $350.00 at my local store.

 

[jamesriley94]

There is a 4gb version.
For 3 screens on a single card, you need as much horsepower as you can get really.

I'd either look at a 7970 or 670 (680 is pointless to get as it barely gives any performance increase over the 670).

 

[SPS]

Why do you need to SLI off? Can't you just turn surround off?

Also I think as your main concern is losing work, you should probably look at running a backup.

 

[betoxord]

I got a good deal on an used reference 7970($300.00)
To activate the 3 monitors in 1080p the Nvidia software turns off sli by default. no way to run 3 individual screens at 1080 and have sli at the same time.
The problem with Nvidia surround is that every time you want to change settings you need to close apps, reconfigure your displays and sometimes just re start the pc because one of the monitors is not getting signal.

A single card series 6xx or 7xxx with enough horsepower runs all 3 monitors and all I have to do is just change resolutions on the fly.

Thanks for your input guys, much appreciated.

Now to get a new mobo,the pci-e on mine are not reading full 16x for some unknown reason when I run a single card even when I remove everything else from the board