Video card setup for triple 30" monitors

[Dorothy Gale]

Hello friends, I am posting this thread so that I can get some idea that which video card setup is typical for triple 30" monitors (3007WFP)? If I get the 5870 so does it create logic to crossfire them? Or it is fine to use one video card per monitor? I am really confused with this and so if you people can provide me any idea that can help me to solve this problem then it will really help me. Thank you so much in advance for reading and replying to this.

[CAILYN]

If you don’t play games on it then it will be fin for you to use the 5870 and that will run them but if you like to play games on it then you should consider 6970 and no one can cut that for gaming. You should acquire two 6970's initially and if that does not cut it then take the third one. I believe that you would run within to framebuffer problem at that elevated resolution by means of the 5870's. If you require running them in Infinity then they will require to be on the similar card, so three detach cards won't work into that case. You will require a Display port adapter, as well.

[xanix]

I would not utilize 5870's in any way except they were 2GB models. There is not sufficient memory onboard to manage that type of resolution. Particularly, if you are concerned in too much about 2xAA. There is small point in utilizing 3 of them within CrossfireX like the GPU scaling just isn't there through the present 5xxx series drivers. I used a only Radeon HD 5970 overclocked toward 5870 clock speeds and it was not sufficient for three 30" monitors. A few games worked fine enough through no AA but a lot of games just punished card extra. I moved to dual GeForce GTX 580's as well as could not be happier. I would actually like a bit extra power intended for Crysis, AvP Metro 2033, as well as NFSHP. I am contemplating adding the third GTX 580 to perform the job. though 3-Way SLI has its own bunch problems that go through it.

[OS-X-10+]

I would like to tell you that every card is having two DVI ports. You will have to connect the first two monitors in the main card and other to second. I am having the Dell 3007WFP-HC's and for that I ran plain old dual-link DVI cables and that is not showing me any problem with that. I have not used any adapters or else anything with that. Through my ATI / AMD Eyefinity setup I required a mini-display port for display port adapter subsequently by an active display port toward dual-link DVI adapter.

[MaCiNToSHeR]

If I talk about the 3X 30'' monitors then I would go with the 3X 6970 because they are having the extra memory video. I would not still think 580SLI on those high-res if you are the grave gamers. 580 SLI is critically expensive for what you obtain compared to the 3X6970, otherwise 3 unchain 6950. 69xx series scaling is insane, still improved as compared to Nvidia scaling. For around the similar price, 3 unlock 6950 would get over the 580SLI set-up on those high-res by means of numerous screens set-up.

[5parts]

I have not seen anything better than 3x AMD GPU level. NVIDIA has done a job here. Also you need two active display port adapters to dual-link DVI, which specifies the cost of Crossfire 6970 in the same neighborhood that GTX 580 SLI. AMD has made a mistake and left with a useless single-link DVI port on each card. Moreover, with very few games Crossfire performance leaves much to be desired. There are tons of waypoints that occurs around and many of them show beating GTX 580 SLI Crossfire'ed 6970 is quite easy. All the same things that VRAM is good, but from what I've seen little or no game can really make use of more than about 1.3 GB of VRAM. The GTX 580 has that and a bit more. I have to say that given the state of drivers is less impressive than AMD right now, but my setup does not work as well as a facility "comparable" AMD I am happy that I have to suffer through the use of their drivers . You pass the OP in the thread you linked, which has an odd selection of games. Test your configuration looks like a lot of work went into it, but I have to question some of the methodology. I'm not saying it's valid, but would not base my decision on that data alone.