I'm getting another 2 matching monitors in the hope of getting a triple monitor gaming set up going. And require suggestions on which GPU or GPU's to go for. I am an Nvidia fan boy so would be nice to keep the allegiance. The res of one screen is 1920X1080. So that's 5760X1080? I currently have 2 GTX260's which I know will not handle the new monitors (I'm only getting 50-60fps in BF3 on one monitor :/ ). I was looking into a single GTX590 or going dual 580GTX's Can anyone with triple screen setup's shed some advice. Thanks.
If your sticking with Nvidia,you will need 2 cards are i believe they are limited to two monitors per card.
Best bet is 2x 3gb Nvidia GTX 580's if you want to stick with Nvidia. If you don't mind the move to AMD then 2x 7970's will be a little bit extra price wise, but will offer better performance. I will be going to 3x 27" 1080p monitor's in a few month's when I have the cash but, I won't be doing it till Nvidia's new card's are out.
Tri-monitor gaming or Nvidia Surround works just fine on one 590. I would suggest if you're more enclined to go with the 580s, that as above you stick to the 3gb variants. 1.5GB is simply not enough for those kind of resolutions
2 GTX 570's might even do the trick. It all depends if you want 30fps or 60 A 590 will run 3 monitors since its a dual gpu card.
That is a hard solution to recommend for with the incoming cards and your preference in mind. The performance you require is top notch so it may be prudent to get something that will just about run the screens in most games with finery turned down (a single 6970?) then buy 2 of the best 6xx cards you can from Nvidia on release I find it hard to say drop £600 - £800 on year old tech when its replacement is so close. Otherwise a 7970 or 2 is best, tho again, until we know how the 6xx series shapes up it is hard to say for sure.
1 card will not cut it at that res. even dual gtx 580 3gb wont get amazing fps on bf3 @ ultra. but that is where id be looking. as far as i know dual 580 > 590 but then you obviously have more potential issues resulting from sli
I don't think potential issues come into it, you need more than one GPU for that resolution if you want all the trinkets enabled.
If it were me, I would honestly wait a couple of months. I've had my 580s since November 2010, no way would I think of buying one now really, even if they're great cards. Unless you can find a 3GB one going cheap on ebay, which there are occasionally
Trust me with 2 x 3Gb 580's you do get very good FPS at that res even with everything maxed out at that resolution even in BF3 @op if you need to buy now then 2 x 3Gb 580's will serve you well or 1 or 2 7970's, I believe there's one for Sale on the market place, or if you can wait then Kelper is probably not more than a month away
I need to get my other 2 monitors and stand this month so I may as well wait for the 6 series if it's not far off.
U should wait for gtx 6xx series release and then get two gtx 580s in SLI. Cuz you need 2 cards for 3D Vision
This is true for single GPU cards using the refence output design. Galaxy and probably some others make cards which support three. Yep. 590 would work on its own and again yep, you'll want more memory for higher resolutions. There's a thread on here with 7970 BF3 performance results on a similar monitor setup, might be worth reading over to see what kind of performance can be expected.
compared against my old 6970 crossfire setup, avp dx11 no aa the 6970 crossfire got 60fps but the single 7970 overclocked to the max ccc levels got 63fps with 4x aa not a big jump but much smoother gameplay, also heaven 2.5 benchmark the 69 xfire would not run it was a slide show at 17fps but the 7970 ran at 27.2 fps which might not sound impresive but at 5760x1080 it is. i think the big difference is the 3gb of ram so my advice would be go the 7970 or even 7950 xfire or wait to see what the new nvidia cards can do
