You beat me Greg
Shocking advice bud. I had to jump in quick but I can see the OP isn't stupid enough to sell his system and buy the same/lesser (I7 to I5 geeeeez) system again....
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Shocking advice bud. I had to jump in quick but I can see the OP isn't stupid enough to sell his system and buy the same/lesser (I7 to I5 geeeeez) system again....
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Im not sure AMD cards can do 3D across 3 screens in crossfire mode. I dont think it works, but am happy to be proven wrong (in fact I hope im wrong). Just something you need to make sure of before going either way. Hopefully Tommybhoy or someone else can clear this up
As the monitor i am buying is a nvidia 3d vision built in monitor, the amd side of things doesn't really matter to me...settled on nvidia a while back and prefer the lack of driver problems.
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His advice was ignored straight away...well, after a chuckle. It is only a gpu and display issue really
I tried various cards set ups(Nvidia) as I wanted 3D surround.(already had my monitors)
What I found was there was no improvement with Sli 4Gb over Sli 2GB cards,
It was only when I got the 3rd 4Gb card that I saw the gains of having the extra 2Gb of vram.
Now, if your happy to have 3D on your middle monitor only
I would agree with Gregster and get the 670's.
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Greg..if i went down the road of having a vg278h as as the middle monitor and was going to use it for 3d..do asus do a standard version of the vg278h without the 3d option?
Im not sure AMD cards can do 3D across 3 screens in crossfire mode. I dont think it works, but am happy to be proven wrong (in fact I hope im wrong). Just something you need to make sure of before going either way. Hopefully Tommybhoy or someone else can clear this up
YOU'RE WRONG!
OP - 3D is great, but it also gets old fast. I do like it, although I think that there are more important things to spend your money on.
If I was buying, I would go for 7970s over a 680 with Samsung 3D monitors
YOUR BASKET
2 x MSI HD 7970 Lightning 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £419.99 (£839.98)
3 x Samsung S23A750D 23" 120Hz 3D Widescreen Ultra Thin LED Monitor - Glossy Black £269.99 (£809.97)
Total : £1,679.28 (includes shipping : £24.45).
In the interests of fairness, here are the pros and cons for AMD over NV:
-Better 3 screen support (switching between modes)
-LOADS OF FREE GAMES!
-The Lightnings have better coolers than the 690 (IMO)
-Relies on 3rd party 3D (not necessarily a bad thing)
-more cards=more heat
-Needs displayport for 3 monitors (not a problem with those Samsung monitors)
The way I read it you haven't yet got a 3D vision monitor, if you have, ignore the above
weehamish - seriously, if you're going to exclusively post crap like this, then please do STFU
That's great if true
I read somewhere that tridef didn't support crossfire over 3 monitors. By the sound of it its an old issue that's been sorted. Just wanted some confirmation really, thanks
Ermmmm No I don't think so Mariner. I run all 3 monitors in 3D with settings turned down and not by much. I get good fps and I am very happy with it. I love 3D but like Cleee says, for some people it can get old quick.
2*670 will play all games in 3D, just be prepared to tone down settings and to be honest, 3D looks amazing on high instaed of ultra IMO anyways.
Cleeeeecoooooooo gives a good alternative for the dirty AMD route
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Well it will have to be 3 VG278H monitors
Sticking with nvidia mate, might be slightly more expensive but the pro's outweigh the con's for me. Just got to settle on the card/cards
Sticking with nvidia mate, might be slightly more expensive but the pro's outweigh the con's for me. Just got to settle on the card/cards
Well it will have to be 3 VG278H monitors
Sticking with nvidia mate, might be slightly more expensive but the pro's outweigh the con's for me. Just got to settle on the card/cards
Just had a look at prices and 2* MSI 680s are very good value (on pre-order) for a 680.
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2 x MSI GeForce GTX 680 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £359.99 (£719.98)
Total : £731.38 (includes shipping : £9.50).
Could be worth a look. You decide though Mariner on what suits your budget. Glad to hear you are sticking with those monitors...Very good choice
Mal!! Show yourself!
Well it will have to be 3 VG278H monitors
Sticking with nvidia mate, might be slightly more expensive but the pro's outweigh the con's for me. Just got to settle on the card/cards
What exactly are the pros that you want to pay £200-300 more for exactly?
Make no mistake, 7950 crossfire is a faster in triple screen than 670's/680's.
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Was just looking at those...very tempted..wonder when they will be getting more in..
Would allow me to grab another ssd too and still be under my budget..
Would allow me to grab another ssd too and still be under my budget..
Send OcUK a message in the Customer service section on this forum and ask bud. 5UB will let you know
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Mal!! Show yourself!
What exactly are the pros that you want to pay £200-300 more for exactly?
Make no mistake, 7950 crossfire is a faster in triple screen than 670's/680's.
Well i obviously would prefer not to pay more but i have had a lot of experience with amd and nvidia cards over the years and nvidia have came out on top for me, particularly when running 2 cards in sli/crossfire. As 3d is the thing i want to explore with the monitor above..and is an nvidia 3d vision ready display, i want to stick with nvidia as i find them far less hassle all round and i prefer the driver support..many will argue about that but it is my experience none the less.
Just something you may want to bear in mind, nVidia 3 monitors is a PITA as you need to keep resetting the monitors each time you switch between surround and extended, wheres with AMD it's literally just 2 clicks
I'd agree that nvidia's driver support is better, bt at the same time, AMD's isn't bad per say. They've certainly caught up a LOT in terms of xfire issues as i've had none at all
Just for reference, I've used both AMD and nVidia extensively in the past few months
I'd agree that nvidia's driver support is better, bt at the same time, AMD's isn't bad per say. They've certainly caught up a LOT in terms of xfire issues as i've had none at all
Just for reference, I've used both AMD and nVidia extensively in the past few months
GTX 690s do not suffer from micro stutter, they have a hardware fix for it.
Not on my rig they won't
If you are talking about multi GPUs you need an i7 to get the max out of them.