Spec me a 3x monitor build

mikedigitales

mikedigitales

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Hey guys,

Looking to build a gaming pc for a friend, he currently games on a single 1080p 24" and want to move up to a three monitor set-up. He mainly plays racing games, F1, MotoGP, GRID. Not sure if a single card is possible, but it being quiet would be a big bonus. Not sure if his existing 3570K CPU would be up to it, but if so that could be recycled. Thanks!
 
Can you clarify if you mean gaming on all three at once/eyefinity, or just having three monitors with gaming on one and the others for shiggles/useful multitasking purposes?
 
Just to add my input about running 3 monitors on a single card.

I run 3 24" 1080p monitors on a single 2gb 770, I can play Dirt 3, F1, GRID 2, even BF3 on high/Ultra settings whilst still maintaining 60fps.

So a single 780/280x/290 is perfect imo.
 
'mikedigitales' what is the current spec of your friends PC. If you can give us the details on that, I'm sure some people will be along very shortly to help you out.
It may be that he doesn't actually need to buy a whole new rig, and could just upgrade the GPU (or add another one) and buy the monitors and he'd be good to go :D But until we know his current system spec we won't know.
 
mikedigitales said:
No probs :)

Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H
Intel i5 3570K + Cooler Master Hyper T4
1600MHz 8GB RAM
Gigabyte GTX 660 2GB Windforce 2X
Crucial M4 256GB
Antec 620W Neo Eco Modular
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That is a pretty decent pc. I would look at changing the GPU to something like a 780/290. Everything else is ok.
 
In which case I definitely think your mate is going to want to upgrade his GPU, as I don't think that 660 will cut it over 3 monitors, not if he wants to ramp up the detail etc and still get good frame rates etc, which I suspect he. He could have course go SLI, but having never done that before, I'm not sure if people would recommend a pair of 660's for a triple screen setup, oh and I don't think a 620w power supply would cut it, but I could be wrong again
Also I'm not really up on the Intel CPU's but if he's running it at the same speed as you are (4.2ghz) I should imagine that's fine, although I stand to be corrected by the people much more in the know about these things.

TL:DR I've not really bee a huge amount of help have I, lol. Sorry buddy.
 
DJ_Bucho said:
I mean is he was to run a pair of 660 GPUS. Would a 660W PSU be enough? With an overclocked CPU as well? Maybe I'm just used to AMD power usage.
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That motherboard only supports Crossfire anyway, so you wouldn't be able to add a 2nd GTX660.
 
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