5770 eyefinity advice needed

[miceormen]

Hi all

Was about to hit buy on a new monitor - sammy 2230h but thought I'd investigate this eyefinity malarky once and for all first..

I currently have two 19" panels running @ 1440x900, one dvi each off a 8800gts.

I'm thinking of buying either two sammy 2230h's to run off the gts (for blu ray playback and basic games.. tf2, css and the like)

or..

One new monitor and a 5770 together with a dp-dvi adaptor..

Questions are, will the first setup work for me, and if i go for the second, will the 5770 run all three monitors happily?

Cheers all

 

[miceormen]

Its the newer g92 8800gts 512mb. I expected a certain performance decrease, but as i've said i'm only regularly playing tf2 and css. If i choose to play cod games in the future I'll just have to upgrade my gfx card.

Option 2 is looking less likely then.. My budget is about £250 for this upgrade, the ideas being either 2 new 22" monitors and a blu ray drive - or 1 new 22/24" monitor and the graphics card needed to get eyefinity working with the pre-existing 19"s. Is the 5870 a minimum, or just more future proof given that 5770 performance would be strained already?

Cheers for the advice