6 monitor setup....

[DamanC]

Morning guys,

I have been asked to advise on the best way to go about achieving a 6 monitor display for gaming on a PC.

The easy answer would be to pop in a 5870 2GB Eyefinity6 card. I am slightly concerned as to whether it would be up to the job of running something like Flight Sim X at full wack?

So what are the alternatives?

Can I Cross fire 2 x 5870 2GB Eyefinity6 cards?

What's the Nvidia route, 3 x cards not in SLI?


Cheers

 

[hash70]

hi,you could crossfire 2x5870 2gb eyefinity,you an use 3 dont know about 6 monitors with nivida

 

[Phoenixdancer]

the 6 5870 wont handle 6 monitors at full wack, what res is going to be run?

if you crossfire w of themn though you should be able to play with 6 screens.

 

[DamanC]

Its going to need to be a half decent resolution.

So crossfire 2 x 5870 2GB Eyefinity6 cards is the way to go?

I should point out that cost is not really an imposing factor.

 

[Freddie1980]

Its going to need to be a half decent resolution.

So crossfire 2 x 5870 2GB Eyefinity6 cards is the way to go?

I should point out that cost is not really an imposing factor.

If cost isn't a factor then sure go for it (with 2x Eyefinity 6 5870's) just out of interest what screens do you plan to use? I've been thinking about getting a standard eyefinity setup using 3x 24" screens and having them in portrait and I want matching monitors but not sure what ones to get.

 

[R088ieS86]

With a single 5870 E6 edition card you will struggle to get above 30 FPS with most games on 5760x2160.
I know quite a few people experience problems with running eyefinity over crossfire. and E6 over crossfire maybe horrible!

 

[DamanC]

The system in mind would be for flight Sim X.

R088ieS86 - Was not aware of E6 problems over crossfire....

 

[Freddie1980]

The system in mind would be for flight Sim X.

R088ieS86 - Was not aware of E6 problems over crossfire....

Flight Sim is meant to be a CPU's worst nightmare and I would have thought(check this out with other players first though) just a single 5870 eyefinity 6 card would be more then enough even at the crazy resolutions you will be running (does flight sim even use Crossfire/SLI?).

 

[Phoenixdancer]

You can buy a Eyefinity 6 Edition 5970, OCUK dont sell these But other retailers do, as price is not a problem the £900 for one is not much of an issue?

This will stop any issues you would face with Crossfire and will be perfect for 6 Monitors.

I expect they will have display port these monitors yes?

Google: 4GB XFX HD 5970 Black LE PCI-E 2.1 (x16) 4800MHz GDDR5

That card has 4GB Ram aswell Perfect for the resolution you want to have.

You will need an Intel I7 at at least 4GHZ aswell to make use if the card for such an application to work well