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Budget eyefinity setup

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Guy's I need a little help making up my mind. Firstly a bit of background.

I purchased a gtx 480 on offer about 2 months back, and got myself quite excited recently about the thought of nvidia surround across 3 screens. But this will need SLI and another 480 is out of the question.

Currently I'm using a 22inch screen at 1680 x 1050. I play Arma 2, and IL2 maxed out and sometimes Empire total war. Also will be playing Cliffs of Dover when it is released. I really do want to be maxing these games, that is quite important and budget is quite tight.

Now then. I've pretty much decided that I want 3 screens, and with the current ATI pre-orders I'm looking at selling the 480 and buying two of the 5830's.
And then setting up an eyefinity setup across three of these (space is an issue)....

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-046-BQ&tool=3

With the 5830's handle it, and will the 3 smaller screen's be a good set up for eyefinity?

Thanks

Other system specs....

i7920 @3.2
ocz modstream 700watt
9GB OCZ 1600mhz ddr3
 
Thanks for the head's up guy's.
So, in all will a 6970 (flashed 6950) give better framerates than a 5850 crossfire setup across 3 1680x1050 screens
I change graphics setups every 6 months but usually by selling my current gpu. Hence the swap from a 480. So I really doubt I would get another 6950 in the future.
 
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