Caporegime
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Hehe, Gibbo, Nvidia/AMD haven't quite got it licked on smooth surround gaming yet. Though I think the way to do it best, is all cards on the same connection, same screens.
I wouldn't be surprised if the driver forces all screens to the same refresh when setup as one large screen, so individual screens, you've got 2 at 120Hz, 1 at 60hz on hdmi or something, or a basic hdmi to dvi adaptor? As soon as you try and make it one display its essentially picking the lowest common resolution which is 1080p @60hz for all screens as that is the max for one of them.
The only thing I'd check on is if the display adaptors actually support 120Hz as I've just found something fairly interesting.
Hmm, not quite sure how to contact you so I'll drop this link here http://support.amd.com/us/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity-dongles.aspx
If you follow the first link there(it does take you to a semi competitor, stateside, but nothing anyone actually wants
, nor doesn't know about). The page it takes you to says the adaptor does do dual link but DOES NOT work with 120hz 3dscreens. So it can do dual link but not 120hz, so I wouldn't bank on all active dual link adaptors being able to do 120hz.
I think the "best" way for Nvidia is to go SLI, and go with 3x dvi screens and use 3 ports across the two cards, or 3 display ports across the two cards. For AMD, I think its probably best to have a card with 3 + dp's and go with DP screens, for single setups 120hz can work any which way easily.
The few people I've seen with tri screen setups(who have gone 120hz) seem to be using eyefinity edition cards with 6 dp ports.
I think in all honesty we're 2-3 gens away from Nvidia/AMD having it completely sorted and optimised and from screens being more standardly 120hz and having multiple inputs that work at 120hz.
It's not hugely important, 3d surround sounds nice and high tech in theory, in reality I can see it being a huge pain in the behind(and performance wise), though because of performance I wouldn't be surprised if the only people even thinking about surround 3d would have sli/xfire anyway. I'd still "like" 120hz on all three screens in a normal surround setup, and likewise I'd happily go for 3x matching screens and the samsungs because they are just such ridiculously good screens, though if you were buying "for the future" and hoping 3d/surround starts working more easily I'd probably go for a screen with DP @120hz.
I wouldn't be surprised if the driver forces all screens to the same refresh when setup as one large screen, so individual screens, you've got 2 at 120Hz, 1 at 60hz on hdmi or something, or a basic hdmi to dvi adaptor? As soon as you try and make it one display its essentially picking the lowest common resolution which is 1080p @60hz for all screens as that is the max for one of them.
The only thing I'd check on is if the display adaptors actually support 120Hz as I've just found something fairly interesting.
Hmm, not quite sure how to contact you so I'll drop this link here http://support.amd.com/us/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity-dongles.aspx
If you follow the first link there(it does take you to a semi competitor, stateside, but nothing anyone actually wants
, nor doesn't know about). The page it takes you to says the adaptor does do dual link but DOES NOT work with 120hz 3dscreens. So it can do dual link but not 120hz, so I wouldn't bank on all active dual link adaptors being able to do 120hz.I think the "best" way for Nvidia is to go SLI, and go with 3x dvi screens and use 3 ports across the two cards, or 3 display ports across the two cards. For AMD, I think its probably best to have a card with 3 + dp's and go with DP screens, for single setups 120hz can work any which way easily.
The few people I've seen with tri screen setups(who have gone 120hz) seem to be using eyefinity edition cards with 6 dp ports.
I think in all honesty we're 2-3 gens away from Nvidia/AMD having it completely sorted and optimised and from screens being more standardly 120hz and having multiple inputs that work at 120hz.
It's not hugely important, 3d surround sounds nice and high tech in theory, in reality I can see it being a huge pain in the behind(and performance wise), though because of performance I wouldn't be surprised if the only people even thinking about surround 3d would have sli/xfire anyway. I'd still "like" 120hz on all three screens in a normal surround setup, and likewise I'd happily go for 3x matching screens and the samsungs because they are just such ridiculously good screens, though if you were buying "for the future" and hoping 3d/surround starts working more easily I'd probably go for a screen with DP @120hz.
