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Graphics cards for 3D vision surround?

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Hi,

I currently have 2 x GTX 460 in SLi which are watercooled, they overclock pretty awesomely too, 900mhz core is fine on them. I can even do 949mhz for benchmarks.

So my question is, would these two do ok for 3 x 1080p monitors? and in 3D?

Or am I going to have to wait for the 6xx series?

I am currently trying to source 2 x LG W2363D monitors to go with my current one and just wondered if it was worth it. :)
 
Wait for the 6 series.

120hz screens for 3D make the cards work twice as hard, also the big resolution of three screens will be too much for them.
 
My friend used to use a 4602win for his surround gaming.

He was running 3 1600x900 monitors as that was the highest EVGA suggested him use with the card due to vram limitations. He had no problems at all playing games such as Left 4 Dead 1&2 Transformers and all of the other games we play vs each other.

However that set up would not be good enough for surround in 3D. TBH? I don't think that right now there is a GPU set up on earth that could power along 3D in surround as you need to double the power for 3D to get things running smoothly and adding an enormous resolution wouldn't help matters at all.

I would imagine it would be good enough for some light 3D gaming on single monitor, but certainly not for triple screens.

He just took down his three monitor setup and went 3D and bought a pair of GTX 480 just to be sure.
 
I run 3 of those monitors currently and use gtx 560 ti 2gb sli, i would wait for the kepler cards if i were you, they will be able to run all 3 monitors off 1 card if desired and of course you can still sli them for the extra grunt the 560's simply don't quite have for the majority of games in 3D surround. Games like iracing and others that do work though are well worth the effort
 
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