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Need advice on Nvidia surround??

TBirdUK

TBirdUK

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Currently I am running 2 x 8800GTX through a matrox triplehead2go to allow half decent surround gaming - but now I need more.

Would like to stay Nvidia, dont want to spend too much, around £150-£200 what is the best bang for the £ to go SLI and take advantage of the Nvidia surround gaming?

Cheers

edit - forgot to say want it to play BF3 in surround and would go ATI if I had too for the money (just prefer not having to go the special cable route and have fairly old monitors)
 
You will need SLI and realistically you will probably need more than £150-200 depending on resolution - my (overclocked) GTX470 SLI setup tops out at about 3x 1680x1050 panels and definitely would struggle at 3x 1920x panels in some games. You could get away with a pair of 460s in SLI if your running at 3x 1680x1050 tops.

Even if you go with AMD realistically your gonna need to spend more than £200 to get good performance with any decent resolution setup with high quality settings.
 
Rroff said:
You will need SLI and realistically you will probably need more than £150-200 depending on resolution - my (overclocked) GTX470 SLI setup tops out at about 3x 1680x1050 panels and definitely would struggle at 3x 1920x panels in some games. You could get away with a pair of 460s in SLI if your running at 3x 1680x1050 tops.

Even if you go with AMD realistically your gonna need to spend more than £200 to get good performance with any decent resolution setup with high quality settings.
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this, double that budget however...

With the AMD cards, I believe that you need 2 x 5850 to run 1080p 3 screens for good performance. However, 6950 CF would be better due to more VRAM.

On the nvidia side, 470 SLI might just cut 1080p if you're happy to cut down on some settings. 480 SLI should be able to handle it. You're looking at a £400 ish price tag but you can get maybe £80 on the MM for both 8800GTX's
 
£140-150 new for 470, if you look around there are some 1GB 460s at £99 IIRC - a pair of those clocked to stock 470 performance wouldn't be slow tho you'd be a bit VRAM limited for higher res surround.
 
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