New monitor, will my gfx card cope?

[Boff_in]

I am considering buying a new monitor to last me the next decade (fingers crossed) and I am thinking of the 27" Dell Ultra sharp. I want more resolution & a bigger screen. Maybe I wont need so much AA then.

I am concerned spending this much $$ if my current cards will have there usefulness shortened by this purchase.

My current gfx card is a 769mb gtx460 in SLi.

I currently play my games on a 22" 1680x1050 with generally 4-8 AA with rest the setting at max and get good performance.

Am I being naive to think these cards will be able to handle that res without loosing much in the way of the pretty?

 

[chaparral]

Look at review sites for benchmarks of the games you mainly play
You want look at what the min FPS is in the benchmarks



Don't look like SLI 460 are really fast enough for 2560 x 1600 at max detail settings
http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-460-sli-review/

 

[Boff_in]

I have found a few with SLi benchmarks but not too many.

Would I be right in thinking that with a higher resolution I could knock the AA down a bit without seeing too much difference?

 

[chaparral]

Would I be right in thinking that with a higher resolution I could knock the AA down a bit without seeing too much difference?

It going take a lot more then just knocking down the AA to not see much difference....
Also with the 460 only having 768mb of ram i would expect this to cause slow downs at such a high res...


Crysis warhead at 2xAA
1600 x 1200 = 69fps
2560 x 1600 = 29fps

Far Cry 2
1600 x 1200 = 122fps
2560 x 1600 = 49fps

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Some more

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky no AA
1650 x 1080 = 36fps
2560 x 1600 = 68fps

Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena 4xAA
1650 x 1080 = 91fps
2560 x 1600 = 45fps

 

[Andrei23]

sell your gtx 460s, get a single 6970, profit

 

[arc@css]

Yup, you'll lack vram at that res, I'd try and get one or two cards with over 1gb of memory.