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Question about downgrading from two to one card.

TheSwede

TheSwede

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Hi all,

At presently I am having crossfire with 2 R9 290 4GB cards but I basically just using one card anyway. My setup is a 34inch Samsung LS34E790C 21:9 with 2 24inch Dell U2412M on either side. The Samsung is powered by card 1 and the two Dells by card 2. (Using DP and not got around to try the 2 DVI connections for the Dell screens).

My question is if one card will be ok to run these screens, either the Fury X which I am looking forward to see more about tomorrow, or a GTX 980Ti. I don't have to run things on max settings when playing a game as slong as it runs decently, then I'm happy. :) Also, I mostly tend to run games in windowed mode on main screen and having browser, skype and other apps opened on the other 2 screens. Not just sure if one card can be able to do that though ??

My full PC specs if needed is as follows:

Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H Intel Z97
Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell)
2 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Vapor-X OC 4096MB
SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 850W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold"
Corsair Vengeance (4x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz
Intel 335 Series 20nm 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive x 2
Couple HDD's: 2TB, 5TB and 2 x 3TB HDD's
Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
ASUS BluRay Combo BC-12D2HT
Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Digital surround

Any and all help will be greatly apprecaited ! :)
 
Well if you have the side screens connected to the second card and are running games in windowed mode then it means you aren't using crossfire anyway? So it means at the moment for gaming you are getting the performance from one 290 so changing to a single Fury X or 980ti will be an upgrade for gaming.
You'll have to double check what physical connectors are on the cards and you may need adaptors to connect all 3 screens but one card will be fine driving 3 screens in the way you currently use them.
 
nails666 said:
Well if you have the side screens connected to the second card and are running games in windowed mode then it means you aren't using crossfire anyway? So it means at the moment for gaming you are getting the performance from one 290 so changing to a single Fury X or 980ti will be an upgrade for gaming.
You'll have to double check what physical connectors are on the cards and you may need adaptors to connect all 3 screens but one card will be fine driving 3 screens in the way you currently use them.
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Saved me some typing - exactly what he said! :D
 
nails666 said:
Well if you have the side screens connected to the second card and are running games in windowed mode then it means you aren't using crossfire anyway? So it means at the moment for gaming you are getting the performance from one 290 so changing to a single Fury X or 980ti will be an upgrade for gaming.
You'll have to double check what physical connectors are on the cards and you may need adaptors to connect all 3 screens but one card will be fine driving 3 screens in the way you currently use them.
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Yup that's correct. Crossfire is disabled as it is now, due to the 290 only have one DP connection and when I got the Samsung screen couldn't be asked to change the Dell to DVI cables again so plugged the DP adapter into 2nd card to run the Dells that way (Yes I know, bit lazy there :o ). The adopter don't support 3440x1440 so have to run it directly from the card.

If not mistaken both the Fury X and GTX 980Ti has 3 DP Connections so be able top connect all 3 to one card. Was just not sure if it be enough to run all 3 same time and such. Worse case guess have to turn of the Dell's when playing although would prefer to be able to use them as well, since always multitasking stuff. :cool:

Thanks for your reply guys, much appreciated. I keep my eyes on the Fury thread tomorrow and catch the reviews then see which card it ends up being. :)
 
Yeah one card will be fine running all three like that. In theory it may lower the frame rate having the other screens displaying the desktop/other apps etc but nothing you'll notice outside of benchmarks. I current run 2 screens in pretty much the same way, games in fullscreen on one and various monitoring apps, websites etc on the second and it's fine like that on every gpu I've had since an AMD 4850 so a Fury X won't have any trouble :)
 
nails666 said:
Yeah one card will be fine running all three like that. In theory it may lower the frame rate having the other screens displaying the desktop/other apps etc but nothing you'll notice outside of benchmarks. I current run 2 screens in pretty much the same way, games in fullscreen on one and various monitoring apps, websites etc on the second and it's fine like that on every gpu I've had since an AMD 4850 so a Fury X won't have any trouble :)
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Thanks, gues just wanted to ask to make sure to what I hoped would work. :)

And yes, the few times I done benchmarks I shut everything down and turn of the other monitors anyway, leaving nothing opened in the background. :) In regards to frame rate, I can live with that, as long as it don't end up being a stutter party then all good. :cool:
 
Running a second (or third or fourth) screen that you're not gaming on is like taking a passenger in a Ferrari. Theoretically, you'll be slower due to the extra weight, but it's going to be such a small difference that you'll almost certainly not be able to measure it, let alone notice it. :)
 
Hehe, nice analogy Stu. TheSwede you could always just use the 2 side screens for gaming as well in a (really wide) Eyefinity setup with a Fury X ;)
 
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