Stereo surround... Similar to Eyefinity?

[Shayper]

Hi guys, after being fed up with AMD's apparent ineptitude with drivers, I am thinking of selling the 6950's and either getting 570 Direct CU SLi or a 590.

The one thing is, I run three monitors, and of course love to game across the three So I was just wondering how stereo surround works, is it pretty much the same as Eyefinity, except you need two cards to run it? Cheers guys

 

[Strife212]

Yeah it's the same, I just got it setup yesterday

 

[Mr. May]

wouldnt bother with th 570's for 3x1080 as iam running 2x470's in nv surround and tha lack off memory holds it back a lot

 

[Ultim8]

can you now SLI with stero surround?

I bought 2 GTX 465's a while back and flashed them to 470's but they wouldnt work in stereo surround + SLI so went back to my 5870 six.

 

[Rroff]

? SLI is the only way to use stereo surround...

Also don't confuse nVidia Surround (3x displays with normal output) with Stereo Surround which is nVidia 3D Vision Surround.

 

[Strife212]

Yes, infact, you have to have SLI to use surround!

 

[Ultim8]

OK maybe they changed it but make sure your not getting confused with just having 2 cards running independantly vs SLI.

When i set it up i couldnt run SLI with 3 monitors in a equivalent to eyefinity setup. I had to disable SLI and run the card independant of each other. In games this makes one card redundant i believe but uses it to pass through the graphics.

I may be wrong but i have talked to a few people who had the same problem and agree for multiple monitors AMD/ATI is far better.

 

[Shayper]

Cheers for the replies guys