Surround GFX card for £230?

[Helium_Junkie]

I'm looking to go surround this week (yay paydays!), I currently have a GTX 480 and 2 24" Iiyamas.

Should I get a second 480 off the MM or should I get a single new card?
Looking to spend about £230 which keeps me just under £400 with the third monitor.

Hardware:
Corsair 750W TX PSU - 120mm Fan, 80+% Efficiency, Single +12V Rail
GA-P67A-UD4-B3 Mobo (http://uk.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3759#ov)

Anyone able to recommend best bang for buck? I'd like to play BF3 and GW2 in surround with decent performance and reasonable quality - if that isn't possible with a £230 budget then please recommend something more expensive for me to strive toward after Christmas.

Many thanks!

 

[Gregster]

To give some indication of performance, I play BF3 in surround (5760*1080) and did some testing.

With settings turned down in BF3, I would say 2*480 will cope however you have other issues to consider and those being the temps of the 480s in SLI and the noise that they bring. If under water or you don't mind noise, I would say go for 480s SLI.

My advice would be to get a 7950 (HIS for £230) and then add another at some stage. 2*7950 will beat me in surround purely because of the bigger memory bus on the 7950/70's.

You can sell hte game codes to help fund the other as well

 

[Helium_Junkie]

Would you go for the HIS over the MSI on weekly deal:
MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III OC V2 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with SIX FREE PC GAMES [R7950 Twin Frozr 3GD5/OC (V2)]
?

My monitors have DVI and HDMI, no MDP, do these come with converters or do I need to also budget for 2 converters?

 

[Rusty0611]

Would you go for the HIS over the MSI on weekly deal:
MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III OC V2 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with SIX FREE PC GAMES [R7950 Twin Frozr 3GD5/OC (V2)]
?

My monitors have DVI and HDMI, no MDP, do these come with converters or do I need to also budget for 2 converters?

Go with the HIS one as a lot of MSI cards have been faulty (running way too hot). It's a good card and I have it.

If you're going to game over triple screens with an AMD card at least one has to be connected via mDP. So you'll need an adaptor.

 

[Helium_Junkie]

Thanks for the advice, went with the HIS card, hopefully will be arriving today!

 

[Helium_Junkie]

So that was a massive failure! I wasn't aware that a mDP to HDMI cable would not suffice for eyefinity...

The 7950 has HDMI, DVI and 2 mDP ports, can I use the HDMI,DVI and one mDP via adapter or do I need two adapters?

 

[Rusty0611]

Does HDMI, DVI and mDP not work?

 

[Surveyor]

can I use the HDMI,DVI and one mDP via adapter

You should be able to as long as the miniDP adapter is an active one.