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want to run nvidia surround/eyefinity

Gregster said:
You do know that those graphs I did have either 2 680's or 2 Titans?
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yeh i know buddy but the first batch had single cards and the 780 wasnt too

bad i guess i wont be playing too many games yet so if a single 780 can handle

it for now i will look into sli and bigger upgrades in future if you get me?

just another question would my amd fx 6300 @ 4gz hold up ?
 
Hi,

Sorry haven't read the whole thread, (trying to talk to the missus and littleun at the same time :)) and understand you are thinking of a 780.

I've had first hand experience of running 760, 760 sli and 780 sli on Nvidia Surround, so I can give you my experience.

Two 760's in SLI will run a Nvidia surround set up on 5760x1080 pretty well indeed, (or 5910x1080 with bezel comp).

As an idea, 760's SLI'd will run most of the latest games with good settings. Games like Mass Effect 3 and Borderlands 2 can be run with everything on full in surround with just ONE 760. When you start looking at Crysis 3, Black Flag, Arma III etc though you wouldn't be able to run any of them decently with one.

With two 760's I could run black flag at max res, with most detail ramped up, advanced physics though caused frame rate issues, and V sync.

Crysis 3 wouldn't run at max res and with AA on full etc, had to compromise on rez with that one.

Other arcadey games such as batman series ran really well. With 760 sli as long as you compromise with v-sync, some details and filtering you can run pretty much everything.

One 780 can run surround ok, not quite as good as 760 SLI, but pretty reasonable, you still won't max out crysis or Arma etc though.

Two 780's just about manage crisis with everything on full, but even then the VRAM is totally maxed.

Depending on what you want, if you can SLI with another 760 you could be pretty happy with that set up, should be perhaps 20% better than a single 780 (benches I was looking at showed two decent clocked 760's performing on par with a titan).

If you want to know anything specifically about running the surround set up let me know.

Cheers!
 
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humbug said:
Is 2GB enough to run multi monitor?

i would get a GPU or two with more than 2GB.
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2gb is enough normally, but isn't if you have SSAO and AA etc ramped up it will nail the ram hard and lag things up like crazy, my 760 sli set up had no where near enough ram for demanding games with filtering and post processing maxed, and the 780's don't really either, they are frequently maxed out. I think 4gb would be the sweet spot.

That doesn't mean to say they can't run games well or look good, it just depends what people want to run with.

I did see a thread somewhere on the net of a chap that looked at VRAM in multi monitor set ups, he concluded 3 was enough for most, but there are a few titles that demand more. My concern is as time goes on, perhaps there will be more titles that need crazy VRAM.
 
steveoz said:
2gb is enough normally, but isn't if you have SSAO and AA etc ramped up it will nail the ram hard and lag things up like crazy, my 760 sli set up had no where near enough ram for demanding games with filtering and post processing maxed, and the 780's don't really either, they are frequently maxed out. I think 4gb would be the sweet spot.

That doesn't mean to say they can't run games well or look good, it just depends what people want to run with.

I did see a thread somewhere on the net of a chap that looked at VRAM in multi monitor set ups, he concluded 3 was enough for most, but there are a few titles that demand more. My concern is as time goes on, perhaps there will be more titles that need crazy VRAM.
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surely they should have upped the VRAM on the 780ti's but yes it turns out the motherboard is x fire only limiting me to a single GPU solution

as the 550W psu will handle this card fine then it would be a saving made my only issue now is will it fit in my case

currently have a NZXT 210 source elite atm

cpu temp stays sub 30c on stock volts @4ghz

unless you would feel the GTX 680 ocuk currently have in stock is not far behind the gtx 780 i would a bit ouf cash opting for that

on the other hand 1ms mons dont require extra computing power do they ?
 
hmmm, you could flog your 760 to get some cash back and maybe opt for a crossfire setup to trump a single 780? Not too up to speed on ATI stuff though so perhaps someone else can comment if that would be worth it?

I would have thought 780's would have come with at least 4gb seeing as 60's and 70's were available with it. I can only assume they didn't want to close the gap even more on the titan by giving 780 owners more v ram to play with.

680's are strong cards, but not quite as quick as the 780. I'd go with the most VRAM you can get for widescreen gaming.
 
Oh and make flawless widescreen and widescreen fixer your new best friends, you will need them :)
 
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would i not be mad to rule out CF 7870s?

since this is going to be costing me money in the end around 300£

flog current mobo and psu for around 70£

then buy a MSI 970A-G46 mobo ~£50

new 850w psu ~£100

add another gtx760 ~£200

then i would not have the regret of knowing that SLI gtx 760s are better then a 780 780ti and titan
 
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Sounds like an all right plan that, I honestly was chuffed with my two 760's, but just got greedy.

If you could get a beefier PSU, compatible mobo and two 760's in your system for around £300 it sounds like a very sound upgrade to me.

What proc and RAM are you using? Might be worth checking with the AMD chaps on here that the rest of the system will be ok and won't bottleneck your 760 SLI.


Cheers,
 
Ram no problem, with the FX @ 4ghz you might get away with it. Do a few checks first, and I'm sure someone who knows more about AMD will come along on here soon and confirm. If all is good should be a nice little set up :)
 
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