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Which 680?

I've been thinking of a 3 monitor setup since playing dirt 3 on my mate's 3 monitor setup my mind exploded.

What would be great to run 3 120Ghz @ 1080?

Thanks.
 
Uncle_Gravy said:
The Mpower Z77 boards have 3x PCIe 3 slots, unless theres a compatibillity issue i've missed.
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main issue is the spacing between card 2 and 3 isnt as large as between 1 and 2 however good cooling cards will help with that . But other than that will be fine I reckon.
 
macca672 said:
main issue is the spacing between card 2 and 3 isnt as large as between 1 and 2 however good cooling cards will help with that . But other than that will be fine I reckon.
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Now that you mention it, i've just noticed the gap, should be fine (hopefully) If i do go down the Trifire route, cooling 'should' be fine due to having a 200mm fan on the side of my Haf x blowing on the cards.

Gonna be expensive, so it's gonna take a few months of saving.
 
Trifire will have you sorted for some time definitely. And then you have the resale value of 3 cards when you you want to upgrade :D.
 
The heat created with SLI/CF is over looked far too often, as well as noise. My first experience with SLI was an easy setup but the noise when gaming was horrendous (and both cards ran pretty quiet on their own). With the heat, both cards will run hotter than they would on their own and of course temps are a big problem with any of our computer gear.

Whilst I wish to take nothing away from SLI/CF, there are issues which need to be taken into consideration. I especially chuckle when I see "Trifire is what you want to do".....New PSU* as well as having to go watercooled is essential.

*unless you have a 1200w PSU already
 
I would read the manual.

Fairly sure 3 way graphics card combinations are limited to X79 SB-E on the most recent set of chipsets.
 
Rusty0611 said:
I would read the manual.

Fairly sure 3 way graphics card combinations are limited to X79 SB-E on the most recent set of chipsets.
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You are correct. It will allow support for 2*690's/7990's but not three seperate cards. It is a little misleading when it says "support for 4 AMD GPU's" as that means 2 * 7990's
 
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