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will a 6990 handle this?

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has anyone got any experience of running a 6990 with three 27 inch monitors at 7680 x1440

mainly playing bf3 & planetside2. currently I have 3 24inch and it runs fine but thinking about changing and wondered if the card would handle it
 
What frame rate and memory usage are you getting atm as then the latest sli/xfire set ups will struggle at that res.
 
Mr. May said:
What frame rate and memory usage are you getting atm as then the latest sli/xfire set ups will struggle at that res.
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nornally playing bf3 i get around 60-70fps i have most settings except for mesh draw distance on low - clock speeds on the gpu are 830 and the mem is 1250
 
OP stick with what you have

You will run out of VRAM and even if you can get it to run the frame rates will be awful.
 
IronWarrior said:
It has 4GB's of RAM and the FPS will be fine depending on the X game and Y settings.
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2GB on each card, so only 2GB usable.
It wont run into any VRAM issue though, would run out of grunt well before VRAM lol.


If he's getting 60fps on BF3 with low settings, adding another 5m pixels will surely knock him over his "playable" limit?
 
Tonester0011 said:
2GB on each card, so only 2GB usable.
It wont run into any VRAM issue though, would run out of grunt well before VRAM lol.


If he's getting 60fps on BF3 with low settings, adding another 5m pixels will surely knock him over his "playable" limit?
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+1

I would not even dream of running that resolution with my setup.:D
 
doggles said:
ok thanks for your help - guess i'll make do :) and wait till 7970's get cheaper or the 8xxx series it out
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Your card is still a very good card (I almost bought a pair of them when they came out) it just won't do the resolution you were thinking of going to. I would also have the same problem and I run a pair of GTX 690s.
 
Kaapstad said:
Your card is still a very good card (I almost bought a pair of them when they came out) it just won't do the resolution you were thinking of going to. I would also have the same problem and I run a pair of GTX 690s.
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so is it the VRAM that would cause the issue?

or just that it's too much for the card generally to cope with?
 
doggles said:
so is it the VRAM that would cause the issue?

or just that it's too much for the card generally to cope with?
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Both

Even if you were to add another HD 6990 and got it to scale well for more GPU muscle you would then get hit by the lack of VRAM.
 
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