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Your thoughts please... 680 SLI and Surround or wait for GK110
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Looks goodhow about portrait monitors? Get those bezels off too
Haven't decided if I'm keeping them yet. More an expensive trial. I "wow" 'ed when I sat down in front of them. Just done my bezel correction (needed 125
)Bout to head into the Battlefield. My overclock is quite high so expecting to be able to play on High preset with no MSAA I would imagine!
Edit: Ultra, MSAAx2 not enough GPU power. Trying High preset now.
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The 'stretching' on the two surround screens bugs me a little. High was fine for the most part. Had motion blur off and HBAO/SSAO off as well as I hate them in BF3.
Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
27919, 474383, 43, 152, 58.853
Probably knock around 15% off for a stock 680.#
BF3, Conquest 64, Operation Firestorm, moving between B, C, D and E
Edit: Yes, 1 680 Tommy.
To be fair Ultra with no MSAA and FXAA maxed wasn't that much worse than that. I feel the pain when it drops below 50 FPS though. Will try medium but don't think it'll make much difference.
Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
27919, 474383, 43, 152, 58.853
Probably knock around 15% off for a stock 680.#
BF3, Conquest 64, Operation Firestorm, moving between B, C, D and E
Edit: Yes, 1 680 Tommy.
To be fair Ultra with no MSAA and FXAA maxed wasn't that much worse than that. I feel the pain when it drops below 50 FPS though. Will try medium but don't think it'll make much difference.
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Haven't decided if I'm keeping them yet. More an expensive trial. I "wow" 'ed when I sat down in front of them. Just done my bezel correction (needed 125
Bout to head into the Battlefield. My overclock is quite high so expecting to be able to play on High preset with no MSAA I would imagine!
Edit: Ultra, MSAAx2 not enough GPU power. Trying High preset now.
looking good,
now there's no going back to one screen.
google TS743A its cheaper than a new desk,
your monitors will just fit.
Auto is just a combination of medium settings. I see the benefits of lowering settings to get the Surround set up but as I've got a new 680 by my feet I think I'll try that
.To be fair, the stretching is bothering me more than the drop in settings at the mo.
Anyone use a custom FOV to alleviate the problem a little? Apparently that can help.
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A plank of wood is even cheaper.
Impressive performance from a single card on 3 screens.
A plank of wood is even cheaper.
Darn it,never thought of that.
Very nice Rusty.
Are you able to run your monitors in Portrait mode? I have tried Landscape a number of times and I just can't get on with it due to the stretching. I also found that I was less tolerant of a lower framerate as well.
Your are getting very similar performance to me (single 670 overclocked to 1313/7000 in my case) at around 60fps average at high settings. As long as you don't touch any MSAA settings you can't get a good average framerate.
Are you able to run your monitors in Portrait mode? I have tried Landscape a number of times and I just can't get on with it due to the stretching. I also found that I was less tolerant of a lower framerate as well.
Your are getting very similar performance to me (single 670 overclocked to 1313/7000 in my case) at around 60fps average at high settings. As long as you don't touch any MSAA settings you can't get a good average framerate.
Very nice Rusty.
Are you able to run your monitors in Portrait mode? I have tried Landscape a number of times and I just can't get on with it due to the stretching. I also found that I was less tolerant of a lower framerate as well.
Your are getting very similar performance to me (single 670 overclocked to 1313/7000 in my case) at around 60fps average at high settings. As long as you don't touch any MSAA settings you can't get a good average framerate.
Thanks. Mine was in multiplayer though (couple of tanks being repair tooled by me as well!) - yours is the single player start isn't it? It's a shame there isn't a 64 man set benchmark because any benchmark I do is going to be different
.I am going to try portrait to see how I get on although I think I'll struggle with the bezels being relatively close to each other.
Have to say, no MSAA isn't as bad as I thought on three screens. It's kind of artificially reduced because there's SO much to look at you don't focus on it. But I did still notice it. 2x was nice (as you say, the difference between 2x and 4x is minimal and the hit is huge).
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Auto is just a combination of medium settings. I see the benefits of lowering settings to get the Surround set up but as I've got a new 680 by my feet I think I'll try that
To be fair, the stretching is bothering me more than the drop in settings at the mo.
Anyone use a custom FOV to alleviate the problem a little? Apparently that can help.
If you use something like a 40-50 custom FOV it should be better, even at the default of 60 and if you turn the outside screens inwards it looks better.
EDIT: Also what I did was tuck the outside screens bezel in behind the bezels of the middle so you can't see the outside monitor bezel at all.
Yeah changed now to the middle monitor in front of the other two and it is better. The fish eye effect on the sides still bug me a little as if I spot someone in a side monitor it's hard to move and acquire a target quickly due to the differing depth perceptions. Think I need to try portrait!
Or/and give it a little more gaming playtime, your eyes aren't used to surround gaming I guess, much the same as going 3D for the first time.
I felt like vomiting after my first testing/playthrough of various titles using 3D over the space of a couple of hours and thought it wasn't for me, but after a few nights, I guess my eyes started coping and the brain strain was gone.
Iv'e never used combined multi monitors for gaming before so I may be on the wrong train of thought completely though.
I don't think I've heard anyone(who has actually used the tech) saying they didn't like it for gaming, they all say they would never go back to single screen gaming.
Exactly.
@ Rusty, after a few days to a week of playing you won't even look at the side monitors anymore. You'll just catch the glimpse of the enemy in the side monitor and react straight away. This works better than directly looking at the side monitors IMO.
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I don't think you understand how the limit is handled buddy
You really have to push extreme levels of AA to have trouble!