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I missed my delivery by about 5 minutes this morning 
Gotta wait til monday now
Gotta wait til monday now
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Your thoughts please... 680 SLI and Surround or wait for GK110
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Get a triple monitor stand (ie one stand, one desk footprint, but it hols all three monitors)
EDIT: This is the one I ordered:
looking good,
now there's no going back to one screen.
google TS743A its cheaper than a new desk,
your monitors will just fit.
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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.
I use 80* FOV on a single screen... probably be pushing that up quite a bit with the move to three - not sure yet, but yes you need to tweak it...
Play around with it and see what feels best to you
I will get a stand if I stick with it. Better game like hell over the next week to decide! I do think it's a case of getting used to it as well... it's just the obvious bits which are bugging me:
a) can't find a way to save the bezel corrected resolution and then move back to extended desktop mode when finished gaming
b) stretched side monitors in landscape (should try portrait)
On the plus side - I'm happy with the performance of one card it's as I was expecting which is decent enough if you're happy to sacrifice some IQ. I'm happy with the angles of the three screens now as well (angle more acute)
That really sucks.
Really, really should commence the rebuild at some point but I have little enthusiasm for re-installing everything.... . The actual physical building is fine, it's afterwards...
a) can't find a way to save the bezel corrected resolution and then move back to extended desktop mode when finished gaming
b) stretched side monitors in landscape (should try portrait)
On the plus side - I'm happy with the performance of one card it's as I was expecting which is decent enough if you're happy to sacrifice some IQ. I'm happy with the angles of the three screens now as well (angle more acute)
I missed my delivery by about 5 minutes this morning
Gotta wait til monday now
That really sucks.
Really, really should commence the rebuild at some point but I have little enthusiasm for re-installing everything.... . The actual physical building is fine, it's afterwards...
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I will get a stand if I stick with it. Better game like hell over the next week to decide! I do think it's a case of getting used to it as well... it's just the obvious bits which are bugging me:
a) can't find a way to save the bezel corrected resolution and then move back to extended desktop mode when finished gaming
b) stretched side monitors in landscape (should try portrait)
On the plus side - I'm happy with the performance of one card it's as I was expecting which is decent enough if you're happy to sacrifice some IQ. I'm happy with the angles of the three screens now as well (angle more acute)
After doing bezel correction did you go into Change Resolution and select the new resolution and apply and save?
I think its growing on you
Do you mean when you open a window it goes across all 3 screens instead of just the one?
Give Cleeecooo a shout Rusty, iirc he answered this in another thread a while back.
Excellent
How well does the new 680 over clock?
That will have to be a tomorrow answer. Hoping for 1200 at least and I'll be happy. The 680 windforce is a beastly looking card. Both cards running very, very cool at idle which is a good start. Means there's nothing fundamentally wrong with the set-up/airflow.
Just need to run some benchmarks tomorrow to get a feel of how it overclocks. And I need to re-do my overclock on the CPU which I'm not looking forward to!
congrats,
now down to some serious benchies and gaming(more important)
how you finding surround and have you tried 3D surround?
I don't think you understand how the limit is handled buddy
You really have to push extreme levels of AA to have trouble!
Not on multi-monitors. It's really easy to hit it to be fair. Check out Vega's thread about it.
It's difficult to say. Because my perception of it could be worse because the whole thing is new and I was looking directly at the side monitors testing it all out.
What I will say is it is definitely noticeable while playing if you do look at it. If you let the periphery screens settle in the corner of your eye, it works quite well.
I can't get a custom FOV to make it look any better. I will try portrait surround to see how it goes.
On the plus side it looks like my second 680 is a decent clocker. Boosts to around 1150 out the box and just passed Heaven first time with a +100 boost to 1250 (no memory overclock for that run). Score was 2020 which ain't bad for no memory overclock!
If I can get another 20 Mhz out the core then that'll match my current 680.
2100 with +110 and +350
CPU is at stock as well although don't know how much difference an extra 1.2 Ghz will make on the score.
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It's difficult to say. Because my perception of it could be worse because the whole thing is new and I was looking directly at the side monitors testing it all out.
What I will say is it is definitely noticeable while playing if you do look at it. If you let the periphery screens settle in the corner of your eye, it works quite well.
I can't get a custom FOV to make it look any better. I will try portrait surround to see how it goes.
On the plus side it looks like my second 680 is a decent clocker. Boosts to around 1150 out the box and just passed Heaven first time with a +100 boost to 1250 (no memory overclock for that run). Score was 2020 which ain't bad for no memory overclock!
If I can get another 20 Mhz out the core then that'll match my current 680.
2100 with +110 and +350
CPU is at stock as well although don't know how much difference an extra 1.2 Ghz will make on the score.
Hopefully you will get used to it, as it is a nice setup. Good clock so far and push that baby to the max
Forgot to mention... I had a PCI sound card. PCI slot is next PCI-E 8x slot .
Result - no sound card. Guess that'll have to be sold!
At least they're not overly expensive to buy a PCI-E card and stick in the top slot.
.Result - no sound card. Guess that'll have to be sold!
At least they're not overly expensive to buy a PCI-E card and stick in the top slot.