Using HDTV'S for......
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Tue, 01/07/2014 - 19:19
Using HDTV'S for......
I'm building a AMD gaming PC and will be using 2 x 47" HDTV and 1 x 60"HDTV all 3 are 1080P resolution . The 47" is 120 HZ and the 60" is 240 HZ not sure if this is a problem . Anyway I need help choosing a graphics card (AMD) please no Nvidia I can't afford that route. Am I better off with one G.C or two ? My motherboard will be the Asus Sabertooth 990 x. The G.C I'm looking at is the R290x will just one of these G.C run trips at high or better in graphics for games like : Iracing , Project Cars , Dirt 3 , A.C or other games like BF4 , Diablo and Metro last light ? Thanks!
Count nvidia out there extremely difficult to work with different screens and hrz best go with an and it will only run at your lowest settings
When you say it will run at the lowest setting . Do you mean that the one R290X G.C would not be enough or something else would cause using it in a lower setting. Sorry for the questions , I'm not very computer savy .
As the TVs are different it will run at the lowest resolution of the three and TVs refresh rate.
exp. if one TV runs at 720p the rest will and the same for the refresh rate
as the refresh are different your gonna have to go into your computers display and change the refresh rate of the highest one to the same as the other 2 than setup your eyefinity
Will this G.C work ? (Asus R9 280X Matrix Platnium)
Yes, it should. I run Nvidia Surround on my gaming PC and AMD Eyefinity on my desktop PC. Both PCs do triples. You can use different size monitors just fine with Eyefinity. Nvidia Surround is more complicated when the displays are not identical. The only issue I see for you is making sure you have a DisplayPort connection to at least one display. If you lack a DisplayPort connection on any of your displays, then you likely will need to purchase a DisplayPort active adapter. Check out AMD's website for more information.
What PC sim racing do you intend to do?
I was reading about that display port adapter and I found if you use a Saphire Radeon G.C it has a software with it called Flex where you dont need to run any monitor on a display port. It runs with Eyefiniy smoothly. If you go on the Saphire website it explains how you can connect the monitors without using a display port.
Cool, that will make setting up Eyefinity much simpler.
Yes...But it is rather new and I think the drivers are still in beta the reviews to date are a little mixed, a good bet is also a XFX Radeon HD 7970 DD Edition 3GB GDDR5 Graphics Card great card fairly easy to find discounted and a proven track record. supposedly on a par with the GTX 770 so that is one hell of a budget card.
Also, it is generally better to run one card. AMD's mutli-GPU set up is called "Crossfire". Nvidia's multi-GPU set up is called SLI. I have a lot of experience with SLI and I generally hated it. More hassle than its worth. My vow is to never do multi-cards again, or at least not until they are much less hassle. Several respected PC gaming publications, including Custom PC and Maximum PC, strongly recommend single card set ups over multi-card configurations.
Good choices. The r9 290 also looks good.
Yes. My only concern about that card is that its overpriced, no doubt due to the spike in demand caused by the bitcoin miners. Otherwise, that card looks like it will run iRacing very nicely.
Yeah, you need to stick with AMD because you are using different displays. I was able to get Nvidia Surround to work with different displays, but I had to monkey around with sync polarities to get the magic 5760 X 1200 maximum resolution for triples. You don't want to mess with that, trust me. Stick with AMD, even if you pay a premium due to the supply shortage.