A mate of mine wants to run three monitors on his pc. I know he needs some sort of modern Ati card but I'm not sure which one.
Budget of around £100 for the card is think.
He loves his warcraft and swtor.
if one is just going to have basic stuff on it, he could just use a pci card for the 3rd screen ?
my little brother used to use one when SLI didn't support dual screens,
sli on one screen, cheap pci card on the other screen.... couldn't only tell the difference if you tried the same game on both screens.... everything else ran 100% :-)
You mean Eyefinity? If you are tell him to forget it with a budget of £100 tbh, (unless the monitors are very small?) The bare minimum he is going to need with 1080 monitors for WoW is a pair of 6870's in crossfire, with Swtor a pair of 6950's might struggle to keep the framerate decent.
I did toy with the idea of get a couple more 24" and giving Eyefinerty a try myself but after reading up on it decided to get a 27" monitor instead, as you need serious grunt to have a reasonable framerate at the insane resolution it runs at.
Quote from: Shaun on January 09, 2012, 18:33:21 PM
You mean Eyefinity? If you are tell him to forget it with a budget of £100 tbh, (unless the monitors are very small?) The bare minimum he is going to need with 1080 monitors for WoW is a pair of 6870's in crossfire, with Swtor a pair of 6950's might struggle to keep the framerate decent.
I did toy with the idea of get a couple more 24" and giving Eyefinerty a try myself but after reading up on it decided to get a 27" monitor instead, as you need serious grunt to have a reasonable framerate at the insane resolution it runs at.
No no, that's just a budget for the card. If it needs to be more then give me an idea!
I think he's looking at 24" monitors.
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he needs nothing of the sort
he needs a matrox triple head2go
if anything else, the fly over to some flight sim sites & see what they use, bet most use the matrox.
No he doesn't, triple head2go is used mostly to allow you to use 3 monitors on a single Nvidia card which only allows 2 as standard, (you can connect 3 on a AMD card) your graphics card still has to do all the work to stretch the screen image to the extra monitors.
To just connect 3 monitors to a AMD card you will need one with Mini-DisplayPort's, something like a 6850 which is around the 100 quid mark.
Not sure if it helps, but using any of the new i5/7s with a board that can use the integrated GPU on chip allows you to use a monitor from that, and 2 from a normal graphics card.