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[quote][quote]I see 2X 470's in my future

Too bad you got rid of your displays, but oh well, there are always more to get. :)

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Well, just got rid of the ASUS 25.5" tn panels . Still have my 3 new 24" IPS Dell's. Although two sit in the workbench at the moment along with a 5870. Put out a feeler "for sale" thread for 2 HD 5870's in another forum. and didn't get any responses. so I might need to adjust the price a little and then come up with some more cash for the 470's

I have one more thing to try. and that is to hook up the monitors again , but using an adapter instead of the native displayport . and also leave crossfire out of the equation for the time being

I sold my 5870 + DP adapter for $350 in less than 24 hours on [H]

the only issue I have right now is heat.. I have to run with the cards squashed together so the top card is starved for air.. even at 100% the top card's air flow is about 50% of that of the bottom card and it runs about 20c hotter! so I am dropping these 470s on water.. then I might be able to OC them a little also..

Still have my 3 new 24" IPS Dell's. Although two sit in the workbench at the moment along with a 5870.

If these are the U2410's and you have desire to sell two of them, let me know. I'm looking for two more and Dell has 3-5 week shipping times right now. :cry:

the only issue I have right now is heat.. I have to run with the cards squashed together so the top card is starved for air.. even at 100% the top card's air flow is about 50% of that of the bottom card and it runs about 20c hotter! so I am dropping these 470s on water.. then I might be able to OC them a little also..

A tip for you guys with 'hot' top cards... Plug two of your displays into the bottom card - NOT the top one. If you're unaware of how much heat the extra display causes, then get ready to be stunned! I'm running triple 30's and while this may make more of a difference, my upper card is now cooler than my lower one - also another benefit to tri-sli's one display per card.

cheers

Ahh... good idea. well, I just got all my Koolance gear so no need.. but I might do the switch prior to putting the WC in just to experiment..

I just got Nvision 3D Surround up and running. First impression. Wow! I don't see how I can ever go back to single monitor gaming now. One thing though. I'm using 3 2233rz's and the rightmost one is brighter than the other two. I can't seem to move it to the center even if I move the cables. Is there anyway to have the monitor you want in the position you want? Even though they are all the same monitor, the computer seems to know which one is which and it won't let me play musical chairs. Very bizarre.
Ron

Is there anyway to have the monitor you want in the position you want? Even though they are all the same monitor, the computer seems to know which one is which and it won't let me play musical chairs. Very bizarre.
Ron

lol yes sure, in fact it sounds quite weird.


Aliens Vs Predator looks great all maxed on DX11 (including tesselation and extra shadows) + AA4x at 5040x1050, GPU usage running tri-SLI is also excellent, generally above 80%, and consequently FPS too. :rockout

I sold my 5870 + DP adapter for $350 in less than 24 hours on [H]

I tried to sell mine on the [H] for $360 each and had no takers. I suppose I should try again. cuz I'm getting anxious to try nvidia surround.

considering you can pick up GTX470s for under 300 now (w/ sales + coupons, etc) I'd go lower on the 5870s and you can pretty much 100% offset the cost of the new cards..

considering you can pick up GTX470s for under 300 now (w/ sales + coupons, etc) I'd go lower on the 5870s and you can pretty much 100% offset the cost of the new cards..

Yeah , going to go a bit lower and see

Thales what motherboard are you running, are the 3 cards all in x16 slots ?

Recently traded up from a watercooled 5970 clocked at 970/1200 to two GTX 480s watercooled clocked at 900/2230 and man i just love it, i love the fact vsync actually works in nv surround !! and for those people doing power consumption comparisons .. heres reality - 2 x GTX480 are so much more efficient in terms of scaling that when vsynced to 60 hz my water temps are as low as a the 5970 (about 4c above ambient when under load, furmark about 6c) . Not to mention the fact that i run higher AA modes in most games , higher frame rates and thats vsynced also.

Just ordered my third GTX 480 but i'm a bit worried as my mobo is the Asus P6X58D and it has a x16 slot and 2 x8 slots if run in tri SLI, some say the performance hit is negligable eg 3 % ? anyone running a config like this ?