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Hi guys, first time here. I'm building a gaming rig soon, and I had some questions about what you guys thought of my (projected) setup:

For monitors, I had my eyes on the Dell 29" monitor (2560x1080) for the center monitor, and two 24" monitors in 1920x1080 on the sides. But I saw someone said somewhere that Eyefinity only supports same-resolution displays, so this wouldn't work? My second thought was 3x 27" monitors in 2560x1440, but that is reaaaally pricey if you want IPS displays (which I do).

Either way, that's going to require some serious hardware to run games on high settings. I'm not worried about the CPU/RAM (i7-3820/32GB), but the graphics card I was looking at was a pair of Crossfired 2GB Radeon 7850s. Is this going to be enough to run a game like Battlefield 3/4 at highest settings with that monitor setup?

Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks!

The resolutions that you are going to attempt to run, at the settings you are suggesting just wont happen.

Your biggest issue would be the VRAM, the 2gb 7870 has does not stack in crossfire to 4. and i'm using regular 1080p 3x1 setup with 7950 that has 3gb vram have reached its full usage before during gaming sessions.

I'd also sggest better GPU power for such setup but for most games 7870 x2 will suffice if not for its 2gb vrm.

About resolutions, im pretty sure it is possible to mix them but its not recommended, regardless i'd suggest stepping down to 16:10 monitors that your GFX will actually handle at high settings, if you won't settle for medium.

have fun,

Prone

Uff.... officially yes, they all need the same resolution.

But i think i've seen some Pictures here of people who managed to run 2560*1400 center with two 1920*1080 corner monitors. But what would happen if you use 2560*1080 in the Center.... no idea!

About Hardware... DON'T buy two 7850 2GB ! the 2GB gonna limit soon and the 7850 lack GPU power, beside you have crossfire problems! So i'd reccomend a 3gb 7970 or a 4gb 670 if you don't want to spend to much money.

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So get a single higher-end card? That would give better performance than two crossfire cards? (I was aware the 2GB doesn't stack in Crossfire)

exactly, you most of the time only have problems with Crossfire

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Okay, so I think I'm going to go with 3x Dell U2713HM monitors (2560x1440) and an ATI Radeon HD 7950 3GB card. That's a big area (7680x1440). What setting am I going to have to run games on (e.g. Battlefield) to run on that graphics card?

Take these Benchmarks and go 15-30% lower.
http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews ... 3gb/14.htm
Settings:
4x AA in CP
16x AF in CP
Game settings = High

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Thanks! So running in Eyefinity takes 15-30% more processing power from the graphics card?

these Benchmarks are in Eyefinity 5760x1080 if you would run 7680x1440 that would be 15-30% less performance... but thats just a rough guess from my site! no hard evidence there.

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I just saw a 7970 GHz edition for $70 more. The benchmarks here: http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews ... _ghz/7.htm look a little better, though other places say the 7970 GHz is a pretty big step up from the 7950. Is $70 worth the performance increase?