I bit on three of the HP Omen 32"s that were a great deal this weekend (thanks hot deals). These are replacing a 5040x1050 setup. I love multimonitor gaming and won't go back. I was considering 21:9 this time, but had concerns, and these were too good a deal to pass up.
I'm currently running a single GTX 970 that handles 5040x1050 easily for my tastes. I've always been happy to sacrifice AA and lots of post-processing options to run bigger resolutions with midrange hardware. I was running GTX 460 SLI before the 970, and it worked well enough. Rest of the system: i5 6660K, 32gb ram, SM951 SSD, evga plat 750 psu.
Now I'll have double the pixels, and I'll need more horsepower. I'd like to do that with AMD, to take advantage of freesync. Is there a viable solution in a normal price range?
I'm looking at RX 480 crossfire. I'm concerned because everything warns against crossfire, like this. I've read somewhere that freesync helps mitigate the feel of microstutter, is that the same as the frametime spikes? Additionally, all the games I currently play have crossfire support from what I've researched. Is it still a bad idea?
I'm unwilling to spend crazy money for a pro duo, and doubt I have the PSU for crossfire fury x's.
I realize I should probably sit on my hands and wait until vega releases, but there's nothing credible about what or when yet. If I have to wait I may have to suffer the nuclear option: non-native resolution.
I'd like to hear opinions. Please remember I'm willing to sacrifice some level of image quality to keep the price at a sane level. Thanks!
I'm currently running a single GTX 970 that handles 5040x1050 easily for my tastes. I've always been happy to sacrifice AA and lots of post-processing options to run bigger resolutions with midrange hardware. I was running GTX 460 SLI before the 970, and it worked well enough. Rest of the system: i5 6660K, 32gb ram, SM951 SSD, evga plat 750 psu.
Now I'll have double the pixels, and I'll need more horsepower. I'd like to do that with AMD, to take advantage of freesync. Is there a viable solution in a normal price range?
I'm looking at RX 480 crossfire. I'm concerned because everything warns against crossfire, like this. I've read somewhere that freesync helps mitigate the feel of microstutter, is that the same as the frametime spikes? Additionally, all the games I currently play have crossfire support from what I've researched. Is it still a bad idea?
I'm unwilling to spend crazy money for a pro duo, and doubt I have the PSU for crossfire fury x's.
I realize I should probably sit on my hands and wait until vega releases, but there's nothing credible about what or when yet. If I have to wait I may have to suffer the nuclear option: non-native resolution.
I'd like to hear opinions. Please remember I'm willing to sacrifice some level of image quality to keep the price at a sane level. Thanks!