Buying a new 3*27" setup.

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carnag3

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Hey guys, just wondering peoples opinions on what I should buy, I want 2560 res and preferably good colour without too much calibration as I find myself editing photos fairly regularly. I was looking at the Samsung s27b970? Thoughts?

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You are going to need some serious GPU horsepower to run that setup. If you have the budget, you won't be disappointed with 3 of those beauties!
 
What are you going to use for a video card? Your GTX260 supports only 2 monitors. You need to factor that into your budget.
 
Thanks for the replies guys! Sorry I haven't updated my setup, budget isn't an issue, I now have a ATI HD6970, should I put a second one in? Or grab the newer techs? Thanks again! :) 3x 2560 in games might be pretty hardcore hey? I am excited but.
 
carnag3 said:
Thanks for the replies guys! Sorry I haven't updated my setup, budget isn't an issue, I now have a ATI HD6970, should I put a second one in? Or grab the newer techs? Thanks again! :) 3x 2560 in games might be pretty hardcore hey? I am excited but.
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If you want to run stuff maxed out, you are probably going to need some more powerful cards. Like GTX670/ 7970. If you go the nV route, get the 4GB Video memory cards, at that resolution you eat VRAM for breakfast :)
 
I game at that resolution, and if you even want to come close to max'ing graphics in games, you will need 3 highend videocards or more. I myself use 3x dell 2711 and its briliant :)

But its very expensive compared to a normal resolution like 1080p or1440p, be warned :p
 
Crossfire would be a big boost at your resolutions but it can be a hassle - you have to deal with microstutter, your power supply has to be big enough, etc. HD6970's are pretty cheap these days (I've seen them for under $200) so you have to balance the cost savings versus going with a simpler single-card configuration. I run 3x30" on a quadfire HD6950 and I can't max everything out, although it's more of a CPU bottleneck than a GPU one for me.
 
Thoughts on going 2 x 3gb 7970's in crossfire? I am pretty excited to be gaining the screen realestate!
 
carnag3 said:
Thoughts on going 2 x 3gb 7970's in crossfire? I am pretty excited to be gaining the screen realestate!
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2 7970's would work great as well as 2 7950's if you don't mind overclocking a bit. I have the MSI Twin Frozr 7950 and it runs my 5760x1080 eyefinity setup pretty well just by itself.
 
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