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My 6970, can this thing power that?

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Andyk5

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I have a 2 gig 6970 with no bios switch etc.. currently powering 1 HP2710m which is a 27inch 1080p TN 60Hz LCD, and 2 21 inch 60Hz Dell IPS'es.

What I really want is a 30inch IPS or TN ( this size would be IPS more than likely) 120hz monitor, but I also love the massive resolution that non 120hz monitors bring to the table.

Anyway that is not even the point.

Question 1
Can this 6970 power 3 27" 1440p Korean LED monitors? A regular usage scenario would be the two side monitors being on desktop and the center one playing Stracraft 2 at low settings but native resolution.

Question 2
Can this thing manage if I can get the center monitor to be at 120Hz? I am not sure if this is even possible but was thinking keeping the flanking 27's at 1440p 60Hz and overclocking the center to 120Hz if possible. I would also not mind waiting for the right monitor to come out for that.

Question 3
Since I also encode video at 1080/720p and stream my games on twitch TV, I put a good amount of stress on my video card and CPU. The option I asked on question 2 seems hard to achieve anyways, so how would a another 2 gig 6970 in Crossfire fare in this situation. Would it help the 3 1440p standard refresh rate monitor situation? Would it help the 2 1440p 60 Hz 1 1440p 120hz situation? or both?

To be real honest I am pretty undereducated on these newer LG IPS panels and I don't even know which ones are overclokable or even how to do it, but doing some preliminary ground work right now. I want to get this setup going within 2-3 months at the latest.
 
i'm not sure how well mixed refresh rates work out but you should be ok..

you shouldn't have any issue running it in desktop mde instead of eyefinity mode

keep in mind if you want to game on the middle screen while doing other things you'll want to run your games in windowed mode (and which i don't think SLI nor Xfire work in windowed mode) to be able to work on the other 2 monitors while you play games (Otherwise the game takes exclusive control of the mouse/window)


seems the biggest thing you'll have to figure out is if the 6970 supports mixed refresh rates on monitors.
 
You will want more GPU power for the things you are listing. As far as I know, and I researched it a couple months ago when I bought my zr30w, there are no consumer-grade 30" IPS monitors that run at 120hz. Some of the Korean monitors do overclock, but it's no guarantee that you will get anywhere near 120hz. If I remember correctly, most of those panels could overclock to 90 or even 100hz, but not much more than that. You might have to decide what you want more- big beautiful 30" IPS goodness, or some 120hz action. Either way, you will almost certainly want more video card power.
 
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