Single GTX 690 using THREE monitors

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Andrew Rohlfs

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Here is my setup:

Haf-x Full tower Case
ASUS Sabertooth Z87
GTX 690 w/ Artic cooler
Cooler Master 1000w PSU
i7-4770k 3.5 GHz
Samsung 256GB SSD
WD 1TB HD
RIPJAWS 2x8GB ram
H100 water cooling
Windows 7

My question is: since the GTX 690 is a dual 2GB GPU card and I will be using three ASUS-VG248QE 144hz 1ms monitors at 5760x1080, will the frames per second be noticeably lower than if I were to use one large monitor at a more concentrated resolution? I want everything at max, besides anti-aliasing if that's what it takes.

I do NOT want to go SLI with my gtx 690 because from what I've seen it's 10%-50% different, not worth the extra $1k.

Thanks!

P.S.- Any suggestions on how to improve my rig?
 
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bryonhowley
Well since the GTX 690 is already SLI you should be just fine. I run a SLI setup with 2 Gigabyte GTX 670's(Winforce 2) cards on three Asus 27" monitors at 5760x1080 and have not had any problems at all. I am running them on the rig in my sig. While I do not have 144Hz monitors so i can't comment on that but I do run my games at 60fps vsync'ed ultra/max and they all play great.

Every game that I have played that supports Eyefinity/Surround has ran perfect with this setup. So you should be able to do the same as I understand it a GTX 690 is two slightly under-clocked GTX 680's. From benchmarks I have seen a SLI GTX 670 is very close to the performance of a GTX 690. So given that you could get two GTX 670's and still not spend as much on...
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kevin83

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Uhhh, you mean Z87, right? Or 3770k? Because you need a z87 platform with lga 1150 to run a 4770k.
You are totally fine going with 3 of that monitor, it's more taxing than a 1600x2560 but I like the width.
 
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Well since the GTX 690 is already SLI you should be just fine. I run a SLI setup with 2 Gigabyte GTX 670's(Winforce 2) cards on three Asus 27" monitors at 5760x1080 and have not had any problems at all. I am running them on the rig in my sig. While I do not have 144Hz monitors so i can't comment on that but I do run my games at 60fps vsync'ed ultra/max and they all play great.

Every game that I have played that supports Eyefinity/Surround has ran perfect with this setup. So you should be able to do the same as I understand it a GTX 690 is two slightly under-clocked GTX 680's. From benchmarks I have seen a SLI GTX 670 is very close to the performance of a GTX 690. So given that you could get two GTX 670's and still not spend as much on the two cards as you would on a single GTX 690 and get right at the same performance.
 
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Also I would suggest getting a gtx 780 before suggesting an SLI configuration, and if you are going to spend the grand you might as well get a gtx titan, it might be slightly slower than a 690 but if you ever want to upgrade you can SLI two titans and get a much better experience than quad-SLI with two 690s.
 
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Andrew Rohlfs

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Yeah, Z87. I used to have a 77 then upgraded with a new rig. The titan option is a good idea, although I have heard that GTX 690s are better, and I would rather keep all of my gaming to a single card without dealing with the SLI bs
 
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Do you have 2GB or 4GB 670s? I'm looking to build something very similar soon.
 
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