- Aug 28, 2013
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So I'm trying to figure out how best to spend more money, or if I shouldn't bother.. I should mention that I'll be posting a host of other hardware related questions in another section/forum, so I'll try to keep this specific, but probably fail.
At the moment I'm gaming on 1 x Acer HN274H 3D Monitor, or 3 little LG ones in 2D, off 2 x EVGA GTX 660ti 3GB SC+ in SLI (i5 25k/RoG Gene-z, cos someone will ask). I've just been given a second Acer 3D monitor though, and I can get a 3rd cheap(ish). I'm having a look at upgrading a few things on another PC, so I'm considering rebuilding the two and upgrading as I go. As I've only been using SLI a few months and I've not done any really heavy triple monitor stuff, my questions are centered around the ability to drive the 3 Acer monitors in such a way that I wont need to upgrade my gaming rig until it becomes embarrassing..
In order to keep this specific to the forum, I'd like to focus simply on gpu selection.
Will 2 660ti's handle the 3 Acer monitors or should they have a card each? I ask in terms of fps as well as lifespan/longevity. I'm aware that 3 cards wont equal anything close to 3x performance.
If so, what benefit would quad sli over triple?
In many of the bigger motherboards, those that support 3 or 4 way sli, they have differing lane configurations on the pcie rails. I don't understand a great deal about hardware engineeringing, but from what I've been led to believe, nothing in the near future is going to choke pcie, so what real world significance are these rail configurations? For example, would you see real world difference on a motherboard running quad sli at 8x/8x/8x/8x, as opposed to 8x/16x/8x/8x, or 8x/4x/8x/4x. Motherboard sel;ection is another matter, my curiosity is over the significance of these rails, for gaming, over the next four years or so?
At the moment I'm gaming on 1 x Acer HN274H 3D Monitor, or 3 little LG ones in 2D, off 2 x EVGA GTX 660ti 3GB SC+ in SLI (i5 25k/RoG Gene-z, cos someone will ask). I've just been given a second Acer 3D monitor though, and I can get a 3rd cheap(ish). I'm having a look at upgrading a few things on another PC, so I'm considering rebuilding the two and upgrading as I go. As I've only been using SLI a few months and I've not done any really heavy triple monitor stuff, my questions are centered around the ability to drive the 3 Acer monitors in such a way that I wont need to upgrade my gaming rig until it becomes embarrassing..
In order to keep this specific to the forum, I'd like to focus simply on gpu selection.
Will 2 660ti's handle the 3 Acer monitors or should they have a card each? I ask in terms of fps as well as lifespan/longevity. I'm aware that 3 cards wont equal anything close to 3x performance.
If so, what benefit would quad sli over triple?
In many of the bigger motherboards, those that support 3 or 4 way sli, they have differing lane configurations on the pcie rails. I don't understand a great deal about hardware engineeringing, but from what I've been led to believe, nothing in the near future is going to choke pcie, so what real world significance are these rail configurations? For example, would you see real world difference on a motherboard running quad sli at 8x/8x/8x/8x, as opposed to 8x/16x/8x/8x, or 8x/4x/8x/4x. Motherboard sel;ection is another matter, my curiosity is over the significance of these rails, for gaming, over the next four years or so?
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