Translating 1-screen recommended specs to 3-screen recommended specs

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Billy Pilgrim

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Hi
If you look up recommended specs for a game, you get info that is relevant to using just one screen.

I'm wondering how that should translate to three screens.

For example, let's say a game's recommended specs are:

CPU - 2.4GHz Quad-Core
GRAPHICS -GTX 460 (that GPU has: Core Clock 763MHz; Memory Clock Speed 3800MHz)
MEMORY - 4Gb

So those recommended specs above are for one screen. But what GPU/CPU would you have to get to get the same game performance on three screens?

For the GPU: Do you simply need three times the speed?

What about RAM, CPU?
 
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dovah-chan
If you're talking about running an eyefinity set up like 5670x1080 across three monitors then you'd need a card that can support that. Most GPUs out of the box nowadays support 6 monitors max. That doesn't mean that you'll get the same performance on regular 1080p compared to an eyefinity set up. A huge variable in performance on higher resolutions depends on the amount of VRAM your card has. Like the GTX Titan has 6GB GDDR5 RAM and a lot of prosumers find it a go to choice for very high resolution gaming because of the massive amounts of VRAM it has.

interesting article by tomshardware regarding this issue

read this section and if you have any more questions feel free to ask :)

also for your CPU an i5 4670K (or AMD FX-8350)...
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Phillip Corcoran

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For using more than one monitor you need a graphics card that supports more than one monitor simultaneously. The other specs required remain the same since you will be running only one instance of the game regardless of how many monitors you feed it to.

The GTX 460 can run two monitors but not three.
 
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If you're talking about running an eyefinity set up like 5670x1080 across three monitors then you'd need a card that can support that. Most GPUs out of the box nowadays support 6 monitors max. That doesn't mean that you'll get the same performance on regular 1080p compared to an eyefinity set up. A huge variable in performance on higher resolutions depends on the amount of VRAM your card has. Like the GTX Titan has 6GB GDDR5 RAM and a lot of prosumers find it a go to choice for very high resolution gaming because of the massive amounts of VRAM it has.

interesting article by tomshardware regarding this issue

read this section and if you have any more questions feel free to ask :)

also for your CPU an i5 4670K (or AMD FX-8350) and above will suffice and 8GB of RAM is a good choice unless you multitask a ton
 
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