So I'm in the process of building my first computer after years of buying prebuilt ones and of course I'm getting paranoid about every single little detail. So I figured I'd start asking questions since I'm still not 100% up to speed on all the hardware and what it can and can't do.
My current prebuilt computer has an ATI Radeon HD 6800 (I think) in it but the motherboard has completely died. This card was able to run my three monitors (2x 1920x1080 1x 1280x1024) just fine. I never really used Eyefinity at all, so if I was gaming, it was just on the main monitor and the other two were either off or showing static things like chats, etc.
Now that I'm upgrading I'm looking into getting the GTX 780 (specifically looking at this EVGA one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487040&cm_re=evga_gtx_780-_-14-487-040-_-Product). I'm also planning to upgrade my monitors to 2x 2560x1440 and 1x 1140x900 (which will be mounted in portrait). I don't think I need three 2560 monitors since I hardly ever use my third one now and it's basically just used to display twitter, chats, etc. hence why I figured if I go with a third it'll just be a 19" instead of 27"
Now I'm pretty sure the 780 is gonna be fine running these monitors since it's not likely that with only two "active" monitors that I'll be doing multi-monitor gaming. But obviously I want to be sure before I drop $600 bucks, especially if going with a dual gpu setup of an older card would work better/just as good.
Someday I'll get into full-on surround immersion gaming... That day just isn't today...
(and no, I am not interested in continuing on with an AMD card instead of NVIDIA)
Thanks guys!
My current prebuilt computer has an ATI Radeon HD 6800 (I think) in it but the motherboard has completely died. This card was able to run my three monitors (2x 1920x1080 1x 1280x1024) just fine. I never really used Eyefinity at all, so if I was gaming, it was just on the main monitor and the other two were either off or showing static things like chats, etc.
Now that I'm upgrading I'm looking into getting the GTX 780 (specifically looking at this EVGA one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487040&cm_re=evga_gtx_780-_-14-487-040-_-Product). I'm also planning to upgrade my monitors to 2x 2560x1440 and 1x 1140x900 (which will be mounted in portrait). I don't think I need three 2560 monitors since I hardly ever use my third one now and it's basically just used to display twitter, chats, etc. hence why I figured if I go with a third it'll just be a 19" instead of 27"
Now I'm pretty sure the 780 is gonna be fine running these monitors since it's not likely that with only two "active" monitors that I'll be doing multi-monitor gaming. But obviously I want to be sure before I drop $600 bucks, especially if going with a dual gpu setup of an older card would work better/just as good.
Someday I'll get into full-on surround immersion gaming... That day just isn't today...
(and no, I am not interested in continuing on with an AMD card instead of NVIDIA)
Thanks guys!