Single Monitor and 6970 cf

[Preacher1985]

Hi guys, I am hitting a wall here. I have a single monitor pushing 1920x1200 I am looking at purchasing dual 6970's for xfire. Is this a waste of money or will I see great performance gains? I am not going to drop in triple monitors at the moment as I am playing with the wife's budget constraints she has set for me. I have found endless information on 6970's with tri-monitor but none for a single.

 

[renz496]

at your resolution one card is more than enough. so save your money. is there any game that you did not satisfied for its performance?

 

[Preacher1985]

I haven't bought them yet. But I'm currently running a 4870 and definitely need a boost for Rift/BC2, I just had the cash to spring for two and wondered if it was the best way to go. I guess Ill save my cash then.

 

[nrnx]

I have two running on my one monitor. 150-300 FPS in games is glorious. Plus I can play Metro 2033 maxxed out even though that game is hard as frak

 

[renz496]

it is great if you don't have budget constraint. AFAIK we can't feel the frame rates difference once the they hit 60 and above.

 

[wolfram23]

120hz monitor would kind of make it worth it, especially if you get glasses for 3D. But I'd say for a single monitor, maybe go with CF 6870 or 560Ti, even 470s. Unless you think you might go with 3 monitors down the road, then that extra VRAM (2gb) would be great.

 

[Preacher1985]

The reason I was going to go with 6970cf was mainly for Rift. There is HUGE battles where you have multiple raid groups of 20 people on screen at once. Performance takes a hit, was thinking if I went CF on 6970's that would take care of the dip in those situations. Of course there are varying reports of good CF performance on Rift at this time.

 

[Gorillatictacs]

There is HUGE battles where you have multiple raid groups of 20 people on screen at once.

That's going to use your processor a ton more than your videocard. In many games like that people often mistake their bottleneck as the videocard instead of their CPU or RAM

 

[Preacher1985]

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[Mousemonkey]

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