Wondering what my best option is for setting up eyefinity with my new Sapphire 6850.
I currently have one 20" 1600x900 monitor (Thinking about adding two more for eyefinity)
With the price of LCD monitors being pretty low was debating selling the 20" (a friend already wants it) and jumping up to (3) 22"-24" monitors
My GPU oc's easily enough and I have good ventilation so I feel comfortable doing this while gaming (WOW) but I'm sure eyefinity will have me playing other games
My long term vision was to eventually buy a new MB and another 6850 and crossfire when the need arises. I don't want to upgrade those parts now just monitors
I guess my question being 1) How will my card perform in eyefinity for these setups:
(3) 20" 1600x900 (4800x900)
(3) 22" 1680x1080 ( )
(3) 24" 1920x1080 ( )
2) If I buy the larger monitors can I play them at a lower resolution in eyefinity until I'm able to upgrade to crossfire?
I know that I will also need a display port adapter to get this to work, and it looks like prices have dropped
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814999030&cm_re=display_port_adapter-_-14-999-030-_-Product
It would be cheapest to go with the 20" but if your gonna set up eyefinity it would be nice to have larger monitors and would only be around a 100$ more than just getting two 20" by the time I sell my old monitor.
Guess my main question is performance based and what to expect from each potential eyefinity setup.
Thanks for taking the time to review my post. Any insight into how my card will perform in eyefinity would be greatly appreciated.
I currently have one 20" 1600x900 monitor (Thinking about adding two more for eyefinity)
With the price of LCD monitors being pretty low was debating selling the 20" (a friend already wants it) and jumping up to (3) 22"-24" monitors
My GPU oc's easily enough and I have good ventilation so I feel comfortable doing this while gaming (WOW) but I'm sure eyefinity will have me playing other games
My long term vision was to eventually buy a new MB and another 6850 and crossfire when the need arises. I don't want to upgrade those parts now just monitors
I guess my question being 1) How will my card perform in eyefinity for these setups:
(3) 20" 1600x900 (4800x900)
(3) 22" 1680x1080 ( )
(3) 24" 1920x1080 ( )
2) If I buy the larger monitors can I play them at a lower resolution in eyefinity until I'm able to upgrade to crossfire?
I know that I will also need a display port adapter to get this to work, and it looks like prices have dropped
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814999030&cm_re=display_port_adapter-_-14-999-030-_-Product
It would be cheapest to go with the 20" but if your gonna set up eyefinity it would be nice to have larger monitors and would only be around a 100$ more than just getting two 20" by the time I sell my old monitor.
Guess my main question is performance based and what to expect from each potential eyefinity setup.
Thanks for taking the time to review my post. Any insight into how my card will perform in eyefinity would be greatly appreciated.