Greets,
Purchase date: nowish
Use: Office work & light gaming (Eve Online & Minecraft)
Current gear: 5770 and P7P55D mobo, will require an upgrade on the power supply. I5 760 and 8Gb RAM.
Considering OC'ing the GPUs a bit within the limits of air cooling.
Found a deal on a new 5770 Eyefinity 5 ( http://bit.ly/Q2NvS0 ) that I couldn't pass on, even if only as a second card for Crossfiring the 5770 I already have.
It would be a shame however not to try out the bucket of Eyefinity possibilities this opened up thought, however I am aware of the limitations I'm dealing with.
On my P7P55D they will come out as PCIe 16x/4x, so that's a slight hitch right there.
Question 1: I've read conflicting stuff on the mobo itself (with some reports of 8x/8x, but I think that refers to other flavors of this board), assuming 16x/4x, I'm thinking ~10% loss on the second card. Am I in the correct region?
Furthermore, although I would be a happy camper with just a third screen, the itch to push this further is strong and going for the full 5 monitors will be hard to resist. I'm trying to manage expectations here, considering the slightly less than 2Gb of Juniper horsepower I don't see maxed games in 5400x1920 in my future, but for office stuff you can't begin to imagine how 5x1 portrait would kick ass with my daily use. I'm assuming lowered resolution and details for gaming.
Question 2: For an office setup, 5 monitors on the pair, yea or nay at FHD?
Question 3: For gaming, how easier on the cards would it be if I switched down resolution? Is it a linear progression or is it not that important?
Question 4: Assuming a final upgrade later on with a mobo able to deal 3 or 4 GPUs in crossfire at a mix of 16x and 8x speeds, would there be a significant change with an added 5770 or should I just put that away for a new system?
As I said I got the card for cheap, not really interested to trade them up yet, want to wait until my next system. Besides I can borrow more monitors from work, can't expense new GPUs though.
Thoughts? Thanks!
Purchase date: nowish
Use: Office work & light gaming (Eve Online & Minecraft)
Current gear: 5770 and P7P55D mobo, will require an upgrade on the power supply. I5 760 and 8Gb RAM.
Considering OC'ing the GPUs a bit within the limits of air cooling.
Found a deal on a new 5770 Eyefinity 5 ( http://bit.ly/Q2NvS0 ) that I couldn't pass on, even if only as a second card for Crossfiring the 5770 I already have.
It would be a shame however not to try out the bucket of Eyefinity possibilities this opened up thought, however I am aware of the limitations I'm dealing with.
On my P7P55D they will come out as PCIe 16x/4x, so that's a slight hitch right there.
Question 1: I've read conflicting stuff on the mobo itself (with some reports of 8x/8x, but I think that refers to other flavors of this board), assuming 16x/4x, I'm thinking ~10% loss on the second card. Am I in the correct region?
Furthermore, although I would be a happy camper with just a third screen, the itch to push this further is strong and going for the full 5 monitors will be hard to resist. I'm trying to manage expectations here, considering the slightly less than 2Gb of Juniper horsepower I don't see maxed games in 5400x1920 in my future, but for office stuff you can't begin to imagine how 5x1 portrait would kick ass with my daily use. I'm assuming lowered resolution and details for gaming.
Question 2: For an office setup, 5 monitors on the pair, yea or nay at FHD?
Question 3: For gaming, how easier on the cards would it be if I switched down resolution? Is it a linear progression or is it not that important?
Question 4: Assuming a final upgrade later on with a mobo able to deal 3 or 4 GPUs in crossfire at a mix of 16x and 8x speeds, would there be a significant change with an added 5770 or should I just put that away for a new system?
As I said I got the card for cheap, not really interested to trade them up yet, want to wait until my next system. Besides I can borrow more monitors from work, can't expense new GPUs though.
Thoughts? Thanks!
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