Graphics Card

[Reddax]

i have about £600 to spend on a graphics card, a couple of months ago, i heard about a graphics card being able to plug 3 screens into it and where you can play games across all 3, im not sure what the name is, i Think its a ATI, does anyone have any idea of what its called? if not, then is there a good graphics card, direct x 11, better than my current graphics card the NVIDIA 8800gt? thanks.

[mr.monkey.fish]

I've heard of this yes...

you'll need two or more graphics cards to do it though, and both ATI and NV will be bringing out there technologies to compete.. Cant remember If they're combining the multiple monitor surround with the 3dVision/Eyefinity which is being pushed for...

Im trolling google currently looking for the article that I found...

As for good graphics cards with a £600 budget... You sure you need hep

Top of the ATI 5*** series is the current best (afaik), but the NV fermi cards are on the doorstep...

EDIT:

BOOOOM RESULT!

Source: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...oscope-15.html

Touching on NVIDIA Surround / 3D Vision Surround

During CES, NVIDIA unveiled their answer to ATI’s Eyefinity multi-display capability: 3D Vision Surround and NVIDIA Surround. These two “surround” technologies from NVIDIA share common ground but in some ways their prerequisites and capabilities are at two totally different ends of the spectrum. We should also mention straight away that both of these technologies will become available once the GF100 cards launch and will support bezel correction management from the outset.


NVIDIA Surround



Not to be confused with NVIDIA’s 3D Vision Surround, their standard Surround moniker allows for three displays to be fed concurrently via an SLI setup. Yes, you need an SLI system in order to run three displays at the same time but the good news is that NVIDIA Surround is backwards compatible with GTX 200-series cards in addition to forwards compatible with GF100 series parts. This display method can display information across three 2560 x 1600 screens and allows for a mixture of monitors to be used as long as they all support the same resolutions.

The reason why SLI is needed is because both the GT200 series and the GF100 cards are only capable of having a pair of display adapters active at the same time. In addition, if you want to drive three monitors at reasonably high detail levels, you’ll need some serious horsepower and that’s exactly what a dual or triple card system gives you.

This does tend to leave out the people who may want to use three displays for professional applications but that’s where NVIDIA’s Quadro series comes into play.


3D Vision Surround



We all know by now that immersive gaming has been taken to new levels by both ATI, with their HD 5000-series’ ability to game on up to three monitors at once, and NVIDIA’s own 3D Vision which offers stereoscopic viewing within games. What has now happened is a combining of these two techniques under the 3D Vision Surround banner, which brings stereo 3D to surround gaming.

This is the mac-daddy of display technologies and it is compatible with SLI setups of upcoming GF100 cards and older GT200-series. The reasoning behind this is pretty straightforward: you need a massively powerful system for rendering and outputting what amounts to six high resolution 1920 x 1080 images (two to each of the three 120Hz monitors). Another thing you should be aware of is the fact that all three monitors MUST be of the same make and model in order to ensure uniformity.


All in all, we saw NVIDIA’s 3D Vision Surround in action and while it was extremely impressive to say the least, we can't give any more thoughts about it, more testing on our part must be done.

That be NV's offering, but like Kav said ATI have Eyefinity out...

[Listey]

£600 on a gfx card... are you mad lol

Since you're willing to spend that kind of money you may want to look at this: http://www.cclonline.com/product-inf...d=21165-01-50r

[Kaviar]

Have a look for Eyefinity.

Listy is right £600 is a lot.... what monitors do you have?

[Sum]

Yes, Eyefinity. Best graphics card on the market is the one Listy showed, the 5970. Its overkill IMO though! :O

[Reddax]

i have two 19" hd hannspree monitors, and a tv thats also a monitor that is 22" full hd

[Reddax]

which is best to get to play for instance crysis and the new aliens vs predator directx 11 on pretty much full settings?(i can play crysis on all high at the moment, with a little lag), the ATI or Nvidia?

[Kaviar]

19" have a very small res. Normaly 1440x900. £200 should get you a damn good ATI HD5xxx card that will run them perfectly.
A £600 card would totaly wasted on your set up

The 22" with full HD (1920x1080) makes things more intresting but Im guessing it' not set out on yout desk like the monitors above... If so then theres no neet to worry about it as you'll not be running 3 screens in games and if you used it on it's own then £200 card will have buckets of power to run it.

Save £400 and buy a kick ass SSD.

[Reddax]

would it be better and more powerfull than my current 8800gt?
and would i be able able to install it with these things?:
MotherBoard: http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails...el=TF570%20SLI
PSU: 850W OCZ GameXStream Power Supply
x 1 24 Pin + P8/4
x 2 PCI-e 8/6 Pin
x 2 PCI-e 6 Pin
x 6 SATA
x 6 Molex
x 2 Floppy

for the £600 Sapphire Radeon Graphics card, i dont have the 2x4 pin spare, iv looked everywhere i cant find it, i only have the 2x3 psu pin

[Sum]

would it be better and more powerfull than my current 8800gt?
and would i be able able to install it with these things?:
MotherBoard: http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails...el=TF570%20SLI

If that's your motherboard then...you'll need a new one. That supports AGP, modern cards now are PCI-E x16.

And to be honest mate, for £600 you can buy yourself a new kick ass system!

[Reddax]

lol, hmm, might think about doing that, since my parts are starting to out date, and i need to upgrade to play the latest games, would need some help in choosing the right parts though, im not great at that, but im able to build it myself

[gavster]

If you have alook around the forums you'll see plenty of suggestions for that budget, the one in my sig has been recommended and approved by many members (although you'll want a btter gfx card) - cost me £415 plus graphics, so should have plenty to spend to get a decent card

[Sum]

Maybe use this thread for a bit of guidance.

(cba listing a build for you atm )

[Reddax]

heh, too lazy? :P lol

one quick question, on that link Sum sent me, there's a link on that where you can create your own pc, iv got a question, am i able, to for example, swap the hard drives from this into that? and like, upgrade parts later on? or is it like, sealed in?