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![]() Anyone know what else I will need to get this to work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf7St4WQclk&feature=fvst I know I will need a third monitor obviously, just not sure if I will need a 2nd graphics card etc. Current setup is: Antec Nine Hundred ATX case w/ top 8" and front and rear 120mm fans Top mounted USB, firewire, audio and mic outputs Corsair 850 watt silent power supply w/ single power rail and quad SLI/Xfire support Intel Core i7 930 quad core CPU OC to 3.8+ GHz Thermalright Ultra Extreme 120 heatsink w/ bolt-thru 1366 mounting kit Scythe 28 db 120mm fluid dynamic bearing fan ASUS Socket 1366 ATX overclocker's motherboard Gigabit LAN and 8 USB onboard High Definition 7.1 audio onboard 6 GB (3 x 2048MB) DDR3 1600 SDRAM (16 GB MAX MEMORY) 128 GB SATA Solid State Drive for OS and games 2 x 1.5 TB SATA-2 hard disk drive for storage (RAID 1 redundant mirror array) 24x Dual Layer DVD/CD recorder (black) GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OEM ASUS 26" flat panel LCD monitors (1920x1200 full widescreen) | ||
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![]() How is that game so far?
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![]() If you get a GeForce GTX 480, yes, you will need a second identical card to run three monitors. That's $920.
If you get a Radeon HD 5970, you can run three monitors and get comparable performance for $679. (What in the world is an ASUS Socket 1366 "overclocker's" board? LOL.)
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![]() eh, I tried Radeon once and had nonstop driver issues. Cost isn't really an issue
No idea about the board, computer parts always get creative over dramatic descriptions like Thermalright Ultra Extreme 120 heatsink w/ bolt-thru 1366 mounting kit | ||
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From what I've heard about FFXIV, nvidia cards play great and ATI cards are crapping out bad, to the point of it being unplayable, especially the higher end ones. I've heard ATI doesn't want to release drivers for it since it has the NVidia logo. Basically, I have a lot of gamer friends, and a lot of them are hardcore ATI fanbois, but every single one of them has had issues or was unable to do/play something due to drivers or the card at least a few times, while that has never happened to me or most of my friends that use Nvidia. | |||
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![]() I use a Matrox TripleHead2Go for three monitors off a single Nvidia 8400 on my Ubuntu LINUX machine, which turns my three 19" widescreen monitors into a single 3840x1024 (3 x 1280 x 1024) monitor. Kinda sucky card but since I only play EQ on it works just fine. Previously I used it on Windows XP and Vista and works fine with them too, with some added functions (in Linux the windows don't snap to the monitor when you want full screen like in Windows for example, it goes across the whole display) There's a function to slide the images around so the monitor bevels blank out the image (like a window frame) rather than the image ending abruptly on one monitor and resuming from the next column on the next screen, which distorts the image. I set the monitors up so the bevels overlap so I lose half the amount of image per bevel, works really nice. The TripleHead2Go Digital Edition was about $275 in Canada. Here's a link:
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/ It's nice to have EQ up in the middle, Alla up on one side and P99 forums up on the other [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I tried running EQ in full screen mode which gives great peripheral vision but the slice is too narrow vertically, got really uncomfortable - the card has a mode for 3 x 1680 x 1050 that I haven't tried to get in Linux (probably Windows drivers only) which I guess would be worse but nice for a single screen image. Then again full screen I'd need a 4th monitor for Alla LOL (you can hook a 4th monitor to the second port on your display board) [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I have a pic of my setup around here somewhere I'll post if I find it. Regards, Mg
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Why even solicit opinions when you've already made up your mind based on empirical evidence?
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