3 monitor surround setup

[President]

As far as I can remember I always saw more driver issues with Nvidia than I did with ATI. A simple google search brings up quite a few from the past including "30% of windows vista crashed due to nvidia drivers" and "nvidia drivers causing overheating and card failures". Not to say ATI doesn't have their own issues too, but throwing ATI under the bus as the only company to have driver issues with windows is wrong. However, when I fooled around with Ubuntu about 3 1/2 years ago some ATI cards had issues with Linux drivers, where as Nvidia cards, for the most part, did not. I would surely hope by now that it has been fixed, but if you may want to use Linux, that's something to consider.

Anyway, you forgot to include what stickers you put on your computer case. I'm not sure you computer description had enough detail in it to fully help with a video card decision.

[Uaellaen]

or you can use one of these ...

http://www.multi-monitors.com/SUPER_...ad2Go_s/22.htm

[President]

Originally Posted by Uaellaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

or you can use one of these ...

http://www.multi-monitors.com/SUPER_...ad2Go_s/22.htm

Not for gaming across three screens he cant.

[Allizia]

Originally Posted by President [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Anyway, you forgot to include what stickers you put on your computer case. I'm not sure you computer description had enough detail in it to fully help with a video card decision.

26 Nvidia stickers of course! JK, and my Nvidia references are limited to me and other gamers I know in real life so it's not a complete picture by any means, just personal experiences. The computer details were just a copy/paste of the description from the guy that builds my computers, and making sure everything else was good to go.

I'm was kind of worried about 2 cards generated too much heat or ovewhelming the power supply as well, I can swap cards and install ram chips etc, but I don't keep up the current hardware

[Kelven]

I gave ATI another shot when the 4870's came out, and F&*K i hate it. Completely unstable P.O.S. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Whenever I "upgrade" again I'm going back to Nvidia. ATI = expensive paperweight.

[nicemace]

my 4870x2 dosent have any stability issues, way better than my nvidia cards i have had in the past

runs a bit hot but you can get a fan patch to up the speed then its all good.

[Overcast]

Originally Posted by Allizia [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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

The newest Catalyst drivers leave a LOT to be desired. They hosed up my daughter's PC bad. I had to hack it all out of the registry and pretty much delete anything and everything to do with the driver to get the 9.2 (I think) driver to install - but it worked perfectly.

It wasn't the card either - since - I've replaced it with a better Radeon and ran into the same issue - and yeah, the PC's been nuked. It might be her chipset - but still..