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    So I just ordered Dell UltraSharp U3011 Monitor, I have an ATI 6970 video card and I am wondering how it will handle the higher res running 2560x1600 vs it's current monitor that runs at 1920x1080.
    anyone running a similar setup? Will I need to upgrade the video card to 5 box using it for the main account and 2 seperate monitors for the rest of the team?
    Any insight welcome.

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    4096000px vs 2073600px = about a 97.5% increase in view area. Basically look at your system and ask can the GFX card handle rendering about twice the pixels? It is a very very archaic way to think about it but it is a good way to start questioning if you need a new card (or 2). Look at where your card sits while 5 boxing now and just think about the increase and if the GPU and VidRAM would be able to handle the extra load.

    A 6970 is a pretty sexy card so I am interested as to how it handles it, keep us updated.
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    Cutting-edge integrated display support
    • DisplayPort 1.2
      • Max resolution: 2560x1600 per display
      • Multi-Stream Transport
      • 21.6 Gbps bandwidth
      • High bit-rate audio
    • HDMI® (With 3D, Deep Color and x.v.Color™)
      • Max resolution: 1920x1200
    • Dual-link DVI with HDCP
      • Max resolution: 2560x1600
    • VGA
      • Max resolution: 2048x1536


    You should be fine. Back in the day you had to make sure the video card had dual-link dvi output. Today's display port resolves this. It had to do with a limitation on a single vga/dvi output. I remember these kinds of monitors back when I worked at Dell. People would buy the biggest and best monitor and pair them with a crappy ass video card and wonder why it didn't work.

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    Awesome, good luck. I would love a monitor like the one you got!
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    OMG, so monitor arrived and it is SOOOOO much bigger than the 27" I was using. I boxed a little real fast to see how it was and I had to drop the slaves to low res rendering. Otherwise it seemed pretty decent. I currently have it hooked up using the Dual Link DVI and my other two montiors are hooked up via displayport.

    I do have think, would I benefit from either going crossfire or getting the new 7970. I don't play any other shooters etc and so Rift is the biggest stress my video card gets.

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    Does it work well enough with 5 toons on a single monitor or are you still using the other two monitors for the slaves?

    I was thinking of getting rid of my dual monitor setup and going with a single large monitor.

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    So I have been playing Rift with my 3 monitor setup for the last couple of days and I can really say it has added to my enjoyment of the game. The big impact I have is that I can turn off antialias and the game still looks great and also with the high res I can see my full team all the time and so fights are much cooler with 5 toons blasting a mob in pretty nice color lol.
    The negative is that I had to cut the slaves down to low render mode but this allows me to run the main in medium settings with AA off.
    I have not played a lot in Ember Isle and so have not really done any large Rifts, I think this maybe a challenge as EI is running at about 20fps.
    I am considering springing for a 7970 but not really sure if the cost is worth it. I think crossfire would not benefit at all? Correct? Or would adding a second 6970 into my machine gain me the much needed frames for Raids in EI?
    Overall I am very happy with the monitor and for professional work the colors are very neutral and show everything the way they were designed to be seen.

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    Sorry to comment this late, but that Dell monitor is a truly great monitor.

    However, instead of hooking up multiple monitors to a single PC, I would recommend running multiple computers with a single monitor each. Using InputDirector makes the system behave exactly like if they were all on same same PC, but everything runs much faster. Imho, multiple medium-spec computers run multiboxing better than a single uber-spec PC - and you still control everything exactly the same way.

    Crossfire/SLI should in theory work great with multiboxing, but I don't know. Could be issues with the driver or game that causes issues, decreasing the theoretical performance improvement (that's very often the case though - crossfire/SLI is a pretty horrible technical solution imho). I have seen a lot of complaints from AMD/Crossfire users on the Rift forums about performance problems.
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