Multi-monitor WoW / single machine

[Stealthy]

Nice steathy! Are you running those two cards in SLI?

Yep - for Nvidia Surround you have to run the cards in SLI (i.e. not possible on a single card).

For ATI cards on a dual card setup with Eyefinity, Crossfire is supported for full screen gaming only. For windowed gaming (i.e. multiboxing WoW) you get no benefit from the second video card, and when you're pushing around these kind of resolutions, you really want that 2nd card helping out.

And you can't just disable Crossfire and connect some of the monitors to the second card - for Eyefinity all monitors must be connected to the same video card...so pretty much Nvidia is the only way to go (currently) for this setup.

Cheers,
S

[Knytestorme]

Yep - for Nvidia Surround you have to run the cards in SLI (i.e. not possible on a single card).

For ATI cards on a dual card setup with Eyefinity, Crossfire is supported for full screen gaming only. For windowed gaming (i.e. multiboxing WoW) you get no benefit from the second video card, and when you're pushing around these kind of resolutions, you really want that 2nd card helping out.

And you can't just disable Crossfire and connect some of the monitors to the second card - for Eyefinity all monitors must be connected to the same video card...so pretty much Nvidia is the only way to go (currently) for this setup.

Cheers,
S

Hmm, interesting comment.

I'm considering moving from 460 SLI to 2 x 6970's running 3 monitors each and just running 1 client per monitor, enabling eyefinity3 on one card as I want to play more intensive games....are you saying that would not be possible?

Though looking at your setup I might just get a 3rd monitor and keep the SLI for a while

[RSM72]

A single 6990 might do that.

[Knytestorme]

A single 6990 might do that.

Yeah, I was initially thinking of 6990CF but atm they only do 5 monitors natively and I don't want to run monitors in portrait mode for WoW

[Stealthy]

The 6990 is a dual GPU card, and has Crossfire enabled by default - it's subject to the limitations mentioned above (i.e. in Windowed mode games, only one of the GPU's will be active), so you'd be wasting money buying this card to multibox wow.

Here's a link explaining the limitations in case anyone is confused:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...lications.aspx

Cheers,
S.