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    I can answer some of my own questions now :P

    I installed an additional 5850 and it surpasses all my expectations, worked perfectly. I already had ati drivers installed so I just inserted the card and booted up and was good to go.

    With this new card installed I can:

    - use my big screen without replugging any cables
    - have all four displays enabled simultaneously
    - run my main toon in WoW at almost the highest graphic settings (nerf shadow detail)
    - let the 5850 render four WoW windows with slave toons
    - let the 5970 render just my main toon
    - render all five windows at the same resolution (1920x1200) for pixel perfect mouse broadcasting
    - run slave toons with much higher background fps
    - run slave toons with much higher graphic settings (used to be everything at absolute minimums)

    - With Trifire enabled I am also able to play Dragon Age: Origins in Eyefinity, previously I didnt do this as I had to disable Frame Buffer Effects to get playable framerates and the game is unplayable without them

    - Possible performance gains in other games
    - Disable CrossfireX for whenever I want troublefree compability mode

    GPU usage on my main is now around 45-50% with every setting maxed out except for shadows which is one notch below max. With shadows at max gpu usage rices to 95% right away and fps remains at 60 but will drop occasionally.

    GPU usage on slaves is around 40% so I have plenty to go on for Cataclysm also.
    Also overclocked the cpu to 4 Ghz and that cant hurt either.

    This has been a huge upgrade and I feel like I have a brand new computer =)
    Last edited by Pycno : 09-09-2010 at 04:20 PM
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