1x Mage prepping for Cata

[mikekim]

my machines are all low end quad core (q6600's & q9400) here is the link to the thread on my setup.

your best bet would be to look at getting the best eyefinity card you can afford, which will allow you to run three screens. you can then rotate the 2x side screens, or leave them as normal, like the bottom row of screens in my current setup (both shown in the link)

I picked up a 5850 Toxic 2gb and was playing around with the three screen option and it seemed to work ok.

As for the issue of lasting three years, my machine is over 2 years old now and runs whatever i need fine (i get 60 fps in wow (capped) lowering to 50 at peak times in dal) when i play the occasional other games(Bioshock and Crysis) they run very well on medium to high settings on a 24" screen (1920x1200).

I have been toying with the idea of upgrading, but tbh it serves me fine for the moment (but then if i went on the upgrade route it would probably set me back £2,500 -3,000)