Multi-monitor WoW / single machine

[Nikita]

So lets say I wanted to multibox 5 chars on 5 different comptuer screens. Would I need 2 x video cards?

[mikekim]

So lets say I wanted to multibox 5 chars on 5 different comptuer screens. Would I need 2 x video cards?

easiest way is to get 1x eyefinity card and 5 screens

[Kromtor]

i've stayed away from using monitors on their side ever since i noticed that while it doesnt hurt the game's framerate it did on my cards cause the actual frame rate to be halved or more. it was very evident with the mouse cursor latency that occured that the monitor was not receiving new frames at the usual rate. newer 3d cards may support this without this problem, but my gtx8800's were clearly not sending every frame to the monitor at the same speed or frequency. just be cautious when sinking money into it.

[Aesthier]

I have got to say that is simply gorgeous. For some reason monitors standing on the ends like that always strike a very artistic note in my heart. Very well done especially the alts in the bottom of each screen.

[ghonosyph]

i dont think i could stand that bezel thingy in the middle of all my shiz >.< how can you stand it? otherwise, does look sexy!

[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.