Multi-monitor conundrum

[MiRai]

My understanding with ISBoxer is that it renders all the pixels for the resolution you're going to play at and then scales down to the actual screen size displayed...eg if I'm playing at 1080p with 5 clients it will render 5 clients at 1080p and then scales the size down to 1/2 screen per clients outside the main that runs at full screen.

If this is correct (and am sure Lax, Mirai or someone else can correct me if I'm wrong) then whether I run 5 panels at 1080p or 2 panels with 5 x 1080p clients it makes no difference in terms of pixels being rendered.

Assuming you have Instant Swapping enabled, then this is correct.

[Knytestorme]

im also upgrading towards six monitors
x3 evga geforce gtx 760 4gb $309.99
x1 asus rampage IV black edition intel x79 $499.99
x1 Intel® Core™ i7-4930K Processor 579.99
this will run six monitors without a problem
also monitors go on sale around black friday. and thats when ill buy my other three

Nvidia cards only support max 4 monitors from my understanding, you'll want to research to make sure that your planned upgrade will actually do what you want.

And thanks Mirai, thought that was the case.

[harvan]

Nvidia cards only support max 4 monitors from my understanding, you'll want to research to make sure that your planned upgrade will actually do what you want.

And thanks Mirai, thought that was the case.

im buying three of them 2 monitors for each card.

[MiRai]

im also upgrading towards six monitors
x3 evga geforce gtx 760 4gb $309.99
x1 asus rampage IV black edition intel x79 $499.99
x1 Intel® Core™ i7-4930K Processor 579.99
this will run six monitors without a problem
also monitors go on sale around black friday. and thats when ill buy my other three

Nvidia cards only support max 4 monitors from my understanding, you'll want to research to make sure that your planned upgrade will actually do what you want.

If they're not in SLI, then each GPU can do 4 monitors each, but the moment you turn on SLI that number drops.

[Knytestorme]

If they're not in SLI, then each GPU can do 4 monitors each, but the moment you turn on SLI that number drops.

My bad, I missed the x3 for the cards but I also never consider running monitors off each card since I thought once you turned on SLI it disabled output from all but the primary card and it just pulled in the rendered framebuffer from the appropriate card each frame

[Sservis]

My understanding with ISBoxer is that it renders all the pixels for the resolution you're going to play at and then scales down to the actual screen size displayed...eg if I'm playing at 1080p with 5 clients it will render 5 clients at 1080p and then scales the size down to 1/2 screen per clients outside the main that runs at full screen.

If this is correct (and am sure Lax, Mirai or someone else can correct me if I'm wrong) then whether I run 5 panels at 1080p or 2 panels with 5 x 1080p clients it makes no difference in terms of pixels being rendered.

When you run a main window on 5 screens (5400x1920 or 9600x1080) and 4 more scaled down to 1/5 on the 6th monitor you end up rendering 5 clients at 5x the resolution of a single display.