Widescreen Gaming Forum

hi all brand new to WSGF and to eyefinity and would just like to ask the boffins a couple of questions.

I have just invested in 3 screens and another graphics card to run along side my main card currently i have 2x 6970's in crossfire mode and im running 3 27" Iiyama prolite G2773HS's after browsing the internet trying to learn all i can i have done this...

moved the switch on the main gpu to dual link mode and purchased 2 active bizlink active DP adapters (one has failed so getting a return on that and one of the monitors is faulty getting that replaced but for now i press on with what i have) it ran perfect for a day till one of the adapters failed so i have had to put it back to single link for now and stick two of the monitors via the dvi's and one is running on the bizlink adapters everything seems to be running okay a few glitches here and there with firefox crashing and some other bits im not sure if its down to the way i have everything configured atm i'm not a tech wiz so its just all guessing.

my main thing here is do i run all the monitors on the bizlink adapters via the DP ports or do i have to run on as dual link dvi and 2 as the active adapters is that the optimal configuration and is crossfire worth it or should i just stick with one card.

my frame rates are not great but the view is amazing how i lived with just one monitor is crazy i think i went a bit to big with 27 inch i think 24 inches would of been fine for my setup i have the space for them all its just a bit ott i think.

other than that i welcome any ideas you have to improve my current rig.

thank you for your time.

Mike.

Welcome to the club!

I can't say much about the preferred connection method when using active displayport adapters, as I'm running 1 native displayport with two native DVI.

As for Crossfire, it's a mixed bag. Some games will show a fair improvement whereas others will have bugs or even decreased performance in Crossfire. It really depends on your budget and how much the extra framerate or higher quality visuals matter to you. I tried removing my second card to decrease temperature but found that I missed the extra performance too much and ended up putting it back in. Running two cards does significantly increase the temperature on my first card though, because it gets so much less airflow. If you're going Crossfire, make sure you've got good airflow in general.

If you're getting lower than acceptable framerates, the first thing to do is completely disable antialiasing. It kills performance in most games at triple-wide resolutions. After that, if I'm still having poor performance, I'll drop my resolution from 5760x1080 down to 4800x900. The difference in resolution is noticeable and bugs me right after changing it, but after 30 minutes or so I don't even notice that it's running at a lower resolution and the increased framerate more than makes up for it.