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Maybe on a single screen running two high end cards the 2500k might be the bottleneck, but at such a high resolution your gpus will be the bottleneck 95% of the time. No need to upgrade to ivy bridge for either more cpu power or pcie 3.0. Will post the link later where they have tested if current cards perform better with pcie 3.0 and the conclusion was they don’t.

EDIT: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/07/18/pci_express_20_vs_30_gpu_gaming_performance_review/14
Seems to be a small increase but imo not worth upgrading for.

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mhmm isn't that AMD GPU's scale better with Higher Resolution? While on 1920*1080 2x 680 is faster, on 5760*1080 2x AMD is faster ? depends on the game....

BTW; if you want to check out Resolutions higher than your Monitor suppors, aka testing 7680*1440 on a single Monitor, try out the "Multi Monitor Performance Simulator"


BTW; i'd go with 3 7970. Cheaper... 3way CF also eliminates Microstutterting (at least its say to do so...) But then again you'd have to wait until driver supports 3way crossfire! sometimes takes quite a while!
On the other hand two 4gb 680 Watercooled OC'ed might also work. I'd get a OC version or OC myself if i'd go with just two GPU's.


i do run 2x HD7970 3gb atm, in 5760*1080 resolution and its not to much power!

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Whilst in the process of moving one of my 200wfp's broke and i haven't got round to replacing it yet (noaming PC till we get in the new house in Oct).

During this time I've been reading about these Korean IPS screens and I'm suddenly developing a desparate urge to go large. Right now I have maybe a £350 GPU budget and would look at getting one of these 27" beasts and then add two more over the next 4 months or so.

I have a few questions/concerns that I haven't found definite answers to though regarding connections.

I'm aware that most of these monitors are Dual DVI only but there are pricier options that offer HDMI 1.3 and VGA. Are these viable options for connecting up a Surround/eyefinity set up?

Are there any graphics cards that have 2 x Dual DVI's and one other that could run three of these? If not would a mix of Dual DVI only monitor and two of the more expensive multi input monitors be the better option?

I'm inclined towards to AMD due to existing experience with eyefinity and it seems that they generally do better at these monster resolutions.

So yeah 7680 x 1440 on one GPU - although given the DPI I don't think I'd need much image processing to make things look nice and I've never been at the max end of game settings anyway (well apart from the old games).