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I am going to go for 3 470s SLI. Same kind of card I have now a pny 470. Will this be enough to run these monitors. I have a 244t right now I am thinking of buying two of Samsung 2443BWT-1. Same res as the 244t.

Your PSU won't probibly be up to the job, the 860 is a stout unit but I wouldn't like to guess how much current on the 12v rail your system would draw.

I would also guess that 3 of the cards would be a little overkill, you only need 2 cards to run nV surround, so that would be my starting point, get another single card and see how it goes. People (thinking Paradigm) runs nV surround on GTX 460's, so I have no reason to think 470's wouldn't be able to!

Hope that helped!

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As I keep saying in every Surround thread - the limitation is VRAM at higher surround resolutions. Always.

So in other words 3 of these cards will be more then enough to run 1920 1200 rez on each monitor.

So in other words 3 of these cards will be more then enough to run 1920 1200 rez on each monitor.

Yeah.

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You need to remember that with SLI, two cards doesn't mean double the VRAM. Three cards doesn't mean triple. As each GPU has the same data in it's VRAM, only 1280MB on a 470 is actually useable, whether you have SLI or Tri-SLI. You don't magically get 3840MB of VRAM.

Think of SLI as RAID1 - mirroring, rather than RAID0. It annoys me when marketing implies you get twice the VRAM, as that is wrong.