Widescreen Gaming Forum

Want to say hello to everyone first. I have been looking everywhere for some good info on 3 monitor set up and I finally found it here.
I want to set up 3 monitors to improve my gaming rig. Wanted to check with you guys to make sure I have everything ready.
Will be running the 7850's in crossfire and will use the 2 dvi ports and the displayport. Set up will be done with AMDeyefinity.

3 Hanns-g 25 inch vga/dvi widescreen lcd monitors
3 dvi-d 6ft monitor cables
1 x SAPPHIRE Active DisplayPort Adapter 100924 DisplayPort to DVI Interface
2 x ASUS HD7850-DC2T-2GD5-V2 Radeon HD 7850 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video

Specs on the rest of my rig:
1 x ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
4 x G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9S-4GBRL
ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ965FBGMBOX
Antec Eleven Hundred Black Super Mid Tower Computer Case

If anyone sees any problems let me know please. Just waiting on the 1 x SAPPHIRE Active DisplayPort Adapter 100924 DisplayPort to DVI Interface I ordered from Newegg.

looks fine!

But why would you buy two 7850 instead of One 7970ghz Edition? or a gtx680?

btw

Good question....Maybe I will buy a 7970.

I echo Haldi's comments, 7970 over 2x7850, your have a lot less issues with any games that dont support the CFX, and of cause CFX only works in full screen, so any windowed applications only have the power of 1 card, not 2.

Agreed. Get a 7970 instead. Crossfire is a very driver dependent technology and combining that with Eyefinity can give you headaches. It would be worth it if you were to get something like 2 7970s or 2 7950s of course (like me, I wanted the extra power).

You can also go with a GTX 680. Its more expensive but the drivers of nvidia are better then AMD and the GTX 680 is a little bit better then the HD 7970 when i look to the benchmarks and its less power consumption.

7970ghz Edition Most of the time outpowers a gtx680... And you have 1gb more vram... Not Like that would matter!

the question is more. Do you prefer Surround or Eyefinity.

i reccomend AussieTimmes Red Vs Green Vs Blue article for more Infos.

It will definitly be ATI and crossfire...looking at 2 7950's

Actually I do like the 7970 better...I was trying to compare the 7970 and the 680 but I don't know Nvidia cards..

Also can I run a 7970 and one of my 7850 in crossfire.

no.

Only 7970 and 7950 in Crossfire!

Wouldn't be wise to run 7970 and 7850 in crossfire The Power difference is way to huge, AFR woul make it a horrible framerate!

(Well yeah okay, you COULD theoretically with Lucid Virtue... )

Thanks Haldi, gonna get XFX Double D Black edition 7970..Gonna get 1 for now as they are 400 bucks on Newegg.