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Sure at 40 vs 80 FPS it may not matter much in single player, but once you drop to like 10 FPS then it's completely unplayable. So you really do need some consistent FPS that doesn't dip.

What games are you suggesting would drop to 10 fps in a surround screen game? Nothing I currently play with my GTX260+TH2G setup get that crappy of a fps, so why would a better card do worse? I don't buy your hypothetical reasoning there. :wink:

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[quote]Sure at 40 vs 80 FPS it may not matter much in single player, but once you drop to like 10 FPS then it's completely unplayable. So you really do need some consistent FPS that doesn't dip.

What games are you suggesting would drop to 10 fps in a surround screen game? Nothing I currently play with my GTX260+TH2G setup get that crappy of a fps, so why would a better card do worse? I don't buy your hypothetical reasoning there. :wink:

Well I saw GTA4 benchmarks of 3x2560x1600 as "average" 27FPS on Tom's Hardware, which means it probably drops to 10 pretty often during huge gunfights.

[quote][quote]Sure at 40 vs 80 FPS it may not matter much in single player, but once you drop to like 10 FPS then it's completely unplayable. So you really do need some consistent FPS that doesn't dip.

What games are you suggesting would drop to 10 fps in a surround screen game? Nothing I currently play with my GTX260+TH2G setup get that crappy of a fps, so why would a better card do worse? I don't buy your hypothetical reasoning there. :wink:

Well I saw GTA4 benchmarks of 3x2560x1600 as "average" 27FPS on Tom's Hardware, which means it probably drops to 10 pretty often during huge gunfights.

3x2560x1600 is largely irrelevant to me and I would think most surround screen budgets. :wink:

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I'd love to play GTA 4 at 5040x1050 with all the options on, or maybe just like medium settings. But that might still be unrealistic expectation.

Why ? I play it all maxed at 5040x1050, including visible distance at 100, you dont need a "next gen" GPU for this.

[quote]I'd love to play GTA 4 at 5040x1050 with all the options on, or maybe just like medium settings. But that might still be unrealistic expectation.

Why ? I play it all maxed at 5040x1050, including visible distance at 100, you dont need a "next gen" GPU for this.Any console port you really don't. The 8570 is probably 10x more gpu than the xbox.

[quote]I'd love to play GTA 4 at 5040x1050 with all the options on, or maybe just like medium settings. But that might still be unrealistic expectation.

Why ? I play it all maxed at 5040x1050, including visible distance at 100, you dont need a "next gen" GPU for this.
What video card do you have? Also, keep in mind that this game is CPU limited, looks like you have a better CPU than me. And the game runs considerably better on nVIDIA (unfortunately for me) than on ATI. :(

The 8570 is probably 10x more gpu than the xbox.

Well for a video card from 3 years in the future I should hope so.

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What video card do you have? Also, keep in mind that this game is CPU limited, looks like you have a better CPU than me. And the game runs considerably better on nVIDIA (unfortunately for me) than on ATI. :(

A pair of GTX 280, a quad at 4 Ghz makes 1 Gb VRAM to be the limit in fact, but its very playable all maxed, including clip capture on. :wink:

If you guys don't care about FPS or playing games and just want the ability to run MANY MONITORS AT ONCE

You can get the ATI FireMV/FirePro 2400, they have PCI (I don't recommend this connection though) , PCIe x1, PCIe x16 flavors.

Each can run up to 4 monitors via dvi (or VGA with adapter). and NONE of that active adapter bs to deal with.

I have the PCIe x1 version and it runs perfectly. just not a gaming card. they go for around $100-$200 per one on ebay.

You can get two of the 2400 fire cards and easily run up to 8 monitors in one machine.

If you guys don't care about FPS or playing games and just want the ability to run MANY MONITORS AT ONCE

You can get the ATI FireMV/FirePro 2400, they have PCI (I don't recommend this connection though) , PCIe x1, PCIe x16 flavors.

Each can run up to 4 monitors via dvi (or VGA with adapter). and NONE of that active adapter bs to deal with.

I have the PCIe x1 version and it runs perfectly. just not a gaming card. they go for around $100-$200 per one on ebay.

You can get two of the 2400 fire cards and easily run up to 8 monitors in one machine.

The key question is are they EyeFinity compatible? If I just wanted more 2D desktop display any old graphics card can do that.

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