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I have a 3840x2400 monitor driven by four DVI (single link) inputs. What sort of machine would I need to buy to play Diablo III decently on it?

3840*2400 pixel on one Monitor? and 4x SL-DVI input ? Tell us more about it!


3840*2400=9mp, thats quite unusual amount of pixels.

Cant even find any benchmarks of 5760*1080 for D3.... maximum i found was 2560*1600 And there you see that anything lower than a 7870 wont get more than 60 FPS in max. settings.

I'd go for a GTX680/690 or HD7970. But no idea how you're gonna manage 4x SL-DVI... you'd need a whole lot of adapters!

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It's an ancient IBM T221. Still nothing beats it. These days you can get one for cheap off Yahoo! Japan -- there are many proxy sites helping with this. Shipping, monitor & all will be around 6-700. If you buy one off eBay it'll be 1700-1900 for the same.

Tom's Hardware also produced 2560x1600 results but this looks better, thanks! I will study it. Also, four SL DVI, not a big deal, we are talking of 2-4 DP-to-SL DVI adapters, at $30 or so per adapter this adds at most $120 to the cost of the system. We are in the realm of $500 video cards and I presume the MB and the CPU will be , at least, another $500. Do you have advice on the latter?

depends if you wanna go CF or Single GPU.

For CF go for SB-E LGA2011 MB. i7-3930K or 3820. If you just wanna go single GPU a Ivy Bridge CPU + PCI-E 3 MB will do fine, 3770K or cheaper ^^
Even CF would work fine on them, but i wouldn't reccomend it.


P.S whats the diagonal length of that monitor?

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22" . 200ppi as it should be :D Yeah, the 3820 crossed my mind too.

Reviewing benchmarks led me to think that a lot of processing power is wasted on AA and also that I am not ready to hand over thousands of dollars for a gaming rig when I haven't played a game since Diablo 2. I have planned the following components: Intel DH67BL MB, i3 2120, Silverstone NT06-E, Sugo SG02, Seasonic S12II 520W, 8GB RAM -- and the Galaxy MDT GeForce GTX 560. It seems like it's made for this purpose. I know the limitations but again, I do have a single monitor at the max res this supports which is exactly what this card is made for. I do not need or want independent control of the four quarters of my monitor :D At $165, it's a hell of a deal. Four DVI connectors only come cheaper on a FireMV 2400 or a Quadro NVS something-or-other off eBay and forget any gaming immediately. How else can I get four DVI? I could take a Radeon like the 7770 and use two DVI natively and convert two DP to two DVI with two active adapters -- one adapter is 30 dollars. But then I am afraid of different lag on the different signal paths on the native vs converted path. And, this combo due to the adapter cost is above the GTX 560's price already while being slower :P So what if I would want four DP with four adapters? There is a 5770 from Powercolor with five DP, a 6770 (same in spades) from XFX, and Asus has a 6950 with four DP and two DVI. A 6950 isnt cheap, even used off eBay is at least $200 while only slightly faster, the 5770/6770 is also about $100 and much slower than the MDT -- and let's not forget that you need four $30 adapters which shows just how sweet that $165 deal is :) So, I will just stick to the MDT and hope I can achieve playable frame rates by playing with various settings, and/or disabling trilinear filtering and no AA or just x2 AA at 3840x2400. I only need like 30-40fps , anyways :)

I have a fallback plan: I have a 42" HDTV and the MDT has a mini HDMI port! So if push comes to shove, Diablo III goes on the big screen. A GTX 560 with an i3 will deliver some insane framerates at 1080p even if it needs to do some small work to run a 9MP monitor meanwhile in 2D, there's hardly any doubt there.

Ps. I know there are Visiontek cards with four DVI and they are slow as molasses and I know there are dual GPU four DisplayPort cards. As said, I have some monetary concerns over those.

Seems like a plan!

Hope we hear something once all is running fine.

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Nothing works. After a lot of false starts (expensive, I must say), I am getting a 4850 x2 finally: 4 real DVI outputs :)