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yep that's exactly what I meant. I had two 7970s and was getting between 30 - 35 fps on in crossfire. On one card on it's own I was getting approximately 20 fps.

Considering the rough cost of £450 for the extra 10 fps and the problem of microstutter I'm thinking I'll save some cash and just turn down the antialiasing.

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It'll be interesting to see what nvidia can come up with. But as long as they intend to stick to requiring SLI to run Surround, I don't intend to switch back. That's the one thing they lack right now. I don't even care if they're the fastest of the bunch. 1 5850 was enough to run Bad Company 2 in triple-wide after tweaking. I'll be content if nvidia can offer at least a method of going triple-wide w/o requiring SLI, even if it means that they gotta go with 3 DisplayPorts.

But perhaps even worse so is the fact that so many tech sites out there right now don't even try benchmarking in triple-wide to give people a sense on the kind of impact you can expect from it. Scaling up to 30" resolution isn't going to impress me when I'd prefer running 3 20inch monitors.

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Four GTX 680s + Ivy Bridge cpu/mobo combo = Multi-monitor gaming bliss.

Several more years of lacking console ports = communism.

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4x GTX680 + ivy Bridge = 4x PCI-E Lane per GPU. and i do hope Ivy will have PCI-E 3.0 !

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I did have two 7970s which I sent back due to some problems. A few people on here convinced me that 1 is enough and it's not worth getting a second one really.

so my plan was to get one 7970 or GTX 680 and a racing wheel....

Seeing as Nvidia haven't even said they're product is coming out, and if you cant run multi monitor from one card then it looks like it's 7970's all the way!

yes get a 680 and a wheel
i love my g25

I've heard whisperings that Kepler will support Surround off a single card, but can't verify the accuracy of the source, so... read what you will into it.