August 29, 201312 yr I have decided to go with a multi monitor setup but I am at the 'fork in the road' point. I have a single 580GTX on my pc which not capable of nVidia Surround with out purchasing an additional card in SLI. So do I buy a TH2G or spend a bit more and move up to a 680/780GTX? With my 580 I am getting very acceptable frame rates and I am by all means not dissatisfied with the card at all. Thoughts? Kevin -.- . ...- .. -. Kevin Conlon Parrot Head and PP-SEL Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD -.- . ...- .. -. Kevin ConlonPharmacist, Pilot and Parrot Head I9-9900K 4.9GHz | RTX 2080 TI FE | 27" Asus Monitors x 3| MSI Z370 | Crucial M.2 NVMe 1TB | Samsung SSD 500GB x 2 | Toshiba HDD 2TB | WDC HDD 2TB | 32 GB DDR4 3600C17 | Windows 10
August 29, 201312 yr I was in a similar situation and opted for a new video card with Surround. How much price difference is there between another 580 + triple head and a 680 roughly? One constraint on the Surround side is finding multiple monitors with the same refresh rate and polarity. Not sure if this is a constraint for a triple head setup too. Oh and I read somewhere that graphics card RAM can be an issue for multiple monitor setups so chk out whether Sli'd 580s would be fine in that department.
August 29, 201312 yr Commercial Member What I did was buy a 2nd 580 off Ebay. Got a great deal and now I have two 580's in SLI for my triple-wide 27"'s for P3D. Works great. Constantly getting my locked framerate of 30FPS. Your mileage may vary since you use FSX. Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!) Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11), EVGA 1300W PSUNetgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displaysFull array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.
August 29, 201312 yr Yeah I have two overclocked 460GT 1GB in SLI config and three 26" using Surround video and it works great! The monitors have to be exactly the same, so I bought all three at once. -Ray
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