October 4, 201411 yr In the last week I've been through three video cards. I've been using the R290X running five vertical monitors. It was working pretty well with my 4790K. I recently got a 50" 4K monitor to replace three of my other monitors. The configuration is the 50" 4K centered on the front and two 1920x1080's to the left of the 4K. The two 1920x1080 are stacked one on top of the other to form one monitor (I removed the cases of the monitors) about the same height of the 4K. That side monitor(s) is mounted to the wall and tilted in toward me. The R290X was struggling to keep up with the 5760X2160 resolution. Now that I'm using three monitors I can use the nvida chip. I was able to get P3D to run much smoother with the 780ti. And by much smoother, I mean it was very nice at medium to medium high settings. It was a noticeable improvement over the R290X. I could bog the 780ti down as I moved the sliders right or added too much weather. The MSI 980 OC Gaming card came in today and it is a noticeably improvement over the 780ti. It is very very smooth and I am still pushing the sliders right to find this cards limit. I haven't it found it yet. At least for me the 780ti was much better than the the R290X and the 980 is just amazing. Just one thing I have noticed, the Carendo 337 HD runs great on the 980 but when I turn on the built in GPS there is a noticeable slight stutter. I haven't tracked this yet.
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