December 30, 20169 yr I recently picked up a couple of extra monitors on a great holiday sale. I now have 3 27 inch 1080 monitors. My aging system, however, is really struggling to support pushing the extra pixels. Single monitor performance with a few graphical compromises (limiting shadow and reflections mainly) is more than acceptable. Throw the two extra monitors on, however, and I really have to cut way back on the auto-gen and airport objects to maintain any sort of framerate above 20. Current specs: i5 4570 @ 2.9 (supposedly dynamically boosts to 3.2 when needed) I'm not a over-clocker...yet, 8GB RAM, GTX 770 4GB So my question is for triple monitor support, what would be biggest bang for the buck upgrade? New processor (upcoming i7-7700K perhaps?...which means a new MB as well), new graphics card, GTX 1080. OR would I benefit at all from adding a second lower end graphics card to my current setup to help drive the additional monitors? Chris
December 30, 20169 yr Triplehead2go Digital Edition works well for me with a 780Ti. Might be worth looking on ebay etc for a used one. http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/digital/ Dale Collins
December 30, 20169 yr My aging system, however, is really struggling to support pushing the extra pixels Are you running three separate views? If so, that will be the problem. Do you have nvidia Surround enabled? You should be able to run one view across all three monitors. Your system should be capable of running that. Triplehead2go Digital Edition works well for me with a 780Ti. Might be worth looking on ebay etc for a used one. Doesn't that just do what nvidia Surround does? MarkH https://www.youtube.com/@AlmostAviation AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D / 64Gb DDR5 / Zotac RTX 5070 Ti / 2560 x 1440 display
December 30, 20169 yr Author Yes I'm using 3 separate views in a view group. I tried nvidia surround at first but the perspective on the side views is just not doing it for me. The view group solution however is much more natural. Thanks for the suggestions so far. I'm willing to put some money in hardware to make it work, I just want to make sure I'm getting the right value for the dollar. Chris
December 30, 20169 yr TH2G is a hardware solution. The TH2Go does the same as NVSurround and also suffers from the stretched sides.. The more you zoom in the less Distortion, but the far distance then is getting to close.. 5950x3d 5.4-5.7 GHz - Asus ROG 870 Crosshair Apex - GSkill Neo 2x 24 Gb 6000 mhz / cas 26 - MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC - 1x SSD M2 6000 2TB - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 1Tb - Corsair 5400 case - Corsair 360 liquid cooling set - 3x 75’ TCL tv. 13600 6 cores @ 5.1 GHz / 8 cores @ 4.0 GHz (hypterthreading on) - Asus ROG Strix Gaming D - GSkill Trident 4x Gb 3200 MHz cas 15 - Asus TUF RTX 4080 16 Gb - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 2TB - 2x Sata 600 SSD 500 Mb - Corsair D4000 Airflow case - NXT Krajen Z63 AIO liquide cooling - FOV : 200 degrees My flightsim vids : https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0
December 30, 20169 yr I know a guy who just replaced his GTX 770 with a 1080… PM me. Seasons greetings! Chas My first sim flight simulator Take a ride to Stinking Creek! http://youtu.be/YP3fxFqkBXg Win10 Pro, GeForce GTX 1080TI/Rizen5 5600x OCd,32 GB RAM,3x1920 x 1080, 60Hz , 27" Dell TouchScreen,TM HOTAS Warthog,TrackIR5,Saitek Combat Rudder Pedals HP reverbG2,Quest2
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