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If so, I'd be interested to hear how well it performs on current games, what your specs are, how you deal with the temperature and noise output, and how much power it uses. Thanks.

If you are considering this setup, I'd wait till they make 2GB GTX480 cards.

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If you are considering this setup, I'd wait till they make 2GB GTX480 cards.

and save up for water cooling ;)

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If you are considering this setup, I'd wait till they make 2GB GTX480 cards.

They won't, due to the memory bus - next jump is 3GB for the GTX480. :)

Even at 5760x1200, 2GB cards run out of RAM in some games. Without anti-aliasing. If you really want 3x2560x1600... I'd look at running Quadro cards that come with extreme amounts of RAM. It's a pity there doesn't seem to be a GF100 Quadro with 3GB of RAM (lowest is 6GB) as that would probably be enough.

Of course, that is going to cost many thousands more than going with GTX480s. But when these cards run out of VRAM in Surround, framerates nosedive to single digits.

[quote]If you are considering this setup, I'd wait till they make 2GB GTX480 cards.

and save up for water cooling ;)
Saving up for watercooling is always a good thing :mrgreen:

[quote]If you are considering this setup, I'd wait till they make 2GB GTX480 cards.

They won't, due to the memory bus - next jump is 3GB for the GTX480. :)

Even at 5760x1200, 2GB cards run out of RAM in some games. Without anti-aliasing. If you really want 3x2560x1600... I'd look at running Quadro cards that come with extreme amounts of RAM. It's a pity there doesn't seem to be a GF100 Quadro with 3GB of RAM (lowest is 6GB) as that would probably be enough.

Of course, that is going to cost many thousands more than going with GTX480s. But when these cards run out of VRAM in Surround, framerates nosedive to single digits.
Wait, you can run surround on quadro cards?

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I don't know that for sure, actually. I'm assuming you can. Worst case scenario is mod the Surround driver to know what a Quadro card is. I can't see why it wouldn't work...?

looks like 3 24" screens on 2 480s is the sweet spot then in terms of screen size?

I don't know that for sure, actually. I'm assuming you can. Worst case scenario is mod the Surround driver to know what a Quadro card is. I can't see why it wouldn't work...?

As Surround and Eyefinity is just one big desktop -> quadro's are using this to create big workspaces with multiple cards. Don't know if they are best for playing games tho. Same as with the Firepro's these are good in 3D calculation instead of the slide-show generators what normal "game" cards are :lol:

**EDIT**

For professional Nvidia solutions: http://www.nvidia.com/object/qplex_svs_overview.html

And (ofcourse) AMD solutions: http://sites.amd.com/us/business/products/pro-graphics/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity-for-professionals.aspx

Enjoy!

looks like 3 24" screens on 2 480s is the sweet spot then in terms of screen size?

3 x 24" on 3 x GTX 480, each monitor connected to one GPU :cheers