Enough GPU for 7680x1440?

[DRosencraft]

I have a Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 (water cooled). My brother, after selling off most of his PC to buy a new one, left behind a Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 (air cooled). I currently have them crossfired. I am not planning on upgrading my GPU until the next set of AMD GPUs are released (the 8000 series).

I am planning on getting triple 2560x1440 monitors (likely three of these). I want to know very simply if my current pair of crossfired cards will hold up with three 2560x1440, or if I should just hold off on the full monitor setup until after I upgrade my GPUs. There really is no timeline on this pet project, I'm mostly in the planning stage still.

 

[oczdude8]

they will definitely have problems running games on high at playable framerates. I suggest you hold off, until you can get better gpu's, since by that time, there may be better monitors at cheaper prices.

However, if you need them to just drive the screens for non-graphicaly intensive tasks (i.e. word processing etc) it would work fine.

 

[DRosencraft]

Well, not a lot of gaming, but there will be some gaming. Mostly it will be about photoshop/paintshop and general productivity (video on one screen, web on the second, photoshop on the third).

 

[oczdude8]

yea if you dont intend to play alot of gpu intensive games like bf3, your going to be fine. (you could certainly play bf3 on low settings though).

 

[guggi4]

they manage to do your work on 3 monitors easily, but for gaming i would just use 1 of them and get optimal performance