I'm stuck in a bit of a stalemate here. I've been meaning to upgrade my 460's for awhile, but I've just recently started to seriously consider my options. I recently started using softth for triple monitor gaming and so far it's worked great. I'm using a 21.5" 1920x1080 monitor with two 17" 1280x1024 monitors flanking it.
My 460's, however, don't work very well with softth because sli disables the second cards ports. Because of this, the only way I am only able to use soffth is with one of my 460's which, with only 768mb of memory, is not sufficient enough to render the rather high resolution that I need it to. My motherboard has only two PCI-E slots.
Because of those things I have opted for a single card setup. At the moment I could get the 2gb 6950 new for around $250. While searching around ebay I found that the 2gb 5970's are going for around $250 used. Power consumption might be a problem aswell because my PSU is only 650w. For softth I will need to use another card to render the third monitor. I have an old fanless hd 4350 laying around so I was thinking about using that.
My current specs:
I5 750 @ 3.8ghz
MSI P55-Gd65
8gb DDR3 ram
768mb GTX 460 x2
XFX 650w PSU
Silverstone Raven RV02
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Any help is greatly appreciated,
Biggoomer
My 460's, however, don't work very well with softth because sli disables the second cards ports. Because of this, the only way I am only able to use soffth is with one of my 460's which, with only 768mb of memory, is not sufficient enough to render the rather high resolution that I need it to. My motherboard has only two PCI-E slots.
Because of those things I have opted for a single card setup. At the moment I could get the 2gb 6950 new for around $250. While searching around ebay I found that the 2gb 5970's are going for around $250 used. Power consumption might be a problem aswell because my PSU is only 650w. For softth I will need to use another card to render the third monitor. I have an old fanless hd 4350 laying around so I was thinking about using that.
My current specs:
I5 750 @ 3.8ghz
MSI P55-Gd65
8gb DDR3 ram
768mb GTX 460 x2
XFX 650w PSU
Silverstone Raven RV02
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Any help is greatly appreciated,
Biggoomer