Help setting up third monitor

[yoToco94]

Hello, I'm seeking expert help with my problem setting up a third monitor to play hardcore gaming across 3 monitors. I dont know what I need to set it up. My budget is no more than 500. Here is my setup:

CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K
Motherboard: ASUS P8P67
RAM: 8GB DDR3
EDIT Graphic Cards: NVIDIA EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti DS 1GB
Raidmax Blackstorm MID Size Tower
PSU: Coolermaster 1000W
1TB Hard drive 7200 RPM
500GB Hard Drive 7200 RPM
Coolermaster H60

What else do I need? I know another graphic Card but I dont know which one I need. I know mine is SLI ready if thats helpful somehow. Please help! Going to get that for Christmas!

 

[larkspur]

But one is an Acer x193w+ that has a the resolution set to 1600x1200 and the other is an HP w1907 with a resolution of 1440x900. Does the resolution affect anything? :S I cant put them on the same cuz they wouldnt look right.

:lol: I knew I should have followed-up my previous question about monitor res. Mixing resolutions is not good - on the Windows desktop it's fine. But games require a "single surface" combining all three monitors to present a single resolution "screen" to the game. If you try to mix resolutions, the card will take the resolution of the lowest-resolution monitor and triple it. If you combine a 1600x1200 with a 1440x900 with like a 1920x1080, the card will output to each individual monitor at the lowest one (1440x900). So all three monitors will be trying to each display 1440x900. That will look fine on the 1440x900 screen, but will look horrible on the other two screens.

Here, let me tell you what I did. I had a Samsung 204b 1600x1200 fullscreen monitor. When eyefinity came out with the 5870 cards, I bought a 5870 and two more Samsung 204b monitors used on ebay. I put them in eyefinity and now I have 4800x1200 resolution for gaming. I've looked at plenty of triple monitor setups using widescreen (1080p or 720p) monitors. They are too wide and not "tall" enough for my taste. If you put them in portrait then the center screen is too thin. I don't know about your Acer x193w+ as to whether its a good screen or whatnot but an inexpensive way of getting three matching monitors for eyefinity would be to buy two more Acerx193w+ used or refurbished or something. I don't know whether they are overpriced or unavailable or what, but I got my original Samsung 204b back in 2005 for $400 but got the two used monitors for $70 a piece. Also 4800x1200 resolution is a bit easier on a GPU than 5760x1080 (using three 1080p screens) Whether this helps you, I don't know. But if you want to do triple monitor gaming you MUST match resolutions.

 

[yoToco94]

Hahaha thanks! You are pretty expert at this. So you recommend getting the Acer or the HP? I think the HP looks brighter than the acer one. They are pretty old too. Like maybe from 2008 both of them. xD

 

[yoToco94]

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