mattwalter85 Posted July 5, 2010 Posted July 5, 2010 Whats up all my OCC pals, its been a while since i've been on here lol. Okay so basically whats going on is i've been running my GTX 275 for a while now and I cant decide what to do. I have an Acer 23" 1080P (X233h) monitor and i wanna get 2 more so I can run 3 of them. I would prefer to just buy another 275 and run sli since I have a sli motherborad (ASUS Sabertooth 55i) so then I could run 3 monitors but I'd really rather just try to get like a 470 but I dont think there is any way u can run 3 monitors on a single card like you can with the ATI 5800 series so thats why i've come here to ask you guys. I dont really wanna go with an ATI card just because i've always had such good luck with nVidia in the past so I'd either like to buy another 275 or get a 470/480 if i can somehow find a way to run 3 monitors off of one card idk if its possible tho. I'd appreciate any help i can get. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Posted July 5, 2010 Posted July 5, 2010 As of right now you need two Fermi cards to run three monitors. There is some new cards in the works but I do not know if they will be able to get three monitors on one card is this batch coming up. If I was a better man I would say its not happening. I love Nvidia, but so far I have been having great luck with ATI as well. The choice is yours. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattwalter85 Posted July 5, 2010 Posted July 5, 2010 If i bought another 275 and ran them in sli could i run 3 monitors and still play like cod mw2 and dirt 2 and hawx on all 3 monitors? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
visagepoissons Posted July 5, 2010 Posted July 5, 2010 If i bought another 275 and ran them in sli could i run 3 monitors and still play like cod mw2 and dirt 2 and hawx on all 3 monitors? No. It needs to be a fermi card as the poster above you said. :/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattwalter85 Posted July 5, 2010 Posted July 5, 2010 you cant run 3 monitors with 2 gtx 275's in SLI ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
saywhut Posted July 5, 2010 Posted July 5, 2010 you cant run 3 monitors with 2 gtx 275's in SLI ? Nope, you need 2 GTX400 series cards. If you just want to run 1 card with 3 monitors your only option is ATI with the 5800 series. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowKing Posted July 5, 2010 Posted July 5, 2010 Nope, you need 2 GTX400 series cards. If you just want to run 1 card with 3 monitors your only option is ATI with the 5800 series. no, GTX 200's can do surround and 3d surround http://www.anandtech.com/show/3793/nvidia-launches-3d-vision-surround Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Posted July 5, 2010 Posted July 5, 2010 Only the 400 series cards support 3 monitors but you need 2 cards to do it. With ATI you only need one card. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattwalter85 Posted July 5, 2010 Posted July 5, 2010 okay so even if i bought another gtx 275 i still wouldn't be able to run 3 monitors? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattwalter85 Posted July 5, 2010 Posted July 5, 2010 Not to say you're lying Bosco but according to that arcticle the GTX 200 series will work with 3d surround as long as you have two of them, you just cant run tri-sli....... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Posted July 6, 2010 Posted July 6, 2010 Oh crap I forgot all about that was coming with that driver..... I have been so focused on the 400 series I completely overlooked the 200 series stuff. From what I am told it does work, but I have not personally tried it so I cannot verify how well it works and what the performance is like compared to the ATI stuff. If I have some time this weekend i could try it out with two GTX 280's if you need me too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermes09 Posted July 6, 2010 Posted July 6, 2010 It'll work, but the performance would be crap (of course with High-res and high quality image)if you try to run any DX11 and some heavy dx10 (hello crysis: warhead)games Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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