Single card for dual 30 inch displays?

[ORL]

Just for reference bud.

I use crossfire 6850s. More often than not though I play some games which require crossifre to be disabled. A few weeks ago I decided to experiment with one of the cards stock HSF combo and took it out knowing it wouldnt effect some of my games. I was surprised to find that the single 6850 was able to push most of my games to max and keep everything nice and operational on my second monitor at the same time. It was also able to push Skyrim on both monitors via Eyefinity with very very respectable frames at max quality.

Just under this observation alone, you will be quite fine with a single high end GPU. as the 6850 is kind of only the top of the midline range for AMD/ATI


Just food for thought!

[PhoenixDance]

Originally Posted by WordMasterRice

please tell me a senior member with your amount of posts did not just say that.

Each card has to be loaded with all of the textures and everything, which is what most of the memory is used for. You can't just store half of the textures in one card and half in the other.

I read it and

2GB per card in SLI means 2GB :P
You don't add them as the cards are both using the same Data in the Vram.

[Granger]

If you want to game on 1 screen but use 2, most single cards will do that.

I am running 3 screens, and I have been since using a pair of 3870's. And before getting my 2nd 6870, I would run games on a 22" and I have two 19.5" screens with browser running on 1 and TS and monitoring softs on the other.
So If I could do that with 1 6870 or 2 3870's, I am sure you can run two 30" screens with any of the 7 series AMD or 6xx series Nvidia.

[Slizzo]

22" and 19" screens have such fewer pixels that you can't really compare them fairly.