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Hi, I would like to have some advices please...

I have been looking a lot in the past few days for the best buy deal on 3 monitors to run eyefinity on my HD5870 but I am not sure on which size and native resolution to choose...

I want to be able to run pretty much all the new games with maxed out settings and I was looking for 3 x 22" or 21.5 or .6 monitors ... I think these are good sizes.

Now I saw a couple of bencharks and I realize that the fps on lattest games running 5760x1080 was very bad and 5040x1050 was acceptable but not so good on HD5870 single card even with 10.3 beta drivers.

I could buy 3 x standard 19" and run 3840x1024 but I think that the main central monitor is just not large enough and widescreen 19" are just too small ...

Here are the 3 models I was thinking of buying: Note that I am not looking for the best monitors but for the best buy.

SCEPTRE X226W-1920 (new 21.5") 1920x1080 149,99$ can free shipping
Acer X213WBD (Refurbished 21.6") 1680x1050 134,99$ can 30$ for shipping
Acer X223WBD (Refurbished 22") 1680x1050 144,99$ can 30$ for shipping

I was wondering what does it look like to run lower res on these monitors like 3840x1024 on 22" and 21.6 acer's and 1680x1050 on 21.5" Sceptre monitors ??

Is it all stretched ??

Main computer specs are:
Core I7 920
6 gigs DDR3
Single Sapphire HD5870
Windows 7 x64
Accell Active Display Port adapter


Thx a lot!

Bleco

Hmm I'm not really sure why you'd be running at 3840x1024 if you bought 3 of any of those monitors, I'd just set the AA to 2x instead of 4x. but to answer your question most monitors have a pillarbox setting (4:3) in the options to prevent the image stretching but then you have to tuck the monitors behind each other to close the gap.

It still looks ok for me, and 3840x1024 is also fine but imo I'd get the Acer 23" 1680x1050 and run it native.. I think I prefer the 16:10 AR for Eyefinity, 16:9 is so much horizontal screen it feels a little too short relatively. (I've only used Eyefinity on 3 1280x1024 and 3 1920x1080 so.. that's just what I think from what I've seen)

More importantly what do you have planned for the DP adapter? If you are buying new monitors I'd suggest buying one with native DP, they're aren't too much more and definitely cheaper than buying the active DP adapter and safer than relying on a DP->VGA one..

Thanks for answering...

... Hmm I'm not really sure why you'd be running at 3840x1024 if you bought 3 of any of those monitors... I'd get the Acer 23" 1680x1050 and run it native.. I think I prefer the 16:10 AR for Eyefinity, 16:9 is so much horizontal screen it feels a little too short relatively...

All 23" acer monitors I saw are 1920x1080 16:9 ... I am looking for quality/performance over resolution that's why I was looking for lower resolution monitors.

... More importantly what do you have planned for the DP adapter? If you are buying new monitors I'd suggest buying one with native DP, they're aren't too much more and definitely cheaper than buying the active DP adapter and safer than relying on a DP->VGA one..

I already have an Accel active DP adapter and DP monitors are just too expensive for me.

Thx!

Other opinions?

Bleco

oops, typo'd that 23".. meant to say 22" sorry.

What about 1600x900 on a 22" or 21.5"-6" monitors ?


Thx!


Bleco

I finally ordered 3 22" Asus VW224U at an unbeatable price ...

We will see for the performances at 5040x1050 res ..

149$ each free shipping + 40$ mail in rebate from Asus ...

Not bad at all for 22" 2ms 16:10 lcd monitor.


Bleco