Triple monitor setup & gtx 970

[the100thmonkey]

If at all possible i'd recommend rotating the monitors into portrait mode. I can't because their mounts are fixed (3x Samsung 22") but i find the missing vertical height is a nuisance and the full width across 3 monitors is mostly wasted.
Due to some issues with Vista and crossfire i get rubbish fps on 2x HD7770cu's so even tho' i have three monitors i just use the one and keep the others for forums/teamspeak/spreadsheets etc.

You get poor fps because the 7770s aren't particularly good cards. Two of them juast compound the issues the cards have. Cards with 2GB of vRAM struggle with very high resolutions unless the detail is turned right down. Two middling cards do not equal one good card.

The game is designed around and for one monitor setups, so putting the cards into portrait is only going to make one larger looking display. Using an orientation tracking solution works very well. In landsacpe mode setups, it can really add to the immersion as 3 monitors gives you the feeling of peripheral vision. Headtracking gives you the verticality.

 

[mossfoot]

Depends on your motherboard - Here's a good start before you touch anything, remember to stress test with something like Prime95! I had my 2600K running at 5ghz on air (hand picked chip)

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=oerclock+i5

Thanks for that I think I'll pass for now. Looks like fun (I love tinkering), but looks pretty involved too if you're gonna do it right (and I wouldn't want to NOT do it right )

 

[ArkSeaJumper]

I was thinking of multi monitors, but I went with head tracker instead. Much better. And I would think Oc Rift is the next step. santa willing

 

[the100thmonkey]

Thanks for that I think I'll pass for now. Looks like fun (I love tinkering), but looks pretty involved too if you're gonna do it right (and I wouldn't want to NOT do it right )

It's actually quite difficult to do it wrong. Depending on the generation of the chip, if you're not overclocking, you're doing it wrong!

 

[Porina]

Running a 960 at 3440x1440 I get about 50fps in space with Ultra settings. 5760x1080 us about 25% more pixels than that, and assuming linear scaling (which seems to be generally the case) that would be 40fps in space. At my resolution I'm seeing the 960 max out its 2GB vram, and switching to an AMD 3GB card I see usage peak around 2.2GB.

Can you monitor the CPU while running? I'd be very surprised if you're CPU limiting on an i5 even without overclocking. ED just isn't terribly CPU intensive.

 

[the100thmonkey]

ED just isn't terribly CPU intensive.

This.

On a dual core i7-5500 at 3GHz, the limiting factor is the GPU.