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Offline guncrasher

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Re: AMD Radeon R9 290X
« Reply #30 on: October 29, 2013, 04:54:06 PM »
Yep AMD just started selling its first competitive products for higher end class for the first time in many years.  :bhead

Or did you miss the instant price drops that resulted from it?  :huh


nvidia drops prices this time of year anyway. 



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Re: AMD Radeon R9 290X
« Reply #31 on: October 29, 2013, 05:31:45 PM »
I doubt more than a dozen people in AH run three monitors. Probably the number is closer to three, or four.
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Re: AMD Radeon R9 290X
« Reply #32 on: October 29, 2013, 05:50:13 PM »
I doubt more than a dozen people in AH run three monitors. Probably the number is closer to three, or four.
i wouldn't do too much doubting on that. triple monitors with trackir works well.


Yep AMD just started selling its first competitive products for higher end class for the first time in many years.  :bhead
didn't that actually happen 4 years ago? ati/amd has had triple monitor single card support longer than nvidia. for $100 less a person can get same power as a geforce gtx770.
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Re: AMD Radeon R9 290X
« Reply #33 on: October 29, 2013, 08:11:04 PM »
I doubt more than a dozen people in AH run three monitors. Probably the number is closer to three, or four.

fulcrum, lawndart and me.  no way we are the only ones.



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Re: AMD Radeon R9 290X
« Reply #34 on: October 29, 2013, 10:33:19 PM »
What kind of video card setups do you use?  SLI or Crossfire, or single card?  And which ones?
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Re: AMD Radeon R9 290X
« Reply #35 on: October 30, 2013, 01:26:49 AM »
I used 3 screens for over a year until very recently. 

Asus 144 hz 24" VG248QE, which were pretty much the best TN panel you could get for gaming under 27", especially for FPS games.  I just didn't have the space or the proper stand/mount for 27" at the time.  I ran 680 4gb FTW+ in SLI on a 3930k CPU system.  I usually kept my FPS at 143/max unless I turned the environmental reflection setting higher than 2/3 - the top two notches really smoke the FPS performance.

Now I'm using a 27" Asus IPS 1440P panel.  I'm driving it with a 4930k and an eVGA 780 Superclock card which is overclocked a bit, and it's performs nearly the same as my Titan video card I tried earlier, for about 300$ less as well.  The 4930k isn't much, if at all faster than the 3930k chip IMO for games, but it was only 10$ more than a 3930k CPU now, so wth.  I get max FPS with the same max settings with reflections on 2/3 or so, always at 60 in AH.  I'm just trying to find a desk and mount to add the other 2 IPS panels, as my older 24" set up just barely fit, so it's either a new room for the setup (wife ack extreme, like 100 88 guns and 1000 37mm at once), or moving some other stuff out of current room, and buying a new larger desk (wife ack again as current 2000$ desk was xmas present from her).  I'll figure something out before xmas, and have 3 IPS 27" running, and will probably need to add another 780 card possibly, we'll see how the single one performs first.

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Re: AMD Radeon R9 290X
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Re: AMD Radeon R9 290X
« Reply #37 on: October 30, 2013, 02:51:46 AM »
I have sli evga 465 on 3 23 in monitors at 1920x1080 each. get everything on except em at 60 fps with shadows at 4096 but I only use 2048 as I cant really tell the difference.  thinking of getting rid of the 2 465's and getting a single card perhaps at 770 when they lower prices even more next month.


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Re: AMD Radeon R9 290X
« Reply #38 on: October 30, 2013, 06:31:43 AM »
I doubt more than a dozen people in AH run three monitors. Probably the number is closer to three, or four.

And you would miss the mark by a huge percentage.  At last count it was around 19%.
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Re: AMD Radeon R9 290X
« Reply #39 on: October 30, 2013, 01:51:19 PM »
 At last count it was around 19%.
wow.


By the way, how do you know it?
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Re: AMD Radeon R9 290X
« Reply #40 on: October 30, 2013, 02:03:11 PM »
wow.


By the way, how do you know it?

they divided the total number of player by those players with 3 monitors.  the answer was .19.



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Re: AMD Radeon R9 290X
« Reply #41 on: October 30, 2013, 02:06:24 PM »
they divided the total number of player by those players with 3 monitors.  the answer was .19.



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Im waiting on Skuzzy's answer, how could someone know, who is playing on a 3-way system and who isnt.
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Re: AMD Radeon R9 290X
« Reply #42 on: October 30, 2013, 02:31:32 PM »
Awesome explanation. Please save me from theese in the future.

Im waiting on Skuzzy's answer, how could someone know, who is playing on a 3-way system and who isnt.

because they asked politely some time ago if they could have that info.  then it was just a simple division.


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Re: AMD Radeon R9 290X
« Reply #43 on: October 30, 2013, 03:13:13 PM »
maybe they compile the dxdiag's we send them ?  :angel:

that could tell them if we have multiple monitors, but not if we use them all for AH



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Re: AMD Radeon R9 290X
« Reply #44 on: October 30, 2013, 08:19:43 PM »
And you would miss the mark by a huge percentage.  At last count it was around 19%.

So in other words. . . sixty players? hehe
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