New PC...this time I really mean it

[Buffalo Six]

Ok, so I have been wanting to replace my PC for a while now, the old one spit the bit so to speak.

So, after doing my taxes and doing my part to fund the Imperial Federal Government, I can now go ahead with the new PC.

I do have a question. I want to run a triple screen set up for some games like iRacing, MWOline, whenever it comes out, and old standby's like STO and the star wars game that I have not even installed because the PC is Kaput! So I know 1 card will run 2 screens, 2 cards can run either 1 screen each in SLI or 3 screens (1 on main, 1 on secondary) but with graphic intense games and vid cards handling more and more graphics processing, would going to a triple SLI rig make enough sense to kind of future proof for a few years? I'm looking at Nivida 680's and 3-27" LCD's.

OR........

Go with 2 680's in SLI running 3 screens, and bump the i7 cpu to a 6 core? The price difference between adding the 3rd card or going with 2 cards and a 6 core cpu are a wash, but I dont really want to do both.

Opinions?

[Hammer]

well first will your games run on multiple screens? you need to know that first. often games do not unless you use something like triple head to go. i do not think, even with current drivers, that video cards will aggregate multiple screens into one for a game to treat them as a single screen. so answering that first question will dictate a lot of your direction.

personally i would avoid sli if at all possible, but depending upon what you do it might be required to get good performance.