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Surround Gaming Monitor Setup Tips as Fast As Possible

2013-03-09
so you want to run surround monitors for your gaming setup and you don't know how this episode of fast as possible seeks to show you what you need to run triple monitors on either a Radeon graphics card or a GeForce graphics card for Radeon cards the requirements are pretty simple you have to have a 5000 series card and you have to have three monitors that are all running the same resolution and refresh rate in order to span the displays across multiple monitors the last thing you'll also need is an active adapter so most monitors these days don't support DisplayPort natively but the cards can only output two DVI or HDMI signals at a time so you'll need to pick yourself up an active DisplayPort or mini DisplayPort to HDMI or DVI adapter to make sure that the card will be able to output all three displays in videos requirements are a little bit more complicated the minimum card requirement is a GTX 260 however if you're running surround off of the 260 you'll need to have two of them because the 260 doesn't have any DisplayPort outputs alright guys so the first cards that can output single card Nvidia surround are 600 series cards and you need to make sure they have at least one DisplayPort output because just like the AMD cards they can only do 2 from DVI or HDMI in a surround configuration Nvidia also requires you to have three identical monitors in order for surround to run flawlessly but the cool thing about Nvidia is that if you run three surround 3d monitors you can actually gain in stereoscopic 3d with your surround set up because the Nvidia configuration rules are a little bit trickier they do have a config tool on their website that you can check out to find out if your system is compatible with NVIDIA surround once you've got your latest drivers installed and you enable surround enly a driver remember with AMD it's called eyefinity and with nvidia it's called invidious around it's just a matter of what your default options are AMD by default sets up your desktop to be one large display so if you were to say for example maximize a program it would automatically fill your entire three screens you can manually configure smaller virtual desktops inside of your full-size desktop though if you don't want say for example Paige to have a little Google link in the middle and then a bunch of weight space on the side nvidia by default sets up three virtual displays within your entire multi-monitor setup so it's just a little bit different in terms of how they're configured in games though for either solution you want to make sure that you're setting it to your maximum resolution whether that's fifty seven sixty by 1080 or whatever other resolution your monitors are running at times three as always guys don't forget to subscribe to tech quickie don't forget to like the video and share it with anyone who you think might benefit from this information if you have any ideas for future fast as possible episodes leave them in the suggestion forum which is linked in the description of the video
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