Eyefinity on Single HD7750.

[Argarock]

my 6870 is running eyefinity fine.. no idea what you guys are on about

[n0cturnal]

my 6870 is running eyefinity fine.. no idea what you guys are on about

In what games and settings would that be?

[at05gt]

Welp I'm gonna have to put all this off for awhile anyways, god damn programs drive is failing. Windows keeps freaking out on the SMART errors so I need to replace it, 1 year old WD Caviar Blue Sata 3.0 /sigh.

[n0cturnal]

Welp I'm gonna have to put all this off for awhile anyways, god damn programs drive is failing. Windows keeps freaking out on the SMART errors so I need to replace it, 1 year old WD Caviar Blue Sata 3.0 /sigh.

There is a 2 year warranty on Caviar Blue.

[yurano]

Would it be worth it to Eyefinity 3x1 on a single 7750? Or would that be too much strain for a mid range card?

Would an HD 6870 be a down grade? Cause I can get one of them for a lot cheaper then a 78xx/79xx.

All of your questions can be answered with a simple benchmark: TechPowerUp's Catalyst 12.11 Review.

It looks like the 7700 series cards don't support Eyefinity x3. Even if it did, performance will be very poor.

The 6870 is a downgrade from the 7850.

[at05gt]

There is a 2 year warranty on Caviar Blue.

It's not mine originally, my boss gave it to me. It had some error's and we tried to RMA it but it was an oem drive from a Dell and WD wouldn't honor the warranty, and Dell was a bunch of dicks so we just replaced it and my boss was like if you want it take it. It's worked flawlessly for 6 months now its throwing smart errors.

[RicardoZ]

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/535?vs=540

There's a strange little anomaly in the Skyrim benchmark. On Very High Quality settings the 7750 beats the 6870 at 1920x1200, but loses by a substantial margin on High Quality at 1680x1050, as well as on every other test. Is this an editorial error or is there some fluke that gives the 7750 superior performance in that game under those particular circumstances?

[n0cturnal]

There's a strange little anomaly in the Skyrim benchmark. On Very High Quality settings the 7750 beats the 6870 at 1920x1200, but loses by a substantial margin on High Quality at 1680x1050, as well as on every other test. Is this an editorial error or is there some fluke that gives the 7750 superior performance in that game under those particular circumstances?

http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph5541/44231.png

The results seems to be the same in this test and is probably where they got it from.

It’s interesting to note though that at 1920 the 7700 series fares well, in fact it fares too well. 1920 is clearly hitting a memory limit for 1GB cards, and while the 5000 and 6000 series completely flounder, the 7700 series does unexpectedly well. Did AMD improve their memory allocation methods for the 7000 series? Is PCI Express 3.0 helping to alleviate the bottleneck? It’s hard to say, but clearly AMD has improved on something between the 6000 series and now.

[at05gt]

Update: Replaced the boot drive in my laptop with a 120gb SSD, took the 500gb drive, that was in the laptop, and used it in place of the failing 1TB. Cut my games storage by half but I wasn't using more than 100gb anyways. I'm probably going to notice a performance hit with load times thou, old drive was Sata III and 7200rpm, the new one is Sata II and 5400rpm, but w/e.