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According to EA, Battlefield 3 garnered 3 million pre-orders by the day of its release. It is unknown at present whether these figures are worldwide or just for the US. The pre-order total makes it “the biggest first-person shooter launch in EA history”, according to the publisher. The engine is beautiful on the PC and very demanding of the partnering hardware.
We configured the game to run on our three 24 inch monitors at 5760×1080. We also dropped the Texture quality from ultra to high.
The game is smooth although we noticed a little juddering in the more intensive sections. The HD7950 on the other hand has a little more headroom at this resolution. The extra 1GB of GDDR5 on the flagship card will also help with some of the in game, high resolution textures.
Its a great idea for multiple monitors, but it seems like a half way approach.
people who want this for business, wont need a 7870, so its overkill as they wont game.
gamers who want 6 screen support would be better with a 7970 version as it has more power. then they could add another 7970 later for crossfire and added power.
Make sense or not? I think so anyway.
seems more suited to business users IMO. small design for business cases, single fan for people who dont really care about a little extra noise. not enough power for gaming on 4 screens or more etc.
I dont understand the selection. 7970 would make much more sense for this kind of card.
I think like Jeff, we need it for buisness and I don`t care much about the 3D support so 7750 with 6 outputs is good for me. I need PCIe 3.0 support, because I need fast 2D transfers over the bus.
Interesting card, currently the best you can have for Eyefinity in 7xxx series, unfortunately, as the two 7970 series who can run 6 screens have mixed outputs resulting in screen tearing, same for Sapphire 7950 FleX which is for a start limited to 1080p (bcos of HDMI) and on top of that has mixed outputs resulting screen tearing.
What someone should do would be a 7950 or 7970 with 6x DP. For business use one gets off the hook cheaper by going with either 6770 eyefinity 5 edition (like, from example, XFX does and which is on top of being small also a single slot card) or with 6870 Eyefinity 6 which is usually close to 100 euro cheaper and also has 2 Gb of vRAM.
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