The 5770 is a better card for a tiny fraction more. The 5750 is £95, the 5770 is £100. No brainer.Frizz.Meister wrote:ok checked out widescreen gaming and after about 20minutes of staring at pretty pictures actually did some research to discover that ATI Eyefinity is pretty much all they will use because it is the best.
So of course i looked up some cards and well the prices vary hugely but i discovered the ATI 5750 which can run really modern games at full settings and so will easily handle my stuff and allow for triple head for some FPS action so long as i dont expect max settings. However its not cheap so HSBC might have to take one for the team.
You haven't mentioned how much this pre-built is going to cost you. I'm suspecting it's massively overpriced. All those components come to £360, not including the OS since they're an OEM and get MASSIVE discounts on OEM licences for Windows. If you're a student or know somebody with a student email address you can get Windows 7 Pro x64 for £35. I'm assuming the PSU is a piece of shit since they always are from OEM vendors unless they state exactly what the PSU is, that case is probably just a generic case that they can get in large quantities for cheap (i've factored this into my estimation). So if you're paying more than £400 for it, you're getting ripped off.
Building systems from scratch is NOT hard. Seriously. It's fucking child's play. All the parts are designed so that they only fit one way. You shouldn't have to use excessive force to get a component to fit together. If it doesn't go in, it means you've got the wrong component or you're putting it in backwards. If you're scared of static, get an anti-static mat from ebay for £10. Or if you've got some spare copper, wrap that round your wrist and stick it in the earth pin on your nearest socket, or wrap it round the copper piping on a radiator. Just do a little bit of research and you're golden.
If you don't know what components to buy. Buy this: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/buyers ... ary-2011/2 That's a good enough machine for what you want to do for £425.
What you have to understand is that if you want to do triplehead 3D, you're going to need some serious horsepower. Even for old games. Just forget about doing triplehead on even 3-4 year old games. Unless you've got an eyefinity AND another card in crossfire you're going to be looking at 25FPS max at low quality on even a GTX460. To paraphrase Mr. Popo "resolution is a squared problem". Meaning the higher the resolution (since you're increasing the horizontal resolution massively by adding two more screens) the power required for fill rate raises exponentially.
