New apollo system

HI i am looking at a new apollo system but i have a few Graphx card questions.

I run 3 monitors For eve online and also world of tanks. they are not in stereo but run 3 different game clients at once for multi boxing. I am currently set up on a evga gtx 680 using a dvi-i/dvi-d/and a hdmi connection. i was looking at the gtx 980 but it has only 1 hdmi and 1 dvi connections with 3 display ports. Will this work for me as i have never used a display port nor do i know anything about them. I would love to run 2 980's but this pushes the system out of my price range by 600 dollars or would i be better served with  2 gtx 970's?

My budget is 3500 dollars
this is what i had come up with Configuration Code: 1180680 (just not sure on the cards)

thanks for your time

scared lol no i run 3 instances of eve online and usually 1  wot at the same time

Edited by Gunner GzR - 17 Apr 2015 at 6:53am

thanks for the response. think i will do the 970s then as it will make life with my wife easier due to the price lol

You'll love the dual 970's. It's what i run in my Apollo, I've had it since October and it still amazes me.

ahh to bad there different e mails See if i can fix that

here is the config i wound up ordereing

http://www.digitalstormonline.com/configurator.asp?id=1181338


Edited by Gunner GzR - 19 Apr 2015 at 7:11am

Congrats! Welcome to the family!!   

Got a e mail on my build. One of the options I selected was not compatable. I called and spoke to Tammi and she was great to work with. We adjusted my build anf I even came out 9 dollars cheaper which was immediately refunded :). You would never see ----- do that. Made me feel good. Thanks to Tammi for all her great help.








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Edited by Snaike - 22 Apr 2015 at 9:09am

It's my understanding that SLI only supports two monitors. A third graphics card with a DIFFERENT GPU or on board graphics is used for the third monitor. Surround mode in SLI will treat the three monitors as one but this generally is lousy for gaming.

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/sli/faq

http://www.nvidia.in/object/sli-technology-multimonitor-in.html

Sli only supports 2 monitors in "focus mode". In this mode you chose a main screen or focus screen that is used for only gaming. The second screen can be used to for internet or whatever while gaming. The third screen must be disabled. In surround you can use all 3 monitors but the computer treats them like 1 super high resolution monitor. Unfortunately most games do not work with surround. To enable sli just open the NVidia control panel and click on sli. You can then turn on the second screen.

Outside of Surround, the only way to get 3 monitors with dual SLI is to add a third card. Then you'd have an SLI focus monitor, a secondary monitor from the SLI pair (off the same card) and an auxilliary monitor from the third. This would most likely give you slightly higher performance on the SLI focus monitor but while running the two of them the performance would be lower than only a single monitor on SLI.
The other is to dedicate the SLI pair to only the focus monitor and let the third card run the other two as auxiliaries.

or you can:
Disable your SLI and run the two auxs off the second card. This will allow a higher performance level on your primary monitor since all of the first card's assets are dedicated to a single screen, and smoother operation than the first method above...

hope this helps. (and makes sense)


Edited by Pacesetter - 24 Apr 2015 at 6:20pm

Did you not read all of my post or check the links provided?

You can run the three monitors together just not all three in SLI mode. SLI only supports two monitors.

It shipped!!!!Will be here wensday. Won't get to unbox it till sat. will post pix of the set up when I get going on it sat

Edited by Gunner GzR - 05 May 2015 at 12:52am

Its here!!! here is a link to my review

http://www.digitalstormonline.com/forums/my-new-apollo-arrives-tidf25724/

Edited by Steven - 12 May 2015 at 10:40am