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The computer works fine and does everything I want, I just broke it by messing with it, trying to solve an issue that I'm pretty sure isn't a computer issue in the first place, it's just an issue with GW2 in relation to the 690 (Which works fine with everything else), or just in general. And if anything, I need more exotic hardware, not less and cheaper. My command center is being held back by my 4 monitor cap at the moment, and by Windows being a terrible operating system that doesn't have virtual desktops.
Oh hahahahaha, I shall now proceed to quote myself:
Now then, We must be either dealing with massive and very successful troll or an utter idiot. Are you by chance this guy?
Now the rude comments aside, my final advice is to just do everything all over again. From a scrach and without the 7800. Your 690 is capable of running all of those 4 screens if you just stop being ignorant fool and set up your screens properly - Even if your 690 shows full load, what in fact is going on is it has lowered its specs to match the 7800 and uses those specs at full load. (Programs cannot see this because its mechanical limitation, but if you are any familiar with how PC's function you will know what's going on even without seeing it from a program)
Now if you refuse to listen to our advice, dont bother asking to begin with mr. Iknoweverything.
I want the most power and a lot of monitors, which is achiveable as I have it now, with a 690 and a second card for handling monitor overflow.
I've already tried to educate you on how many screen the 690 can handle and how 690 isn't running at the speed of the 7800, but you choose to remain ignorant. Thinking you know everything just isn't a productive way to live life. Try being an open book, and to consider the advice others have to give. It's a much more enriching way to live, as it's the way I try to live my life. But remember to be a discerning book as well, as I've had to be here, for ignorance is abound as well as wisdom.
I love Diehard 4, but my command center is way better than his.
As to virtual desktop freeware, I've tried them all, and they're all absolute garbage. They're slow laggy buggy crap.
And as to the the 7970, both the 690 and 7970 in SLI can only run 3 monitors while in non-surround SLI mode (Not completely sure on the 7970), except that the 690 is only one card, allowing me to put a second card in the case (Only have 2 PCI-E slots), expanding my monitor capacity beyond 3. And AMD doesn't have a dual-GPU card to match, so I couldn't go with them.
I lold hard here.
As I said, it's also important to be a discerning book. I was too open earlier on, and it lead to destruction and chaos around my computer. Everything in moderation, as Ghandi once said. The padawan I was responding to is the extreme of closure, and I was the extreme of openness ealier on, but now I've settled into the optimal state of open discernfulness.
A simple Radeon HD 7970 gets you support for six monitors doing six completely independent things, and still plenty of GPU performance. Asus made one with six monitor ports, though New Egg doesn't carry it anymore and Amazon is out of stock. Google found it at some sites I'd never heard of.
https://www.google.com/shopping/product/11337809166208781285?q=Asus+Radeon+HD+7970&hl=en&client=opera&hs=Seg&channel=suggest&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.43828540,d.dmg&biw=1280&bih=901&sa=X&ei=9JlIUaCtEtS04AOGtYHwCw&ved=0CB0QrRI
HIS still makes a 7970 GHz Edition with six monitor ports.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161419
And there's also the option of taking any ordinary 7970 and daisy-chaining (possibly the wrong term) the DisplayPort monitors, though that requires either getting a breakout box that may or may not exist yet or some particular monitors that support it.
Those are expensive, but vastly cheaper than a GTX 690. A lot easier to cool, too. And you get to completely avoid the "what if SLI doesn't work right" issues that plague so many games.
If you want to use a ton of monitors (which I'm sympathetic to), then you have special needs and should go out of your way to pick hardware that supports a ton of monitors. Buying a video card without regards to monitor support and hoping to make it work for you isn't likely to end well.
A defense mechanism, no doubt. Truth can be hard to hear, but it will break through eventually. Even the tallest walls always fall.
While there isn't an official Radeon HD 7990, there are some unofficial ones, such as PowerColor's Devil 13 card.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131479
That has five monitor ports rather than six, though.
Even so, buying one dual-GPU card is doing it wrong. The only good reason to get a dual GPU card is if you want to get two of them for Quad SLI or CrossFireX.
And if you want a lot of video cards, then why did you go out of your way to find an x79 motherboard that only has two PCI Express x16 slots? That constitutes finding creative ways to cause trouble for yourself.
This is why you ask for help before making a purchase, rather than after. Well, apparently you don't. But it's why you should. Even if it's too late for this time, it's not too late for the next computer you'll buy.
If driving six monitors without doing computationally intensive stuff is the sole goal, then the AMD FirePro W600 is built for that specific purpose.
The price tag for professional graphics cards would reasonably give one pause for consumer use, however, especially when you consider that what is under the hood is roughly a Radeon HD 7750 with drivers not optimized for gaming.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814195115
If the 7970s can handle 12 monitors while in SLI then I made a catastrophic mistake. But that seems to good to be true.
And Warlock had these tiny ass monitors spaced too far apart. I have a 50 inch as one of 4 computer monitors, plus a 32 inch for tv, plus another 32 inch for all 3 gaming consoles, plus two CRT tvs in stasis, plus my laptop, and plus 3 tablets acting as video loopers. The only thing he has on me is his chair.
Fine then, let me be open and ask you where am I being wrong here, after which tell me how things actually are IN DETAIL:
1. 690 can run 4 monitors indepently
2. You can use 3 monitors for Vision Surround gaming and 4th one independently
3. 690 has 3 DVI and 1 mini display port
4. 690 has 4 ports which one of them is unusable
5. 690 has 4 ports which one of them is unusable because of driver settings
6. 690 cannot run different sized screens at the same time
7. 690 cannot run more than 2 different sized screens at the same time
8. 690 cannot run more than 3 different sized screens at the same time
9. Nvidia drivers dont support individual screen customization
While I dont have an Nvidia card for myself, nor have had an Nvidia card ever before, I'm sure the drivers arent as incompetent for what you claim them to be. There must be an option for each individual screen. I mean my 5850 can run 3 monitors (each of different size and age, and on 3 different types of ports too - HDMI, displayport and DVI) just fine and I can customize them however I ever wanted, through just the drivers I have been given.
Yeah I'm about to reach this stage too. It all depends on the guys next answer on my question.
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/sli/system-requirements
Choose the 690, then Multi GPU, then Multi GPU On, and be enlightened by glorious truth.
Do not let envy cloud your mind. If you collected some old electronics laying around, you could probably start your own command center too.
I got my last two computers from CyberPowerPC, which would have made my current comp cost 1k cheaper, but both my computers from them were the most buggy and defective pieces of crap ever, developing problem after problem and never working right. Decided I'd spend more to have the computer actually be reliable this time, and so far it's been the case. There are probably places that will sell cheaper and not be crap like CyberPowePC but I didn't want to risk it and went with a known brand.
Take out the old old old graphics card, leave the super fast 690 in, plug in your second monitor to the 690, or your third monitor (as the 690 can span across 3 monitors on its own!) and then upgrade your drivers.
Done.
"When people don't know much about something, they tend to fill in the blanks the way they want them to be filled in. They are almost always disappointed." - Will Wright
Alienware was the only brand I trusted (Other than Falcon Northwest, which actually cost like 1k more), as my last two PCs were garbage that I got from a smaller, cheaper company. Didn't want to risk getting garbage again, so I didn't really have a choice other than Alienware, which only has desktops with 2 slots.
From your link the GTX 690 can run 4 monitors.
Currently playing: GW2
Going cardboard starter kit: Ticket to ride, Pandemic, Carcassonne, Dominion, 7 Wonders
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzEHVajkxNpRZGhKWmpPZkJ2cDQ/edit?usp=sharing
You can run four monitors as long you are using 3 to game.
Currently playing: GW2
Going cardboard starter kit: Ticket to ride, Pandemic, Carcassonne, Dominion, 7 Wonders
But he doesn't want a game on three monitors. He wants a game on one monitor.
It's not just how many monitors you can plug in (though AMD wins there, too). It's what you can do with them. All GPUs that power discrete Radeon HD 7000 series cards (except rebrands of older cards) can take six monitors doing six independent things. Many particular discrete cards don't have the appropriate monitor ports for this, but you can readily pick one that does.