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so you want to run surround monitors for your gaming setup and you don't know how

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this episode as fast as possible seeks to show you what you need to run triple

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monitors on either a Radeon graphics card or a GeForce graphics card for

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Radeon cards the requirements are pretty simple you have to have a 5,000 series

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card and you have to have three monitors that are all running the same resolution

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and refresh rate in order to span the displays across the multiple monitors

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the last thing you'll also need is an active adapter so most monitors these

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days don't support DisplayPort natively but the cards can only output two DVI or

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HTMI signals at a time so you'll need to pick yourself up an active DisplayPort

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or mini DisplayPort to HDMI or DVI adapter to make sure that the card will

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be able to Output all three displays NVIDIA's requirements are a little bit

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more complicated the minimum card requirement is a GTX 260 however if

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you're running surround off of a 260 you'll need to have two of them because

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the 260 doesn't have any DisplayPort outputs all right guys so the first

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cards that can output single card Invidia surround are 600 series cards

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and you need to make sure they have at least one DisplayPort output because

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just like the AMD cards they can only do two from DVI or HDMI in a surround

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configuration NVIDIA also requires you to have three identical monitors in

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order for surround to run flawlessly but the cool thing about NVIDIA is that if

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you run three surround three 3D monitors you can actually gain in stereoscopic 3D

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with your surround setup because the NVIDIA configuration rules are a little

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bit trickier they do have a config tool on their website that you can check out

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to find out if your system is compatible with NVIDIA surround once you've got

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your latest drivers installed and you enable surround in the a driver remember

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with AMD it's called ifinity and with NVIDIA it's called NVIDIA surround it's

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just a matter of what your default options are AMD by default sets up your

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desktop to be one large display so if

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you were to say for example maximize a program it would automatically fill your

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entire three screens you can manually configure smaller virtual desktops

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inside of your full-size desktop though if you don't want say for example a web

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page to have a little Google link in the middle and then a bunch of weight space

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on the side NVIDIA by default sets up three virtual displays within your

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entire multim monitor setup so it's just a little bit different in terms of how

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they're configured in games though for either solution you want to make sure

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that you're setting it to your maximum resolution whether that's 5760 by 1080

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or whatever other resolution your monitors are running at times three as

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