so you want to run surround monitors for your gaming setup and you don't know how
this episode as fast as possible seeks to show you what you need to run triple
monitors on either a Radeon graphics card or a GeForce graphics card for
Radeon cards the requirements are pretty simple you have to have a 5,000 series
card and you have to have three monitors that are all running the same resolution
and refresh rate in order to span the displays across the multiple monitors
the last thing you'll also need is an active adapter so most monitors these
days don't support DisplayPort natively but the cards can only output two DVI or
HTMI signals at a time so you'll need to pick yourself up an active DisplayPort
or mini DisplayPort to HDMI or DVI adapter to make sure that the card will
be able to Output all three displays NVIDIA's requirements are a little bit
more complicated the minimum card requirement is a GTX 260 however if
you're running surround off of a 260 you'll need to have two of them because
the 260 doesn't have any DisplayPort outputs all right guys so the first
cards that can output single card Invidia surround are 600 series cards
and you need to make sure they have at least one DisplayPort output because
just like the AMD cards they can only do two from DVI or HDMI in a surround
configuration NVIDIA also requires you to have three identical monitors in
order for surround to run flawlessly but the cool thing about NVIDIA is that if
you run three surround three 3D monitors you can actually gain in stereoscopic 3D
with your surround setup because the NVIDIA configuration rules are a little
bit trickier they do have a config tool on their website that you can check out
to find out if your system is compatible with NVIDIA surround once you've got
your latest drivers installed and you enable surround in the a driver remember
with AMD it's called ifinity and with NVIDIA it's called NVIDIA surround it's
just a matter of what your default options are AMD by default sets up your
desktop to be one large display so if
you were to say for example maximize a program it would automatically fill your
entire three screens you can manually configure smaller virtual desktops
inside of your full-size desktop though if you don't want say for example a web
page to have a little Google link in the middle and then a bunch of weight space
on the side NVIDIA by default sets up three virtual displays within your
entire multim monitor setup so it's just a little bit different in terms of how
they're configured in games though for either solution you want to make sure
that you're setting it to your maximum resolution whether that's 5760 by 1080
or whatever other resolution your monitors are running at times three as
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