Graphics card upgrade?

[250502bobby]

Hello I was thinking of upgrading my setup to include 3 1966x1080 24" monitors instead if the single one I have now. Currently I have a MSI GTX 960 2GB and I was wondering if it was a better idea to upgrade my graphics card before getting more monitors or if the 960 can handle gaming on three monitors. Thank you in advance for any help.

[Starelementpoke]

1 minute ago, 250502bobby said:

Hello I was thinking of upgrading my setup to include 3 1966x1080 24" monitors instead if the single one I have now. Currently I have a MSI GTX 960 2GB and I was wondering if it was a better idea to upgrade my graphics card before getting more monitors or if the 960 can handle gaming on three monitors. Thank you in advance for any help.

Upgrade.

[Shiv78]

upgrade, I'd say 100 if you can. If you don't have that much then get a used 980Ti or a new 1060.

[250502bobby]

1 minute ago, Starelementpoke said:

Upgrade.

Thank you I was thinking that was the better thing to do. What would you r ecco mend I was thinking GTX 1060 ,1070 or 1080 depending on what I can afford after Christmas

[Starelementpoke]

Just now, 250502bobby said:

Thank you I was thinking that was the better thing to do. What would you r ecco mend I was thinking GTX 1060 ,1070 or 1080 depending on what I can afford after Christmas

Any of those work.

[250502bobby]

2 minutes ago, Shiv78 said:

upgrade, I'd say 100 if you can. If you don't have that much then get a used 980Ti or a new 1060.

Thank you I will look into it

[250502bobby]

1 minute ago, Starelementpoke said:

Any of those work.

Thank you

[DrMacintosh]

Would recommend a RX 480 or waiting for AMD Vega GPUs. New benchmarks show the RX 480 pulling ahead of the GTX 1060 

If you really want to game on all 3 monitors however, you will need something like a GTX 1080 or the AMD equivalent of that. But since that is not out yet, I say wait before you have buyers remorse. 

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

19 minutes ago, 250502bobby said:

Hello I was thinking of upgrading my setup to include 3 1966x1080 24" monitors instead if the single one I have now. Currently I have a MSI GTX 960 2GB and I was wondering if it was a better idea to upgrade my graphics card before getting more monitors or if the 960 can handle gaming on three monitors. Thank you in advance for any help.

just the 960 could handle it with minimal fps draw back but you should get a new gpu like a 1060 or 1070 run your main monitor off the 1070 then run the 2 secondary monitors on the 960 

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

10 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Would recommend a RX 480 or waiting for AMD Vega GPUs. New benchmarks show the RX 480 pulling ahead of the GTX 1060 

If you really want to game on all 3 monitors however, you will need something like a GTX 1080 or the AMD equivalent of that. But since that is not out yet, I say wait before you have buyers remorse. 

the 1080 is out

[DrMacintosh]

1 minute ago, Alaradia said:

the 1080 is out

"or the AMD equivalent"-me

[DrMacintosh]

2 minutes ago, Alaradia said:

run your main monitor off the 1070 then run the 2 secondary monitors on the 960 

I dont think that is how that works......

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

2 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

I dont think that is how that works......

Yep it is used to use a a 660ti for my main monitor then a 5770 a 6770 and a 510 in order to run 10 monitors.1 screen on the 660ti and 3 screens per card on the other ones

[DrMacintosh]

1 minute ago, Alaradia said:

things can be separate yet still work together

Sure

[iRileyx]

Most people can probably read that sentence as he intended it, no need to keep arguing over it when this guy is trying to get some help.

OP - if you're only going to be gaming on one of the monitors, a 1060/480 would be fine, but if you're wanting to use 2/3 of them, you'd need a 1070/1080.

[ATFink]

Seriously though, Newegg is selling the sapphire nitro r9 fury (definitely more powerful than a 1060) for $260... $240 with a $20 MIR, but that's not always reliable. I just picked one up. It is surprisingly quiet. If you turn the fans to full blast it's like a leaf blower, but you won't ever have to do that since the heat sink is insanely huge and it's got 3 fans. The only downside is 4gb of vram so that might not be enough for you... not sure about that last bit though.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202186

[Shiv78]

12 minutes ago, ATFink said:

The only downside is 4gb of vram so that might not be enough for you

at least its HBM