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Hi Everyone,

 

I was thinking about linus' recent unboxing of the PA279Q (link below) and I was thinking about how someone who is primarily a gamer, such as myself, would utilize such a beautiful piece of equipment.

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/71126-asus-pa279q-where-to-buy/

 

The only reasonable way would be to buy a work station card or two. I dont really want to buy a quadro K4000 because that is a very old architecture and I would rather get something a little bit more recent.  My thoughts led me to the Fire Pro V7900. A reasonably priced Workstation card that is build for accurate colour.

 

http://www.amd.com/us/products/workstation/graphics/ati-firepro-3d/v7900/Pages/v7900.aspx#1

 

Would this preform at all decently in games such as The Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim, Metro Last Light, The Witcher 2, Mass Effect, ect. I would not be playing multiplayer, fast paced games, just ones that are purely game world experience oriented.

 

I know this is a big investment for not huge performance in terms of gaming returns, but would it be worth it? I personally think it would improve a single player and RPG experience. It would also be useful in future if I needed to edit and render video or 3D animations ect.

 

Maybe Cross fire to improve performance when I have enough budget?

 

What are your thoughts?

 

EDIT: Just to be clear this is about overall experience and colour, not performance.

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Most workstation GPUs aren't given the same driver support as gaming GPUs (not worse, just a different focus). So there is alot of wasted performance while gaming, most people recommend against it.

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If this is for primarily gaming, definitely get a gaming GPU. 

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Its about colour, not gaming performance.

Colour has absolutely no basis on your graphics card.

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Most workstation GPUs aren't given the same driver support as gaming GPUs (not worse, just a different focus). So there is alot of wasted performance while gaming, most people recommend against it.

 

Yeah I can see that. Who knows though.. someone should reach out to GPU devs to get them to make better gaming drivers. although that will never happen.

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what do you mean?

Unless you change settings at the driver level, the same image file from a 780Ti is the exact same as a K6000, which is the exact same as a V7900.

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At 10 bit color, a game will look unrealistically oversaturated.

 

Stay with a gaming card.

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You can see more benchmark here how workstation perform in gaming.Although it does not have v7900,but you could compare it to the other card here.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/workstation-graphics-card-gaming,3425-2.html

 

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You can see more benchmark here how workstation perform in gaming.Although it does not have v7900,but you could compare it to the other card here.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/workstation-graphics-card-gaming,3425-2.html

 

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it acutally is there. in the middle.

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Unless you change settings at the driver level, the same image file from a 780Ti is the exact same as a K6000, which is the exact same as a V7900.

 

so a poorer performing 780 is the result?

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Colour has absolutely no basis on your graphics card.

 

But doesnt the GPU designate the colour output to the monitor. which then, can or cannot, display that colour.

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