Thanks for the replies.

I'll probably aim for the fastest processor I can get with a SSD and a GTX580 as you suggest and then get a 2nd when SLi is working better.

To run SLI, do you need to have identical graphics cards?

Would it be worthwhile to have 2 x SSD one for windows and one for COD?

I can run COD in 5760x1080 eyefinity 3 x 24" with a mix of high settings and medium textures and low buildings/trees at 70FPS smoothly. To be honest the FOV is completely screwed and the quality of graphics at these settings just doesnt cut it.

I can get it to run at everything high at 40-50FPS but not very smoothly.

This is compared to 1920x1080 everything on high with 100>200FPS.

In my opinion triple monitor is a waste for COD at this point in time.
The new gen ATI 69x and NV 58x cards might do slightly better especially with more vram but i dont think they will ultimately make that much difference.

Your better off getting the biggest 1920x1080 or even 1920x1200 monitor you can find. I have a single 26" ASUS VK266H 1920x1200 im using for COD which I can highly recommend.

If you have IL2 1946 however, eyefinity works fantastically!

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If I were you (and knew a bit about computers) I would leave the SSD disks and instead put at least 12Gb of RAM in the machine so, that I can use 6Gb as Ram and another 6Gb as RAMDISK and use Link Shell Extension in order to make links of the ramdrived directories to the game. Explanations here: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=20228
Having the game loaded on RAM will be always faster than an SSD.

I use a normal 1,5Tb 5400rpm HDD in my machine (I just happened to have this disk and I installed Win7-64 on it at a moment of desperation when my high performance 10.000rpm HDD had WinXP + IL2FB on it and I did not want to risk anything on my main setup), never noticed any performance problem, even when loading Win7.
So SSDs is a high price for the value, still.

It is my 2cents (as always) but the next most important thing you should be doing, is to have clean installations:
On my WinXP with IL2FB on it, there is no other software installed except the tools needed for the game.
On my Win7-64 with CoD on it there is no other software installed except the tools needed for the game.
On my working WinXP there is whatever I feel like installing...
I practice this for some years now, installing separate hard disks and using mutlti-boot switches. They are expensive and difficult to find but it is worth the money if you want to be sure you always have the max performance out of your system:
This is how they look like, you will ned to search a lot to find something in the area of EUR40.00
http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/004...-351_large.png

~S~

thanks again chaps! Solid advice.

Just did some multiplayer in 5760x1080 with some radeon pro tweaks and got an amazing 70>100FPS with everything almost maxed out with 2xAA! It was using 99% of all 4 GPUs... so maybe I was too quick to dismiss eyefinity. The FOV is still not perfect but damn its pretty immersive with that much horizon twisting around you in dogfight!

https://blufiles.storage.live.com/y1...M/COD-eyef.jpg

https://blufiles.storage.live.com/y1...OD-eyefset.jpg

Cheers Phat!

You have started me thinking some dangerous thoughts :p

Do you think 2 X GTX 580 in SLI with 3 Gig Vram each not do the trick? Or maybe three way SLI?

Based on current optimisations I would say 2way 580 3gb would rock once they sort out sli support. 3 way might give an increase but not with Current CPU speeds and code optimization. COD is still highly CPU bound until they start splitting tasks onto cores or threads.

Have the latest patches allow you to set custom fov or is it still stuck up against the redicle until you manually pull it back?

Still no custom FOV.
I have a new quadsli GTX580 setup now that I havent tried with 3 screens yet.
I think it will be smoother than the ATI setup because these GTX 580s have 1.5GB vram and I noticed quite a few of the maps use up to 1.3GB vram.
That would explain some of the stuttering on 1GB vram cards!

I bought a single 27" 2560x1440 res monitor and a GTX 580 with 3 gig VRAM to get started fingers crossed this works out ok. SSD Sata 3 and an i5 processor with 8 gig ram.