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Hi, I will say this, my all AMD system (Phenom II, 780G chipset and HD5870) may not be the fastest system, but it is one of my most stable systems I've built in >15 years. It just works and that makes me happy.

Give me a HDMI cable and a wireless keyboard/mouse any day over that %^&*

@Danny Bui - No whine at all. I have a total of three Antec TruePower PS (380, 450 and 650W) for several years now with no issues whatsoever (Knock on wood). I am FAR more fearful of a failed HD affecting me than a under wattage PS. I'm confident my next media server will use LESS power while...

Hi guys, I have a home-built MS WHS box with an AMD Phenom X4 9550 (Underclocked to 1.6GHz), Asus mobo (780G chipset), 2GB DDR2 RAM and four 1TB Seagate (7200 RPM). I currently have an Antec TruePower 450 PS running everything perfectly fine. Out of curiosity of what Cschill1290 claims, I went...

I was able to stuff an ATI Radeon 5870 in a ThermalTake LANBOX (LINK) by removing the vertical hard drive mount. I'm so pleased with the results! It's pretty quiet, blazing fast and energy efficient. Good luck! ;)

Oh why did I have to see this?!? ;)

I saw this notebook at a local Best Buy today on sale for only $549: Dell I1546-2453JBK AMD Turion™ X2 dual-core processor RM-75* for true multicore processing HyperTransport™ 3.0, AMD PowerNow!™ and AMD CoolCore™ technologies to extend battery life; improved security...

QFT I'm in complete agreement with you.

Understandably, AMD cannot "force" developers to support EF in the new game releases. Dave Baumann which leads the EF group at AMD made the follow comments on WSGF. LINK

I'm for open standards. I discovered the Widescreen Gaming Fourm after I purchased my Eyefinity (EF) setup and was BLOWN AWAY by the amount of community support behind multi-monitor gaming. I quickly realized that the demand for it has been around a lot longer than ATI EF and that a proprietary...

This site is geared toward the extremist and not the average Best Buy customer. I have an Eyefinity setup and I love it! I'm not trying to sell it to you. I'm not looking for a positive confirmation of my decision. To each his own! The bezels bother me as much as the A-pillar in my car - I'm...

Sorry to hear about your troubles. My setup has been far less problematic. Dirt2, Batman - Arkham, NFS: Shift, L4D, Hawx, and HL2 = No probs. Assasin Creed on the other hand stopped working all together after mucking with the config.ini file... :( I'm looking forward to more new titles...

Disappointed about the lack of DX11 in the demo. Oh well... The full game will be out soon enough.

~1.3GB

Maxing out my connection as I type...

I'm recommending two 80GB SSDs in RAID 0 and a new DirectX 10 AGP video cards. This should satisfy him for another 7yrs or so...

Back in 2003 he had two 80GB SATA drives in Raid 0. 2010 = Two 80GB SSD in Raid 0 Funny :)

See footnote. ;)

- AMD Athlon XP 3000+ - Tt SilentBoost CPU cooler - ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe board rev. 1.06 - 2x512MB Samsung PC2700 DDR ram - ATI AIW Radeon 9700 Pro - 2x Seagate Barracuda SATA 80GB Raid 0 HDD - Hitachi 7K250 / IBM 120GXP 80GB HDD's - Toshiba 16x DVD / Sony 24x CD-RW - Teac combo 1.44 and 5.25...

Thanks!

Looks like the adapter is available at NewEgg: LINK

OP, I agree with you, but let's not forget the improved power rating. LINK

Reference WSGF: http://www.triplemonitorbackgrounds.com/ I personally use an in-game screenshot from NFS: Shift. LINK

All's clear here with my HD5870 My rig

I completely agree with Bravo's summary.

Good review guys. Looking forward to the full version review. One small suggestion: Please post the photos side-by-side for easier comparison. Thanks again! ;)

My XFX HD5870 is very quite and reasonably quite under load. g/l

I have an ATI HD5870 and I was very pleased with the performance of the Dirt 2 demo with all DirectX 11 settings MAXED. I really appreciated the water special effects - They are by far the best I've seen to date. I'm eager to see what other game developers do with the DirectX 11. I'm anxiously...

Thanks all for sharing the videos, pics and observations. I wish I could have gone, and I have an Eyefinity setup already!! ;)

Case: ThermalTake LanBox (Modified to fit graphics card) Processor: AMD Phenom II 940 (Stock with Zalman low-profile cooler) Mobo: Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H (µATX) RAM: Corsair 4GB PC2-6400 (Stock) HD: 1TB Western Digital Green Series Video: ATI Radeon HD5870 1GB DDR5 PS: Antec TruePower 650...

FYI - Dell has the 23" P2310H LCD monitors with Display Ports on sale for ~$186 shipped/taxes/Environmental fees with coupon 47xr?f955njr13 (Credit to Cheapy Stuff of SD) LINK I'm thrilled using the same models for my Eyefinity setup.

For Far Cry 2 try this: Open console with the "~" key type "gfx_maxfps 30" then press the Enter key Esc to exit console Let us know if that helps

Hi chronox12, I purchased the same monitors (Dell P2310H) for my Eyefinity setup. "Wild" is the first thing that came out of my mouth! I think you'll be impressed as well. Some may argue that the 1980x1200 monitors would be more effective in the Portrait mode. I dunno... I'm happy with my purchase.

I made the jump as well to Eyefinity! I purchased 3 Dell P2310H monitors LINK for ~$725 shipped after coupons and other discounts. The monitors should arrive by this Tuesday. All three will be connected to my new XFX HD 5870. I'll post my finding after I play around with it.

I recently setup a HTPC connected to my 47" 1080P TV via HDMI. My HTPC has a TV tuner device which allows me to pretty much all of the local nationals and PBS off-the-air crystal clear using nothing more than a cheap pair of rabbit ears. As soon as I figure out how to watch my glorious...

What he/she said: Move the slider to the far right (0%) and see if that helps.

FYI - I'm using a 50' HDMI cable (Tartan Cable 22 AWG) I purchased from Blue Jeans Cable to connect my ATI Radeon HD4850 to a 1080P LG TV. I was pleasantly surprised to find no issues whatsoever.

I just picked up the new HP Wireless Elite Desktop Keyboard and Mouse from Fry's this past week for $46. I love how thin and sexy the keyboard looks! Photo from NotebookReview.com Photo from NotebookReview.com It uses a 2.4GHz USB transmitter which works well for me at ~15 feet (~4.5m). My...