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ATI Eyefinity in action
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i told my wife about my new goal, now i have to choose ...
If you don't choose 24LCD over your wife you need to delete your [H] membership right now.
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No wonder pics of the card have been slow in leaking out. This is fantastic!
Zorachus
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Already in the works with AMD's new partnership with Samsung. Read the article.
Any info on these new Samusng monitors ? Size ? Price ? Availability ?
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I would GUESS $1000 for 3 24s and the stand by Chistmas.
Yes. There is software come to compensate for that from AMD as I was lead to understand.
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Thank for the update Kyle I appreciate
And I was expecting these 5870's to hit newegg like end of September or so, but now the word I am hearing is closer to Halloween
The monitors are not yet being produced in large scale. The thin bezel ones on display were hand carried from Korea.
I think expectations of September would be a lot more realistic than Halloween.
Midian_Falls
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My God, it's full of stars...
I expect they will be 3 24" 16:9 TN screens. Easily under a $1000 right now.
The won't be able to bloat the price that much, since people will just go buy three separate monitors instead.
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Not like I was not in the room with Samsung yesterday, but if you know better than me, please do tell.
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Why not ? Currently 24" 1920x1200 res monitors can be had from $250-$400 ea at the most. And this new technology is supposed to be cheaper to produce and the panels less expensive overall.
So $1k for 3 monitors sounds very realistic
Now 3 - 27" or 3 - 30" is whole other ballgame for pricing.
My 2nd system the Wifey uses has a nice 27" Dell LCD 1920x1200 res would love to just get two more of those for triple screen gaming, butdamn they still very pricey, even E-Bay best price is $750 each !!! What else could I pair up with that Dell
i told my wife about my new goal, now i have to choose ...
Once in a while I tell my wife tech stuff that she doesn't really care about and I always preface by saying that I will have a geeky moment and she'll listen. I told her about Eyefinity, and the pricepoint and she was very impressed. Hopefully, this will mean that she won't fuss too much when I buy myself one of these new beasts...lol
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What will hold this back more than the price tag is the room needed to set up three or more 24" panels. I'd love to add a third 24" but I can't justify the loss of real estate.
I know I already posted it in another thread, but in case no one here saw it I recorded most of a race in DIRT 2 using Eyefinity on the USS Hornet party yesterday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teE5wqT2DNU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teE5wqT2DNU
That just looks like 3 projectors which is completely doable with the current TH2G. Still awesome but nothing new.
I recorded a few seconds of the 24 monitor one running (what I'm pretty sure)ms flight sim, which was damn impressive. They had a few different setups going, but this is the only one I actually thought to record.
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This is beyond TH2G. With TH2G (including their displayport edition), you cannot use 3 1080P and above screens/projectors, you need special software and hardware, profiles etc. There's a limitation in screens and even refreshrates (57hz) which not all screens can operate comfortably on.
ATI Eyefinity looks like a large step ahead in multimonitor gaming setups. I've seen nothing like it in all my years as senior mod for the largest site for widescreen gaming solutions in the world.
Like I said, 3 screens is nothing new.
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Thank god I did not buy a TH2G device this year
My biggest hold back on that box was the small res it was limited too, only 3 - 22" monitors at max. About time someone like AMD made this Eyefinity, seems like it should have come out from ATI and nVidia before as a standard option in drivers ? Single screen gaming is now a thing of the past. You can buy 3 LCD's for pretty cheap now a days, as long as not three 30"
Like I said, 3 screens at greater than 1680x1050 resolutions is nothing new.... oh wait
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No, thats true. 3 screens (and more) you could get with PCI cards even in the old. Even old Matrox cards had several outputs and you could also run many screens with a splitter cable (though you got the same image in all of them).
ATI Eyefinity's approach to this is new and brings new features and options. Whats even better, is that you get a potential better version of something that you would pay $299.99 on newegg as of today build into the card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815106011
Thank god I did not buy a TH2G device this year
About time someone like AMD made this Eyefinity, seems like it should have come out from ATI and nVidia before as a standard option in drivers ? Single screen gaming is now a thing of the past. You can buy 3 LCD's for pretty cheap now a days, as long as not three 30"
Not only that, but you don't have to worry about their 57hz capabilities either.
You don't even have to buy 3 screens to try it out. Just borrow from a friend or two and you can test triplehead gaming without it costing more then what you already would have in your machine (provided that you already had bought a 5XXX series ATI card). Its an excelent option as "try before you buy"
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Like I said, 3 screens at greater than 1680x1050 resolutions is nothing new.... oh wait
Exactly, plus the $299 price of admission to game on 3 screens from Matrox. And SoftTH I have read nothing but driver issues and hassles.
So for official support for the VideoCard to work perfectly on multiple screens in 3d gaming and standard Desktop usage, this is ground breaking
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3 is perfect. I don't think your eye will really notice the bezels that much while gaming, you normally concentrate on the front screen, and the two angles or side monitors just there for immersion and peripheral vision
Even if I had the cash to blow, not really interested in more than 3 monitors. Odd number is best for gaming.
In a perfect world 3 - 30" Displays and I am all set
Playing WoW at 7680x1600res would be quite the experience. But in reality will most likely end up with 3 - 24" LCD's maybe new boxed ones off e-bay for cheaper ?I'm going to wait and see what samsung offers.
I WISH they offered 1920x1200 in a 22 inch screen (not 16:9 of course), just like they offer 1080p in a 22 inch.
But I think I'll have to go with 22 inchers...too bad.
100 bucks says there's a discount for buying 3
I WISH they offered 1920x1200 in a 22 inch screen (not 16:9 of course), just like they offer 1080p in a 22 inch.
But I think I'll have to go with 22 inchers...too bad.
100 bucks says there's a discount for buying 3
Just to clarify, I completely understand and LOVE this technology but people have been gaming on 3 screens for ages, just check youtube. Obviously though this is a much better solution.
Wow, do you know how ignorant you sound? It's not just 3 screens, it's up to 6x30" screens. I'll do the math for you - 7680x3200 resolution!! If you said you've seen that already, I know you're lying, because this is a hardware first.
AND it's scalable. IF your motherboard can handle 4 graphics cards, you can have 24 displays!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Vf8R_gOec
Clearly you have no idea what I was talking about. Way to quote me out of context. The six 30" displays are fucking amazing, no doubt about that but again, that was not what I was referring to at all. Next time be sure what you are talking about before calling someone out and mis-quoting them.
I was merely talking about the video MatDef posted where there was 3 projectors hooked up, something the TH2G has been doing for years. THAT is nothing new but what this new line of GPU's can do (six+ displays, MUCH higher res's then the TH2G) IS VERY new and fucking awesome.
As cool as this is, I don't think I'd ever want to do the multi-monitor thing. For some reason the lines created by the edges of the monitors drive me absolutely crazy. Even when I try to focus on the screens themselves, my eyes just keep getting drawn back to the lines. Dunno, maybe that is just me? Give me one big screen and I'm good to go.
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As a practical person, I can't say I'm impressed with the technology. I game on a single display. You know why? Because I want a reasonable size running at 120 Hz with superb framerates. Have you ever sat within 3 feet of a 42" HDTV and played console games on it? I'd wager that if you had, all sense of "immersion" and "experience" regarding such an practice would have gone out the window within 5 minutes of the massive headache developing from staring at that much real estate occupying that much of your FOV.
Frankly, I'm quite surprised that this is the direction they are going. There have been numerous technologies that promise a more immersive gaming experience in exchange for practicality in recent years and they've all crashed and burned and wound up in the shithouse. The Novint Falcon comes to mind for me; sure you could use it as a replacement for a mouse, but why would you want to? Sure, you could play Crysis on 6 monitors but have you ever really said (while playing it on your 22" or 24") "man, this would be way better if it was like one of those stupid arcade racing games that surrounds me with a vista of monitors displaying my periphery!"
I understand that graphics technology is sort of plateauing as games approach true photorealism, but it seems odd to change gears and go with an innovation like this one as the primary new selling point. As I said, it sounds great on paper, but in practice I guarantee that it will be nothing more than an annoyance in the context of PC gaming. Oh, and six grand on six 30" LCDs is pants-on-head retarded. I'm not closed minded to the notion that more monitors could beneficial, but for what PC gaming is, what it really should be, it's nothing more than an expensive, gimmicky contrivance.
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This setup looks sick, I can't believe it. I've been searching hard to find a way to do this with my current rig and nothing really fit my needs (don't tell me about TH2G, it don't support high-res DVI monitors). This is exactly what I need. I've been a long-time Nvidia fanboi but this seriously may be it for me. I think I have to get this ATI card, OMG this is going to be insane.
Yes it's pretty gimmicky and sure the vast majority of people won't use it but as a showcase for their hardware and innovation it's a great thing. I'm glad to see ATi finally putting some effort into promoting their technology, gimmick or not.
The primary issue with this is that the split could happen in an inconvenient place, like if a sentence, word or letter in the HUD falls across the split etc. It's also only useful for setting up the monitors in a flat plane, a proper surround FOV would require the game to be aware of the monitor config and render the perspectives appropriately. But the mere fact that you can seamlessly gang monitors together like this is definitely a plus and some people will find it very useful.