#1 STUNNA

This is Left 4 Dead played on three 30 inch monitors powered by one Radeon HD 5870 graphics card that merges them into one "virtual" monitor with a 7680x1600 resolution! Windows thinks it's one monitor with a really wide resolution! The first release will support 3 monitors but later they'll add a 6 monitor solution!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7cNLUqPao

http://pcper.com/comments.php?nid=7796

#1 STUNNA

H.A.W.X looks awesome!
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AznImports602

HAWX does look awesome on that thing!

Mizouse

How did people do this before eyefinity?

SwervinCL

One day... One day I will have a setup like this... One day.

Mizouse

I'm 50% there. Just need 1 more monitor and the 5870

Ken1997TL

$380 on Newegg, not bad considering what it can do

Mizouse

Really $380??? Dang I remember spending closer to 500/600 for a top of the line video card back in 2002

Billiam

$380 Damn. I was fairly set on going a bit nuts and getting two 4890's when I build my new Win 7 machine. Now I'm thinking maybe I should just do one of these.

#1 STUNNA

They say it's got almost twice the performance of the 4870 but stays within the same power envelope. At idle it uses 27w compared to 90w of the 4870.




I may pick up the 5850 when I rebuild, it's $259 which was less than I paid for my 8800GT which was considered a steal when it was announced. glad they aren't charging $600 for graphics cards anymore.

Full review here

http://pcper.com/article.php?aid=783&type=expert&pid=1

Mizouse

Also from the looks of things, based on how many generations of video cards that have gone by I'm due for an upgrade.

actually I'm coming up on needing to replace my computer.
Come December it'll be 3 years old.

Still running a core 2 duo e6600 4gb ddr2 ram 1.1TB HD, radeon x1950xt

doesn't even seem like it needs to be updated.

My old computer built in 2002 badly needed to be replaced in 2006.

Rapture

Yeah my local community college has had this for about 4+ years in a few areas in the arts department.

Honestly I could only see myself doing this with maybe browsing, or doing anything other than playing games. IMO seems if something pops up in the far left monitor, you focus on that, then you won't be able to even see anything in the far right. I dunno, I'll just see how it turns out.

Mizouse

maybe ill keep my old 24" monitor around.

Myxomatosis

hey I'm still using a pent4 2.6, 1.5gb ddr2, 0.8tb hd, radeon s9250 and I'm happy. I can run dual monitor, but I have a 32" and a 19" so it wouldn't really work to well.

wackjum

I don't understand how this is different from TripleHead2Go that Matrox has had for 2 years now.

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/

Mizouse

Dunno what triplehead2go is but this looks like it's optimized for games, and it can support up to 6 monitors.

#1 STUNNA

It's better than the matrox offering cause the matrox is limited to the max input resolution of a dual link dvi connection. The matrox has one input that it can spread amongst 3 outputs. So you're limited by the max resolution of the input which it would then stretch and make look like ass amongst 2 or 3 displays. The AMD doesn't require an add-on and you can drive 6 separate monitors at their native resolutions using one card where it used to take 3 graphics cards to do this. You can drive six 30 inch monitors in a 3x2 setup as one big ass monitor with just one card allowing for a max 7680x3200 resolution!

Mizouse

are you sure about the 1 card?

i thought you would need 2 in sli to get 6 displays because 1 card has only 2 DVI ports and a display port.


i havent read much into eyefinity so i dont know.

#1 STUNNA

I already posted a pic of the card with 6 mini display ports on it.

Mizouse

ohh.. to be honest i didnt really pay attention to it.

wasupdog

iTrader: (2)

if you overclock your e6600 and pop in a new graphics card it'll be basically almost as fast as any c2d system out there except for the new i7 generation quads. you can also get the q9550 2.83ghz quad at a local socal microcenter for $170 + tax if your motherboard supports it.

i'm almost have this exact same setup... now all i need is a 5870 and 3 30" monitors

srika

boy am I glad I didn't get a top-end video card with my Core i7 - instead I got the base model whatever (HD4350) knowing I would upgrade later.

in other news, Dell announced Core i7 laptops 2 days ago.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2353214,00.asp

http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/noteb...17&s=dhs&cs=19

Billiam

FYI - http://www.hardocp.com/ currently has a lengthly video on this. They go over the display setup, show some gameplay footage, and do a fair amount of "real world" commentary about different facets of the overall experience.

#1 STUNNA

Their making a 2 chip GPU called the 5970, it's two 5870s in one card.

Mizouse