Discussion On The ATI Radeon 5*** Series Before They Have Been Released Thread

Aono · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:21

Eyefinity is boring.

Interesting maybe if you're in the 0.01% of the market who's going use it.

Buckster · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:24

so what are peoples guess of when these will be up for sale in the UK ?

LoadsaMoney · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:24

Im waiting to see the prices me

Probably get the hinting threads from the shop staff next week, got something new in the warehouse etc....

Buckster said:
so what are peoples guess of when these will be up for sale in the UK ?

The 23rd.

fornowagain · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:24

philjohn said:
I assume they are using the DisplayPort daisy chain feature for this?

kylew · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:24

Aono said:
Eyefinity is boring.

Interesting maybe if you're in the 0.01% of the market who's going use it.

There's quite a large forum that would particularly love these features. A lot more people use multiple displays than I think you really realise.

Monkeynut · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:24

Spazzfish said:
Ok someone explain to me why you would want this instead of just one large screen for gaming?

You can't get a screen that big.

PGdude · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:25

Lightnix said:
Or better yet, modular monitors that can daisychain internally. Say you can remove some of the sides of the monitors, slot them together put in some screws and bob's your dad's creepy brother. I think DisplayPort allows daisy chaining of monitors.

I love your idea.

bru · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:26

on that video posted by loadsa at about 20 odd seconds in does he say "presenting the worlds fastest gpu" or is it just my hearing going south

Buckster · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:26

really the 23rd ?

so on NDA lift, we get the first actual card details, benchmarks and the opportunity to buy as well ... ?!

LoadsaMoney said:
Im waiting to see the prices me

Probably get the hinting threads from the shop staff next week, got something new in the warehouse etc....

The 23rd.

kylew · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:28

bru said:
on that video posted by loadsa at about 20 odd seconds in does he say "presenting the worlds fastest gpu" or is it just my hearing going south

Well of course it'll be the world's fastest GPU at the moment.

They were roughly neck and neck with the 4800s, the 5800s are 2x performance and in a single GPU, so it's the world's fastest GPU currently.

GPU and graphics card aren't the same thing if that's what you're thinking.

bru · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:29

doh @ me ...of course i suppose they could just be saying that its faster than the gtx285, as the current fastest single gpu. discounting the gtx295 as not a single gpu the same as thier own 4870x2.

Tom|Nbk · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:29

fornowagain said:

LOL

LoadsaMoney · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:29

Buckster said:
really the 23rd ?

so on NDA lift, we get the first actual card details, benchmarks and the opportunity to buy as well ... ?!

I guess so, as ive read they'll have plenty available

kylew · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:31

Lightnix said:
Or better yet, modular monitors that can daisychain internally. Say you can remove some of the sides of the monitors, slot them together put in some screws and bob's your dad's creepy brother. I think DisplayPort allows daisy chaining of monitors.

I was wondering about something similar, I was thinking why it wouldn't be possible to have a single monitor connected to the graphics card, and then additional monitors connected to the primary to work as extended displays so the GPU sees the screens as one large screen.

I'm not too sure what you mean by daisy-chaining and how similar to that it would be.

chaparral · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:34

kylew said:
I was wondering about something similar, I was thinking why it wouldn't be possible to have a single monitor connected to the graphics card, and then additional monitors connected to the primary to work as extended displays so the GPU sees the screens as one large screen.

But then you most likely get problems from people trying to connect monitors together that support different res/refresh rates...

Azza · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:34

LoadsaMoney said:
I guess so, as ive read they'll have plenty available

Apparently they have got loads because they are easy and quick to make.

So hopefully means cheap aswell.

So this just looks like it was a paper launch for Eyefinity and the hard launch will be 23rd September...

Buckster · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:35

well thats good news then

looking forward to maybe buying one then

Tom|Nbk · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:35

fornowagain · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:37

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1069/1/

kylew · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:39

chaparral said:
But then you most likely get problems from people trying to connect monitors together that support different res/refresh rates...

That's true, but then I'd suppose, arguable it would be a feature restricted using monitors with the same specs, if you want to use another screen that's of a different res/refresh rate you'd use the 'normal' method of connecting an additional screen.