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

Tweaker · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:08

Anyone else surprised how big the card is, would have expected a smaller footprint inside the case.

Azza · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:09

Not really no.

Why would you expect it to be smaller?

TheBlackShuck15 · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:11

Lol

I thought that the GPU was supposed to be small??? :confused:

:shrug:

Souness · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:16

Eye finity = gimmick?

Who is actually gonna game on 3+ monitors at once? I'm not even sure I'd want to even if I could afford it... the dead space where the monitors join would be awfully distracting. Plus you'd need a room the size of a movie theatre just to be able to have it all within your field of vision.

Next...

Azza · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:21

Race sim & flight sim enthusiasts....

Lightnix · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:21

Maybe, but then apparently there is a market for it. People have paid over £100 for TG2Go hardware to have 3 monitors running, so the ability to have it for 'free' with the 5800 series to those people is quite a saving, I'd imagine, especially since you can keep connecting up to 6 monitors. Sure that market isn't us, but it's there.

Raikiri · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:21

Plenty of people already do and it's not just for gaming.

Wakinglimb · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:22

So right now you game on one and see nothing that is in your periphery. Add 2 more which show you EXTRA stuff, same you moving your character left and right to look, is that not better? I like it, but then I have 3 monitors, so it would be useful to me.

the_jetsetwilly · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:28

i use three for 18months and i am looking forward to see what nvidia will come up with. Ati have me licking my lips.

once youve gone to 3 theres no going back

JBuk · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:29

It's not something that interests me (at the moment) but I guess die hard gamers will love it

=VTA=MANFACE · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:33

Erm pipe dreams ?

the_jetsetwilly · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:34

deadspace? here you go

4200x1024 its not distracting

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll258/mozmorris/SoftTH_DeadSpace_000023776578.jpg

LoadsaMoney · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:34

A rebrand, they are re-releasing their GT200's under GT300 naming, and adding Dx10.1 to em

Supertaff · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:35

ME - I run 3 * Dell 2407's at present through a triple head to go.

Love it, playing iRacing, Armed Assualt2, GRID, FSX, DCS Black Shark, Company Of Heroes, Empire Total War

Most at 5040 * 1050 so not just racing and flight sime, it adds an excellent experience to most games. It's also great for standard desktop work. Also after about 5 mintues of using it you don't actually see the borders of the monitor anymore, the eyes just seem to blank them out.

Will see how the game support goes for the Eyinfinity and then may put the 4870X2 and TripleHead on the MM and move ove to a 5870X2 for the better resolutions, 5760 * 1200 sounds nice.

See my set up in this thread.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17405978&page=88

Taff

r2d2 · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:35

ME!

I am going to go back to the below setup and use the 30 inch dell i currently have sitting in the middle on its own with the 295gtx.

I have never been able to game with three screens properly and it looks like now FINALLY its going to be possible without too much hassle.

I cant wait!!!!! i7 with 2x5870s. That should maxout crysis/dIRT 2 etc @ 5760x1200/

Like many have said there is a market for this. A lot of people have multi monitor setups.

Azza · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:35

Lots of ATI Eyefinity slides here

r2d2 · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:37

Exactly. I never got triple screen gaming to work well, and thought the matrox thing was not very good, this looks like its gonna finally nail it. :cool:

LoadsaMoney · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:40

Id imagine more people to jump onto 3+ monitors with the card being able to do it now, and monitors so cheap.

Probs look into it myself

chaotic_uk · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:47

how much is your elec bill lol ?

Overslop · 10 Sep 2009 at 22:57

I'm in the crowd of preferring one large screen instead of lots of small.

1 40"+ 1080P TV beats stacked up monitors imo. The borders between screens simply destroys immersion as far as I'm concerned. I would love for affordable bigger screens to increase in resolution though, and I'm sure that will happen relatively soon.