Eyefinity gets owned by NVIDIA Surround

Rroff · 26 Jul 2010 at 16:55

Who cares about the price? if your splashing out for 3+ displays it would be madness to quibble about the cost of the cards best suited to drive them...

layte · 26 Jul 2010 at 17:05

Cliché car analogy ahoy cap'n!

Why drive a Ferrari? They are noisier, use more fuel, need more cooling and cost much more than a *inset car manufacturer here*

jigger · 26 Jul 2010 at 17:09

Rroff said:
Who cares about the price? if your splashing out for 3+ displays it would be madness to quibble about the cost of the cards best suited to drive them...

Exactly, just buy a 30" dell / HP and be done with it.

layte · 26 Jul 2010 at 17:11

jigger said:
Exactly, just buy a 30" dell / HP and be done with it.

That's what I did. :cool:

lay-z-boy · 26 Jul 2010 at 17:39

Stanners said:
Yeah get some benchmarks up for that, would be interesting to see, or are you just been facetious ?

I'd need someone to supply me with an extra 2 screens first.

Roff, remember tn 1080p/1050p screens can come pretty cheap these days. If you already have 2 then the outlay for a 3rd isn't too much. Starting and expanding with a u2410 was painful though.

Stanners · 26 Jul 2010 at 17:44

lay-z-boy said:
I'd need someone to supply me with an extra 2 screens first.

Roff, remember tn 1080p/1050p screens can come pretty cheap these days. If you already have 2 then the outlay for a 3rd isn't too much. Starting and expanding with a u2410 was painful though.

lol, Ah well at least the intention was there

(If i should come into some money i will supply you with the screens!)

jigger · 26 Jul 2010 at 18:49

One million Yen and a return flight to Japan gets you this.

3840 x 2160 native

4096 x 2160 forced

I'll leave a few browser pages open to let Mrs jigger get used to the idea for a while.

MoRT489 · 26 Jul 2010 at 21:48

Freddie1980 said:
Nobody denies the GTX480 is a faster card overall but comparing the two is like comparing a Walrus to a Polar Bear.

Made me chuckle

Rroff said:
Who cares about the price? if your splashing out for 3+ displays it would be madness to quibble about the cost of the cards best suited to drive them...

jigger said:
Exactly, just buy a 30" dell / HP and be done with it.

This thread is like pin the tail on the person who hasnt tried or even looked into getting 3 screens :rolleyes:

The cheapest GTX 480 costs £390, the cheapest 5870 costs £275, my 3 screens cost me £300...that £100 just bought me my third screen, oh but wait if i wanted to do that with nvidia i'd have to whack out another £390 on a second 480!! when one 5870 manages 5040x1050 perfectly fine!!

Stanners · 26 Jul 2010 at 22:03

creed said:
Made me chuckle

This thread is like pin the tail on the person who hasnt tried or even looked into getting 3 screens The cheapest GTX 480 costs £390, the cheapest 5870 costs £275, my 3 screens cost me £300...that £100 just bought me my third screen, oh but wait if i wanted to do that with nvidia i'd have to whack out another £390 on a second 480!! when one 5870 manages 5040x1050 perfectly fine!!

Any chance you can do us some benchmarks mate.. What ever game's you have. I am interested in how one 5870 does at that resolution.

Rroff · 26 Jul 2010 at 22:11

creed said:
Made me chuckle

This thread is like pin the tail on the person who hasnt tried or even looked into getting 3 screens The cheapest GTX 480 costs £390, the cheapest 5870 costs £275, my 3 screens cost me £300...that £100 just bought me my third screen, oh but wait if i wanted to do that with nvidia i'd have to whack out another £390 on a second 480!! when one 5870 manages 5040x1050 perfectly fine!!

As an fps gamer you wouldn't see me touching £100 TN panels with a barge pole... for that matter you wouldn't see me going for 3 panels for gaming anyhow personally I find the bezels too distracting.

As an eve online player I'm quite used to multi display setups

Final8y · 27 Jul 2010 at 01:28

laptop1967 said:
I've noticed as a GTX 480 owner, the only people who complain about the noise.heat and power usage of the 4xx series, are those with ATI cards!! very strange!!

i'm happy with mine and have no problems with it, i've never been into SLI, but after seeing this review, i might add another one, once i've saved up

Not strange & you logic is totally flawed.

It would be strange for someone where noise.heat and power usage matters to them to by a 480 thus they bought an ATI.

Final8y · 27 Jul 2010 at 01:32

layte said:
[H] already did that, 480 SLI was found to be faster. At which point people started to cry and pull out the price/performance shtick which they always do when the more expensive product is found to be faster. Personally I find this to be utterly tiresome and is why I would like to try and get together a bunch of tests at set resolutions people can agree on, so we can all test our hardware and compare it to systems out there (built in benchmarks and FRAPS min/max/avg would be good). It is something that everyone can get involved in, even those AMD shareholders who have a vested interest in talking the company up.

The more expensive should be faster, but from some of the comments here some people suggest that you can get Tri fire for the same money as 480 SLI & that the Tri fire would be faster & if that indeed is the case then they have a point.

Phoenixdancer · 27 Jul 2010 at 01:54

And it is faster

Stanners · 27 Jul 2010 at 09:04

Phoenixdancer said:
And it is faster

Lets see some benchmarks from you then, you know some real life figures ?
Because i will be honest so far the Nvidia users seem happy to put some up where as the ATI users talk about it but we see nothing.

This is not a dig i have a genuine interest in seeing some figures as do i imagine others.

laptop1967 · 27 Jul 2010 at 11:33

Final8y said:
Not strange & you logic is totally flawed.

It would be strange for someone where noise.heat and power usage matters to them to by a 480 thus they bought an ATI.

or as strange as your comment!!

If not pretending to be an expert about an GPU ive never seen or used is flawed logic then fine, you'll notice i haven't critized ATI, because i've never owned one, so i can't make a sensible, intelligent opinion about them, unlike some!!

layte · 27 Jul 2010 at 12:48

Stanners said:
Lets see some benchmarks from you then, you know some real life figures ?
Because i will be honest so far the Nvidia users seem happy to put some up where as the ATI users talk about it but we see nothing.

This is not a dig i have a genuine interest in seeing some figures as do i imagine others.

The only benchmark apart from Vantage that anyone seems to have posted tri-fire results for is the AvP benchmark, but apparently that does not count as it does not scale well. Which is a weak argument. I guess we can only use results that are a best case scenario for x-fire.

NathWraith · 27 Jul 2010 at 12:54

Phoenixdancer said:
My tri fire setup owns 480 sli and tri sli.. Runs cooler and is cheaper then 480 sli....

Ha, does it now.

Orangey · 27 Jul 2010 at 13:39

I just had to say that polar bears are not lean by any stretch of the imagination. They need a lot of blubber to survive those freezing waters!

Stanners · 27 Jul 2010 at 14:21

I watched a documentary on them once, quite interesting creatures!

Phoenixdancer · 27 Jul 2010 at 15:29

NathWraith said:
Ha, does it now.

You got a setup such as this?

No?