Go way beyond 1080p with AMD Eyefinity Technology

Final8y · 8 Oct 2014 at 20:44

Th last config is what i will be trying.
Also they didn't do five in landscape.

Stas823 · 8 Oct 2014 at 21:08

the bezels kill it for me

dholdi · 8 Oct 2014 at 21:11

Stas823 said:
the bezels kill it for me

Me too, and the almost Benny Hill music ruins the video presentation, I couldn't take it seriously.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUOe_hLg7Bo

Wizzfizz · 8 Oct 2014 at 21:11

Yeah they do, the Dell badges don't help either. This sort of config has to be OLED or there abouts in terms on hardly any bezel.

Confused Stu · 8 Oct 2014 at 21:27

Definitely poor choice of music - did we never export Benny Hill to the USA?

Decent enough quick demo of Eyefinity but I really do think it's something you need to try for yourself to see if it's for you or not. Personally I love 3-screen gaming and after a few seconds I don't even see the bezels anymore, it's just like driving a car and not noticing the A-pillars anymore. However, I can certainly see why it's not for everyone.

Purely out of interest, those people commenting that the bezels kill the concept for them, have any of you tried it out in person or just watched YouTube clips of a Surround/Eyefinity setup working?

Shiari · 8 Oct 2014 at 21:38

Confused Stu said:
Purely out of interest, those people commenting that the bezels kill the concept for them, have any of you tried it out in person or just watched YouTube clips of a Surround/Eyefinity setup working?

I think you hit the nail on the head there

GoogalyMoogaly · 8 Oct 2014 at 21:38

Stas823 said:
the bezels kill it for me

Me too.

Confused Stu said:
Definitely poor choice of music - did we never export Benny Hill to the USA?

Decent enough quick demo of Eyefinity but I really do think it's something you need to try for yourself to see if it's for you or not. Personally I love 3-screen gaming and after a few seconds I don't even see the bezels anymore, it's just like driving a car and not noticing the A-pillars anymore. However, I can certainly see why it's not for everyone.

Purely out of interest, those people commenting that the bezels kill the concept for them, have any of you tried it out in person or just watched YouTube clips of a Surround/Eyefinity setup working?

I had triple screen 1080p surround, landscape though.
For me it was partly the bezels and partly the stretching that occured on the two side screens.

Gerard · 8 Oct 2014 at 21:44

Been running eyefinity for a few years now, bezels never bothered me at all. Feels weird if I play a game on a single screen now.

Martini1991 · 8 Oct 2014 at 21:50

Welcome to 2009?

Rusty0611 · 8 Oct 2014 at 22:15

I like Surround / Eyefinity. It's definitely worth trying. Eyefinity was a bit off the pace compared to Surround when I tried it but that was 48 months ago and a lot can change.

Orangey · 8 Oct 2014 at 22:21

Americans can't get enough of Benny Hill. They use the music whenever they get a chance.

Tonester0011 · 8 Oct 2014 at 22:22

Tried it, didn't like.
Tried it again, didn't like.
Tried it a third time, portrait and still didn't like.

Will stick to a single screen and use the other screens for extra desktop space only.

stulid · 8 Oct 2014 at 22:23

Martini1991 said:
Welcome to 2009?

Trying to work out what this thread is about.

adolf hamster · 8 Oct 2014 at 22:25

been running eyefinity for the guts of a year now, on old monitors with an inch worth of bezel between screens

hardly notice the bezels when gaming, and i treat the screens as seperate when working on the desktop.

works pretty flawlessly, the number of issues attributable to the driver side of eyefinity have been zero, sure theres some games [skyrim springs instantly to mind as a culprit] need a certain amount of coaxing into working well but a fair amount of stuff works flawlessly.

Orangey · 8 Oct 2014 at 22:25

Tried it with dual 5850s back in OG times and the fisheye effect ruined it for me.

Bonjour · 8 Oct 2014 at 22:49

Works well with a main monitor in the middle and a monitor either side for periphery.

Shiari · 8 Oct 2014 at 22:50

Orangey said:
Tried it with dual 5850s back in OG times and the fisheye effect ruined it for me.

When I tried it with a borrowed monitor for a while I found that landscape with 3x24" just doesn't work, as you say ... "fisheye" effect, even got a sore neck from the wide desktop

But the bezels didn't bother me at all.

3 monitors in portrait with a more natural 3240x1920 surface area was awesome, though the extra poor viewing angles of TN panels in portrait mode are far from ideal. Need IPS or something equally good for it really.

Martini1991 · 8 Oct 2014 at 23:05

stulid said:
Trying to work out what this thread is about.

I had to double check the video, it's a new video.

Eyefinity launched in 2009 with the 5870's, I remember having one, gaming at 5760x1080 (With 1GB VRAM)

Martini1991 · 8 Oct 2014 at 23:08

Bonjour said:
Works well with a main monitor in the middle and a monitor either side for periphery.

Eyefinity doesn't work as well as a 21:9 monitor though.
Eyefinity was fish bowled as hell, rendering it kinda crappy. 21:9 for most games looks as it should.

Confused · 9 Oct 2014 at 10:02

You're not supposed to be looking at the side monitors in Eyefinity, you're supposed to use them as peripheral vision or for a quick glance - it's the extra field of view that it gives you.