The ATI Radeon 5XXX Thread

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Cost is not the only issue, its practicality too.

Here are some issues.
Even with the power of the 5870, a game running at 6 million pixels, is going to need some serious power to run, especially a direct 11 title. Turn on stuff like AA and add some detail and watch the fps drop like a rock.

Who wants to game with screen borders all over the place. Not me.

Drivers issues. I can imagine alot of driver issues popping up because multimonitor stuff can get messy.

Need. When you sit a good foot and a half away from your computer monitor how important is it to see your peripheral when a 30" monitor already dominates your field of view, hell a 24" monitor does a pretty good job of that.

Don't be stupid, what gonna make 58xx sell well is its performance and that it is direct x11, which will coincide well with the influx of windows 7 pc ready to be sold. Not eyefinity.

Cost is NOT really an issue. I can buy two additional 19" monitors with good specs and good reviews for maybe another 2-300 dollars. That's not a lot comparatively. Furthermore, the eye sees more horizontally than vertically, and adding two monitors to my peripheral vision is going to do a lot more than adding a few inches to my vertical vision for about the same price, as we all know (and apparently claim) prices go up exponentially with monitor size.

If you read around, you'd see that this feature is clearly for older games where the new 58xx series is seriously overpowered for the graphical horsepower they require.

The screen borders become invisible if you are adding periphery space around the central monitor. Try it; it is a well known, researched fact that the more you stare at one thing, the more it appears to disappear from your vision. Your eye is much more sensitive to dynamic objects as opposed to static objects.

There should not be any driver issues. Again, if you read, you would have known that the whole idea is to treat the setup of monitors as a single monitor, not like individual entities like Windows traditionally (?) handles them. Thus, when you select a resolution in game (they even showed screenshots of eyefinity resolutions in Crysis) it appears as one giant resolution.

Who says you have to sit far away? If I'm adding monitors to expand my periphery I will still be sitting at the exact same distance, but the 'dead space' that was there before will now be filled with information I can pick up on a subconscious level.

Eyefinity is definitely a nice feature and if it continues to be passed on to future generations, I might consider a multimonitor setup.

Also, to those people who complain the other monitors would suffer from poor viewing angle, all I have to say is: adjust them until they are OK (e.g. angle them). The rationale behind this, especially for FPS, is that the game probably (I'm not sure?) renders what you see based upon a circle field of view. Setting >100 degree FOV ingame (Q3, Source games) and actually having monitors capable of displaying that without the crazy distortion you see in a planar panel would be ... impressive.

I don't think that many people in a gaming environment(not work as I mentioned earlier), have multimonitor set up. Too much space, too much money. (how alive is the flight sim market today) and no real impact on gaming experience.

More people use multimonitors for gaming than overclock, surely you jest. If what you said is true, than companies like thermalright would have gone bankrupt a long time ago.

Not taking a performance hit, now your just talking out of your ass. More pixels... ....forget about it, you should know this already.

Most card can do dual monitors now(especially the cards that have the power to push this resolution), its the triple monitor audience that eyefiniti matters and this market is alot alot alot smaller than the overclocking market.

The 5870 was running 80 fps playing WOW with 6 30" monitors with max details. Any other game with max details is going to be unplayable as WOW is a crazy old game.

They don't have multimonitor setup. After this card is released, that number may increase significantly.

Your second sentence makes no logical sense.

Of course it will take a performance hit. But if it remains above a certain threshold, you will most likely not be able to feel it unless it dips under 30 in chaotic situations.

Again, you should have read before you said anything; the monitors are merged into one large resolution, instead of being split and handled separately.

The 5870 was also running Left 4 Dead, Flight Sims, and I assume should be able to run RTS' with ease.