Quote Originally Posted by cegras View Post
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.



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.
If someone has the money to purchase a 5870, then they are likely gaming on a 23"-24" monitor to begin with.

From what I have seen, the price of 23" monitor has stabilized and to get something not completely crappy, its still 300 dollars. Thats 600 dollars on monitors or 900 if you starting from scratch. Thats alot of money for most people and is as much as some peoples computer budgets.

Do you know how much desk space 3 monitors that takes up? Most desk's I have seen can barely fit a 24 inch monitor and a tower. Now your talking about 3, 24" monitors.

I have a multimonitor setup. I like using it for 2 work surfaces, where I can focus my attention at one screen at a time. I can still not ignore the bezel because they are simply too big on monitors. Even if its in my peripheral, I can still notice it, and if its one gigantic image distributed across multiple displays, I defintely notice the bezel and its fricken distracting. Hence when i do game once in a while, I do it on a single monitor.

Drivers issue, no company wants driver issues, but they all pop up anyway. To get playable frame rates on newer games, your going to need crossfire. I already have crossfire issues on a single monitor with 3 videocards on multiples games(crysis and crysis warhead) on a single monitor. I can imagine only imagine the havok type of technology will involve.

AMD and good drivers just don't seem mix for me.

If you read the other post I replied to it would make sense.

Someone said more people use multimonitor setups than overclock. I said that bull, as overclocking is close to free and look at the market for it. Look at all the companies that make products strictly for overclocking. Look at all the forums and website dedicated strictly to overclocking. Look at all the budget builds that people suggest, because the processor is supposed to be a good overclocker. It took AMD until now to come up with this eyefinity thing(and the technology behind it), if it was really that important AMD or some other videocard company would have come up with it a long long time ago. It wasn't until last year, that NV added driver support for dual monitor, so I don't think it was that big of a priority.

Who says the number of people will go up significantly? This could be a feature that fails very easily. The reason being, people don't want to take the risk of buying monitors(some free features already go into obscurity).

Your also trying to predict the future, which is really uncertain at this points and is difficult to judge in this economy. Something about 3 monitor is more of a luxury than a mid high end videocard.