Quote Originally Posted by tajoh111 View Post
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.
Your 'opinion' is as good as anyone else's. Read: it's not.

Don't try and spread FUD, therefore, based on your anecdotes and personal experience.

You use poor logic throughout. Just because an invention has not been conceived yet does not make it unworthy of attention. Perhaps with a bit of thought you would have realized how silly eyefinity would have been if it was introduced in the era of CRT of the when LCD's were first being introduced.

I will repeat myself: eyefinity is useful for games where the 58xx is clearly overpowered. This is what has been said and will be stated. No one expects you to be able to run eyefinity on recent games at that kind of resolution, unless some surprises are afoot.

I'm not even talking about 23, 24" monitors. 19" monitors that are good are cheap and available everywhere. Nowadays the push is for widescreen, and this is exactly what it lets you do - get widescreen without paying an exponential price for screen space.

I can see, however, that you will never be convinced, most likely because you are either a staunch critic of new technology (!) or you don't like ATI (!). My crusade is to prevent people from taking what you say seriously.