The ATI Radeon 5XXX Thread

[cegras]

I never said it was not worthy of attention. Don't twist my words.

Simply because you say it is bad logic, doesn't make it so. I already had other people agree with me. I think your ridiculous to think that people that are buying a card like the 5870 or 5850 to game on 19" monitors.

To assume cost will not prevent people from buying multimonitors is a fact, especially in this bad economy.

Your overextending your own beliefs thinking they are reality. I mentioned nothing of crts and multidisplay technology has been around for a long long time. Its never taken off because it is not practical for gaming, the technology has alway been there for dual screen atleast for a while, but it just has not taken off because

I have three AMD videocards in my computer. Hell I even posted pictures on here to prove it. Look for my posts.

I even have one of the highest 3dmarks in Canada using amd cards, so I already proven I don't mind AMD. I have no current benches with NV, so I am not an NV fanboy.

http://hwbot.org/listResults.do?user...plicationId=12

I have praised new technology in the past in this very forum so I already proven you wrong completely.

You say dual monitors have no taken off because (blank?). Yet it's pretty obvious why it wouldn't have, which is why you need an odd number of monitors in row and column. Hint: It places the crosshair in one monitor instead of splitting it. That's what Eyefinity allows. Hm.

I have a 4870 1 GB for a 19". Benchmarks give you a decent story but most people fail to pay attention to the most important metric; minimum FPS. A 4850 or a 4770 may be 'adequate' for a 19", but once a game gets busy (and it'll get busy all the time in multiplayer) the situation from your timedemo FRAPS captures starts to dramatically change. This is why it's always important to be overpowered for any given resolution, unless you play single player only. I have went through a 9800 GTX+, 4770, 9600GT all in the quest for ALWAYS smooth performance in multiplayer FPS before finally deciding to overpower my resolution.

A good example is left4dead, a incredibly dynamic game. You cannot decide the candidacy of it based on 'just good enough'; it's much safer to overpower and forget.

I'm sure you have proven me wrong completely, since I alluded to none of the points that you apparently took me apart on. You are surprisingly hurt about me (apparently?) insinuating you're an nvidia fanboy, which I have not stated at all. I merely hinted that you either do not like new technology or you are skeptical about something you haven't even had a chance to try.

I guess people should keep their personal experiences to themselves, for risk of spreading fud. I mean if we're not all avid supporters of everything, what would the world come to?? People might actually be critical of poor experiences and force companies to change!

Yeah, totally, I mean, let's be critical of a product we haven't even had a chance to test when all the people who have laid their hands on it have said it's awesome ([H], Anand, etc).