The ATI Radeon 5XXX Thread

[Final8ty]

There is no hate for this technology. Just skepticism on whether it will catch on. No one want this technology to fail or anything, some people, including myself, don't see the benefits it outweighing the costs associated with the technology. The biggest application of this technology or how AMD is trying to present it is gaming since business environments where cost is hardly an issue already have cards or systems which can display 3 screens or more.


Multiple display gaming is something more of a novelty because we have been introduced to something similar in the past and it just hasn't caught on because the consumer hardly see's it as essential part of the gaming experience.

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The costs now are allot cheaper for monitors than before.
Also the tech is different now that it would be much easier for pc
gamers.

Before multi monitor was aimed more at productivity than anything else then triple head go came on the scene & cost as much as a gfx card it self with heavy limitations requiring allot of planing with matching monitors & at the right res which only but the hardcore would bother to go through.

Hearing about it never makes up for seeing it in action, there is no one who wouldn't be more happy with no bezel but the experience does make up for it.

Very little ever starts off a being essential. A pc is not required at all for gaming.
The NV 3D is apples to oranges as it requires another piece of hardware between the PC & the screen which you could by 2 new screen or nearly for the cost & is no use for anything else & requires specific monitors.

As time goes on people go though monitors & replace them but now they may hang onto them & try out some multi screen gaming as it will cost them nothing pluysh being able to use them for multi or extended desktop with out the need for utramon to fix the taskbar. Even second hand monitors are cheap as chips & many are thrown away in office refits.

At the end of the day it will be the marketing & easy of use which will effect it popularity.