Quote Originally Posted by flippin_waffles View Post
Who cares how many users. That's not the point. Did you expect people to run out and pick up 2 more monitors the next day? The overall marketshare of high end products is insignificant to begin with, so quoting percentages of that miniscule share is irrelevant anyway. Those that have have it, or have used it, swear by it. The fact of the matter is, it is an awesome technology that actually adds something to the experience. I couldn't care less if I can get 20% more performance out of object A over object B if it means nothing to my experience, and there is no noticable difference between it and object C i'm replacing. I'm upgrading from an x800 because there was nothing in the middle that meant anything to me. I'm not into a schlong swinging contests, so more frame rates mean nothing to me, and image quality is more than sufficient as far as i'm concerned. I have no problem dialing down those settings and even resolution for that matter, because it's the gameplay that is all important to me and i don't find that other siht distracting whatsoever. That's where i'm coming from.

And if you want to spend $1500 for 3 monitors, that's your choice. You can get into Eyefinity with 3 monitors for substantially less than that. Besides, the investment in the majority of cases is likely 2, not 3 monitors since it is quite difficult to use a PC without at least 1 monitor to begin with.
Someone who is gaming with this high ends going to run in a predicament.

Some one buying this high end obviously has a 24" monitor. So they are dealing with 1920*1200 resolution. And if you were not lucky in the first place, you also have the big ass monitor bezel to deal with. That means, buying 2 more or possibly 3 more monitors at 24" resolution. Thats 500 dollars right there(not good monitors obviously). Then to get playable frame rates at those settings, it requires someone getting a 5970, which is another 650 dollars. Thats 1150 dollars.

Only to realize when directx 11 titles come out or any new games and the better looking old games(like crysis), your computer is still too slow to run the thingrs at better setting, you wish you waited for monitors designed for eyefinity with smaller bezels, and you need to upgrade again. Or you turn down settings so much in games that the benefit of eyefinity becomes null and void because the main monitor your looking at looks starkly worse because of the decreased setting.

I think directx eyefinity won't be ready for primetime until monitors come out with smaller bezels that were designed for the technology(so you don't need to rebuy the whole set when they do come out) and the cards that support them get faster so we can play modern games, not past games.

I think even an AMD fan can believe the above.