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jopey

12:16 AM on 13 November, 2009

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That seems like a massive rip off to be honest. The two monitor version definitely is. ATI's "eyefinity" thing is coming to their cards and that can do 6 30inch monitors off a single card. You can also mix and match with many different display sizes and layouts. I'd expect a dedicated solution for $2000! would do a lot more.

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xenos

3:04 AM on 13 November, 2009

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But can it play Crysis? ;-)

I'm not sure why they don't make a 4 output version?

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Ed

9:43 AM on 13 November, 2009

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@jopey: eyefinity can't do 6 x 30 inch monitors. It can do three or six 24(?) inch monitors.

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Keithe6e

11:09 AM on 13 November, 2009

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Eh!!!, what's the size of the monitor got to do with it?

I'm sure if you had the money you could have 6 50" Kuru's TV's on eyefinity.

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jopey

11:37 AM on 13 November, 2009

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@Ed "Specifics on the technology are being kept close to the vest, but a recent demonstration revealed, amazingly, that it runs on only one GPU. it also features several DisplayPort connectors—In this case, six 30-inch Dell displays were configured to run as a single 7680x4800 monitor."

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Ed

11:38 AM on 13 November, 2009

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@Keith: Nothing but when someone says 30-inch monitor they are generally referring to a standard 30-inch monitor with a resolution of 2,560 x 1,600. It's the resolution that the card can't cope with. So when I refer to 24-inch I'm basically talking about the 1,920 x 1,200 resolution it uses.

I was fairly certain the eyefinity card couldn't do six 2,560 x 1,600 displays but looking around the web, it seems I might be wrong on this. Further research is required..

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Chris

11:54 AM on 13 November, 2009

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Maximum resolution of single link DVI is 1920x1200. You need dual link for something larger, hence half the number of monitors.

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Chris

12:05 PM on 13 November, 2009

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@Ed:

I think you're referring to the existing 3 output cards while jopey is talking about the new 5870 Eyefinity 6 cards, which aren't available yet. I think you're both right - for now ;) .

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cjb110

12:49 PM on 13 November, 2009

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Is it the similar issue as to dual (48bits per pixel) and single link (24bits per pixel) DVI's?

For a 2560x1600@60 you need a dual link DVI, but for 1920x1200@60 you only need single link.

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Ed

1:06 PM on 13 November, 2009

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I was aware of the six port card, I was just under the impression that DisplayPort couldn't do dual-link equivalent bandwidth. More to the point, I seem to recall AMD actually saying the 6 port card couldn't do six 30 inch monitors.

Nope, I'm just going batty. AMD's documentation does indeed refer to such a setup. Nevermind.

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