I have some Eyefinity questions

[Chaotic42]

Eyefinity could be the most awesome thing to come out in a long time (for me anyway). I have three 24" monitors right now, and I've love to get six. Right now I'm running a 4870x2 for my main display and a 4670 for my two side displays. I have some questions, and I don't know if anyone knows or can answer them.

My questions are:

1) Will a single 5870 card support these three monitors as one screen in portrait mode for gaming (3600x1920). - Three wide and one tall.
2) Will SLIed 5870s be able to support six monitors?
3) Will SLIed 5870s be able to render their SLIed output to a subset of the total set of monitors?
4) Does anyone know of any good triple monitor benchmarks for the 5870 (I'm specifically thinking WoW and BF2 here)

Thanks for reading.

:beer:

 

[Tempered81]

Answer for #4:

HD5870 @ 3840 x 1080 8XAA 16xAF Max quality (triple monitor) VS. GTX285 1920 x 1200 0xAA 0xAF - http://www.insidehw.com/Review...rce-GTX285/Page-5.html

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Cross-Fired, not SLI

 

[videogames101]

1. Yes
2. No idea
3. No Idea
4. Already posted

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
Cross-Fired, not SLI

Bleh, my Voodoo is showing!

I guess it's 3600x1920 too, not 4800x1920.

 

[ronnn]

1. yes, but most games won't support it according to hardocp. At least if I understood that part.

 

[gorobei]

1. yes will do vertical, but dont know of any game that would support it. what game are you trying to run?
2. no eyefiniti and crossfire, but the next 5870 will have 6 mini displayport so it will be a 1 card solution.
3. unlikely for now
4. no idea.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: gorobei
1. yes will do vertical, but dont know of any game that would support it. what game are you trying to run?

Mostly World of Warcraft and Battlefield 2. Some Civilization 4, SimCity 4, and Supreme Commander will be thrown in for good measure.

 

[vj8usa]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: gorobei
1. yes will do vertical, but dont know of any game that would support it. what game are you trying to run?

Mostly World of Warcraft and Battlefield 2. Some Civilization 4, SimCity 4, and Supreme Commander will be thrown in for good measure.

Why would you be stacking them vertically though? For an FPS like BF2, you'd just be seeing a ton of sky and ground. For strategy games like supcom and civ4, you'd probably be tilting your head up and down constantly since you wouldn't be able to see the whole screen at once.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: vj8usa

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: gorobei
1. yes will do vertical, but dont know of any game that would support it. what game are you trying to run?

Mostly World of Warcraft and Battlefield 2. Some Civilization 4, SimCity 4, and Supreme Commander will be thrown in for good measure.

Why would you be stacking them vertically though? For an FPS like BF2, you'd just be seeing a ton of sky and ground. For strategy games like supcom and civ4, you'd probably be tilting your head up and down constantly since you wouldn't be able to see the whole screen at once.

Well, they'd be in portrait mode. Three monitors wide, one monitor tall for 3600x1920.

 

[CurseTheSky]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Well, they'd be in portrait mode. Three monitors wide, one monitor tall for 3600x1920.

True, but to put things in perspective, take your current monitor (if it's 1920x1200 or 1920x1080) and put it in portrait mode. Then, ignoring the limited left/right visibility, open up a document or a game (if possible). Spend 5-10 minutes playing around, and by the end of it you'll probably be sick of tilting your head up and down to see what's above and below you.

Ideally, I'd take about five or six 1920x1200 monitors setup side-by-side in portrait mode, and I'd give the overall setup a slight arc to help imitate peripheral vision. Too bad it would be so expensive.

 

[McRhea]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: vj8usa

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: gorobei
1. yes will do vertical, but dont know of any game that would support it. what game are you trying to run?

Mostly World of Warcraft and Battlefield 2. Some Civilization 4, SimCity 4, and Supreme Commander will be thrown in for good measure.

Why would you be stacking them vertically though? For an FPS like BF2, you'd just be seeing a ton of sky and ground. For strategy games like supcom and civ4, you'd probably be tilting your head up and down constantly since you wouldn't be able to see the whole screen at once.

Well, they'd be in portrait mode. Three monitors wide, one monitor tall for 3600x1920.

Everyone is confused because in your OP you said:

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
My questions are:
1) Will a single 5870 card support these three monitors as one screen in vertical mode for gaming (4800x1920).

You meant to say 3x1 Portrait mode. You can do pretty much any combination of screens with Eyefinity: 3x1, 3x2, 1x3, 2x3, all monitors in portrait mode, etc, etc.

Go watch HardOCP's video review of the Eyefinity, but note that he is using the 5870, and NOT a 5770 as he keeps saying in the video.

There are tags on the video search bar that will let you jump to areas you're most interested in... so you may be most interested at 18:11 in the video where he talks specifically about Portrait mode and shows what that looks like.

Video Eyefinity review

 

[aequasi]

that didnt confuse me 0.o lol, horizontal is landscape, vertical is portait. i will say, it might be funny to play FPS's that way, but strat games would be AWESOME that way

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: CurseTheSky

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Well, they'd be in portrait mode. Three monitors wide, one monitor tall for 3600x1920.

True, but to put things in perspective, take your current monitor (if it's 1920x1200 or 1920x1080) and put it in portrait mode. Then, ignoring the limited left/right visibility, open up a document or a game (if possible). Spend 5-10 minutes playing around, and by the end of it you'll probably be sick of tilting your head up and down to see what's above and below you.

Heh, I use 2x1920x1200 monitors in side-by-side portrait mode (2400x1920) at work. Everyone, including the IT staff, has stopped by at some point to comment on it or to try it out. They all seem to like it.

I absolutely love it for work.