Hardware ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Review

ATI's Eyefinity 6 card packs six display outputs and squeezes 2GB of memory under its cooler so that it can handle super-high resolution gaming. We see whether the extra memory makes a difference, and whether Eyefinity is any good or not.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2010/04/13/ati-radeon-hd-5870-eyefinity-6-review/1

 

Grid 2? don't you mean Dirt 2?

 

The game in the picture is definately GRID.

 

Yup, corrected, it's Grid

 

^^ No, it's Dirt 2... Ahhh, who cares, they both look the same!

 

Looks like more ram is better for eyefinity..

 

Maybe it's really the new Codies F1 game

 

Out of interest, have you tried the screens in portrait mode?

3x screens in portrait would seem a lot better than the epic-widescreen of them in landscape mode IMHO

3240 x 1920 vs 5760 x 1080

 

with how many screens did you test the IDLE power consumption of the eyefinity card? only with one screen or with all 6 screens connected and activated?

because I recently noticed that the power consumption of my new HD5870 card was on par with my old HD3870 until I activated my second screen, while this didn't matter on the HD3870 the IDLE power consumption soared a whopping 30W on the HD5870, I'm even considering adding a 5450 card at 6W idle just to run the second screen.

so I would find it interesting how the idle power consumption on the eyefinity card varies depending on the number of monitors.

 

is there any reason why people MUST have 3 identical resolution screens at identical orientation?

as the article said (im sure ATI knows this) only half of each side screen can actually be seen.

surely best way to do it is have Portrait + large Landscape + Portrait. (eg, 20 + 30 + 20; 17 + 24 19x12 + 17; 19 + 27 25x14 + 19) that's how i'd configure my monitors if i have the money for a 30incher.

 

Wow... it's still not useful. Get rid of bezels and we're talking.

Oh, and the price for the whole setup sucks as well.

 

All must be same can't so the flight sim setups which are kinda pro

2gb of ram does nothing, £110 for 0 it's worse than the 480 and it's a waste of money

I recently went 2 screens for certain games

World of Warcraft and sup com 1+2 wow let's you dump all raid stuff on it and sup
com gives you the tactical map

but I mostly just use my 24inch for games and the 22inch for msn ect

 

I could get a Eyefinity setup for just over £200 with 3 19" screens, so it isnt that much.

 

Why didn't you rotate the 3 screens 90 degrees, this way you would see all 3 screens and instead of being to limited vertically it would also be in a better aspect ratio...

If you still have the setup standing. Can you try this out maybe?

 

But people spending that much on a graphics card usually don't settle for 3 x 19", do they? That's definitely not the part of the market they're aiming for.

And if I spent that much on a card I'd definitely not use it to power three "small" screens.

 

Thats my biggest gripe about it right now. Yes it looks nice and all but you have those stupid bezels in the way.

 

It is definitely Dirt 2!
And what is the purpose of eyefinity view if you arent using cockpit view in racing games?

 

Pointless product. Using 6 screens the performance is pretty poor, and a bezel right through the middle... just where the centre of the screen, or your cross-hairs are. Brilliant.

Sitting close to a 30" monitor is FAR more immersive than this waste of time.

 

it looks scarily like the london rallycross level in dirt 2 though...

EDIT: yup it is dirt 2 - racers names are from dirt2.

 

Couldnt you overlap the bezels of the left/right screens and sit the middle screen back the width of the bezel? or the other way round middle overlapping the outer screens?

That way you'd only have the thickness of a single bezel, still annoying but a little less so than a double thick one.