Tom's Hardware AMD Eyefinity Event

Tom's brought several readers in to play with an AMD/ATI Eyefinity gaming rig.

Specs: MSI 785G Micro ATX mobo, AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE, ATI Radeon 5870, 4 GB DDR3, 150 GB 10k rpm HDD. Monitors: Three Dell 2310s (23-inches, 1920x1080 each, 5760x1080 total).

Games included Dragon Age: Origins, Modern Warfare 2, HAWX, and Supreme Commander.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• AMD
• ATI
• Eyefinity
• Tom's_Hardware
• Tom's_Guide

[feerof]

"you only need 3 monitors" lol...

[darkbob87]

@feerof

Well, monitors are relatively cheap, no? Plus they aren't something you upgrade as often as another component, only when they break.

[meggerman]

wow i can see why these guys dont go out much... !!

because they have kickass eyefinity setups.. :p

[calstretch]

Very interesting!

At 2:28 the guy with glasses mentions that, "it was really getting warm in the room with all the bodies". This concerned me for a moment, given that I thought he was going to mention the video card blowing out a lot of hot air as well.

Interestingly though, he said the card was hardly giving out any heat. I really liked that: I have two GTX590's right now make the room uncomfortably warm.

I wonder: do ATI's card's generally run cooler?

[mandyrogas1]

hey tom can you help me find a video card for my p3 933mhz 512mb sdram i want a video card for pci the same as the nvidia geforce fx5500

[johnvasgird]

"It was pretty long, and pretty powerful" XD

[squallpi]

im telling you the guy @ 0:22 had an orgasm when he saw the eyefinity setup.. but the setup doesnt look so great in the video.. saw some pics on other sites (WoW)... looked great!

[Vortex1988]

@darkbob87 They're only cheap if you don't want a good one, lol.

[REDxFROG]

how about using the CoDMW2 FOV fixer? In the video you can see it's all stretched. :P

I love eyefinity. Games become so much more immersive . Too bad you've got to fight with some problems such as stretched/displaced menus/HUDs or even stretched views. I forget about the monior frames within seconds.

[Yggdrasill4]

Question.

I have two of the same 23 inch monitors that can only clock 60 shitty hertz, and one 24inch that can clock a little higher, 75, anything less than 75 and it flickers. With sli, crossfire, or even the matrox box, do all the monitors need to be running at the same speed? If yes, then i'm fucked with a flicker :L!

Thanks in advance for answering.

[chiseller]

Lovely discussion, totally uncalled for but still quite entertaining.

As a European it hurts to say, but I've to agree with the Yankee.

[NsFZen]

you suck

[justinb6003]

Ummm. Why do they use a micro atx 785g board?