Did you see the eyefinity test video at hardocp? when he connects a display via an apple HDMI adapter the damn thing bluescreens when he tries triple screen, and then he says the adapter cable is known to be a POS but come on, it shows how ATI's drivers bluescreen when confused and no matter what kind of cable you connect a monitor with the driver should not bluescreen an OS. I experienced it myself, the ATI driver having issues if the monitor doesn't supply info about itself, and countless other issues on xp64 (including coring on boot with several driver versions) since ATI has no idea what they are doing when working on 64bit windows (including vista64)
Not that this isn't a good card though, just be prepared to work for it and browsing forums for fixes. But the same is true for nvidia just as much, so there's no escaping it.
this is what worries me about ATI. Do they still farm their drivers out to the lowest bidder? My first two ATI cards (years ago) were driver hell. Shipping drivers buggy, updates liable to break things, etc. I have been an Nvidia user for years since and have seldom experienced more than quirks on driver updates.//
Like they said, the Apple adapter is a known POS... If Eyefinity does even decent sales, and if the 2GB-version of the 5870 is indeed going to come in only a 6-slot MiniDisplayPort-packing version, then maybe we can get some quality, non-Apple adapters.
The X-Fi3 keeps with the company's commitment to audio fidelity, thanks to the apt-X codec, which supposedly offers audio quality similar to a wired connection when streaming. On that front, the device also handles FLAC files.
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Did you see the eyefinity test video at hardocp? when he connects a display via an apple HDMI adapter the damn thing bluescreens when he tries triple screen, and then he says the adapter cable is known to be a POS but come on, it shows how ATI's drivers bluescreen when confused and no matter what kind of cable you connect a monitor with the driver should not bluescreen an OS.
I experienced it myself, the ATI driver having issues if the monitor doesn't supply info about itself, and countless other issues on xp64 (including coring on boot with several driver versions) since ATI has no idea what they are doing when working on 64bit windows (including vista64)
Not that this isn't a good card though, just be prepared to work for it and browsing forums for fixes.
But the same is true for nvidia just as much, so there's no escaping it.
this is what worries me about ATI. Do they still farm their drivers out to the lowest bidder? My first two ATI cards (years ago) were driver hell. Shipping drivers buggy, updates liable to break things, etc. I have been an Nvidia user for years since and have seldom experienced more than quirks on driver updates.//
Like they said, the Apple adapter is a known POS... If Eyefinity does even decent sales, and if the 2GB-version of the 5870 is indeed going to come in only a 6-slot MiniDisplayPort-packing version, then maybe we can get some quality, non-Apple adapters.
And hopefully they won't be white!