http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/ Engadget Comments for PowerColor HD5970 Eyefinity 12 makes six screens yesterday's news http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/My favorite part is the crossfire connector...
/me tries to think of uses for a 24 monitor setup]]>Apr 30th 2010 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/they lost me at display port
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Insane indeed, though from an FPS player's perspective, a 12-display set up isn't optimal either.

3x3 on the other hand seems like a good idea.

Or, if Eyefinity ever supports portrait mode, any 1x(2n+1) setup.]]>Apr 30th 2010 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/
Yes, but does it play Doom?]]>Apr 30th 2010 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/
If I buy this, it would be purely for the 4GB of video memory... 12 screens is just insane.

Eyefinity is only good for 3 or 9 screens anyway, anything else and you end up with LCD monitor frames/bevels in the center of your view.]]>Apr 30th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/i agree. what's the point???
they need to make the card itself smaller, consumes less power, and powerful. it's just too easy to make a vid card humongous, consumes 1000w, and super powerful.]]>Apr 30th 2010 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/
I believe Engadget meant to say 4GB of GDDR5, which is different than conventional RAM. Still though, it has more access memory than your whole system.]]>Apr 30th 2010 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/
Wait, I thought we hate Mini DisplayPort? I'm so confused....]]>Apr 30th 2010 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://j.mp/5970-by-ati-fastest]]>Apr 30th 2010 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/So, @engadgetshow, when're you giving away this baby?

I might hop on a flight to NYC.]]>Apr 30th 2010 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/
Can has HDMI pleez?]]>May 1st 2010 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/May 1st 2010 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/
Mini-displayport is about half the width of an HDMI port and requires no license fee.

Oh no but you have to buy an Apple display. Shrieks. Do you bollocks, Dell sell displayport compatible displays so you buy 6 crappy $200 P2210 screens and 6 x mini-dp to dp cables (that's right, you don't have to pay Apple for these either).

So let's see how much money you've paid to Apple for this hated open standard. That's nothing for the GPU, nothing for the screens, nothing for the cables so that means nothing in total. Apple take nothing for allowing you to run 6 screens from a single card and it's cheaper because you aren't paying an HDMI license and what do they get from you? Nothing but complaints.

So to clear it up once and for all, Mini-displayport is a good thing and the sooner all manufacturers adopt it and drop the oversized ports the better because computers will start shipping with these as standard and PC laptops might even ship with two decent display outputs.]]>May 1st 2010 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/couldnt you put the monitors in a certain way, like 3 monitors tall and 4 monitors wide, making that widescreen 16:10/16:9 now a 4:3 image :P]]>May 1st 2010 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/
Skynet could use this rig pretty well.]]>Apr 30th 2010 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/
Skynet probably made this rig in the future and brought it back to stop John Connor etc...]]>Apr 30th 2010 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/
im sure this has alot of use for stock brokers.

a super cheap way to get 12 monitors up and running.]]>Apr 30th 2010 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/
Oh well, back to the tired memes! Does it run Crysis?]]>Apr 30th 2010 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/May 1st 2010 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/DVI dongles back there.]]>Apr 30th 2010 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/i thought it was 64 thousand monitors. a visionary that guy]]>Apr 30th 2010 10:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/
Its the same damn ratio its the resolution that increases jeez...]]>Apr 30th 2010 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/
Give the guy a break, especially because you're wrong. The ratio is only stays the same as the displays if you add the same number of displays in each direction. He specifically said arranging the displays in a 4x3 grid, which means he's indeed correct that the new ratio would be 64:27.]]>Apr 30th 2010 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/
No, 64:27. It's a 16x9 shape multiplied by 4 horizontally and 3 vertically. You only retain the 16x9 shape if you add the same number of displays in each direction.]]>Apr 30th 2010 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/Apr 30th 2010 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/May 1st 2010 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/
I will come back with an answer as soon as I finish building a PC with 12 of these cards in ATI CrossFireX™. All I need is a custom motherboard and case as well as a 150,000W Power supply.]]>May 1st 2010 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/
and the video card with 12, TWELVE friggin DPs is the result]]>Apr 30th 2010 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/
We put a video card in your video card so you can watch while you watch]]>Apr 30th 2010 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/powercolor-hd5970-eyefinity-12-makes-six-screens-yesterdays-new/I've always wanted to get 2fps per screen...now I can.






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