AMD Cypress ''Radeon HD 5870'' Stripped

[a_ump]

eh, i'm fine with a single moniter personally, i'm just gonna hook up my TV that i plan to get to my card but thats it. I couldn't stand the borders on 2 or more screens when playing a game. esp in an FPS

 

[phanbuey]

I just came

ditto.

 

[jessicafae]

I just want to be able to hook up three monitors without DisplayPort inputs on them.

Eyefinity is no longer under NDA, so we should be able to get a clear answer on this now. W1zzard?
It does look like it requires at least one DisplayPort monitor though to get 3 displays from the ATi fine print.

If we look at the fine print on the bottom of the official Eyefinity page, ATi says
1) Driver version 8.66 (Catalyst 9.10) or above is required to support ATI Eyefinity technology and to enable a third display you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector.

 

[Bo_Fox]

I just came

And you didn't thank me for it?!?

 

[Hayder_Master]

I hear that, their first 32 ROP card, it should be a beast

Majorly want to get my mits on a 2gb Eyefinity 5870

+1 for that i think about it from now too , or i wait to see the biggest beast 5870x2 with 4GB it will be awesome

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I just want to be able to hook up three monitors without DisplayPort inputs on them.

A lot of workstation cards (Fire/Quadro) support 4 x DVI through wiggy headers and breakout cables. XD


As far as 5870 goes, I was expecting the price to be lower. That means I'll probably be waiting until NVIDIA launches a competitive card to drive AMD's prices down. I still would like to see Larabee before upgrading though.

 

[wolf]

I just came

ditto.

I've been on perma-spooj since I realsied a few facts.

32 ROPS - 1600 sp's - 2GB - 6 monitors

and I JIZZ IN MY PANTS

 

[a_ump]

A lot of workstation cards (Fire/Quadro) support 4 x DVI through wiggy headers and breakout cables. XD


As far as 5870 goes, I was expecting the price to be lower. That means I'll probably be waiting until NVIDIA launches a competitive card to drive AMD's prices down. I still would like to see Larabee before upgrading though.

no insult or anything i'm just very surprised in how much faith or w/e people have in larrabee. I mean it's taken years and years for nvidia and ATI to develope their GPU's to the performance they can manufacture, i really don't see Intel doing it their first time. I see maybe HD 4850 performance but then that's another subject for a different thread

 

[HossHuge]

I'm assuming that the Eyefinity thingy would work with three digital projectors as well? Cause you could have 3 60+" screens. I think I would get dizzy.

 

[pantherx12]

Yeah it does, I've seen a video of Left 4 Dead running on 3 projections

was about 10 foot by 12 foot of zombie goodness X

 

[HossHuge]

Yeah it does, I've seen a video of Left 4 Dead running on 3 projections

was about 10 foot by 12 foot of zombie goodness X

I would have replied earlier but I had to go and change my shorts....

I see this in my future...

 

[pantherx12]

I'll try and find the video for you will edit this post with a link!


Can't direct link to the video but here you go

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/video-ati-radeon-eyefinity-eyes-on-featuring-left-4-dead-on-a/

 

[TheMailMan78]

no insult or anything i'm just very surprised in how much faith or w/e people have in larrabee. I mean it's taken years and years for nvidia and ATI to develope their GPU's to the performance they can manufacture, i really don't see Intel doing it their first time. I see maybe HD 4850 performance but then that's another subject for a different thread

Three words.

Intels massive budget.

 

[jessicafae]

no insult or anything i'm just very surprised in how much faith or w/e people have in larrabee. I mean it's taken years and years for nvidia and ATI to develope their GPU's to the performance they can manufacture, i really don't see Intel doing it their first time. I see maybe HD 4850 performance but then that's another subject for a different thread

Three words.

Intels massive budget.

one word .... Itanium

some ideas just don't work no matter how much money you throw at it.
"The Itanium approach … was supposed to be so terrific—until it turned out that the wished-for compilers were basically impossible to write."
—computer scientist Donald Knuth[7]

Let's hope Larabee turns out to be brilliant and changes the world for the better, but it is not a guaranteed win.