Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 — Gaming On Six Panels

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @10:29PM from the for-the-truly-dedicated dept.

MojoKid writes "AMD's 6-output Radeon has been seen in action at a number of events, but today the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition is being officially launched. HotHardware paired the card up with six 22" Dell LCD panels in a 3x2 configuration — with a max resolution of 5760x2160 — and ran it through a number of popular titles including Dirt 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and Crysis. For specialized, high-end graphics cards like this, the market potential may be relatively small. If, however, the idea of multi-monitor gaming is appealing to you and you've got the means to score one of these cards (along with multiple displays), you won't be disappointed." Reader Vigile adds a different analysis of the card's six-monitor gaming: "PC Perspective found FPS games were basically unplayable because of the bezel through the middle of their vision while RTS and racing games like StarCraft 2 and DiRT 2 were spectacular."

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6x 22"? What about one large TV? by dingen · 2010-03-30 22:39 · Score: 4, Interesting

Is the increased resolution of 6 screens really that much of an improvement over one large Full HD television, that the fact there are lines running right through your vision is acceptable? I really doubt that.

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1. Re:6x 22"? What about one large TV? by 91degrees · 2010-03-30 23:09 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  6 HD projectors should work for you. I wonder if the drivers have functionality to allow overlap.
  
  This sort of setup is very much a niche market for gaming, but pretty useful for commercial flight simulators or display walls.
2. Re:6x 22"? What about one large TV? by Ironhandx · 2010-03-31 00:23 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  I've had this done with 3 monitors for a couple of months now. Its actually pretty easy to do and I got the bezel down to about 1/8th of an inch which is barely noticeable at all. They were Lenovo 22" monitors to begin with and only had a little more than 1/2" of bezel between two monitors regardless. Sadly I actually LIKED the bezel for separating things I was working on multiple desktops with, I noticed this after the mod was done of course.
  YMMV.