3 way Monitors (Eyefinity) or 1 120hz 3D monitor

FOV > 3D all the way.

Cheers!

There is no 5890 (yet), but if you see his sig, he has a 5970+5870.

L1qu1d For me I would go surround first, and then add 3D once 3D surround pans out a little more (especially BR support). But it's really a personal decision, do you like 3D gaming more than surround. Both are good.

Brotha - I wouldn't waste your money till those things get down on the cheap. Whats the point in 3 monitors really? Give people more of a reason to break into your house lol. No but for real isn't that already a little overkill. Why not just upgrade to a monitor that has a higher resolution. I personally can't stand either 3D or 3 Monitor gaming.

I would be looking at 3 monitors. I'm not really a fan of the "3-D" vision. The push for such 3-D vision has been around for a while. I remember ELSA pushing it back when they still use to sell cards to the US. You would need to swap out your Radeons for some nVidia GPUs and use the funny glasses. Of course, all the glasses are doing is blinding one eye at a time so each eye is looking at 60Hz, there by creating the effect.

With eye infinity and 3 screens you will have a big viewing area and alot of productivity space. Personally I like having one screen for gaming, but for productivity using more than one screen is great ^_^. Wish I could get a second monitor at work, but I'm lucky I even have an LCD truth be told.

@ TGGA's

Probably discounts your advice a great deal then.


I'm sorry but that made me laugh like hell lol, I'm laughin while typing ahaha. I'm sorry its just so simple lol!

hmmm. Cuz I found 3 decent slim monitors, Asus Ultra Slims (forgot their code) 159.99$ + touchscreen :S

Hmmm.

Oh now I officially haev 2 5870s, no 5970 anymoreI had to give it back to my friend lol But if things go bad with 3 monitors, I might need to grab 1 for good haha.

I'd be careful of those monitors - maybe a slight tint to the screen from the touch screen overlay + maybe not the greatest specs...?

Screens like this are very good - sorry for UK sites n my current opinions:

Best cheap LED 24" screen with no HDMI - £166.38 $251.24
24" Acer EcoDisplay LED 1920x1080

or

Best cheap LED 24" screen with HDMI - £179.99 $271.76
BenQ V2410 Eco 24" Widescreen LED Monitor

I own the BenQ non HDMI version and am very pleased with it and is cheaper than what I listed for non HDMI.

My Bro owns the Acer HDMI version which has a better quality screen than the BenQ's - but is a Lot more expensive HDMI screen I listed.

Though they are both great - but next to each other the Acer is "slightly" nicer, if you look close lol

ahh

nice screens they will be!

21.5" with 1920x1080 and Pixel Pitch: 0.248mm

My BenQ 24" has 1920x1080 and Pixel Pitch: 0.276

I think 3 of them will look Damn Fine!

The ones you showed didn't seem to have touchscreen... maybe a good thing?
If they are touchscreen, would be great for making music for your banks of nobs etc

Touch keys**** lol

I think its great that we have these choices now. 1 year ago who thought we would be debating the real life application of 3 x 1920x1280 monitors or 3d? In a year or two we will be looking at 3 monitors and 3d.

Man Im loving this life

You still need 2 GTX480s in order to do 3D Surround, and there's still no support for it yet.

So you could also buy SIX 1080P projectors for the planned Hollow-Deck idea that inspired Eyefinity, but you're not going to get practical use out of them until then.

umm I'm talking about spending in total around 500$, and your giving me 1 tv that topples my 500 3 times over? LOL

just go for the eyefinity...

Nice looking (aesthetically) screen, let me know what you think of them, I might pick one up from the Cummer/Yonge (TO North York) store when I visit the folks in the spring.

I think I'd rather eyefinity than have one big high res monitor. The main reason is that the eyefinity gives you peripheral vision to add to the immersion factor. If/when I do this, I plan to overlap the bezels so having those ultrathin monitors should help and limit the obstruction of them.

TGGA go to my friend's store if ur in TO, Filtech maybe I can get you like 30$ off or something.

Cool, might do just that.
I tend to buy a ton of stuff when I visit the folks (or my siste in NCIX-land BC) usually I end up going to the computer mecca of College & Spadina, where even my Dad and sister can shop for Apple hardware *shudder*.

Sweet, well I'll likely be in the area anyways, I love shopping down there, but the CreditCard doesn't.

So lets decode this, you haven't actually used eyefinitey on a 5 series card yourself ? I played Daytona USA 15 years ago at the arcade, that sounds as close to eyefinity gaming experience as you. I'm sorry but your losing site that this all about playing games. It may be visually exciting for you, but if it worsens the gaming experience its going to become boring, old and a huge waste of money real fast.

Actually I have, I've gamed on eyefinity rigs and on 3D Vision rigs for hours. I don't own one, since it is not something supported by my mobile hardware until they come out with something that does (I do have a triple [had quad] monitor setup at work on my Dell Laptop through the Docking Station, but it's not for gaming). I personally game on big screen plasmas at work and home as well as projectors, because I do what I want with what I can. My experience is quite extensive, even across my and other people's rigs/setups, often ones I've spec'd out for them (Kinda help when co-workers can take home spare LCDs). I focused on the experiences that made me go 'wow' and the first time playing surround gaming and the first time paying it with 3 x 90" screens is the kinda thing worth mentioning.

EDIT: BTW, just today I used the 3D Vision setup at Memory Express in the NW to show 2 co-workers what that was like while we picked up some other toys (like a USB to VGA adapter for one of their laptops).

Not really, but you keep turning left, eventually you'll get there.

No I didn't lose sight of that at all. BOTH have their benefits for game play, BOTH can have other benefits, but multi-monitor productivity/entertainment is a little easier to see as a benefit than a 120hz 3D setup whose other benefits are very limited (3D photos, 3D movies, 3D object manipulaiton, slightly smoother game refresh over 60-75hz?). But as it stands overall for games like I said originally, it's really a personal call on which has higher value, because as already mentioned, some people have major issues with headaches or with bezels, but even when that's the case there is the fall-back benefit.

That's your assumption, and I don't see how $500 becomes a 'huge waste of money' ? I spent that on a single weekend of skiing, or more on a single suit. 3D setup is no cheaper, BOTH are about the same money.
And that's it BOTH have their good and their bad, and you seem to not see that, instead seeming to think the 'I like to walk' idea is still the best answer.

Why is it every time someone makes a thread about this it goes to hell?

Ape, you said they are at different maturity points, I assume you feel the Eyefinity route is a bit ahead? Thats how I see it as there are more PhysX games then 3D games. It can be a nice tech, but until you can actually use it its pointless. Eyefinity now, Eyefinity + 3D once you can do it.

I think the main point is that Eyefinity takes very little effort by the devs to support, while 3d vision takes a lot more. So, it's likely most games will support eyefinity in the near future, while 3d vision will likely take a while to become mainstream.

One other thing, and maybe this is just me, but 3d vision requires you to use glasses. At first, this doesn't bother a person, but after a while, I find wearing glasses, or headsets just feels annoying.

Yep, it's just the widerspread support, and long list of current and older titles that can be made to work, even just through FOV hacks (Matrox can be thanked for that IMO). 3D is a little more limited, but it is definitely going to improve over time, just unsure of how long that time-line will be, hoping that 3D BluRay starts to push it ahead.

I also think '3D-vision' is just a stepping stone, and the tech will change more dramatically in the next few years, whereas the basics of Eyefinity/Surround-gaming will remain somewhat the same over the near term.

Yep, that's the way I see it. But for some people, like PhysX, 3D can be the killer 'must-have' thing even for just one or two titles whereas surround means nothing to them.

None of the above, I would go with the alienware DLP if I were to spend that much money...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UixSNqED4pc

0.2ms / no ghosting

the bezel is annoying when you have 3 monitors IMO...

The bezels don’t bother me, and as for glasses notty22, I wear glasses and with my 22" screens I can see all of them without turning my head (24" + screens might change that but it also depends on how far you sit from them as well). I personally can look at the center screen and see something move out of the corner of my eye (even if its outside the view of my glasses) and kill whatever it was (most of the time ). For the short time I had my friends screen my kill to death ratio and survivability (average life span) in Battle field 2 and 2142 shot up tremendously (three fold increase).