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In Pictures: Tom's Hardware's AMD/Eyefinity Event

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February 6, 2010 4:00:59 AM

Five Tom's Hardware readers were chosen in a recent contest to come and visit our new office in Culver City, California to go hands-on with Eyefinity. Thanks to AMD and EA, they were able to try out a handful of games on a trio of 23" displays.

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February 6, 2010 4:21:47 AM

ha the test rig they used was the same as mine except for the case! Damn i need to buy 2 extra moniters.
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February 6, 2010 4:26:33 AM

thoughtful event and nice work place
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February 6, 2010 5:02:23 AM

kudo's to the sponsors!
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February 6, 2010 5:52:44 AM

insanely awesome
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February 6, 2010 5:56:23 AM

HAHAHA everyone has a little "tom's" hammer!!! :p  :p  :p 
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February 6, 2010 6:14:24 AM

xbeaterHAHAHA everyone has a little "tom's" hammer!!!


Yep, the hammers are pretty handy. I have one in my room, screwdrivers are great for working on the ol' gaming rig.

-Devin
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February 6, 2010 8:02:45 AM

i hope to see benchmarks when the fermi cards are released! ati vs nvidia on a whole new level!
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February 6, 2010 8:08:57 AM

the screen is too small to be impressive. Can eyefinity run 3 30"?
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February 6, 2010 8:45:42 AM

It would make more sense to have this 3 monitor setup with 4:3 aspect ration monitors. What do you think?
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February 6, 2010 8:46:38 AM

bin1127the screen is too small to be impressive. Can eyefinity run 3 30"?


You're a hard person to impress if three 23-inch monitors isn't impressive.

From what I have read, the maximum res for Eyefinity is 7680x1600, which is three 30-inch monitors running at 2560x1600 each.

-Devin
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February 6, 2010 8:47:42 AM

zzIt would make more sense to have this 3 monitor setup with 4:3 aspect ration monitors. What do you think?


Off the bat it would probably look better, but AMD is optimizing games for the odd aspect ratio.
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February 6, 2010 9:03:25 AM

Nice video and impressive that Tom's finaly has something positive to say about ATI/AMD.
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February 6, 2010 12:46:04 PM

looks like someone forgot to fix the FOV for for some of the games, other than that, gaming on 3 monitors is great.

For me, I am stuck with 2 monitors which sucks for multiple monitor gaming, I can only play some games on it that allow for a console and allow me to change the FOV and also add a offset, (no point in having 1 side of the character on 1 screen and the other half on the other screen, it is nearly impossible to play a FPS game that way, but if you can add a bit of a offset, you can have the main action on the first screen and a extended view of the battlefield (at least the right side of it, on the second monitor). Hopefully nvidia comes out with a card that supports 3 monitors when they release their new series.
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February 6, 2010 1:42:50 PM

Nice!, looks like you guys had alot of fun and dude that last photo with Eddie and the hammer is freacking hilarious, you should tell us who he is in the Forums so we can be sure not to piss him off. :D 
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February 6, 2010 2:28:48 PM

So the Radeon 5870 is powerful enough for 3X "Full HD" resolution? That's pretty impressive, but it would REALLY be cool if you guys could post some benchmarks using the eyefinity setup. I am curious to know what kind of frames are achievable at such a resolution.

Anyways, looks like everyone had fun. Cool stuff.
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February 6, 2010 5:59:31 PM

AS always TOMS HARDWARE people are the best ,it looks like guys had a lot of fun ,that hummer guy look funny :) .
is there any overclocking for cpu?
``Errr... i've seen stander cpu amd fan i i dont think so...:p ``
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February 6, 2010 9:25:18 PM

It was awsome experience testing the new eyefinity setup in person. I cant wait for monitors with thin bezels to come out. Thanks to the staff at Toms Harware!
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February 6, 2010 11:18:00 PM

chechakAS always TOMS HARDWARE people are the best ,it looks like guys had a lot of fun ,that hummer guy look funny .is there any overclocking for cpu?``Errr... i've seen stander cpu amd fan i i dont think so...``


The 955 BE we were running was at stock speeds (3.2 GHz).
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February 7, 2010 1:51:26 AM

For those of you who don't know, the max resolution of Eyefinity is 8192x8192.
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February 7, 2010 2:12:54 AM

Wow what a cool little event. Awesome of Tom's to hook up some reader's with a fun afternoon and some nice loot! Congrats to the lucky winners!
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February 7, 2010 3:29:00 AM

I have the exact same monitors in my setup. :) 
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February 7, 2010 6:51:23 AM

Very impressive. I do kitchen designs and currently by using two monitors my productivity is more than double comparing to single monitor. For the purpose of creating estimates at the same time I have a need for more screens visible simultaneously. Does it mean that using 2 cards in cross fire we can present it on six monitors? If somebody can give me usable advice I would really appreciate it.
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February 7, 2010 3:43:58 PM

Can we find out which user(s) (read: troll(s)) are responsible for the single thumbs down on everyone's comment? Perhaps we can unleash Eddie (the violent man with the hammer) on them...
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February 7, 2010 4:10:44 PM

I hope Eyefinity covers a lot of ground. It'd be nice to see monitors designed for its use.
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February 7, 2010 7:48:45 PM

mlcloudCan we find out which user(s) (read: troll(s)) are responsible for the single thumbs down on everyone's comment? Perhaps we can unleash Eddie (the violent man with the hammer) on them...


My thoughts exactly, i would also like to know who is the one responsible for the thumb down on everyone, everytime i see this i have to give thumbs up to everyone, even the comments i don't like but don't deserve a thumb down just because they think different than me.
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February 8, 2010 12:34:14 AM

DarkMantleMy thoughts exactly, i would also like to know who is the one responsible for the thumb down on everyone, everytime i see this i have to give thumbs up to everyone, even the comments i don't like but don't deserve a thumb down just because they think different than me.

Yeah we need to wait for monitor that designed for it
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February 8, 2010 6:24:17 AM

I would assume some monitors might be designed with more screen surface from edge to edge to eliminate the jail-bar, border effect multi monitor setups create but that might just be hoping and dreaming...
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February 8, 2010 12:38:03 PM

Iz jealous.. PICK ME NEXT TIME TOMS!!! PLLLLZZZZZ
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February 8, 2010 5:20:43 PM

Nice video and event.
But I began to wonder... If you have a MoBo with Hydravision, can you put in it for example ati 58xx and gtx 295 and have eyefinity with 3d vision? That would be fucking awesome.
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February 9, 2010 12:00:05 AM

lithpI would assume some monitors might be designed with more screen surface from edge to edge to eliminate the jail-bar, border effect multi monitor setups create but that might just be hoping and dreaming...


This begs the question, have drivers which compensate for bezel thickness been written? The Matrox TripleHead2Go system has this feature, and when Eyefinity came out, it was suggested that ATI create such a feature. Has it happened yet? It's all that stands between me and the purchase as I have 3 FW900s.

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February 9, 2010 9:55:29 PM

I've researched it, and even the latest driver in beta does NOT support bezel compensation. Until such a feature exists, my $$$ for a 5970 stays put. Will Nvidia beat them to it?
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February 11, 2010 1:21:49 AM

Nice Loot, and everyone getting Dragon Age was great! And unlike Nvidea ATI only need one card for three monitors WIN! (soz for fanboy outburst, but its true!)
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February 12, 2010 1:14:38 AM

What do you mean just small enough to fit in a mid tower case. My ThermalTake Shark case didn't think so...lol

http://users.on.net/~nash/images/PC/DSC_0258.JPG

Sorry its a big file, but easier to see that way. Lucky I don't have another HDD....
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February 12, 2010 1:15:02 AM

What do you mean just small enough to fit in a mid tower case. My ThermalTake Shark case didn't think so...lol

http://users.on.net/~nash/images/PC/DSC_0258.JPG

Sorry its a big file, but easier to see that way. Lucky I don't have another HDD....
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February 12, 2010 10:18:02 AM

Nash1972What do you mean just small enough to fit in a mid tower case. My ThermalTake Shark case didn't think so...lol

What? it fits like a glove!
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March 3, 2010 2:31:57 AM

very good vid. I'm happy to see that the guys at tomshardware have some toys
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June 9, 2010 6:36:23 AM

Hey why the men standing at back in black shirt is holding his head like the PC is gonna burst upp......
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