Xxx Posted March 21, 2011 Author Posted March 21, 2011 I have a Radeon HD 5570, running two screens can I run 3? colin Hi Colin, as a guy who has been "gawping" at all the posts, here and there, about multi monitor set ups, I can answer with some confidence:smilewink: Nope! The 5570 doesn't appear to support triple monitors. Although it has three outputs, HDMI, DVI and VGA I doubt it would. The nearest at the price would be the 5750:- Core Clock: 700MHz - Memory: 512MB GDDR5 - Memory Clock: 4600MHz (Effective) - Memory Bandwidth: 73.6GB/s - Processing Cores: 720 - Bus Type: PCI-Express 2.1 - Display Connectors: 1 Dual-Link DVI-I, 1 HDMI & 1 Analogue - HDCP Capable - DirectX 11 Support - OpenGL 3.2 Support - ATI CrossFireX Ready - ATI Eyefinity Technology - ATI Avivo HD - ATI Stream Technology - Card Dimension 12.6×4×19.6cm cm (HxWxD) - 2yr Warranty My choice would be the 6970 ( 6990 way to expensive and needs a power station to run it ). The bold text above highlights important aspects of the card to consider when thinking in big resolutions. Be aware with 3 monitors, you are asking the GPU to move pixels across three times the range ( 3 x 1920 = 5760 ) which may give some stutters and image quality issues....The reason I am still on the fence as to which set up to go for!:( Hope this helps. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]i7 Haswell @ 4.6Ghz, Z97p, GTX1080, 32GB DDR3, x3SSD, Win7/64, professional. 32" BenQ, TIR 5, Saitek x55 HOTAS. Search User Files for "herky" for my uploaded missions. My flight sim videos on You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/user/David Herky
WynnTTr Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 I recently upgraded to Eyefinity and for me, it's definitely worth it. You do see more screen and it really increases the immersion factor by leaps. It feels like you're in the cockpit moreso than just one monitor. For instance you can see the wing stubs and side cockpit doors wrap around you instead of the frontal HUD/instruments view. Sure it's peripheral and does have fisheye but that's all that's needed. When you turn your head to look left that part of the screen comes into focus so having the fisheye effect isn't that noticeable. My eyefinity isn't even a perfect setup - my central monitor is a Dell 27" and the side ones are Acers 24". Eyefinity still does a decent job of aligning up the monitors. Of course with the screen sizes it's not perfect but still good enough for me not to notice in game. I've thought about swapping the central screen to another Acer but I like the 1920x1200 res for other things. Bezels aren't that bad either cos I overlap my acer bezels over the Dell ones. It's not the same immersion factor as a HOTAS/TrackIR (these are a MUST) but it's not far off. I can't play A-10/BS/any flight sim with just a single monitor anymore. I've tried it with my 46 1080p and all it is is just a bigger frontal view, which made me sit further from my desk. Almost nothing really changed from my 27" Dell (apart from lower res and blurrier graphics) except everything's bigger but with Eyefinity it's a totally different ball game.
Xxx Posted March 22, 2011 Author Posted March 22, 2011 WynnTTr, glad to hear your happy with Eyefinity. What ATI card are you running? Like yourself, I have a 1920 x 1200 (24") which would be my centre monitor. I would get a couple of Ilyama 24" for the side views, but they would be 1920 x 1080, so the lot would be at 5760 x 1080. Copy that re the big single screen. I was thinking of doing the same, but after what you say, this would just mean moving back from the screen and starting to see individual pixels! Still in the quest for that ideal sim pit for these superb DCS titles! Regards. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]i7 Haswell @ 4.6Ghz, Z97p, GTX1080, 32GB DDR3, x3SSD, Win7/64, professional. 32" BenQ, TIR 5, Saitek x55 HOTAS. Search User Files for "herky" for my uploaded missions. My flight sim videos on You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/user/David Herky
WynnTTr Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 I'm running a single 6950 flashed to 6970. The res I'm running is 5760x1080 as well so my 27" goes down to 1920x1080 so you'll have no problems if all your screens are the same size. With mine because my centre monitor is physically bigger the edges don't quite match up but it's not noticeable when I'm in the thick of it. With 3x24" screens everything will match up perfectly for you. Just do what I did and physically overlap the bezels. When you're looking at it front on you'll hardly notice that the centre monitor is ever so slightly back but you won't have thick bezel bars to hamper you.
colin Posted March 23, 2011 Posted March 23, 2011 Hi Colin, as a guy who has been "gawping" at all the posts, here and there, about multi monitor set ups, I can answer with some confidence:smilewink: Nope! The 5570 doesn't appear to support triple monitors. Although it has three outputs, HDMI, DVI and VGA I doubt it would. The nearest at the price would be the 5750:- Core Clock: 700MHz - Memory: 512MB GDDR5 - Memory Clock: 4600MHz (Effective) - Memory Bandwidth: 73.6GB/s - Processing Cores: 720 - Bus Type: PCI-Express 2.1 - Display Connectors: 1 Dual-Link DVI-I, 1 HDMI & 1 Analogue - HDCP Capable - DirectX 11 Support - OpenGL 3.2 Support - ATI CrossFireX Ready - ATI Eyefinity Technology - ATI Avivo HD - ATI Stream Technology - Card Dimension 12.6×4×19.6cm cm (HxWxD) - 2yr Warranty My choice would be the 6970 ( 6990 way to expensive and needs a power station to run it ). The bold text above highlights important aspects of the card to consider when thinking in big resolutions. Be aware with 3 monitors, you are asking the GPU to move pixels across three times the range ( 3 x 1920 = 5760 ) which may give some stutters and image quality issues....The reason I am still on the fence as to which set up to go for!:( Hope this helps. thanks but way out of my price range colin
Xxx Posted March 24, 2011 Author Posted March 24, 2011 Colin, the 6990 is way to expensive. I dunno where you are, but over here the card thats got eyefinity thats reasonable is :- http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-186-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=708 I can't afford the monitors, so I am sticking with mono monitor! ( At least NVG works a treat!) Regards. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]i7 Haswell @ 4.6Ghz, Z97p, GTX1080, 32GB DDR3, x3SSD, Win7/64, professional. 32" BenQ, TIR 5, Saitek x55 HOTAS. Search User Files for "herky" for my uploaded missions. My flight sim videos on You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/user/David Herky
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