AMD: Kicking Ass and Taking Names (HD5 Series)

[Cortexian]

6 monitors isn't as obnoxious as you guys would think, when I was at Fragapalooza there were two people there with six-monitor setups and one was right beside me. You don't even notice the aiming issue on first person shooters because there's just so many damn monitors that you're senses are overwhelmed by awesome. If I were to go ATI multi-monitor I'd need nine monitors though, I'm a fan of having your aimer/scope/sights not split onto multiple screens.

[AAA]

...Yeah,....... I only like one monitor... So Eyefinity isn't exactly special to me....

[Xetsuei]

Yeah, the 8800GTX was out first, and people only used it on XP because it was basically broken in Vista for the first year.

No, we used XP because Vista was a pile of shit.

[Kornman00]

Speak for yourself

Oh wait, you are

[Llama Juice]

reminds me of

[Phopojijo]

4) I may be stoned or something, but IIRC, Nvidia released the first DX10 card, the 8800 GTX and the 8800 GTS. Based off of the G80 Core, not only was it popular, but it forced ATI to completely rethink the way they designed their GPUs. This is why we have had amazing $200-$300 GPUs for the past 2 or 3 generations. Just because it's a first gen part doesn't mean it will suck. And actually, Nvidia probably won't be able to put much on the table because they are apparently focusing on GPGPU over DirectX 11. Sure, they have a design that theoretically is more general purpose, but general purpose is always going to be at least a little bit slower than dedicated hardware. ATI's architecture also has many general purpose areas but these are supported by dedicated hardware for things like tessellation.

Actually if you listen to Tim Sweeney talk, it seems very much like UnrealEngine4 and the next gen of consoles will be GPGPU-based... much less emphasis on dedicated APIs ((because they're tripping over things that Microsoft or Khronos didn't program in... like AA on deferred rendering targets. If they're building a huge general purpose rendering engine they much rather just have direct control over what they're doing...))

I mean, APIs will still be there but... its use will be much more optional than "Well you can always render on the CPU if you don't like DirectX"

[NullZero]

Oh. my god. Give it to me :O

You guys not happy with 1 screen? :|

[InnerGoat]

Better sell your current video cards while they are still worth something ;D

[klange]

Eyefinity with 24 displays playing X-Plane under Linux.

So many displays... I'm okay with my two.

[InnerGoat]

I like how the screens are not all in sync