This looks like it could be interesting for simming applications:http://www.hardocp.com/article/2009/09/09/...nity_technologyThe shots here show them running a 6 monitor array at 7680x1600 on a single card, and a 24 monitor array using quad-crossfire...

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This looks like it could be interesting for simming applications:

Interesting ? THIS IS SPARTAAAA FOR SIMMERS!! :( I would _DEFINITELY_ want to see some benchmarks in FSX because i'm on the upgrade path and wanted to see how it (under)performs in FSX at 5760x1020 resolution.With 3 monitors and the tri-head matrox effect it would OWN!! Remember, fsx doesn't support multi-monitoring of the active view in vista/7

I got a 5850 Card and it's a great improvement from my 9800GTX, but I would like to note for those looking do use the triple-monitor feature that if you don't have a monitor with a display port you MUST buy an active display port to DVI adapter $99 (The cheap ones won't work), add that to the price of the card and it's not cheap set up. But it works great! I'm very happy with the results.Also can not be combined with a nvidia card. I had to swap my secondary card to another ATI card to get 5 monitors running.

I got a 5850 Card and it's a great improvement from my 9800GTX, but I would like to note for those looking do use the triple-monitor feature that if you don't have a monitor with a display port you MUST buy an active display port to DVI adapter $99 (The cheap ones won't work), add that to the price of the card and it's not cheap set up. But it works great! I'm very happy with the results.Also can not be combined with a nvidia card. I had to swap my secondary card to another ATI card to get 5 monitors running.

Thanks for the update. Im quite interested in changing over as well. What operating system do you use? Also, did you have any problems with your secondary ATI card to run 5 displays? Ive done this with my nvidia setup but I also had to use the same series of cards otherwise I had issues, so it would be great to hear that you were able to have the ATI 5xxxx and 4xxxx series working together without any problems.

Thanks for the update. Im quite interested in changing over as well. What operating system do you use? Also, did you have any problems with your secondary ATI card to run 5 displays? Ive done this with my nvidia setup but I also had to use the same series of cards otherwise I had issues, so it would be great to hear that you were able to have the ATI 5xxxx and 4xxxx series working together without any problems.

It is my understanding that a PC can have only ONE video driver. Thus, for multiple monitors via multiple video cards, each GPU must be able to use the same driver. Phrased another way, the video cards need to be of the same manufacture and same family series. But I believe, not necessarily totally identical cards.Alex Reid

No problem!I'm using windows 7 64bit. Also good to note eyefinity will not work with XP. Yeah I am using an older 4670 series card for my secondary card. No problem at all running 2 additional monitors there for gauges. I actually had the ATI and nVididia cards working together, the only thing that doesn't work is the eyefinity feature, so kind of pointless. No problems using 2 different series ATI cards tho. Really happy with the performance upgrade!

No problem!I'm using windows 7 64bit. Also good to note eyefinity will not work with XP. Yeah I am using an older 4670 series card for my secondary card. No problem at all running 2 additional monitors there for gauges. I actually had the ATI and nVididia cards working together, the only thing that doesn't work is the eyefinity feature, so kind of pointless. No problems using 2 different series ATI cards tho. Really happy with the performance upgrade!

Excellent, thanks. Im thinking its time to upgrade :-)

No problem!A little update for anybody considering eyefinity vs. triplehead2go. I was having random freezes using full screen mode and as it turns out my 530W power supply was not good enough for this new ATI card. I upgraded to an 850W supply and now it runs great. Something to keep in mind if you are comparing cost.ATI 5850 $250 + Displayport to DVI adapter $100 + New power supply + $120

No problem!A little update for anybody considering eyefinity vs. triplehead2go. I was having random freezes using full screen mode and as it turns out my 530W power supply was not good enough for this new ATI card. I upgraded to an 850W supply and now it runs great. Something to keep in mind if you are comparing cost.ATI 5850 $250 + Displayport to DVI adapter $100 + New power supply + $120

I have also just moved over to eyefinity from the TH2Go and Iam extremely impressed. I picked up a 5770 while waiting for the Asus 5870 to come back in stock at my regular pc shop but so far the performance far exceeds that of my last setup.If you dont mind would you be able to tell me if you have the major performance hit problems with clouds when Anti-Aliasing mode is set to Super-sample AA in CCC with the 58 series of cards. My 5770 performs FS9 silky smooth in cloudy conditions (FEX) when set to Adaptive Multi-sample AA but as soon as I take it to Super-sample it becomes a choppy mess regardless of any setting changes I make in CCC. At Super-sample and no clouds FS9 is silky smooth again so Im thinking the difference between the 128bit and 256bit memory interface could be causing the problems here. Im still very happy with the 5770 but it would be interesting to hear your take on that. Gary

Gary, I'm using FSX but I did some quick testing. When using super-sample I didn't notice the picture quality looking much better but the frame hit is major. I've been using multi-sample and it gives me good results. I don't think my machine can handle super-sample either but I don't find it necessary. Are you not happy with the result from multi-sample? I just read your post better, I didn't try it without clouds but at least with clouds it def takes a frame hit.

Gary, I'm using FSX but I did some quick testing. When using super-sample I didn't notice the picture quality looking much better but the frame hit is major. I've been using multi-sample and it gives me good results. I don't think my machine can handle super-sample either but I don't find it necessary. Are you not happy with the result from multi-sample? I just read your post better, I didn't try it without clouds but at least with clouds it def takes a frame hit.

Thanks for testing that out for me. Im happy with multi-sample but wanted to see if the 58xx had the same cloud hit as the 5770 with super-sample. Seeing as it does Im actually reconsidering going to the 5870 as for a sub $200 card the 5770 really does run fs exceptional well in multi-sample. Thanks again.

No problem!I'm using windows 7 64bit. Also good to note eyefinity will not work with XP. Yeah I am using an older 4670 series card for my secondary card. No problem at all running 2 additional monitors there for gauges. I actually had the ATI and nVididia cards working together, the only thing that doesn't work is the eyefinity feature, so kind of pointless. No problems using 2 different series ATI cards tho.Really happy with the performance upgrade!

Twisted, I just want to get this straight before I spend a boat load of money. So if you have lets say 6 monitors, you can Eyefinity 3 of them together for the main virtual view, and run 3 monitors off a second card for gauges and such? If you can get decent FPS, this would be incredible (running an i7 975 with 1 ATi 5870 at the moment).

Twisted, I just want to get this straight before I spend a boat load of money. So if you have lets say 6 monitors, you can Eyefinity 3 of them together for the main virtual view, and run 3 monitors off a second card for gauges and such? If you can get decent FPS, this would be incredible (running an i7 975 with 1 ATi 5870 at the moment).

Yeah you can do that with 2 eyefinity cards I currently use 6 monitors1 5850 card for 3 outside views 1 Older ati card for panels connected to a dualhead2go for panels and the second output connected to a CDU Screen, all from 1 core2duo 3.0ghz PC. It runs good.

I have been using FSX with an ASUS EAH5870 Eyefinity Card which has worked quite well by itself. I have it set up with 3 23 inch displays (2 DVI, 1 DP). I added an ASUS 5750, and have had trouble getting more than one display to work on it with Eyefinity working on the 5870. My base rig is a i7-920 slightly overclocked with 6 g of memory, a 40GB SSD and a 500GB hard drive. I can get two screens to run in clone, but would like to get two running as a second Eyefinity. It appears from other forums that only one card can run in Eyefinity at a time. I would like to run the two displays on second card to display instrument panels, and have only been able to get one to display. Any insights?