NVidia GTX470/480 Reviews Stream out

[Motoko.]

I also find it funny that years ago, back in the Radeon 8500 days, nVidia could do nothing else but say that Tessellation was useless (simply because the gForce3 didn't support it and the 8500 did) to the point developers were completely discouraged to use it.

[Sikh]

I know how you feel, I have been using dual monitors for years now and I cannot get away from it. One 30" is nice (my father runs a single 30"), but I would rather have 2x 26" monitors (what I have right now) than 1 30".

As far as gaming on eyefinity, sure it looks cool, but its not that great IMO.....the only way I would game on more than 1 monitor is if you could completely remove the bezel and butt the edges of the screens themselves up against each other so the only seam you really have is the line between the monitors (which would be less than 1mm thick). Chances are we will eventually have something like that (or with OLED, a huge single monitor that simply curves around the person), but it is likely quite a ways out there still.

It could work for flight simulation for the window at least if you can line the windows up with the bezels (remove the in-game frame between the windows, and "replace" it with the physical bezel between the monitors) to give the illusion that the window frames are behind the bezels, but it would still look worse then having no bezel at all between multiple monitors.

Exactly.

I mean the flight sim stuff has been done with the ever so powerful maxtor cards that have ALWAYS allowed more then 2 monitors. At the same time there more business orientated and cost a lot but i have seen some crazy setups. Online and in real life. Ive seen one in my current city where He made the corner of his L desk the flight sim deck. Its epic. 3 monitor, all perfectly aligned and it looks like your really in the plan check all the buttons and everything. You dont notice the bezels. I liked it. He had those Professional Saiteks with the pedals. I think it was the $150 pair a few years ago, but they have the 360 twist, the buttons, the fine tuning, the throttles like perfect, all that good stuff. He got me started and i started flying, so epic.

BTW, Nvidia posted pics of the people playing 1 of the 40 computers set up, is it me or does anyone not realize the glasses also have a wire for im guessing power / light source or "emulating" the colors into 3D. I mean since the monitor has to support the hz but not actually shoot stuff out, unlike 3D screens/projects in a movie theatre, makes sense for the glasses to have a wire, but really for gaming? no. Im not gonna sit there with 2 wires running down my head. Headset yes, Glasses no.

/rant

The eyefinity dude at the lan was REDICULOUS. Not only did he have to have the monitors in vertical view, on top of that it was POINTLESS, the bars were so thick. He said "you get use to it". While I asked him why its viable he said "i had the money, and i upgraded my gpu". I asked what kind of cpu and he sad "x2 5000+, yeah i know, if i had the money for a CPU I would of upgraded, i need it". YET he just ****ing admitted he spent $1k on monitors, cable(displayport to dvi) and the card itself. This dude was sooo confused and this is the kind of people that buy into this **** so they can be the epeen of the lan, too bad everyone was ragging on him because he made NO SENSE. One minute he says he knows about computers and the GPU was a viable upgrade from his 8800 GTS, next minute "i need money for a cpu". Em ok?

Also yeah he just bought the monitors a in february with the 5970 he was lucky to find.

Regardless, when they said he has to pay for 2 seats next time he said "its bull**** i might not come back" and we are all like "you have 3 ****ING MONITORS the size of my ****ing TV at home", "so, maybe i prefer gaming on a big screen". Omfg, dude shut up so much fail coming from your mouth.

[bogas04]

It seems as if an African or a middle east Asian cant even run it :D (seeing the temps)

[bogas04]

This is quite a scary graph too. :s

Source: Anandtech

(oops, posted in the wrong thread :p)

5970 is aggressively better than 480 (even though we have to pay more , but its worth :D)