Widescreen Gaming Forum

Hello,

I was told by a friend that he has had a bunch of his friends use Eyefinity and that their AMD cards burnt out because of it. Is this a common thing ? Or are they simply part of the group of individuals who forget to clean out their computers and let the dust fry their parts?

that kind ...

if the GTX 560 supports tri-SLI or Quad-SLI

then might be cheaper to pick up another GTX 560 to improve the performance at lower cost, rather than spend minimum $1000 on a GTX 690 or HD7990

you actually pay more if you got double GTX 680 or double HD7970

it's at $169 on newegg

so $338 if you get ...

AFAIK

there's no painless way to switch from single monitor view, to Surround View and back

so every time i get the darn Surround View working properly, i play to our maker for it not to lose the settings

as it does every time we upgrade to a new version of the driver

sometimes it gets so bad, i ...

I've been a long time fan of the Red Team - ATI/AMD for the past 20 years

but i've yet to see any AMD HD3D game or movie tittles out there

much less in Eyefinity setup.

one of the main reason which forced me to switch to its nemesis the Green Team

which version of HDMI does the cable + monitor supports, also what's the HDMi supported output on the GTX 650

it matters

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The HDMI specification defines the protocols, signals, electrical interfaces and mechanical requirements of the standard.[45] The maximum pixel clock rate for HDMI 1.0 was ...

re: all 3 on mirrors

OK, you guys might consider this cheating...
but since we are going through the trouble of putting the monitors in a BOX
it wouldn't hurt to go the extra mile and remove the casing from the monitors (bezels)

depending on the LCD/LED panel quality you might have almost no ...

ok, native will look like this 3x2
my old rig
http://cdn.overclock.net/6/69/900x900px-LL-69424ddd_20121011_201335.jpeg

for your Flight Sim setup, or StarCitizen setup for that matter
You want a 5:1 configuration
so you have 5 monitor Desktop 1
and 1 monitor on Desktop 2

in the ...

in actual usage

it work either way

you can either go for the large 1200, and have the smaller monitors miss the virtual chunk that you can't see because it's beyond the 1080 to 1200 area

or you can go small and force the middle monitor to work like the side monitors at 1080, which then the ...

I was running that for a while

you do get to see a little bit more than standard single screen, but not as much as you can see in Eyefinity 3 or Surround View

at the moment there's no much advantage in using all 6 monitors in games, until more games takes advantage of that (if ever )

so, i ...

a minor correction or addition to what Delphium said.

on ATI / AMD video cards if you want more than 3 monitor / TV / projectors / etc to work simultaneously in the same card

then all extras monitors will need to be connected to a DirectPort to Active Display Adapter, that then you can covert to ...

yup

most hi-res 1200p and above monitors now in days comes shipped with DVI-D Dual Link cables, they are much thicker than the standard single link DVI-D cables

wouldn't I'd be better if all 3 monitors were mirrored, then you wont have the trouble of matching colour & brightness as all 3 of them will be going through the same "filter"

I like the idea, it'll help on the immersion in games, by blocking out the ambient lights with the BOX feel of the old ...

the bezel is not an issue

people seems to forget they have a nose bridge right in front of their eyes.... now apply that to the bezel

on the other hand, more and more monitors & HDTVs are coming out with ultra thin bezels 1/2" give or take a few

for those really anal about the bezel

they can go ...

actually, it does work with ATI / AMD Eyefinity

you can have you center monitor on 1200 while the 2 sides on 1080

AMD's Eyefinity is a lot more flexible than nVidia Surround View

it also lets you mix different types of monitors / TV / projector size & models.

I had a lot more choices for ...

the fish eye effect only happens when your monitors are lay flat in front of you

if your 3 monitors wraps around you, then you are immersed and there's no fish eye effect feeling, as things will look naturally from the corner of your eyes

it gets even better when you enable 3D surround view, it's ...

here's the beef

both ATI / AMD and nVidia handles Eyefinity 3 and Surround View the same way.

when enabled all 3 screens becomes 1 giant screen.

here's the twist

if you have a 4th monitor, then you can plug it into any of the extra DVI / DP ports in your AMD or nVidia card, and they will act as ...

using HDTV to replace monitors is a hassle
a lot of research are involved

main predominant issues to be aware of:
- input lag time (game reaction time, anything over 16ms is bad)
- Edge Lid (light leak by the edges) vs Direct Lid (good)
- LED (real black) vs LCD (washed-out black)
- HDMI input ...

easy...
right click on the desktop
select nvidia control panel
go to surround view setup
follow the instructions
swap DVI ports until all 3 connectors are green

i did that already for the bug i had in Surround View with the 3x 42" HDTVs

Does anyone have any experience with big large HDTV compatible with Surround View?

the set I've used it's awesome, but unfortunately it has coloration problem due the nVidia Surround View

full review here m

so, now I'm shopping for another set that will work properly with the nVidia Surround ...