Widescreen Gaming Forum

Thanks for the review Ibrin. Your comments about the 2GB 5870 versus the 2x1GB 5970 have cemented even more my plan to wait for the 2x2GB 5970. Given ATI's admission that the crossfire bridge isn't up to the demands of extremely high resolutions, I think that the 2x2GB 5970 is going to be a much ...

When I first heard about user reports of crossfired 5970s + eyefinity performing extremely poor I became very worried. Then last week my hopes were completely smashed when I read about the crossfire bridge bandwidth limitation in the tech report article. That means that my fondest dreams of running ...

I try to read every post and article I can lay my eyes on regarding eyefinity and I came across the answer to this issue just last week. I can't remember what the source was right now (I think it was either a post from Dave Baumann or it was in a techreport article). But the answer given was that ...

So far I have tested: Batman:AA, Battle Forge (DX11), Dirt 2 (DX11), Far Cry 2 (DX10), GTA IV, HAWX (DX10), Heaven (DX 9, 10 & 11), HL2, and STALKER Pripyat (DX11). I've tested at 1680x1050, 1920x1200, 3x1680x1050, and 3x1920x1200.

I plan on testing 3x1200x1920 (portrait mode), and ...

I'm too lazy to search for it right now, but I remember reading a long, detailed post by somebody on this forum that said an "active" adapter was needed for the third monitor because the 5870 (and 5970) cards are only capable of providing two DVI/HDMI synchronization/timing signals at once. The ...