Has ATI fixed drivers so triplehead2go can 3840x1024?

brogs · Post by **brogs** » 17 Jul 2007, 14:49

hey fellas...almost ready to upgrade from 7900 gt and was thinking of going with either 8800 gts 640 or 2900xt but wasn t sure if ATI still had lower res. problem...i have analog th2go version....

RichieG · Post by **RichieG** » 17 Jul 2007, 15:07

Hey Brogs,

Yes the new ATI 2xxx Series boards will support 3840x1024 in 3D now. We have one here (at Matrox) and it works fine in 3D at that resolution.

JKeefe · Post by **JKeefe** » 17 Jul 2007, 15:24

Woah, that's huge news.

BTW, brogs, I think the 8800GTS would be a bette choice anyway because in general it is a better GPU.

brogs · Post by **brogs** » 17 Jul 2007, 16:03

i m on the fence Jkeefe { hey you live close me lol } 2900xt seems like with some driver help it could be killer card for the money...i m on a budget and after doing some checking around ...my power supply is 420 watts 12rail 18amp so it will be ok for 8800 gts but not 2900xt.... so doing PS and vid card not in my around $400. give or take budget...thanks for help....

MatroxRulez · Post by **MatroxRulez** » 17 Jul 2007, 17:32

Yes the new ATI 2xxx Series boards will support 3840x1024 in 3D now. We have one here (at Matrox) and it works fine in 3D at that resolution.

That's very nice to hear. The future of Surround Gaming seems to be quite secured now. :D

brogs · Post by **brogs** » 17 Jul 2007, 20:54

i m guess i m outta the loop....i would have thought that there would be a sticky somewhere about this...well its all good anyway

escrotumus · Post by **escrotumus** » 17 Jul 2007, 21:11

Yes it's very nice not to be tied to the hip to nvidia and their worthless drivers any more except for the fact that the 2xxx cards are very slow compared to 8800 cards. Maybe their next gen cards can compete, but this round definitely goes to nvidia.

brogs · Post by **brogs** » 17 Jul 2007, 21:17

hey escrotumus....im close to getting 8800gts 640....how much improvement will i see over my 7900 gt??? now i m getting excited...yea baby.....( Austin Powers voice}

starfighter · Post by **starfighter** » 25 Jul 2007, 14:39

It would be interesting how the 1GB X2900XT performs at high resolutions in games that are meant to have a generous memory usage.

escrotumus · Post by **escrotumus** » 25 Jul 2007, 19:13

brogs: night and day difference.

brogs · Post by **brogs** » 28 Jul 2007, 03:11

sweet..this week i ll be picking up 8800 gts 640....man i love upgrading my rig....is there something wrong with me...lol...

Post by **wazoo** » 28 Jul 2007, 17:17

I got a pair of 7800 GTX's in SLI that I watercool. My current plan is to wait for the next gen of Nvidia card before upgrading as a pair of 8800's with waterblocks ain't cheap.

I've only found one review that compared a single 8800 to a pair of 7800's and there was no huge increase.

Anyone have any personal experience in this area?

starfighter · Post by **starfighter** » 28 Jul 2007, 20:24

Anyone have any personal experience in this area?

I had 7800GTX 256 MB SLI with TH2go and at 3840 the ram was often so full that I got a nice frame increase with a 7900GX2 512MB (but its ram is to little anyway for modern games (R6 Vegas) at 3840).

But i suggest you wait for the refresh and get yourself a 8800gtx or its succesor!

Disarray · Post by **Disarray** » 08 Aug 2007, 20:43

Still no hope for the 1900XTX's? That is the only thing that has held me back from buying the triple head.

gxm · Post by **gxm** » 09 Aug 2007, 05:08

Still no hope for the 1900XTX's? That is the only thing that has held me back from buying the triple head.

Sad to say, but I don't think it will change anytime soon, since they (ATI) are most likely focused 100% on 2xxx HD series. It's looks to be a Windows driver issue since the x1600 works like a charm at 3840x1024 on an iMac 20" in Mac OS X. Something that can't be done on Windows(caped at 2400x600)

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