Widescreen Gaming Forum

newegg and zipzoomfly both have selections altho zipzoomfly http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductList3.jsp has more of a variety which are all sold out!!

also ordering my 3x samsung 24" 1920x1200 2443bwt's in a few minutes, just had to announce to the community =) i'll be for sure to post pics and reviews about this 5870 generation of radeons!!

/jeliz!

I'll have to get the card but wont order the first one I see I'll sit back and wait till a sale/deal pops up or I find one brand to release a better one than the rest.

How much are the monitors setting you back? I still have to find a monitor I like and decide if I want large/small wide/standard. With my limited desk space 3x15" standard 4:3 is probably the best bet for me but then I will hate when I get stuck with a game or movie using just 1 screen.

yeah kinda skeptical tho, i just read the guru3d review with 5870, its equivalent to 4870X2 which isnt bad but we'll see..

ViciousXUSMC - man lol altogether its about $1200, my goal is to run them all portrait so itd be 3600 x 1200

Just a heads up the key to saving some $$$ here is going to be bing cashback, if you can find a card in stock in a store with say 8% cashback, when your looking at a $400 card thats a good $32 saved.

newegg only has like 2% but still thats a few $$$ to save.

I miss the 30% ebay cashback days I wish I had taken more advantage of it when it was around.

I really did want to go for one of these cards soon, but considering I need a new desk, monitors, and the new card that wont really give me much boost in performance I will sit back for awhile and see what happens.

Maybe wait until the 5870X2 is out, but for now they say that the eyefinity doesnt work with crossfire, so lets hope that the x2 card fixes that or they find a way by then, as I know for those like yourself wanting to go 3x 24" we will need the power of crossfire to game with that insane resolution.

I really did want to go for one of these cards soon, but considering I need a new desk, monitors, and the new card that wont really give me much boost in performance I will sit back for awhile and see what happens.

[H] said that a 6 connection D-Port card was due out in the next two months. Might as well wait.

yeah kinda skeptical tho, i just read the guru3d review with 5870, its equivalent to 4870X2 which isnt bad but we'll see..

ViciousXUSMC - man lol altogether its about $1200, my goal is to run them all portrait so itd be 3600 x 1200

Oh, like this?:


I've been running my setup like that for weeks with my Samsung 24s :D

can you game in portrait? and will you see that extra vertical real estate ?

Yes, but only with SoftTH. This will also work with EyeFinity. 3600x1920 is a lot like a single regular aspect ratio display, so you lose the surround aspect in this setup. It's still multi-display but no longer surround-screen aspect ratio.

just to be clear,so with Eyefinity you'll see extra vert while gaming(in portrait mode)understanding that you'll lose some horizontal from typical surround gaming.

thanks again :)

BHawthorne - lol your setup is why i want to do 3x portrait!! i was browsing thru the forums and i came across your picture of your setup and thought that seemed cool for a workstation, more height than width =)

as for gaming aspect, i really needed a card badly and couldnt wait for the x2 so i figured id adopt this card first then buy the x2 when it comes out - trust me after sitting for a month without a working computer because u had just liquidated all your 3 monitors, video cards and triplehead.. i gets lonely!!!

plus i hope they support crossfire soon with eyefinity, we need every bit of power we can for surround/multi setups!!

Kinesis - i think that it wouldnt be so much surround in game doing portrait, considering 3600x1920 is almost like 1 giant 1080p monitor - ive always wanted to do this for the workspace part of it - definitely a change to game in portrait, thats for damn sure lol

6-port and 2GB is what I'm holding out for. Neither of those specs have hit a 5870 product on the shelves right now.

Kinesis - i think that it wouldnt be so much surround in game doing portrait, considering 3600x1920 is almost like 1 giant 1080p monitor - ive always wanted to do this for the workspace part of it - definitely a change to game in portrait, thats for damn sure lol

It has the benifit of working better with -vert games too as the aspect ratio isn't unusual anymore.

3600x1920 is an aspect ratio of 15:8....which is real close to regular single screen aspect ratios.

Just to throw this out there, but wouldn't you get the surround if you did 5 24" 1920x1200 monitors together in portrait? 6000x1920 would be awesome. 1:3.125 aspect ratio.

6-port and 2GB is what I'm holding out for. Neither of those specs have hit a 5870 product on the shelves right now.

Yeah, would be sweet to be able to work on five portrait mode screens. :D

Word - Word - Excel - Powerpoint/Firefox - Winamp/IM/Other Stuff.

I like that idea a lot.

Want.

just sold my triplehead2go for 225€ today, so im gonna keep my fingers crossed for a soon to come release of some 2gb versions :)

me want so bad >.<

Just to throw this out there, but wouldn't you get the surround if you did 5 24" 1920x1200 monitors together in portrait? 6000x1920 would be awesome. 1:3.125 aspect ratio.

yeah lol i could get 2 more 2443bwt's... but damn they are hard to find, i work at pc store here in seattle and i had to go thru our vendor to order them, $370 each!!!

[quote]Just to throw this out there, but wouldn't you get the surround if you did 5 24" 1920x1200 monitors together in portrait? 6000x1920 would be awesome. 1:3.125 aspect ratio.

yeah lol i could get 2 more 2443bwt's... but damn they are hard to find, i work at pc store here in seattle and i had to go thru our vendor to order them, $370 each!!!

It would be worth the hassle. Ultra widescreen and you'd have enough vertical FOV

If I picked up another 245BW I could do the 5 screen portrait setup. I already own 4 245BW. :wink:

It would be sorta cool to have a 5 screen setup and switch between having an SLS area for 3 and 5 screens and switch between the 2 options depending upon the game. That way you could play -vert games on the 3 screen and the rest on the 5. That flexibility would definitely be much more of an advantage over TH2G limitations.

The more I think about it the more I realize I should just pick up another used 245BW. :lol: