Widescreen Gaming Forum

Yeah, but we're still small - the price of being extremely specialised - nowhere near the readership of sites like Anandtech or HardOCP.

Because of that specialisation, we can be the target of ridicule as a community; see the way people react when we talk about Surround/EyeFinity/TH2Go on game/publisher forums... that was the way people reacted originally with widescreen, too - now most games support it, they just don't think about it. The price of being on the bleeding edge of gaming technology, I suppose. :D

I've stopped trying to get hardware directly from NVIDIA. I'm starting to reach out to the individual vendors.

Nice review.

I noticed that the 6870 performs better than the 5870 in crossfire at 5760x1080... that's very nice to see. I'm really curious about single card 6970 (or w/e they're going to be calling it) performance now.

However, you mentioned that the 5870/5850 used the 10.8 drivers. I think the 10.9 drivers increased xfire performance for several games. I don't think any of those games were actually tested though... just something to note.

The Radeon HD 6900s - now those will be a lot of fun...

Correctamundo!

With the 6870/50 reaching a near 180% or better in each case for Xfire, I'm praying that the default 6970 has 2GB of memory (or at least are available at launch day), and that they come with miniDP->DP dongle(s).

Nice review.

However, you mentioned that the 5870/5850 used the 10.8 drivers. I think the 10.9 drivers increased xfire performance for several games. I don't think any of those games were actually tested though... just something to note.

Thanks.

And this is why I'm going to update all my 5-series with the new beta driver and the 16:9 monitors. For whatever slight difference there is, the 6870/50 still kick ass.

AMD has replaced one of the DL-DVI ports with a Single-Link DVI port (which drives up to 1920x1200), freeing up one clock.

Does it mean a DVI+DVI+HDMI connection is possible now for monitors <=1920*1200. Without any adapters, not counting a hdmi->dvi cable

AMD has replaced one of the DL-DVI ports with a Single-Link DVI port (which drives up to 1920x1200), freeing up one clock.

Does it mean a DVI+DVI+HDMI connection is possible now for monitors <=1920*1200. Without any adapters, not counting a hdmi->dvi cable

My question as well.

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Great review.

AMD has replaced one of the DL-DVI ports with a Single-Link DVI port (which drives up to 1920x1200), freeing up one clock.

Does it mean a DVI+DVI+HDMI connection is possible now for monitors <=1920*1200. Without any adapters, not counting a hdmi->dvi cable

Unfortunately this won't work. The cards still only have two TMDS transmitters, and it will require at least one Mini-DP port to be used.

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AMD has replaced one of the DL-DVI ports with a Single-Link DVI port (which drives up to 1920x1200), freeing up one clock.

Does it mean a DVI+DVI+HDMI connection is possible now for monitors <=1920*1200. Without any adapters, not counting a hdmi->dvi cable

Unfortunately this won't work. The cards still only have two TMDS transmitters, and it will require at least one Mini-DP port to be used.
Okay, if I use 6 monitors on the miniDP ports, can I still use two more monitors on DVI or DVI+HDMI?

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