Six - Yes 6 - Monitor Setups?

[SpazSinbad]

Eyefinity to the sixth degree The newest Radeon takes multi-monitor gaming to the extreme
by Scott Wasson — 11:39 PM on May 16, 2010

http://techreport.com/articles.x/18756

[skimmer]

Awsum! Cant be cheap either.

[SpazSinbad]

Years ago when the Matrox Parhelia was a dud (mentioned in article) I had one and three monitors (not all the same). Still have these cathode monitors (with one never used) with good ATI card but useful to have at least two with gauges on the secondary monitor for no apparent frame rate loss in FSX for example. But this is not the same as 6 or three flat panel monitors as seen in the article above. Soon frameless flat panels will make a big difference to these multimonitor setups; as long as there is no penalty to frame rate in game. Have never used a head tracker device but videos seem to make them look useful in FSX. I can imagine 3 frameless flat panels would be a good compromise (if affordable) in future?

[markturner]

Reading in custom PC this month, they were not impressed with a six screen set up using eyefinity. Apparently really difficult to set up, flaky drivers, way to big a viewing area and too expensive. They reckoned 3 was the way to go if wanted to dive into widescreen gaming.

I tried a dual head and it was good, but the bezel in the middle is really irritating. Triple head is better I think,

Cheers,Mark

[SpazSinbad]

Yeah - triple monitor looks like a good setup for Fsims: http://techgage.com/article/the_benefits_of_multi-display_gaming/4

[Sludge]

SPAZ...

Geez, talk about immersion.  Now all you'd need is 3D and youd be off to the races.

Later
Sludge