going the dual 5970 route..for my eyefinity RIG.

[x3sphere]

Overkill unless you're gaming at 24" or above 3-way Eyefinity resolutions. A single 5970 cuts through everything like butter even at 2560x1600 for me. In most games I can even get away with running 2XSSAA, which is basically as demanding as running double the internal res.

 

[at80eighty]

I have one, I had to buy another for a customer and decided what the hell so I bought another for me..

Card will be here on Friday, for 5970 crossfire goodness..

Cool tweet, bro

 

[Gikaseixas]

cool, i'm getting another 5870.

i have two 24" LCD's at 1920 x 1200

 

[SniperWulf]

I have one, I had to buy another for a customer and decided what the hell so I bought another for me..

Card will be here on Friday, for 5970 crossfire goodness..

Werd, Thats what I'm talkin' about.

 

[nOOky]

I don't know if I'd do it, even if I had the money. But it would be fun to mess around with.

 

[FiLeZz]

two more dell 3008wfp monitors on the way to complete my rig.

 

[SlowSpyder]

I wonder why that auction didn't show up for me
I searched for "4870x2" verbatim no quotes

Maybe because there is a space between '4870' and 'x2' with that auction? I don't know if the space can throw off Ebay's search, but I'm guessing it can.

two more dell 3008wfp monitors on the way to complete my rig.

I know I'd like to see pics when everything is together. A single 26" monitor pretty much dominates my desk, I imagine that 3 30" monitors would need a lot of space.

 

[Skott]

I thought CF didn't work fully with Eyefinity yet? Last I heard was that a single card worked fine but dual CF cards didn't. Or did AMD fix that problem?

 

[FiLeZz]

FiXed issue http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATICatalyst912Hotfix.aspx


ATI Catalyst 9.12 Hotfix


2. Support for ATI CrossFireX™ on Eyefinity configurations
§ The ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 Hotfix release provides ATI CrossFireX™ support on Eyefinity configurations, allowing users to take advantage of their additional graphics cards for increased gaming performance when driving high resolution Eyefinity display groups.

 

[Skott]

Sweet

 

[gamechld]

Sorry to post in an old thread but since I was considering picking up a second 5970 recently, and stumbled across this thread, I figured I'd drop my 2 cents.

As someone considering dual 5970, coming from a single 5970, I can say that it is not necessarily overkill. Sure, for people with one monitor it would be. But even a 5970 is pushed to its limits at 5760x1080 eyefinity, which is 3 monitors. I have mine clocked to 900/1200 and it is still not good enough to use Edge Detect AA in some of the harsher games. Usually when in Eyefinity mode, I am using Box AA at like 4X. So a single 5970 is by no means an end all god card capable of doing everything.

 

[SolMiester]

Not trying to thread crap, but 2 x 5970 has terrible scaling, and in fact is worse than 2 x 580...
http://translate.google.com/transla...0_vs_2x_Radeon_HD_5970-3389/strona/12008.html