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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: vincegun on September 10, 2009, 06:40:11 PM
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Via Slashdot: "Whereas most current graphics cards can only drive a pair of displays, AMD has put some special sauce in its next-generation DirectX 11 GPUs to enable support for a whopping six monitors. There's no catch about supported resolutions, either. At an event yesterday, AMD demonstrated a single next-gen Radeon driving six 30" Dell monitors, each with a resolution of 2560x1600, hooked up via DisplayPort. Total resolution: 7680x3200 (or 24.6 megapixels). AMD's drivers present this setup as a single monitor to Windows, so in theory, games don't need to be updated to support it. AMD showed off Dead Space, Left 4 Dead, World of Warcraft, and DiRT 2 running at playable frame rates on the six displays."
Link: http://techreport.com/discussions.x/17563 (http://techreport.com/discussions.x/17563)
Looks like I'm behind the game now, what with my paltry three 22" monitors. :chair:
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Playable framerates? I mean 20FPS is technically 'playable'. And who is going to purchase 6 of the same monitor...other than the wealthy and/or business oriented users? Nice idea, but I would think this is more geared towards someone who needs a lot more desktop space (and I mean A LOT! ;) ) than towards the gamer. Still an interesting concept though.
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6 x 30" widescreen = $6,000 - $12,000
Vs
1 HD projector + screen = $600 - $50,000
Inconclusive? :headscratch:
Well I would rather not have the 6 frames around each screen for gaming. Although the article did mention working to develop screens with smaller bezels. I would rather just go buy a large TV screen like Shoctor's. Then you don't need the 5 extra cables coming out of your pc.
I use 4 at work. But I suppose if I worked at ... Pixar or Dreamworks I would most likely need 6 monitors. And companies of the like probably have some ridiculous setup that use a way higher end GPU for rendering.
I feel like i'm missing something here. :wtf:
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6 x 30" widescreen = $6,000 - $12,000
Vs
1 HD projector + screen = $600 - $50,000
Inconclusive? :headscratch:
The $600 - $50,000 range is way wide there bud.
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The $600 - $50,000 range is way wide there bud.
I agree, I was shocked when I saw one for $150k (which magically disappeared from google) but here's one for $75k (http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=HD+projector&hl=en&cid=12797751918426413803&sa=title#p) & $137k (http://salestores.com/barcor100.html) :hitself:
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Jeezus, you might as well buy a theater for that.
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Yeah, but at that point you actually project on the moon so the entire state can watch your Prawn (http://msucares.com/aquaculture/prawns/biology.html)
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Well, someone is trying to project something on the moon:
http://www.digitalalchemy.tv/2008/03/moonvertising-your-advertising-on-moon.html (http://www.digitalalchemy.tv/2008/03/moonvertising-your-advertising-on-moon.html)