Some Fun With A 6-Screen ATI Eyefinity Configuration

I am kinda torn on this 1. Not sure I like having the edges of the screens making the window pane effect while playing a game. I think I would rather see 1 large screen that size that has the ability to do PIP and brake it up into 6 separate screens instead of this way. Is that even possible to do right now if I had a monitor large enough?

my mom just told me don't even think about it... (she was visiting)

@nelson LOL that would be awesome if you could do that!

Can we all get an address and pop on by to give this a test? xD lol

@kid007 LMFAO i know whats going though her head... "this could cost me..." You can try if HH donated the screens and card to you HH<3 lol

This would be the sickest setup ever for video editing, but gaming? I'm not feeling it. Nelson is right, the edges of the screens would shoot my OCD off the charts. Great videos though guys!

If this takes off, I wouldn't be surprised to see one or two monitor manufacturers start pushing a design that advertises minimum bezel size.

Game on the bottom 3 screens and do other stuff on the top 3? Is that possible? Never messed around with Trifinity.

^^^^or zero bezel size, real edge to edge screens. I think there is real potential there.

My internet connection went down like for 1 sec and I clicked "POST", before and after it.

How do I delete my post? There is only "EDIT" available.

@ Dave (Below ) - Even the forum version only has Reply and Edit (under More).

go to the forum thread version here:  http://hothardware.com/cs/forums/t/47081.aspx

Dave shouldn't u just delete it for him while ur at it? xD (also there's a time limit you must delete it before the delete button goes away :D)

@ ryuGTX wouldn't that make the game look weird? cause ur going to have to play the edges... i would only game on the top middle screen or maybe bottom and multitask photoshop, firefox, Chat and may be another game? xD

^^^^^^^^ Thank you Dave

@Inspector - I did not see any delete button appearing. BTW, what is ur hardware, should be really really HOT to run 2 games in parallel?? By stating Games, I think you meant the real Graphics intensive Ones right?

RyuGTX may be playing Racing games like NFS, then may be his 3 screen config would make it awesome.

Inspector:

Dave shouldn't u just delete it for him while ur at it? xD (also there's a time limit you must delete it before the delete button goes away :D)

 

@ ryuGTX wouldn't that make the game look weird? cause ur going to have to stretch the graphics across the 3 screens... i would only game on the top middle screen or maybe bottom and multitask photoshop, firefox, Chat and may be another game? xD

Done!

Xylem:

@Inspector - I did not see any delete button appearing. BTW, what is ur hardware, should be really really HOT to run 2 games in parallel?? By stating Games, I think you meant the real Graphics intensive Ones right?

RyuGTX may be playing Racing games like NFS, then may be his 3 screen config would make it awesome.

LOL whaa? :D i was giving a example :D i wish i got a powerful enough system to run 6 screens having 2 run a game .

Maybe but i would never run a game on 3 screens as of now because i just hate the edges in the way. RA1D showed us his setup playing a game across 3 screens here :D http://hothardware.com/cs/forums/t/46091.aspx

It gets me dizzy just looking at this video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzvfzJq3VTU&feature=related

That's a sick setup dude... RA1D should be real happy man. How I wish I were not in India. Sick Exorbitant Taxes!!

marco is giving me pixel envy

I agree Marius as well as everyone else who has mentioned it, the separate screens with the bezel breaks just bugs me. Video editing, stock trading, anything that required multiple monitors would be awesome. I think I would rather take 6 display adapter's (you know separate unit's) then tie all the outputs into one out plug and throw it on a 60" 240hz hi def TV, which probably wouldn't be much more expensive than those 6 monitors of gaming grade hi ref good color reproduction 8 bit displays, but would also have a seamless single huge picture. I imagine you could also take all the bezels of the 6 monitors, and attach them to a board or mounting of some type, and co-mingle all the wiring harnesses behind it. If you got them seamless one next to the other you would basically have the same thing in reverse on 6 different screens.

perhaps you could run 6 projectors side by side by side by side by side by side lol..... And surround your self. Now that would be cool!

Love the setup guys! Everyone seems to write about them as a concept but until now I hadn't actually seen one. Swordfish doesn't count, right? So thanks for taking the time and posting the game videos. I look forward to the review.

It's an impressive tech display, that's for sure. But really, the bezels sort of ruin it, so this would only come close to working with very thin bezels. Also, for a display that big, keep in mind that you really have to be sitting about two, three meters away in order to even see anything, so why not just hook up a perfectly "normal" HDTV?

Actually, while using a multi monitor setup you will not notice the bezels nearly as much as you do in watching the video. Your eyes will ignore the bezels and focus on the screens, the same as you do while driving a car and ignoring the a pillers.

Has anyone had experience with fresnel lenses? I would think it'd be a great solution, so long as distortion and color wasn't too bad. And maybe too hard to set up for a 6 monitor setup.

InfinityzeN:

Actually, while using a multi monitor setup you will not notice the bezels nearly as much as you do in watching the video. Your eyes will ignore the bezels and focus on the screens, the same as you do while driving a car and ignoring the a pillers.

That's a very good point InfinityzeN.  That said, think how much better it would be if those bezels weren't there.  We saw some gorgeous LCDTVs from LG at CES2010 this year, that were completely bezeless... they were awesome.  The technology is coming!

Interesting point Infinity; I've never either driven a car nor used a multi-monitor setup to display one image (it's always been two separate things on each screen), so I was just speaking from speculation.

Either way, my point about the size is valid. At 3 screens wide, that's 66 inches, larger than the largest HDTV on the market today. Your eye wouldn't be able to encompass everything.

And, drb, good point as well. I looked up fresnels and think your idea makes sense: they don't have bezels, so they could marginally magnify the screens to eliminate the rows and columns of dead space. Interesting...

Hey as far as it goes on both issues, you are very right the human eye and mind do work miracles like that, as you mentioned when in a car you totally ignore, and insinuate in your mind as vision the things which block your direct vision. I was really more thinking aloud with my bezel removal 6 screen side by side picture. Also those high refresh LCD and LED backlit screens  would fit this picture most likely better than my idea, therefore providing a massive single picture. Not to mention the TV's 240hz and above actually show 4 pictures at a time, but do so by automatically blending them, so that it appears as a single picture. A 240hz display is really 4 60hz pictures simultaneously. .

InfinityzeN:

Actually, while using a multi monitor setup you will not notice the bezels nearly as much as you do in watching the video. Your eyes will ignore the bezels and focus on the screens, the same as you do while driving a car and ignoring the a pillers.

I think it will look fine on a 3 monitor setup if the center of action is the middle screen like fps or mmorpg. Not sure about a third person shooter with your character being split by the bezel. But like what InfinityzeN said, the user will probably focus on the screens itself because of the action that is going on. Then you just use the 2 screens on each side to aid in your peripheral vision. You see something moving in the corner of your eye, then you immediately face and shoot. I think it would be distracting (possible unusable) if it was a 6 monitor setup for gaming. Especially since the crosshair will be affected by the bezel.