So I dropped the Radeon HD 5870 into my primary production PC. While I was pretty intrigued by its potential 3D performance in games, I was more intrigued by its ability to support three displays.
I know a number of power users (who are not financial analysts or programmers) who use three displays. But using more than two monitors had several requirements I considered problematic. You either had to have two graphics cards, a special workstation card (that wasn’t always a good 3D card) or some type of DVI or VGA switcher, like Matrox’s TripleHead boxes.
All those introduced complexities I didn’t like. I just wanted one card with good 3D gaming performance that supported more than two monitors – and wasn’t a dual GPU card. Now I’ve got it.
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It’s the week of Intel Developer Forum. Just a quick note to mention that blog posts on Improbable Insights this week will be fairly infrequent. However, you may see a guest post or two from Scott Gardner, who wrote the article on multiphase power.
That’s not to say it won’t be a busy week. I’ll be posting daily analyses of the goings-on at IDF on Tom’s Hardware, so look for my musings on Intel’s annual lovefest there.
Also, look for my columns on Maximum PC and Hot Hardware later this week. The Maximum PC column dwells what I’d really like to see with multi-touch and multiple displays. The Hot Hardware column talks about audio and cars — particularly what THX is doing with multichannel audio in automobiles.
While we’re talking about Maximum PC, I’ve got an article in the print magazine coming up on AMD’s newest GPU. They may post that review on the Maximum PC web site on the 23rd, so look for it then.
I’l be back next week, with another system build, weird troubleshooting stories and the usual fare.
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