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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