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New AMD Graphics Card Drives Six Displays - coming....
PC World ^ | Sep 10, 2009 6:16 pm | Nick Mediati, PC World

Posted on 09/11/2009 10:52:36 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

In the future, everyone will have their own Jeopardy-style video walls. Or at least that's the future AMD envisions.

In addition to new notebook chipsets, AMD today introduced Eyefinity, a new technology that allows for up to six displays to be driven off of one video card.

Eyefinity will make its way into upcoming DirectX 11-based ATI Radeon graphics cards, the company has announced. With Eyefinity, you'll be able to arrange up to six displays per graphics card in any configuration, using either landscape or portrait mode.

How insane can this get, you ask? At a media event aboard the USS Hornet in Alameda, CA, AMD demonstrated 24 monitors hooked up to a single PC, driven by four Eyefinitiy-based cards. The four GPUs--each driving six 24-inch Dell LCD monitors--powered a 3D flight simulator across all 24 screens.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: atieyefinity; hitech
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ATI makes a display card with just 2 displayports already:

ATI 100-505527 FireMV 2260 256MB GDDR2 PCI Express x1 Low Profile Workstation Video Card - Retail $159.99

21 posted on 09/11/2009 12:29:50 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Bezel-less screen is what must come next ;the intervening 1 or 2 inches of blank black plastic is annoying.Makes it seem as though you are looking out an old French door.

MACs have been able to use multiple monitors for decades!The limit being the number of motherboard slots holding a video card ,and how to stack the monitors.

Driving or flight game with one large screen showing forward view,a little one for inside rear-view mirror,more screens for side windows and outside rear-view mirrors and back windows and ....

22 posted on 09/11/2009 12:33:22 PM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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Recently read that a company has figured out how to lay down a OLED screen with ink jet type technology. Supposedly it will allow the production of inexpensive OLED screens measured in feet instead of inches with 10’s of megapixel resolution.

This card would support such a screen and resolution without the bezels in the way. Assuming they invent a connector with that kind of bandwidth.


23 posted on 09/11/2009 12:51:09 PM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: wastedyears

On the panel we have three separate screens, one each on the left and right seat positions and one in the middle ... and we can call up several different scenarios on each screen for the flight ...


24 posted on 09/11/2009 1:43:40 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I’m glad to see companies have started adopting Apple’s Mini DisplayPort. So far only their Cinema Displays have it. Apple was smart to license it for free.


25 posted on 09/11/2009 1:50:06 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

ATI continues to pump out some rather exotic GPUs and cards. My old Radeon card has served me well for going on eight years plus.


26 posted on 09/11/2009 4:22:32 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

How many to run a jumbotron? :’)


27 posted on 09/11/2009 4:43:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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