3D Vision makes my head ache, and PhysX is a proprietary standard designed to forward Nvidias business agenda while stifling innovation for open standards in Physics processing.
Seriously? Why would you not want a back up bios? You have only flashed a graphics card once or twice in your life, and I am not the graphics enthusiast? Come on man! Get real with me Brotha! You know dual BIOS is cool. Can you imagine the possibility's from the home brew ROMS now that we don't have to fear bricking our card, you know, enthusiast stuff.....
I won't argue against gaming on multiple monitors generally works better as you add cards to scale. Its definitely an enthusiast luxury item, still, if ya got it, its freakin cool!
Who plays Crysis these days? Try playing BFBC2 on a 6950 or 6970 at 5760x1080 with high settings... you will have frame rates in the Teens... = Not playable.
Try doing it on an Nvidia card and it is even more unplayable because it is impossible. (1 card)
3D Vision makes my head ache, and PhysX is a proprietary standard designed to forward Nvidias business agenda while stifling innovation for open standards in Physics processing.
Seriously? Why would you not want a back up bios? You have only flashed a graphics card once or twice in your life, and I am not the graphics enthusiast? Come on man! Get real with me Brotha! You know dual BIOS is cool. Can you imagine the possibility's from the home brew ROMS now that we don't have to fear bricking our card, you know, enthusiast stuff..... ?
I am not a huge fan of 3D myself, but the technology is fairly cool & works well overall. I am not going to start the PhysX war discussion that lioves between AMD & Nvidia fans... but the tech is amazing within games that support it.
I haven't had the need to mess with my BIOS to overclock or push my card to the limits. Most Bios adjustmenrts for Nvidia can be done on the desktop in Nvidia custom profiles. No need to reflash or update the Bios the old fashioned way.
Try doing it on an Nvidia card and it is even more unplayable because it is impossible. (1 card)
I'd rather not be athe guy to spend the cash on 6 monitors and 1 GPU to play a new game like BFBC2 MoH or Black Ops and be shocked when my precious card can't run things at max setting across all the screens.
But than again for non gamers this is a awesome tech and one Nvidia should take notes on.
I should note I like AMD CPU's and GPU's. I just think it is funny that most people here bash on Nvidia for many reasons and when Nvidia still has a upper hand in performance you guys try to make performance obsolete and turn the table to small items that the common user will never look at or use.
No matter how you put it, We will always want to see big numbers and always want to see those min frame rates to be above 60FPS. Both Nvidia & AMD do not have a product that will run all games at 60FPS at its min frame rates even in SLI and CF. So until that day comes... (which it never will as long as technology keeps advancing) we are stuck in this divide.
Try doing it on an Nvidia card and it is even more unplayable because it is impossible. (1 card)
Before the card, a suitable desk, a room to put that large desk, multiple suitable monitors, and most importantly enough funds required. I would not mind buying two cards after all these trouble. Otherwise, Eyefinity is just a euphoria for great majority. Nvidia will probably add the feature sometime later. The same goes for them, just like their 3D drivers..
Have I ever told you all that arguing about graphics makes me all warm and fuzzy inside? I'm so happy!
Side note, there are 5970's on Newegg right now for under $500. That single card will play eyefinity titles adequately across three monitors. Just sayin.....
Have I ever told you all that arguing about graphics makes me all warm and fuzzy inside? I'm so happy!
Side note, there are 5970's on Newegg right now for under $500. That single card will play eyefinity titles adequately across three monitors. Just sayin.....
Cliff you know as well as I do that is a Dual GPU card.
Side note, there are 5970's on Newegg right now for under $500. That single card will play eyefinity titles adequately across three monitors. Just sayin.....
Instead of buying a 5970, I would upgrade my motherboard (if necessary) and go with two 6850s.
Seriously considering one of these, but how much improvement would I see doing one 6970 over my current 4870x2 2gb card?
Also, performance number aside, I think the temps I'm seeing in a number of reviews are pretty impressive from these cards.
I would start here (Anandtech's GPU Bench comparison of 4870x2 vs 5970) and compare these numbers to their results of the 6970. On a quick glance, it appears the 6970 would be an improvement.
Well, I did it.
Actually slightly bigger than my 4870x2 and I've been able to up settings and still see a slight improvement in framerates but nothing I'd go OMG over. The temps are much nicer though - seems to idle at about 40C and get up to 66C while gaming.
I'll hold out major judgment till I see some updated drivers. The most recent took away disabling Catalyst AI, which means GTA4 is unplayable for me till that comes back (not like it took much to have GTA4 flake out though).
I know, right?
Like 10.12 had it when I had the 4870 in, but with the 6970 and 10.12, it will not let you make it go away. Some folks were saying "High Quality" was what replaced the disable button (the thinking being that AI optimized textures for faster handling, and "High Quality" theoretically disabling those optimizations, but that's just speculation).
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Seriously? Why would you not want a back up bios? You have only flashed a graphics card once or twice in your life, and I am not the graphics enthusiast? Come on man! Get real with me Brotha! You know dual BIOS is cool. Can you imagine the possibility's from the home brew ROMS now that we don't have to fear bricking our card, you know, enthusiast stuff.....
I won't argue against gaming on multiple monitors generally works better as you add cards to scale. Its definitely an enthusiast luxury item, still, if ya got it, its freakin cool!
I am not a huge fan of 3D myself, but the technology is fairly cool & works well overall. I am not going to start the PhysX war discussion that lioves between AMD & Nvidia fans... but the tech is amazing within games that support it.
I haven't had the need to mess with my BIOS to overclock or push my card to the limits. Most Bios adjustmenrts for Nvidia can be done on the desktop in Nvidia custom profiles. No need to reflash or update the Bios the old fashioned way.
I'd rather not be athe guy to spend the cash on 6 monitors and 1 GPU to play a new game like BFBC2 MoH or Black Ops and be shocked when my precious card can't run things at max setting across all the screens.
But than again for non gamers this is a awesome tech and one Nvidia should take notes on.
Probably less than 1% play games on multi screens.
No matter how you put it, We will always want to see big numbers and always want to see those min frame rates to be above 60FPS. Both Nvidia & AMD do not have a product that will run all games at 60FPS at its min frame rates even in SLI and CF. So until that day comes... (which it never will as long as technology keeps advancing) we are stuck in this divide.
Before the card, a suitable desk, a room to put that large desk, multiple suitable monitors, and most importantly enough funds required. I would not mind buying two cards after all these trouble. Otherwise, Eyefinity is just a euphoria for great majority. Nvidia will probably add the feature sometime later. The same goes for them, just like their 3D drivers..
Side note, there are 5970's on Newegg right now for under $500. That single card will play eyefinity titles adequately across three monitors. Just sayin.....
Cliff you know as well as I do that is a Dual GPU card.
Instead of buying a 5970, I would upgrade my motherboard (if necessary) and go with two 6850s.
Also, performance number aside, I think the temps I'm seeing in a number of reviews are pretty impressive from these cards.
Actually slightly bigger than my 4870x2 and I've been able to up settings and still see a slight improvement in framerates but nothing I'd go OMG over. The temps are much nicer though - seems to idle at about 40C and get up to 66C while gaming.
I'll hold out major judgment till I see some updated drivers. The most recent took away disabling Catalyst AI, which means GTA4 is unplayable for me till that comes back (not like it took much to have GTA4 flake out though).
Like 10.12 had it when I had the 4870 in, but with the 6970 and 10.12, it will not let you make it go away. Some folks were saying "High Quality" was what replaced the disable button (the thinking being that AI optimized textures for faster handling, and "High Quality" theoretically disabling those optimizations, but that's just speculation).