A few months back we ran an "eye catching" article on the mighty ATI FirePro V9800 and within we promised you a future look at our forthcoming findings covering ATI's new all singing and dancing Eyefinity technology.  Now before we ramble on and the readers start to balk, a variant has been with the consumer market for some months now and the professional market has finally caught up to a superb robust level.    We did witness way back in April this year an early showing of the professional variant and it did show some exciting extreme promise.   Today, socks off and WHOW.

To gain a swift understanding of what choices we have under Eyefinity we turn to ATI's PR for the official line.

ATI Eyefinity technology is defined as two or more display outputs operating simultaneously and independently from each other. Support is available for Duplicated (Clone) and Extended multiple monitor modes, with new support for the capability to group displays into a massive single large surface spanning across multiple displays for use with your desktop workspace, video playback, with support for both windowed and full screen 3D applications.

A research study undertaken by The Pfeiffer Group claims that under certain conditions efficiency gains of up to 65% can be achieved using larger monitors with higher resolutions. These gains can be seen in many varied markets including general office productivity, digital imaging, and video. The Pfeifer report also suggests that large display resolutions could lead to a yearly return on investment of thousands of dollars when measured in terms of increased productivity.   Microsoft researchers discovered that using a multiple monitor configuration was one of the easiest ways to optimize productivity, with gains of up to 50%. It was noted that with “overwhelming consensus” once a user switches to multiple monitors they will never switch back to using only a single monitor.

Therefore we see examples such as so

Making things a little more complex

Finally

3x1 Portrait Display Group

Utilising Eyefinity is extremely easy to use as the users guide is very self explanatory it also covers the supporting Operating Systems are:

Microsoft Windows® 7
Windows Vista®
Linux®
Windows® XP support for ATI Eyefinity technology is limited to 2 simultaneous displays at any time

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