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Reveal video on NVIDIA's YouTube channel.

Tom's Hardware review included a multi-monitor comparison (props to TH) of the GTX 590 and AMD 6990.

My comment to the review and Tom's Hardware reviewer reply:

stectacular :

Chris -- on behalf of triple head gamers thank you so much for the multi-monitor testing! The GTX 590 and AMD 6990 comparison was great.

Very welcome! Several of the additions to this story were direct responses to things readers asked for in the 6990 piece! If you want to see more of that, join in on Twitter, and when I tease the story a couple of weeks ahead of time and ask for requests, let me know what you'd like to see =)

My comment to the review and Tom's Hardware reviewer reply:

Cool :wink:

"Join in on Twitter"...

No, thankyouverymuch.

Cool that somewhere other than here and HardOCP is looking at multi-mon. I find it highly amusing when sites review something like a 6990 and test it at 1680x1050, then wonder why it's barely faster than a card half the price... :roll:

"Join in on Twitter"...

No, thankyouverymuch.

Cool that somewhere other than here and HardOCP is looking at multi-mon. I find it highly amusing when sites review something like a 6990 and test it at 1680x1050, then wonder why it's barely faster than a card half the price... :roll:

Unfortunately it's because that is what the most common LCD monitor resolution is right now, though 1920x1080 is catching up.

I hardly see any 1680x1050 panels advertised any more. They're all either 1366x768 or 1920x1080, with the odd 1600x900... this appears to be primarily because the adverts have everyone obsessed with the idea that 16:9 is better.

The point I was trying to make was more that the high-end cards now only really stretch their legs when they're pushed - and that means high resolutions. ;) In many cases, you don't start seeing the serious bottlenecks on the high-end cards until you start pushing upwards of seven million pixels; even 2560x1600 can't show a bottleneck up the way 6064x1200 can.

Anyone that buys one of the top-end cards and runs a single 1680x1050 monitor isn't really bothered about the details; they obviously want the fastest - whether for bragging rights or whatever - and don't care that there would be better solutions which cost a lot less to implement. :)

It was a bit strange that he was only getting 45 to 50 fps on crysis 2 with the 590 during the video. But it was with a 2GHZ 950 which is probably bottlenecking it

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Hm, difficult to tell whether it was nVidia's hardware-based power-draw limitation solution (which should, in theory, stop the card from frying itself) or whether it was actually a bottleneck.

Not really sure it's the former, given that several review sites seem to have made their GTX590s nearly explode when overclocking.

I hardly see any 1680x1050 panels advertised any more. They're all either 1366x768 or 1920x1080, with the odd 1600x900... this appears to be primarily because the adverts have everyone obsessed with the idea that 16:9 is better.

The point I was trying to make was more that the high-end cards now only really stretch their legs when they're pushed - and that means high resolutions. ;) In many cases, you don't start seeing the serious bottlenecks on the high-end cards until you start pushing upwards of seven million pixels; even 2560x1600 can't show a bottleneck up the way 6064x1200 can.

Anyone that buys one of the top-end cards and runs a single 1680x1050 monitor isn't really bothered about the details; they obviously want the fastest - whether for bragging rights or whatever - and don't care that there would be better solutions which cost a lot less to implement. :)

I bought a Geforce 9800GX2 when it came out to game at 1600x1200, though it did that easily except one area, Crysis lol. Now i run a GTX 275 since my 9800GX2 died on me awhile back and game at 1366x768 but this also means right now i can max almost anything I want, and 2 I don't have to upgrade for awhile. I have a buddy that does the same thing, he plays at 1440x900, he bought a 7800GTX on launch day, then he bought an 8800GTX for Crysis, and now just bought a GTX 570 but his monitor is still the same, some of us buy the high end so we can forgo upgrades for a few years, as if someone had bought an 8600GTS they would't have lasted even at 1366x768 for more than a year or 2