VIDEO: Nvidia's 3D Vision Surround Now Available
Nvidia's 3D Vision Surround has officially arrived.
Tuesday Nvidia's "Ntersect" blog officially announced the availability of 3D Vision Surround via the GeForce Beta v258.69 drivers. The report was also backed by separate announcements that MAINGEAR, CyberPower and iBuyPower have released PC bundles that support the new technology.
"Playing games in 3D Vision Surround is a unique immersive experience, across three screens, combining the best technology NVIDIA has to offer: GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs, 3D Vision, and SLI technology," reads the Nvidia blog. "The reason why I love working at NVIDIA is because we can make products like this which make gaming better. Trust me, you may have experienced 3D, but you have never seen 3D like this."
For those who want to build their own 3D Vision Surround rig, Nvidia points to the drivers which are located here, or the entire 3D Vision CD (v1.31) located here. The blog warns that GeForce GTX 295 users should expect problems with Quad SLI mode in 3D Vision Surround. "We are aware of these issues and we will be providing a future driver update to support this configuration," the blog said. "Of course, we also support 2D game play across three displays, but playing games in 2D is so… yesterday." Read: 2D is so 2000 late.
We also have a report up on Tom's Hardware from Chris Angelini entitled Nvidia 3D Vision Surround: Is This the Future of Gaming? As Chris points out in the article, building a 3D Vision Surround rig can get costly... even before upgrading/building the actual machine. "Three monitors, some number of glasses, a pair of GeForce GTX 480s--if you’re doing this right--and maybe even a stand," he wrote. "That’s $2,500+ before you even start in on the rest of your machine (which had better also be beefy, by the way)."
So are you pumped up and ready for your 3D Vision Surround experience?
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thanks corporate marketing!
I must say that nVidia have, in my opinion, really dropped the ball with the 400 Series GPU's. They were very late in releasing them, they are expensive, not much faster than ATI's cheaper alternatives, they run super hot, you need at least 2 of them to support 3 screens compared to one ATI card that supports up to 6 screens!!!
All in all the nVidia path is expensive, expensive, expensive...
and if anyone thinks I'm a fanboy because I'm voicing a negative opinion of nVidia then they are wrong! I have an nVidia 280GTX card in my main PC (Monster HTPC) and an ATI 5770 in my Server/download PC. I upgraded an nVidia 8800GTX to the 280GTX in my main PC and have had solely nVidia GPU's in my main PC since I had a bad experience with an ATI All in Wonder Rage 128 card, the drivers sucked big time and nVidia have been performance leaders until recently. I was tempted with the ATI 4xxx series cards and if I had to replace my 280GTX tomorrow I'd replace it with an ATI 5870 or 5890.
nVidia in my opinion has had the glory for a long time and I bought their products because they were the best performers for the money but ATI have finally come of age and if they can grow on this strength then my next major GPU will be an ATI model. nVidia have got to take a reality check on top end card pricing, they are pricing themselves out of the market. They also have to stop rebranding older generation cards to newer generation model numbers to fill up gaps in their lineup, that is wrong and untrustworthy and I believe it will bite them in the ass one day.
I know that I don't trust nVidia as much as I used to when I heard they were rebranding older cards into 220, 240 and 310 model numbers. Just the same as I don't trust Creative for rebranding their Audigy cards as X-Fi PCIe Extreme Music cards. To me an Audigy chip is exactly that, an Audigy, not an X-Fi. In just the same way an nVidia rebranding the 8800GT > GT240 is wrong, a 200 series card is exactly that, a 200 series GPU, not an older GPU with a new sticker to sell old stock.
Just my 50 cents and change ;-) lol
Did anyone else notice how the guy in the second video kept getting passed in every shot of the game?
"alrite man you know how we do it, we always set that benchmark"
"yeah bro, I hope you guys came through, man"
Fuck it, I refuse to watch beyond the first few seconds. Not giving those gigantic retards any more of my time.