There has been a lot of excitement in the community regarding the new ATI 5 series video cards. One of the most talked about features has to be Eyefinity, a revolutionary system created by AMD which will be able to drive up to six high definition monitors from a single card, giving a wider field of view. Presently, video cards are generally only able to run two monitors each. ATI’s Eyefinity system creates a single, high-resolution image, which is split over multiple monitors using what ATI call ‘SLS’, or Single Large Surface. Using the SLS tool, users can configure a group of monitors to essentially work as one large single display.

Once the new video cards are launched, initially Eyefinity will only support a single card. However, ATI are working on adding Crossfire support in the near future, potentially allowing 24 screens to be powered from a single machine. We’ll look forward to reporting more on Eyefinity and the new ATI video cards once they are released this week.

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