6870 Eyefinity - Adapter required ?

[kevy1986]

Hey Guys,

I have just upgraded my gfx card and sold my old card to cousin and my father is getting his old 6870, My father has 3 monitors and wanted the 6870 to run eyefinity. I have had an eyefintiy setup for the last 2 years and bought a dp to vga adapter to set up all 3 monitors when I originally had my 5870.

Will my father need to get the same adapter for eyefinity to work or do the newer cards work with 2x dvi and 1 hdmi ? I have a 7950 and I use the dp adapter in my setup now, its this still required with a 7950 or could I give him my adapter ? I appreciate I could just change it about and check but it's spagehetti junction down there and thought it would be easier to ask.

Thanks,

Kev

 

[oweneades]

Unless you are running one of the Sapphire Flex edition AMD cards you will still need to run an active DP to DVI/VGA/HDMI adaptor (on the third monitor) to get Eyefinity working.

What sort of games will your father be playing in Eyefinity? Older games should be fine - Eyefinity support notwithstanding, but newer tiltles will really push a HD6870 beyond breaking point.

 

[kevy1986]

Thanks for the reply, I doubt he'll play much games to be honest, last game I saw him playing was DNF. Its more for the extra screen space.