ATI 5770 Crossfire & Multiple monitors

[The-Plethora]

I am looking at going for a 5770 1GB crossfire setup at the end of the month but I was just curious if anyone ran it with 2 or more monitors?
Currently I have 3 screens, 2 running from a 4870 and one running from a 2400pro.
This seems to work fairly well and I can run 3D apps on each screen etc. Basically, if I want to run 3 or 4 monitors do I have to effectively run the cards separately as single cards or can I still run them in crossfire mode and still run the 3 monitors with the combined power of the two cards?
Cheers for any help.

 

[Freddie1980]

You can run 3 monitors from just 1 card thanks to Eyefinity technology but you MUST use the Display port out so you may or may not need an adaptor (Display port to VGA is a cheap way of doing this). If you want to run 4 or more monitors I would have thought that wouldn’t be a problem since Eyefinity can support up to 6 screens (with the appropriate card).

 

[B1ng]

Agreed, you can run 3 monitors from Xfired cards. Correct me if i'm wrong, but you'd need one of the 'eyefinity 6' cards for more than 3?

 

[egnshane]

Yeah I believe you do need an 'eyefinity 6' card, the ones with lots of display ports on them.

 

[!TIMMY!]

I have 3 monitors on my 5870,2 connected by DVI and 1 connected by a Sapphire active Displayport to VGA adapter. Works pretty well

With crossfire 5770's you connect all the monitors to one card (like none 5xxx cards) so the max would be 3. You do need the eyefinity 6 card to have more than 3 I believe.