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Ati copying matrox:eek:

To be fair, from the models available on here, all the Displayport monitors do seem to carry a hefty premium over their non-Displayport counterparts, so your mate wasn't far from the truth if he was specifically referring to the monitors on OCuK - Special in the sense that they are more expensive, sure.

e.g. Cheapest 24" DP monitor on OcUK = £430, compared to cheapest non-DP 24" monitor = £150.

The cheapest DP monitor I could find on here is £300 (23").

However, I should point out that the panels used on the DP models on this site are superior, or they have a lot of other features so it would be that you are paying for and not the DP in particular.
 
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If i recall it was only one screen that needed display port not all of them. So by that it would stand you could use two cheaper monitors without display port and one with it.
 
ejr22 said:
To be fair, from the models available on here, all the Displayport monitors do seem to carry a hefty premium over their non-Displayport counterparts, so your mate wasn't far from the truth if he was specifically referring to the monitors on OCuK - Special in the sense that they are more expensive, sure.

e.g. Cheapest 24" DP monitor on OcUK = £430, compared to cheapest non-DP 24" monitor = £150.

The cheapest DP monitor I could find on here is £300 (23"), so you are looking at paying at least double for the privilege of DP.

However, I should point out that the panels used on the DP models on this site are superior, it would be that you are paying for and not the DP in particular.
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There are screens with DP that are under £300.

But still, as I mentioned ATi demonstrated Eyefinity using 3 HDMI screens, so DP isn't a must.

ATi are working at getting some active DP to HDMI/DVI adapters certified for use with Eyefinity, so realistically it's irrelevant to complain about it.

Active DP converters are only around £20.
 
Just a quick question that i'd like to be re-assured on. For mis matched monitors for example 2x20" and a 24" will the card itself support all 3 screens? I know it wont stretch the image across all three like it would with 3x20" but would it allow them to run as seperate screens?
 
kylew said:
Active DP converters are only around £20.
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Far more than £20, the 2 I know of are the Dell one at $100 (~£60) but they don't ship to the UK, and another one from denmark or somewhere like that which I think was around 115 euro's...

Saying that, it shouldn't be too long before they're far more available and far cheaper...
 
skippy2421 said:
Just a quick question that i'd like to be re-assured on. For mis matched monitors for example 2x20" and a 24" will the card itself support all 3 screens? I know it wont stretch the image across all three like it would with 3x20" but would it allow them to run as seperate screens?
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I'm pretty sure all monitors have to have the same resolution, although they may make driver changes in the future to allow this.
 
It will allow normal multi-monitor support over 3 mismatched screens, and you could use Eyefinity if you set the 24" screen to the same res as the two 20" screens...
 
SKILL said:
It will allow normal multi-monitor support over 3 mismatched screens, and you could use Eyefinity if you set the 24" screen to the same res as the two 20" screens...
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I assume that would work, it would just look rubbish, wit the same rez on a smaller monitoer everything would be smaller.

I would love 30" + 2x 20" in portrait, diff res but fits together nicely.
 
starfighter said:
I assume that would work, it would just look rubbish, wit the same rez on a smaller monitoer everything would be smaller.

I would love 30" + 2x 20" in portrait, diff res but fits together nicely.
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iirc that does work, as it's a single large rectangle (assuming the 20" is a 1600x900) so two of those in portrait along with a 30" gives a nice 4360x1600 I believe rectangle, the issue only comes with the sides being different heights really...

Might be wrong on that though...

Martini1991 said:
That's wicked news, however I was going to buy a third screen ;)
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Yes you can get a Displayport to VGA converter, they're about £25-30 and I believe they're active, but afaik nobody has actually testing one on a 58xx yet so again I could be wrong :p
 
SKILL said:
It will allow normal multi-monitor support over 3 mismatched screens, and you could use Eyefinity if you set the 24" screen to the same res as the two 20" screens...
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I don't think you can do that either at the moment.

It only uses the native resolution of the screens right now. e.g. 3 x 24" screens will ONLY work in 1920x1200 x 3 = 5760x1200. I'm sure we're all hoping drivers will be updated to allows different resolutions and orientations, as well as cool things like bezel correction.

Yes you can get a Displayport to VGA converter, they're about £25-30 and I believe they're active, but afaik nobody has actually testing one on a 58xx yet so again I could be wrong :p
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I doubt that's an active converter then. The actives are normally at least £60.
 
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