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Eyefinity 3+1 setup question

locrieth

locrieth

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Hi All,

So I've got the spec in sig 3 x 22" iiyama monitors (5760x1080) running in eyefinity off a 290. At present they are running off the 2 DVI ports and the HDMI port, so I have a full displayport left over. I'm wondering how easy it is to stick a 4th smaller monitor on just to display stats while gaming (i.e. cpu usage, gpu vram usage, temps etc), the monitor I'm thinking of using (1280x1024) has both VGA and DVI ports. So my question is how easy would this be to implement (cheaply) looked on OCUK and saw:

StarTech.com DisplayPort to DVI Video Adapter Converter (DP2DVI2)

or am i gonna have to get an active adapter:

StarTech.com DisplayPort to DVI Video Adapter Converter (DP2DVI2)

Cheers
 
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hmmm might nip to 'clockers on Friday and have a see what they think, dont wanna spend much cause it was only an idea I was playing with.
 
Funnily enough I did see a thread somewhere since my last post saying about using the onboard gpu as well might give that a try then. Thanks very much for your advice and experience Stu.

Do you remember which settings in bios you had to change to use both discrete and igpu?
 
Weird, that was exactly how I was gonna set mine up too, with 4th monitor above the middle one. I've got a vesa wall mount that I was gonna put up if all was successfull! Thanks for having a look at the manual mate, I'll have a search in a bit when I've finished watching the Following :)
 
Also what keyboard is that? Got my birthday coming up next week and I want a keyboard with illuminating keys. got a knackered old Microsoft ergonomic keyboard and didn't know whether to take the plunge and splash out on a mechanical keyboard like K70, or just get a cheap illuminating rubber cap keyboard....
 
Oh yeah so it does lol! that took me a good 2-3 mins to find which one it was :P

So I had a quick crack at it last night / this morning before work and got the screens all set up in the correct places, after some faffing. Just need to give it a whirl gaming and see how it plays and if theres much impact. Saved me a few quid so thanks for the suggestion mate!

still undecided about mechanical keyboards tho... I hear lots of good things about them but they just seem really expensive and at the back of my mind I keep thinking thats £150 i could spend on something else in my pc, its enough to get a 1000W PSU so I'd be set if/when i get a second 290, or a good chunk towards the 290 if i wanted to try and risk it with a 750W PSU.... Dunno...
 
I use MPC-HC to play videos and there is a setting in there to keep aspect ratio and with a couple of settings (I forget which ones, I'm at work atm), so it runs on the centre screen and just shows black on the side screens while in eyefinity mode. I'll have a look when i get home. I prefer MPC-HC to VLC cause you can just click on the video to pause/play or press space, which i find really usefull if im sitting on the other side of the room with an wireless mouse so i dont have to move it around to the pause button, I'm short sighted and a bit lazy :)
 
Confused Stu said:
If you're happy with your current keyboard, I would stick with it. If you're looking to change keyboard anyway and looking to spend over £50 on one, I would definitely say it's worth getting a mechanical, but peripherals are such a personal preference thing that everyone will have their own, often different, views. Ultimately, it's entirely your call. :)

I ran an overclocked 2600k and 2 x 290's on an XFX 750W (Bronze rated). It coped fine but the air coming off the PSU was pretty warm during taxing games. Your system should be slightly easier on the PSU as your CPU will pull less power than my old one did. The problem I found was when I tried to overclock and add a little voltage to the GPUs for a Sleeping Dogs bench run - I ended up pulling about 920W from the wall (£10 plug-in wattage meter) when the PC froze. Fortunately, a 1200W Silverstone PSU appeared in an OcUK clearance sale a few weeks later so I was able to upgrade and the air coming off that is stone cold even when running something demanding.

If you're happy to run your GPUs at stock speeds (and I always do now, nothing I run needs the overclock to take it from unplayable to playable), then you should be fine with a quality 750W PSU unless you're chasing silly clocks on your CPU.
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I've also got one of them in wall power meters which I bought for the sole purpose of seeing how much Wattage my pc used when playing games. I'm pretty sure it didnt go much over 450-480W (ish, I'll have to recheck as it was a few months back) when playing some taxing games, so I was thinking I'd probably be ok. Not got anything overclocked atm and was thinking about reducing the amount of HDDs in my pc as I've got 3 smallish HDDs, I'm gonna copy all my stuff onto a 1TB HDD I've got so that will cut the power a small amount too.
 
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