Eyefinity: 5870 3x 24"... Apple Adapter?

[~Divine~Wind~]

Quick Q...
Does the Apple Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter work for Eyefinity?
Got a spare monitor I coudl stea for a while and located one for a decent price.

 

[kylew]

I'm pretty sure it doesn't work.

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Anyone else?
Everythign I've found suggests it's just another Active DP adapter with the only
difference at one end being mini DP rather than DP for which a standard adapter
can be used.

 

[kylew]

It's not an active one as active ones have an aditional cable (usually USB) to power them.

The Apple one is passive.

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Is the one I'm talking about, has USB power

 

[kylew]

So it does!

Sorry, I can't help you with that then, I didn't know they'd brought out active adapters.

 

[JAYJT29]

Im just waiting for the Sapphire ones to come into stock, then ill know it will work. Ive read loads of forums and the one above seem to be hit and miss.

Jay

 

[Josh P]

Pretty sure Maxishine is using that on youtube, with a DP->mini-DP adaptor.

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

had a quick look thru his videos and can't see it mentioned anywhere.
Any specific video you saw it in mate?

 

[Danny_75]

Nope you need one thats active. DO NOT LINK TO COMPETITORS, READ THE FAQ!!!

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

As above mate, this seems to be an active adapter as it has the extra USB as power.
Also thats a competitor you linked to, remove the link before you get a holiday

 

[wakayoda]

I got banned for something pathetic remove the link man !

 

[Josh P]

This is the video I think (I didn't watch it all to check):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_ryCJKz1N8

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Thats the one
Cheers mate details that precise adapter, well spotted.

 

[BigBruiserAl]

Nope you need one thats active.

nice one much cheaper there going to grab one thanks

 

[Festisio]

I was not impressed that I had to fork out £70 for the apple one in order to get 3 monitors working.

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Just been looking at the AMD support list:

http://support.amd.com/us/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity-dongles.aspx

Thats showing Active and Passive adapters as validated for eyefinity

I was not impressed that I had to fork out £70 for the apple one in order to get 3 monitors working.

And it's working fine?

 

[Festisio]

Just been looking at the AMD support list:

http://support.amd.com/us/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity-dongles.aspx

Thats showing Active and Passive adapters as validated for eyefinity



And it's working fine?

I should have said, I'm not using it for eyeFinity - since one's a 24" screen, one's a 19" screen and the third is my 50" plasma - I just didn't want to have to disable my dual monitor pc setup when I wanted to watch a downloaded tv show/film on my TV!

 

[DeadMan]

This is a minefield tbh, the only active adapter that works with eyefinity is the Sapphire one.

Numerous reports of people trying other adapters and having problems so if you dont have a DP enabled monitor use the Sapphire active DP converter!

if you just want the plasma connected why not just use HDMI?

 

[Disjunto]

if you just want the plasma connected why not just use HDMI?

one of them has to use DP, IIRC the hdmi is actually linked to the DVI, so you can't use all 3 at once