Eyefinity Question

[{SAS}TB]

Morning all

Considering jumping ship to AMD given the price point and performance under the new drivers but I know bugger all about Eyefinity so a few n00b quyestions if you dont mind

Would be looking at Tri-fire set up with 3 24" (1920x1200 each) monitors, which I have been running in surround with SLI / Tri-SLI

Each Monitor currently runs DVI-D out to HDMI in (on the GPUs) although I also have DVI-D to DVI-D cables I could use

1) Do all connectors go into 1 card or (like the green team) seperate cards
2) I understand that you need active display port adapters - is this correct
3) if "yes" to 2 - how mant? is is 1 per monitor connection or just 1 (Google search is confusing me :S)
4) What flavour do the adapters come in (DVI-D / DVI-I / HDMI etc)?

Many thanks

 

[Confused]

1) All monitors to the primary card
2) Yes
3) most AMD cards can have 2x DVI/HDMI outputs used at once, and any additional must be via DisplayPort
4) DisplayPort -> Single-Link DVI, Mini DisplayPort -> Single-Link DVI

DVI/HDMI are identical in terms of graphics signals, so you can then use any DVI-HDMI adapters/cables after the DisplayPort adapter.


I've got 1 monitor running on DVI-DVI, one on HDMI-DVI, and one on mDP-DVI-DVI

 

[{SAS}TB]

Thanks for that

so (sorry ) three monitors into 1 card
Monitor 1 - DVI cable
Monitor 2 - DVI cable
Monitor 3 - DVI (or HDMI) to Mini DP through active adapter ?

Cheers again

 

[Confused]

My 7950 has a DVI, an HDMI, and 2x mini DisplayPort outputs.

If yours has 2x DVI, you could use those (my old 6850 had 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x mDP - but I could only use 2x DVI, or 1xDVI and 1xHDMI)

All of my monitors have a DVI input on them. So one is using a straight DVI-DVI cable, one is using an HDMI-DVI cable, the final one is using a Mini DisplayPort-DVI adapter, then a straight DVI-DVI cable.

 

[{SAS}TB]

Excellent - cheers

 

[Gregster]

Booooooooooo



That is all

 

[{SAS}TB]

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