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Semple

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Just broke my mini displayport to DP connector.

I've been looking around and a lot of them seem to be apple specific for macbooks etc.

Will this work with my card?
 
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I see you have 3 monitors so I assume an Eyefinity setup?

You're going to need an active adapter (~£20), I assume that's what you have now.

The cheaper (~£10) adapters are passive.
 
So you've broken a miniDP to DP adapter not a miniDP to DVI adapter as you said in your first post?

Your active DP to DVI adapter still works?
 
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You need another male miniDP to female DP adapter.

Google "MDP2DPMF6IN".

It's a Startech 6in Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort Video Cable Adapter - M/F.

That's the sort of thing you need.

You may find similar cheaper on a well known auction site.
 
Not to sound stupid or anything but considering this goes from mini DP to active DP there's no such thing as "passive" or "active" conversion.

Thanks for your info anyway :D. Looks like my cheapest option is to go for mini dp - dp then dp to dvi rather than mini dp to dvi.
 
Semple said:
Not to sound stupid or anything but considering this goes from mini DP to active DP there's no such thing as "passive" or "active" conversion.
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I posted about passive and active adapters because when you first posted you said you'd broken a mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter which would be passive or active.

You post the wrong information you get the wrong answers ;)


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Thanks for your info anyway :D. Looks like my cheapest option is to go for mini dp - dp then dp to dvi rather than mini dp to dvi.
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That's what you were doing before anyway:

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My actual set up is mini DP to DP (not sure if it's active) and then DP to DVI (which was active)
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I only had that setup because my old card had displayport. My new card came with the adapter and it didn't seem worth buying a new adapter to go from mini dp to dvi.

Now i need a new one, if it was the same price to get a mini dp to dvi adapter then i would do that rather than have two adapters :D

EDIT:

Sorry to change the question, but would a miniDP to HDMI require a special adapter for conversion?
 
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You can go DP or mini DP to to DVI using a passive adapter provided you don't need more than 1920 resolution. The active adapter is needed to go DP / mini DP to dual link DVI for higher resolutions. The reason for that is because Dual link DVI uses more connectors while DP goes to higher resolution by using a faster clock signal.
 
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You can go DP or mini DP to to DVI using a passive adapter provided you don't need more than 1920 resolution. The active adapter is needed to go DP / mini DP to dual link DVI for higher resolutions. The reason for that is because Dual link DVI uses more connectors while DP goes to higher resolution by using a faster clock signal.
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That's wrong.

Unless you have a DisplayPort monitor an active adapter is required for the third monitor of an Eyefinity setup unless you have something like the Sapphire Flex card.

From AMD:

• A maximum of 2 legacy monitors (VGA, DVI or HDMI) can be enabled simultaneously, provided that each monitor is connected either directly or via a “passive” DisplayPort™ adapter/dongle. “Passive” adapters/dongles will NOT support more than 2 legacy monitors.

• To enable support for more than 2 monitors, “active” DisplayPort™ adapters/dongles are required (or monitors with direct DisplayPort™ connectivity must be used).
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No it's right :)

My statement was to the general conversion from DP to DVI and didn't mention Eyefinity at all.
 
But as you yourself noted: Your active DP to DVI adapter still works?


So you have either Alzheimer's, or troll-itise, take YOUR PICK :)
 
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