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AMD HD 7***: wait or upgrade now

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perdomot

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Got a HD 5670 in my rig but the displayport keeps giving me power issues on my 3 monitor setup. Sometimes when I turn on my 3rd monitor on the hdmi port, the system freezes and I have to restart the PC. Been thinking of getting a 6770 Flex series card but was wondering if waiting for the next series is a good idea or not. Not a gamer FYI. Thanks.
 
Having 3 monitors doesn't make it Eyefinity. Eyefinity is when the GPU extends the game across all three screens.
 
mnewsham said:
eyefinity is using two or more monitors as a single display. It has nothing to do with gaming.
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Oh, yeah you're right it has nothing to do with gaming. I stand corrected. It's still 3 or more displays though, not 2 or more.

http://forums.anandtech.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=32283595

These products support up to 6 display pipelines per GPU and the total number of display pipelines depends on the GPU as implemented by the manufacturer.1 Also, at least 3 simultaneous, active display outputs, including one DisplayPort™ connector are required to support AMD Eyefinity technology.
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waffleironhead said:
I could be wrong, but I think he would need two nvidia cards to do what he can with one amd card.
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There is an NVIDIA card that can run tripple monitor setups now, only one afaik though and there are cheaper ATI solutions- he might also need 3 identical monitors if its an NVIDIA card/cards.
 
A 6770 is a bigger 5670. It alone isn't going to fix your issue. Can we assume you have done a clean driver install?
 
Why would you pay $300~ bones for a triple display Nvidia card if you aren't going to be gaming? I'd get the cheapest 6xxx AMD card I could find.
 
perdomot said:
Got a HD 5670 in my rig but the displayport keeps giving me power issues on my 3 monitor setup. Sometimes when I turn on my 3rd monitor on the hdmi port, the system freezes and I have to restart the PC. Been thinking of getting a 6770 Flex series card but was wondering if waiting for the next series is a good idea or not. Not a gamer FYI. Thanks.
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If you're using a DisplayPort cable from Monoprice, they used to have a design flaw that could give some issues (it was missing one of the grounding pins). I don't know if they ever fixed it, but after I replaced my Monoprice cable I never had an issue with my DisplayPort monitor again.
 
Phynaz said:
A 6770 is a bigger 5670. It alone isn't going to fix your issue. Can we assume you have done a clean driver install?
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Yeah, the driver is clean. The message I get is that there is a power issue with DP so I unplug it and when I reconnect it, everything works. Also noticed that when I go full screen video on one monitor, say Youtube, the 2nd monitor sometimes gets artifacts. My 3rd monitor is my 1080p TV and sometimes when I turn it on, the whole system freezes and I have to reboot. Really don't know what's going on.
 
NoQuarter said:
If you're using a DisplayPort cable from Monoprice, they used to have a design flaw that could give some issues (it was missing one of the grounding pins). I don't know if they ever fixed it, but after I replaced my Monoprice cable I never had an issue with my DisplayPort monitor again.
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I'm using an adapter from Sapphire which converts DP to VGA.
 
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