Best way to run 5-6 monitors with Eyefinity?

[Vette73]

What OS are you running. It has to be Win7 or Vista to work.

Were there any Active adapters in the card box?

If not Amazon sells them for $28 shipped each.
http://www.amazon.com/Accell-B087B-0.../dp/B004071ZXA

Might be able to find cheaper I just grabbed the easy one.

Here is a cheaper one but check on shipping.
http://www.antonline.com/p_MAAP01ND1...471.htm?sID=GP


If you still have problems e-mail hugo@powercolor.com
I saw that at newegg.

 

[kevinsbane]

If the monitors have displayport input, you can use mini DisplayPort to Displayport cables to connect. The active DisplayPort to DVI adapters will only be needed if you don't have DisplayPort input on the monitors.

 

[BladeVenom]

Microcenter has active adapters for $34.99. Not the best deal on them, but convenient if they're nearby. http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0345800

They still don't have any Displayport monitors as far as I've seen. But it's better than last year, when they didn't even have the adapters.

If you need instructions on setting up Eyefinity, Kyle at Hardocp did a couple of videos a little over a year ago showing how to set up both 3 and 6 monitor setups. I'm sure there are also videos on youtube.

 

[Frostyrootbeer]

Thanks for all the replies! It's really helpful.

Right now I'm working (or rather my dad will be) with two of these

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en...0-3955381.html

They do have a display port on them, so could i just buy a mini-DP to DP adapter?

Could I run two displays off of DVI and three off MiniDP to DP?

 

[Dark Shroud]

You should be able to use MiniDP to DP for those monitors.

If you need to get adapters you might want to look at these first. I would ask someone else confirm if these would work first through. I haven't used Display Port monitors yet.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10246&cs_id=1024606&p_id=6007&seq=1&format=2

 

[cusideabelincoln]

So you got the 5770 Eyefinity 5?

The adapters included are passive. Since the 5770 chip has native two DVI outputs, and there isn't enough space for DVI along with the other connectors, they included passive adapters to get the DVI output.

So I assume two of the miniDP outputs are actually designed to be specifically used with the passive adapters they included with the card.

The rest of the miniDP outputs are DP. So you can use three miniDP to DP adapters, which should be cheap, to connect three monitors that have DP. Then use the passive adapters to connect DVI/VGA/HDMI monitors.

You really don't need any active adapters if you are using monitors with native DisplayPorts. If you have three monitors with DP then you don't need any active adapters at all.