What do I need to make this work?

[ingeborgdot]

What type of video card or whatever would anyone recommend for this setting. I have a guy that wants to hook up his computer to his standard monitor but also at times wants it to be able to be able to watch it on his big tv. The tv has a vga in plus hdmi, and component. He also has a smaller tv that is already wired with hdmi to come from the computer.
So in a nut shell he wants the regular monitor which will be DVI, the small tv that has hdmi and the large tv I am not sure what to run, whether it be vga, hdmi, or component. I like the idea of another hdmi because it runs audio too where vga only runs video and would need another audio cable. Component would be the same issue. I would also like to use cat 5e to run any of this. Is that possible?
So, if this makes sense to anyone, what equipment would I need to make this possible? What do I need for a video card or cards? What would I need to make the cat 5 work? Thanks.

 

[VirtualLarry]

The only cards that will support three display outputs are Eyefinity-compatible cards, eg mid-high 5xxx series and 6xxx series.

You will have to use an active displayport converter for one of the display outputs.

Edit: I saw an HDMI over CAT5e adaptor set at Microcenter the other day for something under $50. Looked like you need two CAT5e cables.

 

[ingeborgdot]

Not familiar with the active displayport converter. Do you have any links to any?

 

[Barfo]

The only cards that will support three display outputs are Eyefinity-compatible cards, eg mid-high 5xxx series and 6xxx series.

You will have to use an active displayport converter for one of the display outputs.

Edit: I saw an HDMI over CAT5e adaptor set at Microcenter the other day for something under $50. Looked like you need two CAT5e cables.

OP: do you mean hooking up all 3 screens at the same time? if not, most recent cards have dvi and hdmi ports.

 

[ingeborgdot]

I will be hooking up all 3 screens at the same time.

 

[Vdubchaos]

One small addition to what others posted. If he plays Blue Ray on his PC....he will have to unplug 2 devices as PowerDVD (8 at least) will not allow up him to play on more than one display.

So access to the back of the box might be important.

PS. New version of PowerDVD/Blueray software might change that (not sure) but def something to look out for.

 

[ingeborgdot]

If I would like 2 hdmi ports would it be best to get 2 cards? Why I am asking that is that converting dvi to hdmi will only get video and won't get sound. That way 2 cards, 2 hdmi both with sound.

 

[betasub]

2 sound outputs for 2 different screens, but only one source?

 

[ingeborgdot]

Would this 6870 be a good card for what I need?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150507

 

[ingeborgdot]

Okay, I have the computer finished. I have an XFX 5830 plus an ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AM3 AMD 890GX motherboard with HDMI onboard. I have several problems with what I want to do. I can get the HDMI on the 5830 to be recognized and the DVI but when I go into duplicate it drops the resolution on the dvi monitor to lower than the recommended 1920 x 1200 to 1360 x 768 or something like that on both. I don't want to have my main monitor that low if I don't have to. What do I have to do to fix that?
The other problem is that I can't get my CCC to recognize my onboard HDMI, what am I doing wrong?

 

[ingeborgdot]

Okay, I think I found out about the dual mode and both having to be the same and if one is lower res than the other that is what they both will be. Sucks, but it is what it is. I still have not been able to get my onboard hdmi to be recognized. Anyone???

 

[NoQuarter]

Okay, I think I found out about the dual mode and both having to be the same and if one is lower res than the other that is what they both will be. Sucks, but it is what it is. I still have not been able to get my onboard hdmi to be recognized. Anyone???

Go into the BIOS and turn on SurroundView, this will keep the onboard GPU active even when a dedicated video card is found.

 

[cusideabelincoln]

Okay, I have the computer finished. I have an XFX 5830 plus an ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AM3 AMD 890GX motherboard with HDMI onboard. I have several problems with what I want to do. I can get the HDMI on the 5830 to be recognized and the DVI but when I go into duplicate it drops the resolution on the dvi monitor to lower than the recommended 1920 x 1200 to 1360 x 768 or something like that on both. I don't want to have my main monitor that low if I don't have to. What do I have to do to fix that?
The other problem is that I can't get my CCC to recognize my onboard HDMI, what am I doing wrong?

Okay, I think I found out about the dual mode and both having to be the same and if one is lower res than the other that is what they both will be. Sucks, but it is what it is. I still have not been able to get my onboard hdmi to be recognized. Anyone???

Create profiles using CCC to quickly switch between having the main monitor run at native resolution and then having the TV+Monitor in duplicated mode. The monitors will run at the highest common resolution; that's just how clone mode works.

Alternatively you can have each monitor run at it's native resolution independently. Then if he wants to use one monitor over the other, he can simply make one the primary, and that will move the Start Menu to that monitor.

 

[ingeborgdot]

I know this is an old thread but I finally got around to getting to this project and finishing it. I have the two monitors working super with the same res and what not. I went into bios and enabled surround view and it now shows that I have a 4920 also. The problem is I don't know how to get it to work on the other tv. I have it hooked up through the hdmi port but it is not recognizing it. What am I doing wrong? What do I need to do to get the third one to go? I will play some more and hopefully I will get it.

 

[cusideabelincoln]

Need to know what your setup is - what displays are connected to what inputs on what video cards.

 

[ingeborgdot]

Well, I got it to go. I uninstalled the driver for the graphics and it picked it up after the reinstall. The only problem is that it will not go into having all three of them on clone. The two on the card will do it but the other can only expand view. I may get it to work out though for what I need to do anyway. I was wondering if I got a mini adapter to connect to my hdmi and hook up a 3rd hdmi to the 5800 series ATI card. I think I will run into a problem though in that the last TV has a lower resolution than the other two and it will affect how the others resolution will be set.