DP = DisplayPort
edit:ya'll seems to be confused about active and passive so let me clear this up:
This is $10
this is $100, you need THIS ONE
Eyefinity on Radeon HD 5870 1GB Version
The following have been confirmed:
1. 5870 1GB that was released recently does NOT support more than two DVI monitors
2. To use eyefinity, 3rd monitor must support DisplayPort
3. You cannot use passive DP to DVI/HDMI adapter (<$20)
4. You can use an active DP to DVI/HDMI (>$100), which converts the signal for you
5. This is a hardware limitation, so it will stay this way
6. We still dont know whether future editions of 5870 will include a 3rd DVI/HDMI
7. All of the above has been confirmed by Dave Bauman (Technical Marketing Manager of ATI) over at www.widescreengamingforum.com and selfless souls who helped with testing
So what's the big deal?
The hype over eyefinity was that it supports multimonitor gaming without another expensive converting box such as triplehead2go, and that it'll be more user friendly because its a package deal. Many of us assumed that you can use a cheap passive DP to DVI adapter so that our DVI/HDMI monitors would just work. But it didn't work like that, and people got pissed off after it's release, such as me.
The big issues are: there are very few monitors with DP that targets the main stream consumers, and an active DP to DVI adapter is over $100.
why do i care?
I sold my video card and triplehead2go to upgrade to 5870. AND now I can't use a 3 monitor setup because my monitors dont have DP. It doesn't make sense to spend another $100 on an adapter. The net amount I have to spend to get this working on three monitors is not worth selling my triplehead2go.
Eyefinity: $1 difference
From one of the creator of eyefinity:
You can think about this one.
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Edited by Captain Han - 10/6/09 at 9:30pm
edit:ya'll seems to be confused about active and passive so let me clear this up:
This is $10
this is $100, you need THIS ONE
Eyefinity on Radeon HD 5870 1GB Version
The following have been confirmed:
1. 5870 1GB that was released recently does NOT support more than two DVI monitors
2. To use eyefinity, 3rd monitor must support DisplayPort
3. You cannot use passive DP to DVI/HDMI adapter (<$20)
4. You can use an active DP to DVI/HDMI (>$100), which converts the signal for you
5. This is a hardware limitation, so it will stay this way
6. We still dont know whether future editions of 5870 will include a 3rd DVI/HDMI
7. All of the above has been confirmed by Dave Bauman (Technical Marketing Manager of ATI) over at www.widescreengamingforum.com and selfless souls who helped with testing
So what's the big deal?
The hype over eyefinity was that it supports multimonitor gaming without another expensive converting box such as triplehead2go, and that it'll be more user friendly because its a package deal. Many of us assumed that you can use a cheap passive DP to DVI adapter so that our DVI/HDMI monitors would just work. But it didn't work like that, and people got pissed off after it's release, such as me.
The big issues are: there are very few monitors with DP that targets the main stream consumers, and an active DP to DVI adapter is over $100.
why do i care?
I sold my video card and triplehead2go to upgrade to 5870. AND now I can't use a 3 monitor setup because my monitors dont have DP. It doesn't make sense to spend another $100 on an adapter. The net amount I have to spend to get this working on three monitors is not worth selling my triplehead2go.
Eyefinity: $1 difference
From one of the creator of eyefinity:
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Originally Posted by sunsp*t
...we gave all of you an interesting new feature to play with, for free really, because the sales price of 5870 wouldn't have been $1 different for not having EF...
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Edited by Captain Han - 10/6/09 at 9:30pm
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