Originally Posted by Contagion 2x 5770 will do ya great. They perform about the same (beats it sometimes) as a 5870. They are cheaper too. 5850 would also suit you well. |
Originally Posted by Contagion 2x 5770 will do ya great. They perform about the same (beats it sometimes) as a 5870. They are cheaper too. 5850 would also suit you well. |
Originally Posted by Phaedrus2129 Using Eyefinity a single Radeon 5000 card can support three monitors. HOWEVER when you run two cards in Crossfire you do NOT get six outputs, just three. You need to have two Radeon 5000 cards running separately in order to get six outputs. |
Originally Posted by liberalelephant I was under the impression that you couldnt CFX with multiple monitors. Anyway if that is the case then that is fine. If they are running off of 2 separate GPUs (3 monitors on each card) would I have 2 separate desktops or how in the hell would that work lol? |
Originally Posted by liberalelephant I was under the impression that you couldnt CFX with multiple monitors. Anyway if that is the case then that is fine. If they are running off of 2 separate GPUs (3 monitors on each card) would I have 2 separate desktops or how in the hell would that work lol? |
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Originally Posted by Contagion 5770's support 6 monitors each. I don't think 2 of them support 12. haha. 6 should be fine. Right? You can plug up all the monitors into one card and it will still work fine. |
Originally Posted by Crazy9000 You would just have the one desktop. The only difference is that in games you will only be playing off one card instead of having them work together in crossfire. |
Originally Posted by liberalelephant They only have 3 outputs each, 1 DVI shares the HDMI port if I understand it correctly, so I would need 2x 5000 series cards since 2x3ports=6 monitors right? Anyway about Eyefinity, I want the desktop to be on the center screen and from what I've read about Eyefinity your desktop would be on the bottom left screen. Is there any way to adjust this? |
Originally Posted by liberalelephant They only have 3 outputs each, 1 DVI shares the HDMI port if I understand it correctly, so I would need 2x 5000 series cards since 2x3ports=6 monitors right? Anyway about Eyefinity, I want the desktop to be on the center screen and from what I've read about Eyefinity your desktop would be on the bottom left screen. Is there any way to adjust this?. |
Originally Posted by Phaedrus2129 I believe you can adjust it however you want it, though I haven't messed with an Eyefinity setup so I'm not sure. There should be no trouble running two 5770s not in CrossFire. Hell, as long as you have Windows 7 you can run any two graphics cards, period, as long as there aren't any driver conflicts. In Vista they have to be the same brand and series. |
Originally Posted by liberalelephant They only have 3 outputs each, 1 DVI shares the HDMI port if I understand it correctly, so I would need 2x 5000 series cards since 2x3ports=6 monitors right? Anyway about Eyefinity, I want the desktop to be on the center screen and from what I've read about Eyefinity your desktop would be on the bottom left screen. Is there any way to adjust this? |
Originally Posted by Crazy9000 What I suggest is buying a main card, then a cheap card to run the other monitors. With any two cards you'll be able to run 4 monitors at least, since video cards generally have two DVI outputs. In your case you probably wouldn't want to enable eyefinity at all. Just use plain old extended desktop. Also to clarify, the 5770 can NOT run 6 monitors alone. It just doesn't have the connectors for it. |
Originally Posted by stevenma188 If you want to run up to 6 monitors, you will probably need to look into Matrox TripleHead2Go (Linky). Either that, or you will need to run 3 video cards. |
