Delphium wrote:
:welcome
The LG Flatron 55WV70MD-B are very nice displays, the V9800 uses the same 'Cypress' chipset as the ATI5870E6 card, the chipset is limited to displayport 1.1a outputs, thus a maximum bandwidth of 8.64Gbit/s (360 MHz) for each DP output.
There are a few ways of doing this...
[A]
According to
http://www.amd.com/Documents/AMD_FirePr ... utions.pdf it is also possible to drive 12 displays using 2x FirePro cards, NOTE the PDF states the use of 2x W9000, however the same may be achieved with 2x V9800's.
[B1]
6x
Matrox Dual-Head2Go (1920x1080@60hz for each connected display).
[B2]
6x
Startech Dual-HDMI spanned output (1920x1080@60hz for each connected display) - has a few less features but can be purchased for half the price of the matrox DH2G devices.
This will allow you to run each of the 12 display at the native resolution and refresh rate, using the Matrox-DH2G or Startech to span 2 monitors as 1 setup as follows:
[ 1a ][ 1b ] [ 4a ][ 4b ]
[ 2a ][ 2b ] [ 5a ][ 5b ]
[ 3a ][ 3b ] [ 6a ][ 6b ]
You would then create a 2x3 eyefinty group, thus creating a SLS over the 12 displays.
Note, only the FirePro cards are able to create a 2x3 group, consumer eyefinity cards do not.
Given that you are looking to drive 3D applications at a large resolution a single V9800 will be seriously pushing it for any detailed 3D use, additional horsepower by crossfire with another V9800 would be recommended, for playback of video files a single card would be fine.
Personally I would look at investing in another V9800 and connecting up the 12 displays to see what display grouping options I have and how it behaves and performs, looking into options B1 and B2 if there any issues, knowing I have a 2nd card to provide enough render power.
Hope this helps.
are you saying for anybody who wants to set up beyond 6 monitors consumer cards wouldn't work?
I'd like to set up a 2x5 setup How would I go about that?
the setup attempt i'm trying to do is
[1920x1080] [1920x1200] [1920x1200] [1920x1200] [1920x1080]
[1920x1080] [1920x1080] [1920x1080] [1920x1080] [1920x1080]
I got these monitors at a cheap price, anyhow I have not yet bought my graphic cards but I've been considering the r9295x2 due to its mDPs or Two sapphires r9290x 8GB (
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =GX-353-SP)
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