Widescreen Gaming Forum

well I have since discerned that the apple adapters are indeed firmware 1.03 so it's not that. To be fair I have found the 3D club is useful for spreading my laptop view across 3 screens, so not an entirely wasteful spend. The Bizlink and Accell adapters work as they should and seem high quality ...

The adapters are these ones from Apple http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MB571Z/A/mini-displayport-to-dual-link-dvi-adapter they seem to have a know problem unless the firmware is 1.03 see posts here http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3232
I have managed to get some semblance of ...

yes Delphinium the apple adapters are Active, however when I add the 3rd adapter and monitor the 2nd one goes off (i.e. enters sleep mode) The MST hub doesn't seem to be working either. I'm going to try the Bizlink XT25 adapters.

Hi thanks for the reply I connected two via dp adapter to dual DVI and and one directly to dual DVI. These are old 30 inch monitors and only have DVI connections. I've read somewhere about dp ports cutting off the DVI on the HD6990. I just ordered the CLUB 3d hub thing maybe that will help. I may ...

I seems to be having problems setting up a triple monitor setup let alone 5 monitors.
GPU
1 x XFX Radeon HD6990 , 1 x radeon XFX HD6950 (6970Bios)
Monitors
2x Dell 3007WFP one is HFC
1x Samsung XL30
2x Dell 2001FP
I have been trying to use the apple dual DVI to mini displayport active adapters ...

Is there some sort of shortage of these? I can't seem to find them anywhere in the UK. There are apple ones but I've heard these have problem with non apple monitors, is this true? I need to run third monitor at 2560 x 1600

Just came in from the cold, greetz everyone :) I was wondering what constitutes wide screenl really? looking to get to 7680 X 1600 or shall I go portrait.