Widescreen Gaming Forum

in the immortal words of Charlie Brown...."Good grief!"

So, I broke my system down, popped out 2 lesser used Hard drives, then went to plug everything back in, when i noticed that there was a metal bar separating my expansion slots in the back, this bar was very close to my Graphics card's DP ...

Yeah, I specifically got this model so I didn't have to worry about active vs passive. Maybe I should have just gone with an active adapter and a cheaper monitor. My fear is that my 650W PSU may not be pushing enough to the video card to power the additional port. I currently have 2 DVD drives and 2 ...

Yeah, I specifically got this model so I didn't have to worry about active vs passive. Maybe I should have just gone with an active adapter and a cheaper monitor. My fear is that my 650W PSU may not be pushing enough to the video card to power the additional port. I currently have 2 DVD drives and 2 ...

first my technical details

Sapphire 6790 2xdvi ports, 1xhdmi, 1xdp
2 ACER x223W's using DVI
1 ASUS VE248Q using DP
16GB RAM
Phenom x6 1090T CPU
890FX chipset

The 2 ACER 223W's are plugged into the 6790's 2 DVI ports
The ASUS is plugged into the DP using a male to male DP cable ...