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5 monitor support on Powercolor 7970 3GB?
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Author:  KayDat [ 14 Dec 2012, 03:02 ]
Post subject:  5 monitor support on Powercolor 7970 3GB?
Does anyone know if the Powercolor 7970 3GB supports five monitors? Looking at the card, it has five outputs (DL-DVI-I/ SL-DVI-D / HDMI / MINI DPx2), but the box art appears to state it supports four monitor Eyefinity, so that makes me a little uncertain. I've done a bit of digging online, and I can't find any information explicitly confirming nor denying that the Powercolor supports any more than three monitors at any one time, since most reviews only really test :triplewide: Eyefinity at most. Anyone have any evidence to confirm or deny? Hoping to get it to power a 5P setup.
Author:  Oraijon [ 14 Dec 2012, 08:50 ]
Post subject:  Re: 5 monitor support on Powercolor 7970 3GB?
Well you can connect up to four monitors straight onto the card, the first two using any combination of DVI/HDMI/VGA, the other two using the two DP outputs.

But it says on the page you linked:
Quote:
Up to 6 displays supported with DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream Transport


So it should go up to 6, i believe you can buy a sort of hub that you connect to one of the DP ports that gives you a few more DP ports (pretty much like you can with USB). But you'd have to look into that, or someone else may have to pop in on that since i have've never looked into that myself :P
Author:  Delphium [ 14 Dec 2012, 18:56 ]
Post subject:  Re: 5 monitor support on Powercolor 7970 3GB?
MST hubs are not yet out on the market unfortunately, we have been waiting for these for 2-3 years already. :(
However recently there has been indications that BizLink are perhaps finnaly coming to market... http://www.i-newswire.com/bizlink-techn ... ort/201653

You would better off with an Asus Direct CU-II card which has 2x DVI and 4x DP outputs allowing you to run 5-6 monitors.
Author:  KayDat [ 17 Dec 2012, 02:28 ]
Post subject:  Re: 5 monitor support on Powercolor 7970 3GB?
Yeah, only problem is that the Asus is so damn expensive! =[ I can get the Powercolor for ~$390AUD, and the cheapest I can find the Asus is ~$460. Any other cards that support 5/6mon Eyefinity? Looking at suiken's list, not sure how up to date it is.
Author:  Cap Loz [ 19 Dec 2012, 22:15 ]
Post subject:  Re: 5 monitor support on Powercolor 7970 3GB?
KayDat wrote:
Does anyone know if the Powercolor 7970 3GB supports five monitors?............snipped...........


I have the watercooled PowerColor HD 7970 3Gb x 2 in Crossfire and I can confirm that "natively" it supports 4 monitors.
Anymore and you would have to have the MST or the latest form of Display Port monitors that can daisy chain. TTBOMK
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