6870 E6 with 5 Monitors

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6870 E6 with 5 Monitors

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Hi Widescreen-Fellows !

I want to upgrade my GPU and my monitors and have the following question:

If I choose a HD6870 Eyefinity6 and three monitors with display port + two monitors with DVI/HDMI.
Is it correct that i DON'T need any ACTIVE (!) DP adaptors to connect all five monitors?
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Ghostwire wrote:Hi

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Hi Widescreen-Fellows !

I want to upgrade my GPU and my monitors and have the following question:

If I choose a HD6870 Eyefinity6 and three monitors with display port + two monitors with DVI/HDMI.
Is it correct that i DON'T need any ACTIVE (!) DP adaptors to connect all five monitors?


The "Eyefinity 6" version looks to have 6 mini displayports, so you would need adapters for the DVI only screens.

I use Asus DirectCu II (6950 or 6970) - which has 4 normal sized DP plus 2 DVI. This sounds more suited to your setup. I'd also say, the extra grunt over a 6870 would come in handy at 5 monitor resolutions.
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Hi, I've go the 5870

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Hi, I've go the 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition, what's going to happen is that for 2 of the monitors you can use passive miniDP->DVI adapters that come with you card to connect them.
All the others will need active adapters.
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suiken_2mieu wrote:All the

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Thanks for the answers!

All the others will need active adapters.


Except they are connected DP to DP (see original post), correct?

I use Asus DirectCu II (6950 or 6970) - which has 4 normal sized DP plus 2 DVI. This sounds more suited to your setup. I'd also say, the extra grunt over a 6870 would come in handy at 5 monitor resolutions.


Nice card. And you are right, it would suit well for the setup. But it's more expensive (100€), so I think I'll take the E6 with the two adaptors.
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Ghostwire wrote:Except they

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Except they are connected DP to DP (see original post), correct?

Correct :)
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Delphium wrote:Ghostwire

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[quote]Except they are connected DP to DP (see original post), correct?

Correct :)

THX ! :onethumb
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Ghostwire wrote:Thanks for

Post by suiken_2mieu »

Thanks for the answers!

[quote]All the others will need active adapters.


Except they are connected DP to DP (see original post), correct?

Whoops, sorry I was just scanning.
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suiken_2mieu wrote:Ghostwire

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[quote]Thanks for the answers!

[quote]All the others will need active adapters.


Except they are connected DP to DP (see original post), correct?

Whoops, sorry I was just scanning.

No Problem ;)
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