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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 Eyefinity at most. Anyone have any evidence to confirm or deny? Hoping to get it to power a 5P setup.

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:


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

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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.

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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.

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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