Eyefinity Users?

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Anyone here us it?

I've currently got a 4870 and a 4350 running 4 monitors (2x21's, 1x22, 1x15) but as I'm thinking of going down the 5xxx series route I was wondering how ditching the 15 and having the 3 larger monitors all in the same card would work with eyefinity with the resolutions being different.
Do you have to have all 3 on the same res or is the software clever enough to work out they are different and work accordingly?

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Hello

I've got an eye infinity set up with a HD 5970 (24x3), which is good but I'd wait until the 6990 comes out then make a choice. The HD 5970 is expensive atm may come down in price when the 6990 comes out.

-> Yes you can use screens of different size however they must use the same res!

You may get away with 21x2 and a 22. You'll have to try it. Eyefinity is def worth it in the end.
How the eye-infinity work is that you scale times 3 on a common res between your 3 screens, you have a grouped mode for eyefinity gaming etc. where all the monitors are them same and then un-grouped mode the
monitors will work independently.


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Assuming your going with a HD 5970 you'll have two dvi s and a display port. (Or a card with the same ports)
The dvi's will work fine, however for the display port (mini dp on card) (assuming your monitor does not have a display port) you'll have to get an adapter.

There are active and passive ones. The active are powered more expensive.
I count all the pixels on my screens and the passives ones are fine

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Displayport-VG...ht_1470wt_1139

Hope that helps

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Mmm, might change my 22 for another 21 then and get them all on the same res..

[scaryjim]

-> Yes you can use screens of different size however they must use the same res!

Sorry, but no - at least not if you just want to extend your desktop. If you want to make an eyefinity group - i.e. link the monitors so the OS just sees one very high res monitor - they'd have to have the same res in at least one direction (and probably both, I'm not an eyefinity expert!). But AFAIK if you just want to extend your desktop onto multiple monitors you can set each monitor up as its own Eyefinity group and you're good to go.

If you want to keep the four monitors there are a couple of options to run them all off one card: Sapphire do a special 5770 Flex which can run four monitors, three of them off DVI or HDMI, and a couple of companies do eyefinity 5 5770s which can (surprisingly!) run 5 monitors, although they're all mini-DP and need active adapters or native DP monitors. Scan have an XFX 5770 on pre-order which is both single slot *and* eyefinity 5, which is pretty funky

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Sorry my fault was not clear above

they only have to use the same res when working together, ie running a game or maybe a film in portrait

when not in a group (ungroup mode) you can do what you like

don't want to link another website, but the place i go for this kinda thing is

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/Eyefinity_FAQ


mid page got lot of info