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    News - SapphireHD 5770 FleX breaks Eyefinity free from its DisplayPort shackles

    Single mid-range card powers three DVI monitors.
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    Re: News - SapphireHD 5770 FleX breaks Eyefinity free from its DisplayPort shackles

    Shame they haven't done this with the passive model...
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    Re: News - SapphireHD 5770 FleX breaks Eyefinity free from its DisplayPort shackles

    Quote Originally Posted by chis View Post
    Shame they haven't done this with the passive model...
    Even more of a shame it's a 5770 and so is not powerful enough for 3 screen gaming, but rather overspecced if all you wanted was some extra spreadsheet space...

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    Re: News - SapphireHD 5770 FleX breaks Eyefinity free from its DisplayPort shackles

    Quote Originally Posted by chis View Post
    Shame they haven't done this with the passive model...
    Really really big shame they didn't do this to begin with rather than all the BS with the active converter.

    Still..it might bring the cost of the converter down to a reasonable level (*doesn't hold breath*)
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    Re: News - SapphireHD 5770 FleX breaks Eyefinity free from its DisplayPort shackles

    I wish they didn't do it. DisplayPort is superior and needs to replace DVI. Besides, they have adapter dongles from DisplayPort to DVI anyway so why is this necessary?

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    Re: News - SapphireHD 5770 FleX breaks Eyefinity free from its DisplayPort shackles

    Quote Originally Posted by latrosicarius View Post
    Besides, they have adapter dongles from DisplayPort to DVI anyway so why is this necessary?
    Those adaptor dongles are incredibly expensive, I hear.

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    Re: News - SapphireHD 5770 FleX breaks Eyefinity free from its DisplayPort shackles

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    Those adaptor dongles are incredibly expensive, I hear.
    I found prices from £78 to £150 for what appeared to be the same item.

    Quote Originally Posted by latrosicarius View Post
    I wish they didn't do it. DisplayPort is superior and needs to replace DVI. Besides, they have adapter dongles from DisplayPort to DVI anyway so why is this necessary?
    Display Port maybe superior, and I'm all for better tech, but the support equipment for Display Port is lagging way behind these AMD cards. It would have been better had they enabled all the attached ports for EyeInfinity allowing users to upgrade as and when they wanted to.
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