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Cypermethren
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Posted - 2011.11.24 03:42:00 -
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With just 1 graphics card?
My mobo dont got no 2nd vid card slot...
I heard rumors about some sapphire ATI card being able to do said trick?
Anyone with brains able to assist with more details?
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Posted - 2011.11.24 04:49:00 -
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If they had an XFX card avaliable i'd go for it no questions asked, had a nvidia XFX9800 card in the past, it burnt out about the 1.5 year mark , sent it off under warranty and they sent me back an X285 
but 5/6 burning out with sapphire is a hell bad record, im going to assume you have more than the stock-standard case fans and have tied down the tangly mess of wire doom so it's got good airflow too - which makes it even more bad.
I just want to be 100% sure on which model card to get which will support the 3 monitors. My current nvidia card runs just fine (still under 6mths old) but my younger sister's vid card is dying so i thought i'd turn the situation into a win by giving myself an early Xmas present of a new card and a 3rd monitor and giving her my "old" card.
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Posted - 2011.11.24 05:37:00 -
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Dark Magnetar wrote:I do it with a Sapphire Radeon 6950 -- but to make it work right you need an active VGA adapter, which will run you another $30.
Thankyou kind sir!
I tried with my current Nvidia card with the two DVI ports and the extra port and it goes "wahhhhhhhh only 2 at once i cant handle 3 go away" hense the new card search!
To the other guy that suggested multiple cards - i would, but the motherboard i have is a midget and only has the 1 slot open. Not a technological marvel but runs 5 eve clients on high quality perfectly, just i need the 3rd screen to save my sanity as digging thru eve windows when your'e in a hurry is hell
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Posted - 2011.11.24 06:23:00 -
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leviticus ander wrote:they were not 6 of mine. mine burnt out about a month after I got it then I replaced it with an 8800GTS. the other 5 were friends and family that I was helping with computer problems. the one that was replaced was my dads and he was the one that got me the one that burnt because he had a good experience with it.
I was not aware of the recent changes of XFX, I just knew they had great support for gamers/modders.
one note if you are moving to ATI is that you should be warned of their terrible drivers. they still work, but they cause a lot more issues than NVIDEA drivers do.
Yeah, this will be my 1st ATI card, ive allways stuck with Nvidia as i know someone who's had nothing but ATI cards and allways bitches about driver issues till about 6mths later when they finaly release a patch to fix it
But the want for a single graphics card that can do 3 monitors, and eves the only game i'll be playing so hopefully it'll be good and not give me issues! |
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Posted - 2011.11.27 01:10:00 -
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ok, got the 3rd moitor and the only card i could get was the Sapphire 6970
Now im faced with wanting to bash my head against a wall every time i boot up, as it seems i must jump thru hoops, do backflips, balance plates on my nose all while praying to the video game gods that they'll actualy favor me and get it working.
Every startup i seem to "loose" a monitor. It see's it thru detecting it, but wont enable it. many reboots with cord unplugged cord plugged in fiddle with settings reboot before i can get the 3rd screen going again.
This happens regardless if i use an eyefinity profile or just plane window's extend desktop to this monitor feature
help plz?
100mil isk reward to person whom solves my woes? Can get Chribba/darkness to hold onto it for assurance or the such.
I do shift work, so when i get home i wanna play, not **** around for an hour before i can sit down and relax :(
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Posted - 2011.11.27 03:46:00 -
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Caleidascope wrote:Make sure multiple monitors are enabled in Windows.
Then go into the video card control panel, Catalyst in your case, and play there to set things up.
Have tried all this allready :(
Have tried both only using Windows setup to extend the monitors - works ok till reboots - 1 monitor wont come on again
Tried using only the Catalyst Eyefinity setup for extended monitors - Works ok till reboots - 1monitor wont come on again
Tried setting up both in windows extended monitors then in Catalyst eyefinity - same thing - 1 monitor wont come up again apon reboot
Windows 7 64bit
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Posted - 2011.11.28 22:00:00 -
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Reiisha wrote:
You cannot use 2xdvi and 1xhdmi at the same time since one of the dvi outputs shares a channel with the hdmi output.
Your best bet is to use 2xdvi and get an active (!) DP to DVI adapter. You absolutely NEED to use one of the DP outputs to make eyefinity work.
Also, the third monitor won't be recognized untill Windows has booted up, this is normal. During startup you will only see 2 monitors active.
Am using 2x DVI ports and the 3rd connected up with a DP and an active DP -> DVI converter.
During boot it would show 2 monitors, they cloned eachother.
Once it hit the actual login screen all the monitors would go "black" but still lit up, moving the mouse around like they were switched on would make whatever montior the mouse was meant to be in light up slightly more than the other.
Unplugging the DP would "reset" something and one of the DVI monitors would show the actual windows login screen as per normal.
From then on in reconnecting and re-setting up of the 3rd monitor takes 30mins and multiple reboots.
I tried typing my password in as per normal to see if everything would go right after windows had loaded but the 2 screens remained black with the 1 still in powersave mode |
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