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| Author: | ALANi [ 18 Nov 2009, 21:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Noobie need some help ;p |
Hi guys i am about to buy a new graphic card and 3 monitors :D i am about Gigabyte GTX 295 or Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5870 btw ATI have lower price ;p if far away the diffreance at fps? monitors like this SAMSUNG SYNCMASTER 2443NW with only 15pin D-Sub is posible to get connected x3 with this graphic cards? Sorry i am noob at multimonitors :( |
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| Author: | suiken_2mieu [ 18 Nov 2009, 21:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Noobie need some help ;p |
I havn't really looked, But you can go with the following: 1. Gigabyte GTX 295 + TH2Go DE + 3x DVI->VGA Adapters ----------This will give you a max res of 5040x1050 (3x1680x1050). 2. ATI Radeon HD 5870 + 2x DVI->VGA Adapters + 1x Active (Powered) DP->VGA Adapter. ----------This will give you the max res of your monitors. 3. ATI Radeon HD 5870 + 2x DVI->VGA Adapters + 1x DP Monitor ----------This will give you the max res of your monitors. 4. ATI Radeon HD 5870 + 3x DVI->VGA Adapters + 1x Active (Powered) DP->DVI Adapter. ----------This will give you the max res of your monitors. But I'm not sure if it will work. Can someone Test to see if you can use a DVI->VGA Adapter off of an Active (Powered) DP->DVI Adapter? |
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| Author: | packerfan [ 18 Nov 2009, 21:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Noobie need some help ;p |
If you go with the Nvidia you need a product called Triple Head 2 Go to run 3 monitors or you can use the software alternative softth and take a performance hit http://www.kegetys.net/SoftTH/. With the ATI 5870 you can run 3 monitors in digital mode (1 must be displayport otherwise you have to buy a 100USD adapter to convert the signal from displayport to dvi. However the 5870 can run 3 monitors natively without additional software or hardware. (provided you don't need the active display port adapter) Note that the working list for SoftTH is relatively small so to run a wider variety of games you would probably need a TripleHead2Go which is 250-300USD last I checked. Putting the Nvidia card at a much higher price point. I would go with ATI personally and just try to get displayport monitors (or remember to pick up a passive adapter. The triple head 2 go option can use the analog version of triple head 2 go to use all 15 pin dsub I cannot remember how 5870s do vga if they can put it out through both dvi ports or only 1 (it looks like it has two analog converters so it may be able to do 2) The displayport adapters convert to dvi but I do not think displayport on the ATI card carries any analog information so you would need an expensive digital to analog conversion box to make the dvi a dsub/vga output which may introduce lag In short I would reccomend a different monitor with dvi inputs at the least, a displayport is preferred in addition to dvi. |
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| Author: | ALANi [ 19 Nov 2009, 03:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Noobie need some help ;p |
Thanks alot for help guys i didn't know anything about Triple Head 2 Go and SoftTH thats make things more clearly cheers. :D |
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| Author: | whismerhill [ 19 Nov 2009, 05:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Noobie need some help ;p |
probably not, the adapter would need to support analog signals which I see no reason for implementing in a converter when you can have the correct direct adapter one thing though for the thread starter, I wouldn't personally buy any VGA only panel anymore, not future proof, worse quality, less functionality also one precision for 58xx & 59xx series, two legacy (VGA/DVI/HDMI) screens are supported natively with direct or passive cheap simple adaptors , the third one needs a DP screen or a DP active adaptor (which was said already) |
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| Author: | Anprionsa [ 19 Nov 2009, 06:37 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Noobie need some help ;p |
Hi guys i am about to buy a new graphic card and 3 monitors :D I'd just get a DP monitor in the first place. Also if you are thinking about the 295, might as well pay for the 5970. |
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| Author: | ALANi [ 20 Nov 2009, 16:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Noobie need some help ;p |
[quote]Hi guys i am about to buy a new graphic card and 3 monitors :D I'd just get a DP monitor in the first place. Also if you are thinking about the 295, might as well pay for the 5970. Can you tell me what DP monitor is? have a diffreance from other 2 monitors? or is just a trick at connection, like this i can't have 3 same monitors? Please give a sample of monitor , 3x Samsung 2443BWT - 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - 20,000:1 (DC), 5ms, 1920 x 1200, DVI will work with ATI 5870 with provided software hardware? Sorry again for asking so much details! Thanks |
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| Author: | whismerhill [ 20 Nov 2009, 16:18 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Noobie need some help ;p |
Can you tell me what DP monitor is? have a diffreance from other 2 monitors? or is just a trick at connection, like this i can't have 3 same monitors? Please give a sample of monitor , 3x Samsung 2443BWT - 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - 20,000:1 (DC), 5ms, 1920 x 1200, DVI will work with ATI 5870 with provided software hardware? a DP monitor = a Display Port monitor = a monitor equipped with a Display Port connector for your 3x Samsung example, DVI will work if you get one DP=>DVI ACTIVE adapter for the third DVI panel see the sticky about active adapters in the eyefinity subforum for more details on how & where to buy one |
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| Author: | Anprionsa [ 20 Nov 2009, 16:37 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Noobie need some help ;p |
[quote]Can you tell me what DP monitor is? have a diffreance from other 2 monitors? or is just a trick at connection, like this i can't have 3 same monitors? Please give a sample of monitor , 3x Samsung 2443BWT - 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - 20,000:1 (DC), 5ms, 1920 x 1200, DVI will work with ATI 5870 with provided software hardware? a DP monitor = a Display Port monitor = a monitor equipped with a Display Port connector for your 3x Samsung example, DVI will work if you get one DP=>DVI ACTIVE adapter for the third DVI panel see the sticky about active adapters in the eyefinity subforum for more details on how & where to buy one What he said, I just think it too much a hassle to not get DP Monitors if you are going for eyefinity. You have to use that adapter and what not, and I have heard some not so good things about it. So yeah. |
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