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PostPosted: 18 Apr 2013, 04:24 
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Thanks for the info Haldi!!! I think I understand what you are saying, and I'm guessing I won't be able to do 4 monitors with the card I got, it has 2xdvi 1xhdmi 1xdp

This is the card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814202008

Just to confirm, I won't be able to run 4 monitors at once correct?


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No worries at all Ora, I actually went on one myself, But I had to make sure I came back to update you since you have helped me along this whole time, it wouldn't be fair unless you got to see the final product.

Installation went smoothly, didn't run into any problems at all!!! I'm absolutely loving it, I haven't tried out the Skyrim thing yet, but I will eventually, I've got plenty of games to keep me busy, and I've started graphic design as a hobby so that's taken up quite a bit of time on it's own.

Here are some pics of my set up as of now. It's really nice having it set up in the corner of my desk and room as it allows me to hide the millions of wires, my external hard drives, my xbox, router and modem behind all my monitors for a really clean look!!!

Looks good! Glad it worked out well for you. Thanks for sharing :)
Any chance for a picture of the insides of your case? I'm weird but i like seeing that big wicked videocard ;)

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The monitor on the right side is the one that is different from the other two, but its not really all that noticeable unless you are focused on it. It's working out great.

Now my next mission is to find out if I can install a 4th monitor (the large 27" you can see in the pictures, with just my one card. It has four out puts 2xdvi 1xhdmi 1xdp. I am currently using the two dvi's and the dp, I tried plugging in the large monitor to the hdmi port, my computer recognizes it, but doesn't allow me to activate more than 3 monitors, so I'm thinking it's not possible with 1 card.

Well what Haldi said :P Third monitor and up needs to be DP for that to work :)
[s]And since your card has a free dp output and your monitor has DP natively, that should be easy :D[/s]
EDIT: Nevermind that, only one DP. You could add a second cheapass videocard if you have the slots on your motherboard dedicated to that 27". Just dont go dragging your games to that screen and dont try to put it into your eyefinity group ;)

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But, things are going fantastically smooth, and I couldn't be happier with the set up. Thanks again for all your assistance in getting me through this whole ordeal lol, Probably couldn't have done it without you, or if I did, it wouldn't have been a fun experience lol!

You're welcome, though without my assistance you'd probably have gotten it from someone else. I took a lot of my own knowledge from this place too :D
Oh, if you want an awesome game for eyefinity, go play Dead Space (not sure about dollar pricing, but straight on Origin DS1 only costs 8 euro and DS2 only 10 euro). I've only played those games recently myself and even the first one still looks great. All three have excellent multi monitor support out of the box. :)

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PostPosted: 18 Apr 2013, 10:31 
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Jup. Seems like in that card you can only run 3monitors.
You can now use an old 2nd GPU(for additional monitors, not Eyefinity)
Or you could use an DP adapter. Either the Club3D MST Hub (150$) or the Zotac DP to 2x HDMI adapter. Though I'm not sure if Eyefinity works with 1x Zotac Adapter +1x Normal.
That adapter creates one big screen,so you can't split the signal into 1 for Eyefinity and the other for the additional monitor (iirc! Never had such an adapter, just heard about it. Lots of info here on WSGF.

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