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Not sure why others like Kyle at HARDOCP had trouble with the Apple Active adapter but I have it working since yesterday with MSI HD5870 Drivers and Win7 x64 Professional.

Picked up this cable Mini-Display port Female to Male Display Port locally to use with my Apple Active Mini-Display Port to DVI adapter.

http://estore.circuitassembly.com/pr...ter-Cable.html

My setup is DVI + HDMI + DP (CA Adapter>Apple active adapter>DVI cable)

Did a quick test and the 3x 1 option appeared.

played WOW and Crysis last evening at 5040 x 1050

So yes the Apple adapter works with the cable adapter I was able to purchase.

They ship internationaly so you are in Luck

Can somebody confirm this?

If this is true then I need only to find 3 monitors im comfortable with.

Trust me I was also surprised that it worked.
See I got my HD 5870 last Thursday and I had already bought a passive DP to DVI adapter thinking that it would work. NOT.
Last Friday I went to Fry's and bought the Apple Active adapter and then went online and bought the Mini-DP to DP from CA.
Over the weekend I saw HARDOCP Kyle confirm that the Apple adapter would not work so I got fed up of muckin around and also ordered a Dell adapter (Arriving today). Well Last night low and behold after getting my CA Mini DP to DP adapter and plugging it into the apple then into a DVI cable it worked perfectly.

Tonight I will try the Dell active adapter that Fed Ex is delivering to me and if it also works decide which solution I will keep and which I will return to vendor.

Please post here if the Dell Adapter works, im about to buy one, thanks

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Can somebody confirm this?

If this is true then I need only to find 3 monitors im comfortable with.

If you don't have 3 monitors yet, you shouldn't even bother with the adapters. Save up and get something like 3 Dell 2408WFP's or 3 Dell U2410. Both of them have DisplayPort on them. Dell usually has deals on them like once a month or so.

The thing is. 1 x U2410 = 3 x okayish BenQ in price.

Yeah the Dell is the only DP monitor I can find in NZ, in fact it is the only 24 1920x1200 (rather than 1080) that Dell currently offer here... no more cheapo ones like my 2 side monitors. The Dell is easily 3 times the cost of other, decent, monitors.

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Dipping bags at Mach1.9

Which means it's a lot cheaper to go active DisP->DVI adaptor than even one DisP monitor. :(

Same here, as well. I'm hunting for either another 2405 to match my other two or three value screens because I don't really fancy having colour matching issues. :(

No further update from Scan about those active DisP adaptors. :(

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Can somebody confirm this?

If this is true then I need only to find 3 monitors im comfortable with.

If you don't have 3 monitors yet, you shouldn't even bother with the adapters. Save up and get something like 3 Dell 2408WFP's or 3 Dell U2410. Both of them have DisplayPort on them. Dell usually has deals on them like once a month or so.

The thing is. 1 x U2410 = 3 x okayish BenQ in price.
It's also an S-IPS display which is far better than a TN. If I didn't already have my two Samsung 2443BW, I'd have definitely saved up and gotten two of them. But yea, I understand where you're coming from.

I've asked accell if theres any European distrubuters as the US one via bizlink wants $115 on top of the convertor just to ship and they pointed me here

http://kabeltje.com/accell-displayport-naar-dvid-dual-link-adapter-25cm-p-1628.html

I think they ship outside Holland but do we have a Dutch member that could translate and check out if they ship to Europe / Worldwide and the cost ?

I probably dont need one myself i've found a dell p2210 that should arrive tommorow but might be usefull for anyone else

Picked up this cable Mini-Display port Female to Male Display Port locally to use with my Apple Active Mini-Display Port to DVI adapter.

very interesting ... thanks for that ... can you test more games ?

would be also good to test 5760 x 1200 if you can ... maybe it can handle 5040 x 1050 but not above ...

DELL ADAPTER HAS LANDED.


gonna hook this mofo up and snap some pics, brb in about 10 mins!!!

DELL ADAPTER HAS LANDED.


gonna hook this mofo up and snap some pics, brb in about 10 mins!!!

Wait is killing me, here is hoping for the best.

OH WOW.

i just had to post this really quick, dell sent me a BIZLINK ADAPTER!!!!!!!!

pics coming up momentarily =)