Eyefinity support

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Felix Blanke <felixblanke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Felix Blanke <felixblanke at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah.
>>>
>>> I have buyed a third monitor and now need a video card for it :)
>>>
>>> I want to buy a HD 5770 (flex-edition from sapphire) to use 3 monitors
>>> via DVI.
>>> Open-source would be mutch nicer to use then the closed source driver :)
>>
>> Only if you use active displayport->dvi convertors.
>>
>> Dave.
>
> That is def. wrong!

No that is correct.  There are only 2 pixel plls on the chip, so at
most 2 non-DP monitors can be driven at one time.

>
> The HD 5770 flex edition from sapphire can handle 3 monitors via dvi
> with a passiv convertor, e.g. see
> http://www.techpowerup.com/128506/Sapphire_Announces_HD_5770_FleX_Edition_Connect_Four_Displays_in_Eyefinity.html
>

That card is a special oem specific one-off (I suspect they just
integrated an active adapter into the board).

Alex

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