I am waiting for my new pc parts to come in the mail, I was thinking about trying eyefinity but was wondering if my plan would work, however odd it may look. I have a Asus Matrix HD 7970 Ghz Edition coming in the mail, it has 2 DVI and 4 DisplayPort (one of the display port shares bandwidth with the first DVI but it doesn't matter since am only using 3 monitors).
I have a 23" Dell monitor (DVI or HDMI) and 2 17" Dell monitors (VGA only) available. I figured for the price of an adapter I could try the 3x1 setup. I know Eyefinity will require all monitors to have a common resolution to use (the 17"'s resolution of 1280 x 1024).
First wondering if it is possible using:
* the 23" on DVI#1
* 1st 17" on DVI#2 (via DVI to VGA adapter)
* 2nd 17" on DisplayPort (via active DP to VGA adapter)
If that will work, also wondering what it will look like since the 17"'s are 4:3 ratio and the 23" is a 16:9, so using 4:3 ratio resolution (default) on the 16:9 monitor in the middle, which of those might happen:
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the 23" taking on the 4:3 resoltion of 1280x1024 makes the image cut out between screen since it's a widescreen or
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Part of the image of the 17" screens merges with the 1280x1024 resolution of the 23" to form one image but not using the whole space of the 17" monitors?