My Eyefinity 6 Software is not Working I Think. Definitely something Wrong Here.

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I just set up my Eyefinty 6 7870 with 6 monitors on a bookshelf two on each shelf for Wall St. trading and newswatching not for gaming. This is the GPU model I'm using: http://www.powercolor.com/us/News.asp?id=1155

I went into windows 10 display settings, and I could arrange them from top to bottom find. Each screen was individual, and I could move the mouse and drag windows around from top to bottom and side to side easily. It was right at first. I started messing around with the AMD software, and would only give me a single desktop view which I suppose is ideal for gaming only on my setup it was horribly zoomed in, the icons were all oversized, and the picture quality was grainy. Also I could not adjust the monitors in the order I wanted from bottom to top of the bookshelf. I found that I could only activate 5 monitors instead of all six with the AMD, and that was not what I wanted.

I went online to research how to put things back to the way they were, but I didn't find anything. I downloaded the Crimson, and then I could only get two monitors to work, and one is zoomed in, app icons oversized, and the picture is grainy.

I can't open advanced settings on the AMD software. I click them, but they won't open. I can't adjust the windows display settings to detect the other monitors just the two. Nothing seems to work now. What do I do to get the monitors to set up from bottom to top clearly and individually.

Again this is not about gaming. It's a trading and newswatching workstation.
 
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That goes back to the original limitation I've been talking about. 2 monitors on legacy (3 on rx 300 series or later) and that's vga, dvi, and hdmi. But any more monitors must be on dp. You can always go all dp if you want. When I say dp, I mean either dp or mdp since they have the same capabilities. The ports are referring to the monitor's port not the gpu port. That's where I think it's confusing you. Everything is just electronic signals so you can send different signals over wires as long as the port has the right wires and dp can do any digital signal; dvi and hdmi along with dp. So if your monitors don't have dp then you have to convert at least 4.
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It has to do with active DP adapters instead of passive DP adapters. The active ones have chips in them to convert to VGA, DVI, or HDMI. It's the same on all of the Eyefinity 6 GPU's and probably the other ones too.

Read the reviews on this Eyefinity 6 different manufacturer though:
https://www.amazon.com/VisionTek-Radeon-7750-GDDR5-MiniDP/dp/B00C7EPSVS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467276894&sr=8-1&keywords=eyefinity+6

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1867791/radeon-7870-eyfinity-enables-displays.html

https://www.startech.com/faq/DisplayPort_Converter_DP_Multi_Mode

 
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Let me clarify that for everyone.

I thought that it was Crimson, and I thought that it was the software. After I messed around with this software thoroughly for a week, I concluded it had to be the hardware. Then when I was looking for a new Eyefinity 6 GPU to replace the used one I bought, I saw in the reviews people talking about the problem of active and passive ports.

The Eyefinty 6 comes with 2 active ports. That means that the chips inside convert from mini display port to VGA, DVI, and/ HDMI etc. The other for mini display ports on the Eyefinity 6 do not have the active adapter chips for them. They are called passive ports, so everyone has to buy a set of active adapters with those conversion chips in them.

The reason I was thrown off at first thinking it was Crimson etc was because the monitors came on, and I could move my mouse pointer across them, and arrange them somewhat although it was hard to arrange them because of the problem passive/active adapter problem.

So I thought that.

Then I thought the problem was the monitors. I replaced a few of them. I thought it was the software and then the hardware, but then I found out the matter of the active adapters.
 
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That's not exactly right. This goes for most amd cards but they have 2 internal clocks which legacy ports use and an external clock which dp uses and supports multiple monitors over a single clock. The rx 300 series and later now support 3 before needing active dp adapters. If you use dp cables without changing port type, then you don't run into the issue since you aren't using any internal clock. A passive adapter is just sending that electrical signal through the port so still uses the internal clock. That's where an active adapter comes in where it is sending a dp signal which gets converted to the other port's signal.

Just an extra bit of info but you can do 6 monitors with less ports on a different card. Others may not want to limit themselves to those few 6 port dp cards, although mst hubs can cost a bit.
 
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Okay, are those extra monitors you are talking about clones or individual screen?

I have the Eyefinity 6 with with 2 legacy ports and 4 passive ports I guess you call it. Can I buy splitters for these, and run more individual screens out of each port? Can I buy MST Hubs, and run more individual screens out of each port?

What's possible in my Eyefinity 6 because I don't want to buy more than one GPU if I don't have to. I would like to set up 11 more monitors on the same GPU for a total of 16. They are mostly all very passive trading charts. A few would be live news streams, and then one or two would be my actual work desktop. No gaming.
 
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There is no such thing as a passive or active port. DP is dp and if you use dp and don't convert, you don't run into the limitation. This is all for individual screens. As long as they are dp splitters, they are the same thing as a mst hub. You can't do 16 monitors on a single card. 6 is the max.
 
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You're not understanding how it works. You're talking about active and passive adapters and hubs, not the port itself. The port does not convert. There is no such thing has an active dp port. There is no chip on the gpu to convert. A mst hub has nothing to do with the port converting anything.

It is this simple: the port is either outputting from using the internal clock or external. If it's using a legacy signal then it's internal and you run into the limitation. A passive adapter is using a legacy signal and the port is simply a pass through, hence passive. Tech terms are quite literal. There is no converting, ports are just wired to both clocks. If it's a dp signal going out, then that's the external and you don't run into the limitation. Either dp to dp or dp being converting makes no difference because the gpu is still outputting dp. You do not need an active adapter if you are using dp to dp because there is no need to convert to get the gpu to output a dp signal.
 
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But I'm talking about converting to VGA, HDMI, and DVI. That's why the active adapters from the mini DP port.
 
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That goes back to the original limitation I've been talking about. 2 monitors on legacy (3 on rx 300 series or later) and that's vga, dvi, and hdmi. But any more monitors must be on dp. You can always go all dp if you want. When I say dp, I mean either dp or mdp since they have the same capabilities. The ports are referring to the monitor's port not the gpu port. That's where I think it's confusing you. Everything is just electronic signals so you can send different signals over wires as long as the port has the right wires and dp can do any digital signal; dvi and hdmi along with dp. So if your monitors don't have dp then you have to convert at least 4.
 
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