Desperate for an answer. Multiple monitors on one system. AMD R5 230

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Durghan

Durghan

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Hi there. I'm really desperate here. I've got a Dell computer, totally spaced on getting model number but can if it's important.

It's part of a dispatch office for security at a university. They've reconfigured their desk and now want to run 3 monitors on this system. I told the head guy to run across to Bext Buy and pick up a video card that has HDMI and will run 3 monitors.

He came back with an AMD R5 230 which, as far as I can tell, should do the job but I can only ever manage to get 2 monitors working at a time. I can do ANY COMBINATION of two monitors, but never all three.

Can anyone give me some straight forward information on making this crap work? Thanks.
 
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I might be able to help, I am sort of in the same boat, I own a Radeon R7 250, that I purchased with the purpose of running 3 monitors. I am able to do so if I run 3 year old drivers and no games. I can't run 3 monitors if I update the drivers. If I wanted to run three monitors I discovered that I would have had to purchase the R7 250x, which I didn't know at the time.

As best as I can tell, I believe you have to have a R7 250x or greater card to really use 3 monitors.

On my system the windows monitor setup will let me turn on 2 monitors of any combination, but not 3.

Here is amd's feature matrix that lead me to that conclusion. I believe it applies to the R5

AMD's R7 Feature Matrix


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Durghan

Durghan

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Optionally, I also have an X1300 Radeon card, could that be added to control the third monitor while running two off of the R5?

I'd like to only have to go back there once to fix the problem. Thanks.
 
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Durghan

Durghan

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Wow. So many answers. Such help! Thanks guys.

To save some from my rant, the gist of it is, even though we have amazing technology these days, we still can't have a lowend video card with three outputs actually run all three outputs UNLESS you get a very specific version of the card. Which no one will tell you about. Crap, sorry, still ranted.

So, as it turns out from what I can gather, ONLY the version of the card with the Display port instead of the HDMI port is capable of running 3 monitors at once. I don't understand the technical reasons for this and as far as I'm concerned it's complete ludicrous that the HDMI one can't run 3 monitors. Why make a card with three out puts and then restrict people to only using two?

Regardless, if there is a really legitimate reason for this restriction, cards that have such a limit SERIOUSLY need a MASSIVE notice because there is absolutely nothing on, near, or relating to this card that gives any indication that running three monitors is not possible. Instead I got to waste 2 days searching for information that gave clear guidance about this not being possible and then was only really able to piece it together from various sources and trial and error.
 
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CountMike

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Those older cards had either-or outputs put there more for flexibility of connections rather than all of them at same time. They mostly didn't have enough computing power to do much more. In olden days, one of the first PCI (not express) card was high priced Matrox with 2 or 4 VGA outputs.
 
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Racherik

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I might be able to help, I am sort of in the same boat, I own a Radeon R7 250, that I purchased with the purpose of running 3 monitors. I am able to do so if I run 3 year old drivers and no games. I can't run 3 monitors if I update the drivers. If I wanted to run three monitors I discovered that I would have had to purchase the R7 250x, which I didn't know at the time.

As best as I can tell, I believe you have to have a R7 250x or greater card to really use 3 monitors.

On my system the windows monitor setup will let me turn on 2 monitors of any combination, but not 3.

Here is amd's feature matrix that lead me to that conclusion. I believe it applies to the R5

AMD's R7 Feature Matrix


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