Sorry if this has already been discussed but could someone just quickly tell me why ATI forces us to use display port to drive one of the 3 monitors used in an eyefinity setup?
I had read somewhere that it was due to the way the outputs were configured on the 5870, in that whilst there is 2 dvi and 1 hdmi the hdmi port is not completely stand alone but is just split from one of the dvi ports so if you wanted to run all three at once it thus wouldnt work - is that even remotely correct? Or is there some other technical reason that requires the use of display port?
Or finally is it just ATI trying to force us to use a format that should have been left to die after hdmi become the common standard?
Also in a cf setup I presume the 3 outputs must all come from one card? ie I have 2 5870s but that doesnt mean I can run 2 dvi on one and an hdmi or dvi on another?
Sorry for the rather noobish questiosn I hadnt really bothered to look into eyefinity seriously as yet because I have yet to find a way to get 3 23" monitors plus my home theatre centre speaker onto a desk without having something hanging from the roof or some such haha.
thanks in advance.
I had read somewhere that it was due to the way the outputs were configured on the 5870, in that whilst there is 2 dvi and 1 hdmi the hdmi port is not completely stand alone but is just split from one of the dvi ports so if you wanted to run all three at once it thus wouldnt work - is that even remotely correct? Or is there some other technical reason that requires the use of display port?
Or finally is it just ATI trying to force us to use a format that should have been left to die after hdmi become the common standard?
Also in a cf setup I presume the 3 outputs must all come from one card? ie I have 2 5870s but that doesnt mean I can run 2 dvi on one and an hdmi or dvi on another?
Sorry for the rather noobish questiosn I hadnt really bothered to look into eyefinity seriously as yet because I have yet to find a way to get 3 23" monitors plus my home theatre centre speaker onto a desk without having something hanging from the roof or some such haha.
thanks in advance.