How do I turn on Eyefinity?

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#1 Lash540
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I have 2 5850's in an 890GX mobo with 3 1080p monitors. Now my question is how do I turn on Eyefinity? I cant seem to find any how to guides to help with this and everytime I try looking for setup info from AMD its almost none exsistant? Anyone know how it works and is willing to show me so I can get my 3 monitors rolling in Eyefinity?

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#2 youthsmooth
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You can't connect all 3 with HDMI. You're going to have to use at least one monitor on the display port. Details Here

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#3 Lash540
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A GUIDE! =D!

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You can't connect all 3 with HDMI. You're going to have to use at least one monitor on the display port. Details Here

youthsmooth
well he could do a DVI to HDMI for one of the monitors
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#5 kilerchese
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[QUOTE="youthsmooth"]

You can't connect all 3 with HDMI. You're going to have to use at least one monitor on the display port. Details Here

FUBAR24

well he could do a DVI to HDMI for one of the monitors

No, it's a thing with signals. DP uses a different signal than VGA/DVI/HDMI. There a GPU can only output two of the signals that VGA/DVI/HDMI use, but can output multiple types of signals that DP uses. DP also has higher data throughputs.

Sorry if I can't be more descriptive, I read a article on it, but this was like a little over a month ago. I would link it if I remembered where I read it. I visit almost a dozen tech sites daily.

Even if you use an adapter from DP to VGA/DVI/HDMI it still doesn't make a signal that a DP connector makes.

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#6 EvOlVE_3
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ok simplified u need at least 1 monitor on display port and the other two can go on any of the the others. With what the guy above said yes there is a problem with the DP adapers as they dont work but i read somewhere that u can buy special active display port adapters from dell(i think), as the passive ones dont work?(fairly expensive i heard)

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[QUOTE="FUBAR24"][QUOTE="youthsmooth"]

You can't connect all 3 with HDMI. You're going to have to use at least one monitor on the display port. Details Here

kilerchese

well he could do a DVI to HDMI for one of the monitors

No, it's a thing with signals. DP uses a different signal than VGA/DVI/HDMI. There a GPU can only output two of the signals that VGA/DVI/HDMI use, but can output multiple types of signals that DP uses. DP also has higher data throughputs.

Sorry if I can't be more descriptive, I read a article on it, but this was like a little over a month ago. I would link it if I remembered where I read it. I visit almost a dozen tech sites daily.

Even if you use an adapter from DP to VGA/DVI/HDMI it still doesn't make a signal that a DP connector makes.

but then how do you do it considering i have yet to see a single monitor use the DP
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#8 kilerchese
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Dell makes multiple monitors use DP connectors. You can also use an Active DP to DVI/HDMI connector, not PASSIVE. Those cost about $100 though.

Samsung and HP also make a few DP monitors. Dell's are made under the professional series tag.