How to set up eyefinity

Nate6283

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Im looking to purchase a VisionTek 900491 Radeon HD 7970 Video Card - 3072MB, GDDR5, PCI-Express 3.0 (x16), 1x Dual-Link DVI-I, 2x Mini DisplayPort, 1x HDMI, DirectX 11, Dual-Slot, Eyefinity, CrossFireX Ready. I was wanting to know how to set up eyefinity and about which ports to use. Are mini display ports as good as hdmi and which ports would i use for eyefinity for best quality.
 
Im looking to purchase a VisionTek 900491 Radeon HD 7970 Video Card - 3072MB, GDDR5, PCI-Express 3.0 (x16), 1x Dual-Link DVI-I, 2x Mini DisplayPort, 1x HDMI, DirectX 11, Dual-Slot, Eyefinity, CrossFireX Ready. I was wanting to know how to set up eyefinity and about which ports to use. Are mini display ports as good as hdmi and which ports would i use for eyefinity for best quality.

They're all pretty much same quality man, just hook up 3 monitors and use the wizard :)
 
I would get a different brand like sapphire or gigabyte or xfx. And diplay port cables are expensive and IIRC most monitors dont have them, HDMI or DVI are probably best and DVI can be split to 2 monitors. Not sure about setting it up though
 
If i remember correctly anyway, you have to have at least one displayport being used for eyefinity.
 
First off, visiontek is a fine brand jonny. But then again, from what is said on this forum the only cards to buy are XFX (which have the loudest coolers on the market), MSI, and Sapphire. There are other brands you know.

As for eyefinity, you have to use at least one ACTIVE display port to use it. It can be ADP to DVI or VGA, but it has to be an active DP cable. Passive will not work.
that aside, you need 3 monitors with the same resolution to get it to work as far as I have heard.
 
I like to stick to the more well known brands with good support, only looked at visiontek once or twice and the ones i did had not so good reviews, so i tend to avoid them.
 
I have used 2 of them and they are no better or worse than any of the other AMD brands. And reviews are no way to judge a product. If you go by reviews, the 212 is the best thing ever and the 912 is a brilliant case. Neither of which are true.
 
what is so funny? Brand does not really matter. They are the same exact chips on the same exact boards (for the most part). They will do the same thing. It is not a review, it is a statement.

If I were reviewing them, I would go on about temps, or colors, and break out a decibel meter and measure noise.
 
THANKYOU FOR HELP. so if i were going to set up say 2 monitors for widescreen gaming i would have to use one of them with the mini display port and the other could be dvi or hdmi?
 
I don't know what good a dual screen gaming setup would be, but no. you can use the two DVI ports for that just fine.
 
Cards are not the same unless they are reference cards. After that they are made to the companies spec. They can have different PCB/Chokes/Caps/Resistors/Coolers even down to the brand of fans. So other then the GPU chip itself the rest of the card from different companies can be completely different. The same applies to video card as do motherboards, thats like saying all 970 boards are the same because they all have a 970 chipset.
 
Did not not read what was said yet again? any 7870 is going to perform the exact same as any other 7870 (just using that chip as an example) as long as both cards are at the same exact clocks, or even within 100Mhz. The board does not really affect FPS a bit. A Twin Frozr @ 1GHz is not going to be a damn bit better than a reference @ 1GHz or than a gigabyte @ 1GHz.

That aside, your only limiting your GPU future by not buying reference designs after all.
 
Did not not read what was said yet again?.

What does that mean? You want to insult me by making some kind of accusation, please back this up and show me where it has happen!


any 7870 is going to perform the exact same as any other 7870 (just using that chip as an example) as long as both cards are at the same exact clocks, or even within 100Mhz. The board does not really affect FPS a bit. A Twin Frozr @ 1GHz is not going to be a damn bit better than a reference @ 1GHz or than a gigabyte @ 1GHz.

Your making a point of the cards will have the same FPS regardless of brand if everything is clocked the same. Why would anyone think different? Who has said other wise? Nobody. The point is nobody but you. It does make a difference in the quality of the cards build. If you think its fine to buy a lower quality card just because its clocked the same, great. But dont say, they are the same exact chips on the same exact boards (for the most part). Its not true, other then the reference design for the most part they are not the same. You can have two 7950s and not one part other then the GPU is the same.
 
Guys lets chill.

But yeah, heatsinks, power regulation and stuff like that helps a lot when highly overclocked.

Cards with cheap designed cooling, lesser quality capacitors and so forth, will fail more quickly. Regardless of processor similarities, (i.e. same GPU).

I think what Strangle is saying is that different designs to the reference design can make the GPU more stable by providing better cooling and power stability.

It totally matters therefore for brand and design.
 
What does that mean? You want to insult me by making some kind of accusation, please back this up and show me where it has happen!
I don't know what I was saying there. It doesn't make sense to me.


But what I am saying is it is not going to make a bit of difference to the average user. If you want to OC to the max, then go right ahead and waste money doing that for little gain in game. Otherwise, any reference card will do the exact same thing the exact same way for less money. Why spend more where it is not needed? Makes as much sense as putting music on an SSD or getting a 1200 watt PSU for a GT640. Spending where it is not needed.
 
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