SAPPHIRE ATI Eyefinity set up with Bill Donnelly

Video describing how to connect three monitors to the latest HD 5000 series SAPPHIRE graphics cards and how to set up ATI Eyefinity. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sapphireukpr

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• SAPPHIRE
• ATI
• Eyefinity
• graphics
• HD 5000
• HD 5870
• HD 5750
• Bill Donnelly

[persianbraveheart]

Any idea why I can't get an extended desktop with 3 displays? I have the 6950 FLEX edition. For some reason It only allows me to have 2 displays running at the same time.

Monitor 1 - VGA-DVI adapter

Monitor 2 - HDMI

Monitor 3 - DVI

The 6950 flex card is supposed to allow 3 displays out of the box without the need for any adapters. This is the reason I purchased it.

Am I doing something wrong here?

[SapphireUKPR]

@persianbraveheart Your configuration should work with no problems. Please can you make sure that you are using the SAPPHIRE VGA-DVI adapter that came with the card, plugged in to the white DVI-I port on the card and ensure that you are using the latest drivers from the AMD website (Currently 11.12). All screens need to be capable of displaying at the same resolution.

[persianbraveheart]

@SapphireUKPR thanks for your reply. I've figured out the problem. My card is NOT a flex card. It's a regular sapphire 6950 2GB. I have 4 outputs and no white DVI slot, only 2 black ones. The retailer where I bought it must have put it into the flex edition box. They messed up big time and will be hearing it from me tomorrow first thing :)

[SapphireUKPR]

@persianbraveheart Please check your private messages and I will try to assist you

[Niqbal87]

ive got a 6850(2x dvis 1 hdmi and 1 display port) and have 2 monitors in mind but they have dvis and hdmis do i still need to use the crappy display port thing? or could i connect two of them to the dvis and the final one to the hdmi

[SapphireUKPR]

@Niqbal87 You will still need to use an active adapter in order to use eyefinity. The only cards where this is not the case is our FleX series, where the adapter is already built on to the PCB.

[SapphireUKPR]

@sayfoo22 Eyefinity can only be used with ATI/AMD Radeon cards.

[TheVekNilashGoblin]

where can i buy the video card with the 4 comitor sockets on the back of it? please reply.

[HOUDlNI]

@persianbraveheart Thank you, that answered my question. It seems that the second DVI port is connected to the HDMI which explains why I couldn't use 2 monitors, but using the first DVI and HDMI worked. So getting a MiniDP adapter should allow me to connect the third monitor, thanks.

[persianbraveheart]

@HOUDlNI You probably need to use one of the Displayport/Mini Displayport outputs on your video card. I don't think you can't use 2 DVI's and 1 HDMI. You'll need to buy a displayport adapter.

[HOUDlNI]

@persianbraveheart I have the exact same setup on my XFX HD6870 but I can't get it work.. In fact I can only get DVI and DVI-VGA to work together, when I plug in an HDMI neither of the DVI's work.. What am I doing wrong?

[rockkilla483]

from today & yesterday it was fine the gpu crapped out on me now the CCC is gonna crap out on GEEZus i swear im just gonna say fuck it & go All out on some 7970's

[rockkilla483]

ok dying gpu! FUCK now i cant arrange my eyefinity setup?????

WHY SO MANY PROBLEMS

CCC suggest i re-enable the eyefinity display group i do that nothing happens no eyefinity settings though it is on but not arranged Cuz there is no arrange option!

So i go to the display manager & try enabling the display group even thought im already setup it still has the option to do so when i did it this time it showed 9 monitors which i dont have only 3 so idk what is going on my main gpu idk what happened

[rockkilla483]

HELPHELPHELP wqont go 3x1 5760x1080 but will go 1920x1080 x 3 just duplicates thinking they dont have 1080P shows up like 600x400 swear wont go eyefinity saphire hd 6850 crossfire

Fuck it ill take a pic am I THE FIRST ON EARTH WITH THIS PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!

HELP HELP HELP MEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! Everything was all good yesterday now this BS wants me to have 9 monitors or something

[joshafool]

MW2 looks like shit. It's cropped and stretched. This is like cropping a wide screen movie into a full screen but the other way around. Instead of the sides you lose the top/bottom perspective. In MW2 the gun took up 90% of the right screen when it was reloading 5:34 . You could hide an army behind that gun. Is that because MW2 does not fully support eyefinity?

[weird693oh]

is it alright if one of the monitors aren't the same there all samsung just one is smaller

[JGKreations]

I play the racing game dirt 3. I have a racing simulator next to my computer. The racing rig has a 32" lcd in front and a small 7" lcd that sits off to the side of the steering wheel. I was all three monitors connected to my graphics card which supports eyefinity. I was hoping to have the 7" monitor be a permanent view of the "rear-view" (what's behind me in the racing game) I have seen this done before but I don't know how I might possibly set this up. Any ideas? Thanks!

[5T34LTHcamoT4NK]

@SapphireUKPR so why am i doing the same thing on an nvidea card?

they call it span diaplays with surrond,

im guessing thats only the settings name, but its the same has.... this

the only difference here is that nvidea sucks at having multiscreen cards, my brother has a 580, its one of the best single GPU card... (removing the 7970 from our minds ;)

and it does not support more then 2 screens..... i got 2 570 witch is the same price, but plays 4 screens.... only 2 screens/GPU