EAH6950 DCII/2DI4S/2GD5

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Hi, lately i bought the Asus EAH6950 DCII/2DI4S/2GD5 .that card has 4 mini PLUS 2 dVI. in all the documentation from Asus or from Amd i do not findthe technical layout on how to connect 6 monitors to those 4 outputs as it advertised by Amd or bu Asus
which outputs should be active or passive , type of cabeling etc
2. my second issue is that if i would like to create one big desktop of 8 24 inch 1900*1200 acn i install a second card like that so i have 8 normal outputs to 8 screens that will function as 1,
and if i install a seconde card which mother borad would be able to carry it all , space wise as it seems that EATX boards are not enough

thanks.

 

[borisof007]

You need ACTIVE displayport converters to whatever connector your monitor uses. Eyefinity technology requires that every monitor beyond the 2nd be connected to a displayport on your video card.

So if you have 6 monitors, the first two would be via DVI, the rest would need ACTIVE mini-displayport to DVI (or VGA or HDMI or whatever you want) converters. Passive ones will not work!

In regards to your second issue, your 8 monitor setup is impossible. You can have two 6950's NOT running in crossfire, but you wouldn't have one giant seamless desktop (I believe you could run two 4 monitor setups this way, but not one GIANT display), OR you can have a maximum of 6 monitors in one giant display.