Three monitors with R9 270

[clancaster23]

I want to run three monitors and am thinking of getting an R9 270 card to do so. I have read several posts about people having problems getting the third monitor to work. I would be getting the PowerColor version and it's supposed to have a DVI, an HDMI and a DisplayPort ports to hook up to it. Before I purchase the card I want to be sure I can run all three. How is each monitor connected to the card? I am guessing it'd be like this:

Monitor 1 - Connected through DVI port with DVI cable
Monitor 2 - Connected through HDMI with HDMI cable
Monitor 3 - Connected through DVI cable with active DisplayPort to DVI adapter

Is that the right setup I'd need or should it be hooked up another way?

 

[Zerk2012]

Yes that would work as long as the adapter is active when switching a digital signal to a analog signal.

 

[Thaisnang]

Multi-Monitor setups come with their own problems. But yeah you can run 3 monitors on that GPU but nothing GPU intensive though.

 

[clancaster23]

And by GPU intensive you mean what, most games? I'm primarily doing this to race online with.

 

[Thaisnang]

And by GPU intensive you mean what, most games? I'm primarily doing this to race online with.

Games aren't the only thing that is GPU intensive. And if you are planning to play a online racing game while using a eyefinity setup then you should look at R9 280's or 290's, 270's would lag on a eyefinity setup.

 

[clancaster23]

That's basically all I do is online race on this machine. And I can get the 270 pretty cheap and I'm not looking to spend the 2-300 on the 280 or 290 considering I still need to get two more monitors lol. Would it really lag that bad that I wouldn't be able to run it smoothly?

 

[Thaisnang]

That's basically all I do is online race on this machine. And I can get the 270 pretty cheap and I'm not looking to spend the 2-300 on the 280 or 290 considering I still need to get two more monitors lol. Would it really lag that bad that I wouldn't be able to run it smoothly?

The lag would depend on the game.

 

[clancaster23]

I talked with another guy who races with me and runs three screens and he uses an older Radeon HD 6850 and he still gets 80 fps with everything maxed so I'm thinking with a better card (R9 270) that I should be able to run just as well if not a bit better since the R9 should be a better card, no?

 

[Thaisnang]

Which racing game you're talking about?

 

[clancaster23]

It's ARCA Sim Racing '08 basically but it's been changed around a lot since then.

 

[Thaisnang]

For that 270 should do.

 

[clancaster23]

I think so too. And I missed the fact that it's actually a Radeon R9 270X, not the basic 270 so that's a bit better also.