3 displays

[pickettwayne]

Hey Guys,

Am I right in thinking I shouldn't of purchased this item XFX HD 5450 512MB DDR2 VGA DVI HDMI Out PCI-E Graphics.. | Ebuyer.com. I ordered it to try and get displays working. One HDMI, The second DVI and the third VGA. Im having trouble getting the third monitor working.

The reason I purchased this card was that it stated it supported ATI Eyefinity. However, im confused and don't know what to try now. What do you guys reckon, or should I send it back and get a card with display port so I can add the VGA by a diplay port vga converter. Im confused.

Any help will be muchly appreciated.

[pickettwayne]

Heres the link. https://www.ebuyer.com/product/191533

[Frost]

the Eyefinity cards usually just have 3/6 HDMI ports on them. The fact that yours has a port of each type probably means that it's a choice of output methods, rather than being designed to use all 3 through the use of various adapters. That is, it has 3 output ports, but can only display 2 at once max. This is backed up by the maximum resolution of: 2560 x 1600, which would have to be split over the 3 monitors.
The specs of that card show it's crossfire ready which no doubt means you'd need 2 of those cards to support eyefinity. There's a review comment saying:

[Neorion]

Is the 3rd monitor not seen in the ATI control panel?
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[el_oso]

try plugging out the dvi port monitor first. see if the third monitor works. are you using the up to date drivers? they were only released a week ago
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[Bendy]

I'm running a 5450 and there was some weird combo of which outputs you could use and which you couldn't. I think it was that if you wanted 3 monitors, one had to be displayport. It was a while ago so I'm a bit fuzzy, but I definitely bought a displayport monitor for some reason around then!

I ended up with 1 x displayport, 1 x hdmi and (I think) 1 x vga (I'll double check the vga tomorrow, there might be an adaptor involved - the dp and hdmi I'm sure of).

[chris-red]

Dual screen with different screens
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