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Best way to run 5-6 monitors with Eyefinity?

Thanks for all the replies! It's really helpful. Right now I'm working (or rather my dad will be) with two of these http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en...0-3955381.html They do have a display port on them, so could i just buy a mini-DP to DP adapter? Could I run two displays off...
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- Post #29
- Apr 21, 2011
- Forum: Displays
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Best way to run 5-6 monitors with Eyefinity?

Just the ones that came with it. All the active adapters i've seen cost ~100 bucks. So this is going to set me back another 300-400 to get all the displays working? Do I need active if I'm going mini-display port to display port? All I need to do is extend to 5 desktops, I don't...
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- Post #25
- Apr 21, 2011
- Forum: Displays
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Best way to run 5-6 monitors with Eyefinity?

Arghh! So I've set everything up, installed the graphics drivers, and CCC will only let me enable two monitors. I have three monitors connected via MiniDP to DVI. Do I have to use the Mini DP-to DP connectors to do more than two screens? I can't find instructions on Eyefinity anywhere...
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- Post #23
- Apr 21, 2011
- Forum: Displays
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Best way to run 5-6 monitors with Eyefinity?

Great, I'll go to MC today or tomorrow to pick up the board and CPU. I have a corsair builder series PSU lying around (430 Watt) do you think that's gonna be enough to power the card, an SSD and HD and the CPU? The 5770 recommends a 450 minimum, but I've heard efficiency is more important than...
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- Post #19
- Apr 14, 2011
- Forum: Displays
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Best way to run 5-6 monitors with Eyefinity?

Hmm, the ability to do 6 in the future would be a really nice, but I'm tempted to go with the 5770 just because it includes adapters (cheapskate, I know) and he only has 5 monitors right now. I work 20~ minutes away from a microcenter. Should I go for one of those AMD bundles they offer? Any...
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- Post #17
- Apr 13, 2011
- Forum: Displays
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Best way to run 5-6 monitors with Eyefinity?

This looks great. Do I need an AMD board to take advantage of Eyefinity? I'm really tempted to get him an I3, just because they'll be zippy on most apps (esp. with hyperthreading) but I could get him a low priced quad core from AMD for around the same price. What's the advantage of the...
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- Post #14
- Apr 13, 2011
- Forum: Displays
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Best way to run 5-6 monitors with Eyefinity?

Thanks for the advice! Chapbass, you bring up a really good point. Although my dad is fine with dropping ~350 to keep things simple. How does using 2 cards work? I just grab a board with two PCI-E slots, plug the the monitors in to both and configure through Eyefinity control panel...
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- Post #7
- Apr 12, 2011
- Forum: Displays
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Best way to run 5-6 monitors with Eyefinity?

Hi All, I'm doing a build for my father (who trades commodity spreads) and I'm running into a wall of market jargon and conflicting advice. He wants to be able to spread his commodity graphs across 5 or 6 24" monitors. I was figuring I could just get a 6970 (5 inputs) but I wanted to make...
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- Thread
- Apr 12, 2011
- Replies: 30
- Forum: Displays
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Gateway FPD2485W

Hey guys, I've been looking to upgrade my 19' to something larger, and i've been having a tough time finding something in the $300 range. Then, tiger direct comes along with a 24' gateway for $299 (it is refurbished, is that significant?). Anandtech gave it decent ratings, but is this actually...
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- May 20, 2008
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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CPU Cooler + Q-Tips + Isopropanol = Mysterious Black Gunk???

You should be fine, it's just residue. I've switched out mulitple heatsinks without problems from 'gunk'. Just make sure their are no visible globs from the grease. If you are really worried though, go for some artic silver articlean (10 bucks shipped from The egg) which is more effective than...
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- Post #2
- May 29, 2007
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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CPU + Motherboard Burning up, whats the dealio?

Yes, well, you could put to 4 pins together to form an 8 pin.
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- Post #19
- May 8, 2007
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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CPU + Motherboard Burning up, whats the dealio?

Well things have gone from bad to worse. I took everything out, installed the stock heatsink, put everything back in, and now i'm not getting a greenlight on the mobo. This entire build has been a nightmare, i've never had any problems on my other 5 builds, but this one has been hell. Is there...
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- Post #17
- May 8, 2007
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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CPU + Motherboard Burning up, whats the dealio?

When I can get some time off from work i'll try installing the stock cooler, i'm getting pretty disassembling now : ). What is the proper way to apply AS5 (with the stock cooler)? Can anyone get me a pic of how they did\do it? Thanks so much guys
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- Post #12
- May 8, 2007
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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CPU + Motherboard Burning up, whats the dealio?

V @ 1.25 which is stock I think. From what i've read elsewhere, anything over 55-60C is bad bad bad, is there anyway (besides buying a new case/heatsink/processor) that I can get my temps down more?
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- Post #7
- May 8, 2007
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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CPU + Motherboard Burning up, whats the dealio?

Grain of Rice is for the x2's although i have heard that C2D's do fine with it, AS says that you should do a vertical line over the C2D heatsink link to PDF. Those temps are really unacceptable, seeing as I bought the chip to overclock (my temps are without any clocking at all, I want to...
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- Post #4
- May 7, 2007
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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CPU + Motherboard Burning up, whats the dealio?

Hey guys, I just recently got my new system parts in the mail, and after having both a faulty MB and memory, I was finally able to post (whew). Unfortunately, my idle and load temps are insanely hot, and I have no clue why. I have installed the zalman 2 times already (with AS5), and moved my...
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- Thread
- May 7, 2007
- Replies: 18
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Will this overclock well?

Hey guys, My new setup (in the mail as we, er, speak) is : E6400 Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 T2 5-5-5-12 (@ 1.9v) 8800 Gts Zalman CNPS 9500 Basically I know the processor is great, the mobo has very good reviews; but the memory i'm not sure on. I made the mistake of...
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- Thread
- Apr 17, 2007
- Replies: 1
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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PSU needed for 8800 gts

Sorry, realized my post mirrored another just like it below. Newbie mistake : ). Mods please delete.
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- Post #2
- Apr 15, 2007
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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PSU needed for 8800 gts

Hey guys, I'm probably going to be doing a min-overhaul of my system (going from x2 4400 to core 2 duo) and I wanted to know if my OCZ powerstream 520 would be able to handle a 8800 gts. My setup will be as follows: e6400 (to be overclocked) 3 Sata drives 2 Dvd Burners Sound Card 8800...
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- Apr 15, 2007
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Core 2 Duo Mobo with DDR400 that doesn't suck?

Hey guys, I'm considering a sort of half upgrade (keeping everything but the CPU and mobo), but don't want to have to ditch my ddr400 and chip out more cash for DDR 2. Is there a motherboard that will allow me to keep my ddr400 and have a core 2 duo with good performance (and overclocking)? Or...
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- Apr 15, 2007
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Motherboards
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Worth it to upgrade to 8800 gts 320 mb?

Yeah I don't count on going up to 1900x1200 much, i'm pretty much staying with m y 19' inch (maybe a 21' in the distant, distant future). I want better performance in DOD, supreme commander and oblivion at 1280x1024. How difficult would the overclock to 2.6 be? I have little to no experience in...
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- Post #8
- Apr 3, 2007
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Worth it to upgrade to 8800 gts 320 mb?

Hey guys, I'm considering upgrading to a 320 mb GTS (from my 7800 gtx), but wondered if I would be held back by my aged processor and memory. As you can see i have a x2 4400 and 2 gigs of ram, with no overclocking, would having the card net me decent performance gains (in hl2, COH, Oblivion...
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- Apr 3, 2007
- Replies: 13
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Installing a Zalman 9500

Hey guys, I just picked up a Zalman 9500 and some artic silver, and I was wondering if there are any things i can do to maximize the cooling performance. Specifically: how much AS5 do i put on my chip? According to AS i put a 3/4 of a BB size of as5 on my cpu heatspreader, and zalman 's...
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- Thread
- May 10, 2006
- Replies: 1
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Cooling solution for a8n Sli-Premium

bump.
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- Post #2
- Apr 14, 2006
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Cooling solution for a8n Sli-Premium

Hey guys, I have an A8N Sli-Premium with an X2 4400 and 7800 GTX (the gtx has an AC silencer on it). My temps are: Mobo Idle @35 load 38-41 CPU Idle @ 36 Load 39-44 GPU idle @ 42 Load 54-60 These temps don't seem to extreme to me, but i've been having some problems that might be due to...
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- Thread
- Apr 11, 2006
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Low Memory With 2 GB of ram?

Memtested for 14 hours, no errors.
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- Post #9
- Jan 2, 2006
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Low Memory With 2 GB of ram?

Check disk comes up with no errors.
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- Post #7
- Jan 1, 2006
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Low Memory With 2 GB of ram?

I have memtested my ram (first couple of tests) and they check out. I have scanned for viruses and malware (hijack this also comes up with nothing). My page file had the minum at 2047mb and max at 3070, i just upped this a little to see if it helps. I'm not sure about the network controller, the...
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- Post #5
- Dec 28, 2005
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Low Memory With 2 GB of ram?

Hi guys, I've been encountering this windows error for awhile now, It happens semi randomly although I've have encountered it most frequently while gaming. I'll be playing when the game suddenly loses connection to the net, after I exit I am unable to connect to the net. If i try to bring up...
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- Thread
- Dec 28, 2005
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Unable to Get t-1 with A8N-SLi Premium

Hey guys, I finally got my system up and running stable after a fried powersupply and some faulty memory. After I installed the new ram I went into the bios to set to 2-3-2-5 timings @ t1 and got a boot failure. After resetting CMOS i was able to get 2-3-2-5 @t2 running stable and have been...
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- Nov 30, 2005
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Computer Building
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Memory Problems

Hey, I just got my system working again after some powersupply problems (and having to reset the bios) everything was working fine, but i noticed that my memory timings were off (266mhz t2, instead of 400 t1) so i changed those in the bios. Restarted and was unable to get any signal to the...
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- Thread
- Nov 5, 2005
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Computer Building
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PSU or Bios problems?

I think the PSU is legitimately dead, although i may have problems when I next power up. Both Asus And Antec seem to agree that their is a problem with the PSU (fans don't move, wattcounter doen't scome up with much). I just want to make sure i'll be able to re-flash the bios (without spending...
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- Post #7
- Oct 25, 2005
- Forum: Motherboards
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PSU or Bios problems?

I could do that if the damn thing would start up, i should get a new powersupply by next week. Thanks
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- Post #5
- Oct 25, 2005
- Forum: Motherboards
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PSU or Bios problems?

anyone?
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- Post #2
- Oct 25, 2005
- Forum: Motherboards
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PSU or Bios problems?

Hey, I recently finished my build of a new gaming rig, after some problems with the hard drives everything seemed to be running fine except the USB ports (devices wouldn' power up and were not recognized by bios or winXP). I called asus and they said to update the chipset drivers, then the...
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- Oct 24, 2005
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Motherboards
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Fried HD's?

Strange, I switched from the red RAID ports back to the regular sata ports, and now windows recognizes my hard drives (in device manager). The only problem is that all i can see in my computer is C drive, and it shows up as only having 127GB instead of 250. I haven't installed the drivers yet...
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- Post #11
- Oct 16, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Fried HD's?

I have a new development. I ran both drives of the RAID slots just to see what would happen, then switched them back to regular sata and i can now get into windows setup (before it just hung and locked up). My problem now is that windows still won't recognize the drives. I'm going to try to find...
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- Post #8
- Oct 15, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Fried HD's?

I called asus, and they said that it might be a problem with my ram. This seems unlikely as it is recognized in bios, and the computer boots fine when i remove the drives.
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- Post #6
- Oct 15, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Fried HD's?

I don't have anything overclocked, i literally just installed everything and had this problem on the first boot up.
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- Post #5
- Oct 15, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Fried HD's?

Thanks for the reply, I am not trying to use a Raid array, I want them to work individually. They are brand new HD's, connecting one at a time yields the same result. How do I use the utility if I don't have an OS installed? Thanks
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- Post #3
- Oct 15, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building

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