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Old May 8, 2010, 06:29 PM
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Im thinking about Buying a eyefinity 6 edition and running Crossfire with My XFX 5870 I have now.

Now for the Questions

-Does Crossfire Support Eyefinity?
-If i run the eyefinity 6 edition card as my Primary, Do i still need active display port adaptors?
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Old May 8, 2010, 07:25 PM
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Im thinking about Buying a eyefinity 6 edition and running Crossfire with My XFX 5870 I have now.

Now for the Questions

-Does Crossfire Support Eyefinity?
-If i run the eyefinity 6 edition card as my Primary, Do i still need active display port adaptors?

Yes, crossfire works with eyefinity.

To be honest, I'm not certain on the second, but if i remember correctly you only need two active adapters to run all 6 monitors on the eyefinity6 card - so i believe that means you have 4 outputs without the need for active. But again, i dont remember exactly.
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Old May 8, 2010, 08:16 PM
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i read in a couple places that you would need an active adapter on a card if your going to use more then 2 dvi adapters, the third would have to be active. i could be wrong for crossfire since you have 2 cards you could just hook 2 up on one and 2 on the other.
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Old May 14, 2010, 05:54 AM
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DIN... The Eyfinity 6 cards do not have a DVI connector.
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I'm guessing from this video that you need 6.

On a side note the Sapphire 5970 toxic comes with 1 adapter, so I guess eyefinity 6 edition should have the adapters.
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Old May 14, 2010, 10:25 AM
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I'm guessing from this video that you need 6.

On a side note the Sapphire 5970 toxic comes with 1 adapter, so I guess eyefinity 6 edition should have the adapters.
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