Eyefinity and a necessary trick
If you look at the outputs of the tested Sapphire 7970 Toxic, you might run out of courage with a stock of 6 inexpensive monitors with a simple DVI or HDMI connection. We remember the special Eyefinity versions with nostalgia and their availability in homeopathic doses – the selection of individual cooling solutions and higher clock rates very clearly tends towards zero. Inspired by an older test sample, we have now reached pretty deep into the Sapphire shelf, disregarded the costs for the time being and grabbed three of the so-called Vid-2X splitters.
To extend the dual-link DVI to two monitors, we use a PSE-DV2185, with two PSE-DP4196 each we connect two monitors per device to one of the two display ports. Both models of the Vid-2X output the signals via two DVI outputs each, so you just have to connect 6 of the cheapest monitors.
3 splitters, 2 adapters and 1 graphics card:
Both Sapphire Vid-2X are based on the VESA Plug & Play standard and quite elegantly outsmart the system by effectively combining both displays into a single large widescreen monitor, thus fooling the system into thinking it is a single large monitor. Each device then splits the received input signal independently to the two outputs. The good thing about this is that you are not necessarily bound to the native resolution of the monitors even then and can also choose somewhat smaller values if necessary (which can only be tolerated visually in gaming, though).
A nice employee helps with the cable laying before the eventSinceour own stock did not allow for such a large number of monitors that were as identical or similar as possible, we conveniently decided on a public showdown of the graphics cards at a retailer, where we could test with six and four monitors at the same time on only one day, and where there was also enough interested audience. In addition to the benchmarks, the author naturally also answered the questions of the numerous interested visitors and explained the work of Tom’s Hardware live.
Most interesting was the implementation of the Eyefinity solution, which would not have been possible with such simple monitors without the trick with the splitters. We have also incorporated many suggestions to make our graphics card charts even more interesting for 2013
Disadvantage of our method: the monitors can always be combined only on the vertical sides. We will now describe and benchmark the resulting variants on the following pages.
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