When I first saw Eyefinity demoed, I thought “that’s pretty awesome, but aren’t you going to have to pull some shenanigans to get that many monitors hooked up? I mean, daisy-chaining monitors isn’t science of the rockets or anything, but it does mean certain restrictions need to be observed, and certain accessories bought. But what if your graphics card had as many outputs as you had monitors? Or, say, a lot more?
That’s what this particular ATI Radeon 5870 is doing. Can you say six (mini) DisplayPorts?
Apart from the extra ports, this model doesn’t differ too much from the reference 5870, though it does sport a slightly different PCI interface and, of course, it has 2GB of GDDR5. It’s got HDMI and two DVIs, plus… I don’t recognize that one on the left, am I losing it? (yes, I am, it’s a standard DisplayPort)
No pricing or availability information at the moment, but it’s good to know it’s out there if I ever happen to buy five more monitors and need to rock that Eyefinity.
[via Tom's Hardware]
Those are 6 MINI DisplayPorts. That port on the far left that you don’t recognize is the standard size DisplayPort.
So they are. I think I’m used to the minis due to using a mac for so long.
Yet another victim of Apple’s criminal aversion to anything standardized… :-]
This is a little unrelated, but relates to two wires that go up to the display screen of the computer and computer security. They originate from the MAC node (this is the best way I can describe it, Im not sure of the technical term- its a node onto which one of the wires is wound on and originates from) and the PC node (similarly). A friend of mine noted that these wires to the display screen were soldered together on his computer and felt that this would enable his computer to be easily hacked as via access to one of the wires you could obtain the other’s address. So if you have the IP address for MAC you could get the IP address for PC and so theoretically hack in. Im no expert on these things, and am not sure if what Im saying makes sense or is science fiction, but would be grateful if a know-it-all would kindly answer the query as best they can given the poverty of correct terminology or if someone on this site could direct me to someone who can. Many thanks. Once again I apologise for the slightly unrelated nature of the comment, but I hope its interesting enough to keep on.