Eyefinity Configuration Suggestions

I was hoping someone could steer me in the right direction. I currently have 2 ASUS VH242H 23.6" Monitors and am looking to upgrade to a R9 290 along with a 3rd monitor for eyefinity. The ASUS VH242h is discontinued and while it's possible to find refurbished ones to match, I think the better alternative would be to purchase a new monitor and use it as the middle with my 2 previous monitors on the outside.

I'm currently eyeing this monitor as it's also a 23.6 LCD and looks fairly similar.

Does anyone have any other recommendations or suggestions?

Thanks in advance =)
 
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iRandoMi said:
I was hoping someone could steer me in the right direction. I currently have 2 ASUS VH242H 23.6" Monitors and am looking to upgrade to a R9 290 along with a 3rd monitor for eyefinity. The ASUS VH242h is discontinued and while it's possible to find refurbished ones to match, I think the better alternative would be to purchase a new monitor and use it as the middle with my 2 previous monitors on the outside.

I'm currently eyeing this monitor as it's also a 23.6 LCD and looks fairly similar.

Does anyone have any other recommendations or suggestions?

Thanks in advance =)
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Nevermind, was able to pick up another one of my own. =) My new r9 290 handles eyefinity fairly well!
 
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I currently run a 1 over 3 setup or Eyefinity+1 extended. I currently have 2x sapphire 290s. I can get eyefinity to work just fine however I cannot get my extended monitor to work at all. It keeps saying I have to disable one to activate it. I looked online and heard something about active adapters for them? Alright, I believe I need one but what type? Their are quite a few.

My Sapphires have the following inputs:
1x Display port
1x HDMI
2x dual link (DVI-D)

I know to utilize crossfire I need to have no plugs in the slave card if I turn crossfire off, I can use it.
 
GodOfGaming said:
Hello guys, I need some help about choosing the right displays for a 3x Eyefinity setup. The graphics card is going to be one of the new R9 290X, I'm waiting for a good non-reference variant of it like Gigabyte Windforce 3 for example.

Here's my requirements:
three 32" (TVs?) @ 1080p (my eyes have gotten kind of bad lately and I find 32 @ 1080 to hit the sweet spot for me)
LED backlighting
thin bezels
good response time and low input lag for proper gaming
at least 60 Hz
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I just finished my 3x1L setup using 32LN5300's from LG. I like it a lot. Have you looked into them?

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I believe they fit most if not all of your requirements.
 
I'm trying to figure out what size side monitors I need to match a 24" dell ultra sharp monitor with a res of 1920x1200. I've found 2 different sizes, one place says a 17inch monitor and another 20.1inch. I know eyefinity drivers really dont work with PLP set ups but I mainly just want to to look good (physically) as most of the time with my old eyefinity set up I just used the monitors in extended and only gamed on my main monitor. Any help or info would be great, thanks.
 
Dmac122383 said:
I'm trying to figure out what size side monitors I need to match a 24" dell ultra sharp monitor with a res of 1920x1200. I've found 2 different sizes, one place says a 17inch monitor and another 20.1inch. I know eyefinity drivers really dont work with PLP set ups but I mainly just want to to look good (physically) as most of the time with my old eyefinity set up I just used the monitors in extended and only gamed on my main monitor. Any help or info would be great, thanks.
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The only really good match is another 24" monitor. A 24" 1920x1200 is 94 PPI, a 20" 1600x1200 is 100 PPI, a 17" 1280x1024 is 96 PPI but even in portrait isn't a perfect height match.

The only good PLP matchup without screwing around with laptop displays like nickchong is 20"-30"-20".
 
Has anyone been able to get eyefinity working without using DP on the new AMD R9 series?
They advertise this feature but i cant find any way to make it work on either the 260x or 270x.

3x LP2475w (1920x1200), 1x Samsung (1920x1080)
 
TypeRazor said:
Has anyone been able to get eyefinity working without using DP on the new AMD R9 series?
They advertise this feature but i cant find any way to make it work on either the 260x or 270x.

3x LP2475w (1920x1200), 1x Samsung (1920x1080)
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That's because the 260x and 270x have only 2 clock signal generators - the 290x has 3 so it can drive 2xDVI and 1xHDMI for triple-Eyefinity without going DP. If you go quad-Eyefinity you'll have to have at least 1 DP connector or adapter.
 
rtangwai said:
That's because the 260x and 270x have only 2 clock signal generators - the 290x has 3 so it can drive 2xDVI and 1xHDMI for triple-Eyefinity without going DP. If you go quad-Eyefinity you'll have to have at least 1 DP connector or adapter.
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That is exactly what I tried to do and it would not work
Neither Asus or MSI could explain how to make it work
I could only get DVI+HDMI+DP to show up
 
TypeRazor said:
Has anyone been able to get eyefinity working without using DP on the new AMD R9 series?
They advertise this feature but i cant find any way to make it work on either the 260x or 270x.

3x LP2475w (1920x1200), 1x Samsung (1920x1080)
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I have a reference MSI R9 290 and am running eyefinity. DVI to a XL2420T, DVI to a VH236H and HDMI to anoth VH236H with no issues.
 
Here is my eyefinity setup... 2xX-Star on the sides and a Sammy 4k U28D590 in the middle:
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7680x1440 when eyefinity is supported and 4k when it doesn't.
 
I'm about to. I was planning a 3x Acer h236hl setup then heard about eyefinity updating for mixed monitor and went with one more Acer for the sides and an ultrawide LG 29UM65 for the middle. Picked up 2 R9 290X's so I can push them. Everything is in the mail so if anyone has any suggestions or experience with 6400x1080 and how to setup this configuration I'd appreciate it. I'll report back with pics and possibly a YouTube link.
 
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Hey guys,

Some advice if possible...I snagged three refurbed Dell U2311H's for super cheap from one of the Dell Outlet sales. Only two have come so far, but I'm looking into the future.

Any thoughts on video card selection for not very intensive games? I'm mainly looking at WoW/Skyrim/Diablo 3, I don't play or care to play BF4, Watch Dogs, etc. Mostly older content. System will be an OCed 4690k, 16gb RAM, 750w EVGA G2 PSU. I'm just wondering what I could get that I could add a second to SLI/Xfire with in the future if I wanted to that won't break the bank?

As a side note, the two monitors I have received so far aren't the same brightness level and it's irking the hell out of me :/ Then again since I won't be doing any photo or video editing or anything that really requires perfection in color/brightness across the screens, other than my OCD, I should probably chill on that. I fiddled with the settings to get it as close as I could.

Thanks all.
 
King4x4 said:
Here is my eyefinity setup... 2xX-Star on the sides and a Sammy 4k U28D590 in the middle:

http://cdn.overclock.net/c/c1/c12c3192_IMG-20140414-WA0005.jpeg

7680x1440 when eyefinity is supported and 4k when it doesn't.
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I'm not doing eyefinity but I'd be curious to see how the resolutions line up when the 4k monitor is matching the 1440 height of the side monitors. What I am asking is, does the game viewport part of the 4k screen when using horizontal black bars look the same height as the side monitors(rendering the scene at 1:1 pixel). Does it line up near perfect with the side monitors, like a smaller monitor~resolution within the physical 4k monitor basically?

It also makes me wonder if you could get a large 4k monitor and smaller 1080p monitors on the sides, dropping down to triple 1080p 120hz (some 4k monitors can run 1080p at 120hz) across all three monitors in a nearly matched viewport and perceived pixel size across all three.
 
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What's the benefit of eyefinity over extended desktop? Only for gaming I assume. I prefer to be able to maximize my windows individually on each of my 3 monitors.

Can you use monitors with different vertical resolutions in an eyefinity setup?
 
King4x4 said:
Here is my eyefinity setup... 2xX-Star on the sides and a Sammy 4k U28D590 in the middle:
c12c3192_IMG-20140414-WA0005.jpeg


7680x1440 when eyefinity is supported and 4k when it doesn't.
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Just changed my 27in 1440 Monitors to 32in 1440 Monitors:

New Setup:
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Just looking at the keyboard is enough to compare :D
 
Hey dfter, the AMD Catalyst Omega drivers support PLP Eyefinity on the R9 285 video card!!!!

OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED!!!!!


:)
 
Is there any decent way to do PLP with a big 4k or 34" Ultra wide monitors?

Currently have a 20 30 20 4960x1600 and looking at bigger options
 
falkenbd said:
Is there any decent way to do PLP with a big 4k or 34" Ultra wide monitors?

Currently have a 20 30 20 4960x1600 and looking at bigger options
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Essentially no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_resolutions

The pairing of a 4:3 UXGA, 1600x1200 works perfect with 16:10 WQXGA, 2560x1600 because of the shared 1600 pixel resolution.

Looking through common resolutions and planned resolutions, there really isn't a similar crossover anywhere, especially considering that 4:3 monitors are becoming essentially non-existent in new manufacture.

The nearest thing I can find is 21:9 (5k), which has a resolution of 5120x2160, but nobody is making consumer monitors in that resolution yet, and it only gives a 33% pixel increase over 4k vs. a 94% increase in pixels when going from WQXGA to a PLP setup with UXGA monitors on the side.
 
falkenbd said:
Is there any decent way to do PLP with a big 4k or 34" Ultra wide monitors?

Currently have a 20 30 20 4960x1600 and looking at bigger options
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Kinda - I made a suggestion to someone in the Samsung 4K monitor thread and he actually built it:

http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1041566416&postcount=2175

Basically a 48" 4K monitor is literally 4x 24" 1080p in a rectangle. By putting 2x vertically stacked 24" 1080p monitors on each side of the 48" it matches nearly perfectly.

It's not PLP but it will be the closest you can get until someone builds a 2160 pixel height monitor for a decent price.
 
Is there a replacement for the 2007fp's ? I've got a dell u3014 in the center flanked by two 2007fp's and the fp's are showing their age.
 
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