DisplayPort: Active Single-Link DVI Adaptors Available Soon

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DisplayPort: Active Single-Link DVI Adaptors Available Soon
   

 
   For quite a while now one of the largest obsticles for using Eyefinity in budget scanrios has been an issue of connectivity. Eyefinity video cards are cheap and large TV-derrived monitors are fairly cheap, but cheap monitors rarely have the DisplayPort connectivity required for the 3rd monitor in an Eyefinity configuration. The previous solution has been to use an active dual-link DVI adaptor capable of converting the DP signal to DVI, but at around $100 for these adaptors the cost was as much as some video cards.

   Next month this situation will largely be resolved with the release of active single-link DVI adaptors. These adaptors still convert a DP signal to DVI, but by only generating a signal for a single-link port they're cheaper to build and no longer require external power. At $30 each they should go a long way towards making Eyefinity cheaper for gamers and non-gamers alike.

   
    

   
    

   

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3879/active-singlelink-displayport-adaptors-available-soon
    

[Schlup]

If you're going to get a new graphics card anytime soon make sure it has a display port on it, this is the way of the future, at least for now.

[CoCoCountyKiller]

So Eyefinity is where you use 3 monitors?

co.co.

[Arethius]

So Eyefinity is where you use 3 monitors?

co.co.

yep, because that's how you build a budget PC....with three matching monitors.

[CoCoCountyKiller]

yep, because that's how you build a budget PC....with three matching monitors.

three monitors
budget.......??

LOL

co.co.
 

[Schlup]

yep, because that's how you build a budget PC....with three matching monitors.

Arethius, I keep telling you that you have to use /sarcasm after those statements...

[Arethius]

Sorry.

/sarcasm

[CoCoCountyKiller]

Arethius, I keep telling you that you have to use /sarcasm after those statements...

not on my account .... I hope  cause it was very evident
might have had to do with the three monitors and budget
in the same sentence 

co.co.

[Schlup]

No, I was just playing with him, though it would be helpful to people if he used the /sarcasm.