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    G73JHA1, External Monitor and Gimped Radeon HD 5870 ?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by rjupiter, Oct 5, 2010.

  1. rjupiter

    rjupiter Notebook Enthusiast

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    I was looking to get a bigger ex monitor and was looking over specs and such to make sure i got the right one. so i was going over it with a friend who was saying to get a particular monitor, its 30" IPS (we are both in graphics/art), but i told him i could not use the because i can't do that high a resolution with my laptop ports i have. So he pointed me to this ATI Mobility Radeon? HD 5870 GPU Specifications the official specs for the 5870.

    He pointed out that in the specs it says -

    # Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP11

    * Max resolution: 2560x1600

    # Integrated DisplayPort output

    * Max resolution: 2560x1600

    # Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio

    * Max resolution: 1920x1200

    # Integrated VGA output

    * Max resolution: 2048x1536

    but i told him that i have the VGA and the HDMI but not the other connections, he was pressing the point and saying that it says they are "integrated" so i have to have them. I said i don't.

    So basically who is right? (I mean i can't miscount ports and use something i don't have.) Is the 5870 that is in the laptop not the same as that spec-ed on the official site?
     
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  2. IM0001

    IM0001 Notebook Evangelist

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    Correction. I am wrong. I guess you are stuck at the max 1920X1200 HDMI res max.. Bummer why in the world we have VGA out on these laptops instead of DVI and a DVI-VGA Adapter lol.

    Its not a limit of the graphics card but a limit of the ports supplied. Its a gaming and not a professional graphics laptop after all. :/
     
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    Yeah, I'm not sure you can call it a gimped 5870m based on output ports. Were it a desktop card, I'd agree - it's be gimped. But given the port selection is built as part of the laptop/motherboard, you'd have to call the entire laptop gimped.
     
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    rjupiter Notebook Enthusiast

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    I only mean this in respect to the sepcs given for this card on the official site, i am not comparing to a desktop card, i am saying that what is stated on the site as being part of the mobile, i.e. laptop, version of this card says that it has integrated features that don't seem to be in the ASUS system. So one would assume that the card in the ASUS is not the same as the officially spec-ed mobile version on the ATI site.
     
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