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    6870m Dual DVI question

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by pjriot, Apr 29, 2011.

  1. pjriot

    pjriot Notebook Enthusiast

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    I basically feel like I'm polluting the forum with variants of the same question at this stage, but I'm wondering if anyone has managed to successfully connect a Sager NP8150 with a 6970m to a 2560x1600 res monitor? One supplier I was talking to couldn't actually tell me for sure. They raised the point that while on paper it should, the dvi ports might act funny. I do recall I had a sager notebook with an NVIDIA 9800GT and that didn't like anything over 1200p so he has me worried.
     
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  2. ettornio

    ettornio Notebook Deity

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    I don't know if you mean the 6970m, but according to AMD's website, its spec sheet says it can take 2560x1600 with a dual-link DVI connector.

    See here: AMD Radeon? HD 6900M Series Graphics
     
    ettornio, Apr 29, 2011
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  3. MALIBAL

    MALIBAL Company Representative

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    The 8150 / P150HM with AMD 6970 supports a max resolution of 1920 X 1080. If you want 2560 X 1600, you need to get one of the NVIDIA cards.
     
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    AnakiMana Notebook Consultant

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    Really? On an external monitor? I find that hard to believe. Unless you're talking about the built-in screen.
     
    AnakiMana, Apr 29, 2011
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    pjriot Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for responding Malibal. Can you tell me how you know this? Is it from testing or am I missing some documentation? (also, yup etternio, I meant the 6970, sorry!)
     
    pjriot, Apr 30, 2011
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    Fooo Notebook Guru

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    I'm still trying to find out if any of the cards can power 2 external monitors at the same time (IE disable laptop screen and run 2 external monitors - one through DVI and one through HDMI). Lots of theories and specs but noone has said they've done it. :)
     
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  7. AnakiMana

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    I'll test it when I get mine on Thursday. The anticipation this last week is going to kill me.

    Edit: I don't have anything to hook it up to larger than 1920x1200, but I can test multiple external monitors.
     
    AnakiMana, Apr 30, 2011
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  8. pjriot

    pjriot Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'd say with eyefinity you should be good to go for multiple external monitors. Then again, dual-dvi/2560x1600 made sense too so maybe I'm wrong.
     
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  9. AnakiMana

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    It might be fun to bring my laptop to Sears or BestBuy and see if they'd let me hook it up to a TV so I can be sure it works.... act like I'm seriously considering buying the thing and make 'em think they'll make a big sale. hehe
     
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    I was able to successfully hook up to 2 1920 by 1080 external monitors to my 8130 with a 460m
     
    achapa1025, May 2, 2011
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  11. Fooo

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    Awesome thanks for testing that!
     
    Fooo, May 2, 2011
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