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Setting up the Sapphire HD5670 FleX Edition graphics card for multi screen is a painfree experience thanks to the latest Catalyst drivers. The image quality from the Catalyst drivers is class leading and the new Catalyst Control Center is a much needed improvement when compared to the previous version.
After connecting the four monitors to the Sapphire HD5670 FleX Edition, they all appear within the ‘my digital flat panels’ section of Catalyst Control Center. If you have any problems at this stage, but sure to click ‘preferences’ and select the advanced viewing mode.
The next stage is to configure the panels as a ‘single’ group. This merges all the screens into a SLS (Single Large Surface) environment. The added benefit of this is that the taskbar in Windows spans all monitors within this shared configuration. The image above shows a 4×1 configuration, although this will depend on how many monitors you have attached.
Once all the monitors are set into SLS, then the resolution is combined – in this case 7680×1080 resolution.
The image above shows a four screen setup with the Sapphire Flex HD5670, with monitors running individually via ‘extend'. They can all be independent resolutions. We use UltraMon for finer control over the individual panels, it is well worth a purchase.
A 7680×1080 backdrop across four screens, configured into a Single Large Surface environment.
The desktop real estate with 3 screens (5680×1080) or 4 screens (7680×1080) is fantastic. You can open multiple applications simultaneously without having to worry about minimising them for easy program access.
Even a 3 screen setup is a pipedream for me, but I can see this card behind used in a lot of design studios.
I like the idea of the flex cards but why on earth aren’t AMD doing this without Sapphire having to make customised products? Is there additional circuitry involved? obviously there is, but it seems like such a weird thing for AMD not to include. displayport monitors are a lot of cash.
Well I wont be buying this card, but its just made me part cash with cyberlink power dvd 10 ultra. my system might be more responsive with it running instead of crappy WMP.
Well its good to see they went to arctic cooling for the cooler. wish more companies would do that.
This is exactly what I want. I spend most of my working life video editing and ive already persuaded the boss to get me two more screens. Shall make sure we order a couple for the offices.
Decent enough card, but will anybody buy a card from the last generation in 2011? might be hard for Sapphire to sell this as people all want 6 series cards.
I agree that AMD need to do a card like this themselves, clearly isnt that difficult,.
I liked the flex 6870, decent gaming performance and you can add three screens. This would be ideal for workstations in a design or editing environment. I think you sold it well Zardon considering the relatively weak gaming performance,. certainly worked well with the fusion mobo.
Id actually get this for my workstation. I dont game on it, and id like the out of the box screen support. I opted for an ilyama screen at 200 quid, another 2 wouldn’t cost that much for the deskspace.
Wonder why they opted for a 5000 series card? Why not aim for the 6970 or even 6950? 6870 isnt a bad card, but even it can struggle, especially with 3 screens.