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I had the opportunity to test the PowerColor AX6850 1GBD5-I2DH Radeon HD 6850 recently. There seems to be a lot of confusion and issues around getting all ports working on the various AMD cards. I have had issues myself with other cards. This 1GBD5-I2DH card works OBB with all 4 ports using the latest chimera and 10.7.3
So i want to let the community know that for people needing up to 4 monitors and not wanting to hack things up this is a great card. It does require ACTIVE miniDP to DVI (or whatever) in order to use all the ports. Passive adapters will not work beyond 2 displays.
Here is a newegg and amazon link:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131433
http://www.amazon.com/PowerColor-DisplayPort-PCI-Express-AX6850-1GBD5-I2DH/dp/B004ZH13K0
and the active DP adapter i can confirm works:
http://www.amazon.com/Accell-B087B-006B-DisplayPort-Single-Link-Certified/dp/B004071ZXA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1338971004&sr=8-2
I have only tested this in 10.7.3 with chimera 1.9, other combinations of OS and bootlaoder may work but i have not verified.
Cheers,
g\
So i want to let the community know that for people needing up to 4 monitors and not wanting to hack things up this is a great card. It does require ACTIVE miniDP to DVI (or whatever) in order to use all the ports. Passive adapters will not work beyond 2 displays.
Here is a newegg and amazon link:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131433
http://www.amazon.com/PowerColor-DisplayPort-PCI-Express-AX6850-1GBD5-I2DH/dp/B004ZH13K0
and the active DP adapter i can confirm works:
http://www.amazon.com/Accell-B087B-006B-DisplayPort-Single-Link-Certified/dp/B004071ZXA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1338971004&sr=8-2
I have only tested this in 10.7.3 with chimera 1.9, other combinations of OS and bootlaoder may work but i have not verified.
Cheers,
g\