PowerColor Enables Eyefinity on DVI-Enabled Monitors

While AMD's Eyefinity technology can, indeed, enhance immersion, it relies on less than common monitors, so TUL corporation figured it would make it so that more displays can be used for such setups.

For those that need an update, the Eyefinity technology allows a video card from advanced micro devices to spread the viewing area over three monitors (or six, in case of the more advanced version).

However, for this to be possible, one needs monitors equipped with mini DisplayPort inputs, something that is not exactly common on the market.

On the other hand, most displays come with DVI connectors, so a certain partner of Advanced Micro Devices took it upon itself to come up with a way to bridge the link between a DVI and a mini DisplayPort.

Thus it was that TUL created the PowerColor Active Mini DisplayPort to Single-Link DVI-D adapter.

Basically, one need only plug one end into the mini Displayport of the card and the monitor's own plug into the other end of the adapter, the DVI output as it were.

The adapter is fully compliant with DPCP and HDCP specifications, meaning that such video content is fully supported and transmitted with no difficulty.

It also supports color depths of up to 32 bits and is suitable for the many Eyefinity-ready PowerColor cards, and probably any other AMD HD 5000 or 6000 video board.

The list includes the HD 6870, the HD 5870, HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and HD 5770 Eyefinity 5, among others.

Finally, and one of the most important notes, the maximum resolution supported by the PowerColor Active Mini DisplayPort to Single-Link DVI-D adapter is 1,920 x 1,200 pixels (WUXGA).

Mostly, gamers should be the ones to benefit most from this inventions, especially those with fewer financial resources than it would take to buy several DisplayPort monitors. The product page is found here, though the price is still unclear.