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Wow that made me excited for 5x1P again. Idk what i should do monitor wise. I like my 30"rs but i liked having 5x1P 23"rs more. Except for them being TN of course.

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Ibrin, you finally made me register. I have been following your setup for some time and am about ready to debut a 5 screen 2408wfp Portrait setup similar to yours.

I was able to get the 5x1 to show up as a display group, but every time my computer goes to sleep it returns with one active display and everything scrunched up. Each time I have to go through the process of creating the group, organizing the screens, and enabling bezel management. Does this happen to you?

Currently I am running off of one sapphire 5970e6 with one in the mail for the last two weeks(an [H] member is about to be charged back...) using two DP to DVI and three DP cables. Dunno what else would help troubleshoot this or if I just need to set up profiles and live with it...

PS: Why is it I can't get any black mini-DP to DP cables? I blame Apple...

Legend Micro just listed a bunch of 245BW on ebay refurbished, so I picked up my 5th one of $235. Got my Eyefinity 6 card installed yesterday 5x1 Portrait here I come next week.

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To follow up, going to miniDP to DP 10 ft cables fixed the issue of the CCC not remembering my profile and 5 screen portrait.

Am in heaven with my second 5870e6 coming in today!

ibrin, what was the width and depth needed for this setup? VERY interested in ditching the current 3x1L and switching over :)

Also, is there any eta on the stand yet? Or an alternate way of making this work (I suppose I could just use the included stands, but that seems like a lot of clutter).

Thanks!
-Erik

Not sure if it was just me, but I fresh installed 11.1 and it didn't recognize 5x1P with my 5 Samsung 245BW. I uninstalled 11.1, then proceeded to install 10.12a which DID allow 5x1P. I think just installed 11.1 over 10.12a and now 11.1 sees 5x1? Odd...

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Brad Hawthorne
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Nthusim Pty. Ltd. | www.nthusim.com

Is there a hotfix for 5x1P in 11.1, because it's not an option for me? I installed 12.10a, but couldn't get 5x1 to work.

Make sure the OS sees all the displays as the same type. I had one display that was giving me available resolution issues until I forced the proper display inf on all 5 of the displays.

My desktop isn't that well suited for 5x1P, so I scaled back to 3x1P + an extra landscape display for video. 5x1P seriously overwhelms your desktop space. I thought 3x1L was bad, not you've got the tall-ness of the grouping to deal with now too. My fifth display is being used by another computer until I work out the tabletop space and mounting needed to properly do 5x1P without making it ghetto. :)

Hopefully I can whip up a proper 5x1P VESA mount in the shop in the next few weeks. 5x1P 6000x1920 is really novel, but it's a lot of display to use. Makes me almost wish I could revert to 22" panels.

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Brad Hawthorne
Product Manager
Nthusim Pty. Ltd. | www.nthusim.com

Not sure if it was just me, but I fresh installed 11.1 and it didn't recognize 5x1P with my 5 Samsung 245BW. I uninstalled 11.1, then proceeded to install 10.12a which DID allow 5x1P. I think just installed 11.1 over 10.12a and now 11.1 sees 5x1? Odd...

Are you using display port adaptors with those monitors?

Thanks,

Danny

ibrin, what was the width and depth needed for this setup? VERY interested in ditching the current 3x1L and switching over :)

Also, is there any eta on the stand yet? Or an alternate way of making this work (I suppose I could just use the included stands, but that seems like a lot of clutter).

Thanks!
-Erik

Are you asking for width and depth of the whole thing - monitors and stand?