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Does the Radeon HD 5450 support three displays?

Does the Radeon HD 5450 support three displays?

I know that ATI.com says that the Radeon HD 5450 supports three displays. My question is, how does it support three displays without DisplayPort? I see only VGA, HDMI, and DVI on 5450s.

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"This is from the AnandTech review of the AMD Radeon HD 5450:

Finally, since the 5450 is a
low-profile card, we have yet another
variant in the port configuration. Our
sample card is equipped with 1 DVI
port and 1 DisplayPort directly on the
card, and a VGA port on the bracket
attached to the card via cable. The
5450 – like all other 5000-series
cards – supports 3-monitor Eyefinity,
so all 3 ports can be used at once,
although the VGA port is obviously
going to make it less desirable here.

We should note that only cards with a
DisplayPort will support Eyefinity,
which means that if a vendor decides
to equip the card with an HDMI port
instead, they have to give up
Eyefinity to do so. We expect to see
some cards with HDMI for the HTPC
crowd, but at this point we don’t have
any idea as to how many there will be.
DVI-to-HDMI adaptors still work here,
so we may see vendors spend a bit more
money and go that route instead.

I've highlighted the part you'll be interested in. Basically, without DisplayPort, there's no Eyefinity and, therefore, no 3 monitor support."