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Benji Random spam moderator
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 9:10 am Post subject: 2 Video Card in 1 computer - Possible? |
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I have an ATI Radeon X800 XT and a nVidia Geforce 6800. Both are PCI-Express. _________________
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iTz SWAT I post too much
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 9:15 am Post subject: |
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No.
You can have 2 ATI Cards in Crossfire.
You can have 2 NVIDIA Cards in SLI.
But you can't make a mix.
Also those cards are to old for crossfire/sli.
Also I doubt your 300W PSU can run both. _________________
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Benji Random spam moderator
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 9:17 am Post subject: |
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iTz SWAT wrote: | No.
You can have 2 ATI Cards in Crossfire.
You can have 2 NVIDIA Cards in SLI.
But you can't make a mix.
Also those cards are to old for crossfire/sli.
Also I doubt your 300W PSU can run both. |
Okay, thanks for the info. _________________
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ArcaneKnite Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 10:32 am Post subject: |
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And the ATI card thats you buy have to be CrossfireX ready.
The nVidia cards also have to be SLI ready.
Some of them aren't. |
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Hero I'm a spammer
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 10:42 am Post subject: |
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Mixing the cards doesnt work as well as you would think anyway. |
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kls85 I post too much
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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If your not running in SLI or CrossFire, then you can mixed cards, but it's not recommended as installing the drivers will be a bitch.
Adding 2 graphic card not for gaming purposes is if your going to hook up more than 2 monitors. If you just got one monitor then there is not point on getting a 2nd video card. _________________
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Hero I'm a spammer
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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kls85 wrote: | If your not running in SLI or CrossFire, then you can mixed cards, but it's not recommended as installing the drivers will be a bitch.
Adding 2 graphic card not for gaming purposes is if your going to hook up more than 2 monitors. If you just got one monitor then there is not point on getting a 2nd video card. | Can you do split screens that way? Like 1 big screen made up of 2 monitors? |
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Zarr Grandmaster Cheater
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, Lucid's Hydra 200 chip apparently allows connectivity of cross-vendor cards, though it's probably not going to be released for retail until another fortnight or so, and when it is it will probably cost over $300. Shy of that, there's no way to use both simultaneously. _________________
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kls85 I post too much
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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Hero wrote: | kls85 wrote: | If your not running in SLI or CrossFire, then you can mixed cards, but it's not recommended as installing the drivers will be a bitch.
Adding 2 graphic card not for gaming purposes is if your going to hook up more than 2 monitors. If you just got one monitor then there is not point on getting a 2nd video card. | Can you do split screens that way? Like 1 big screen made up of 2 monitors? |
Yes and the more monitors you have the bigger your screen gets or the more it stretches. _________________
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Hero I'm a spammer
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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kls85 wrote: | Hero wrote: | kls85 wrote: | If your not running in SLI or CrossFire, then you can mixed cards, but it's not recommended as installing the drivers will be a bitch.
Adding 2 graphic card not for gaming purposes is if your going to hook up more than 2 monitors. If you just got one monitor then there is not point on getting a 2nd video card. | Can you do split screens that way? Like 1 big screen made up of 2 monitors? |
Yes and the more monitors you have the bigger your screen gets or the more it stretches. |
Needs more max resolution. But this being the case, I could go cheap and just hook it to a tv thats giant. |
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Shota Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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Or, you can have a 8600gt + as a PhyX card and a ATI card as the main one
doesn't work on the new NVidia drivers _________________
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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Hero wrote: | kls85 wrote: | If your not running in SLI or CrossFire, then you can mixed cards, but it's not recommended as installing the drivers will be a bitch.
Adding 2 graphic card not for gaming purposes is if your going to hook up more than 2 monitors. If you just got one monitor then there is not point on getting a 2nd video card. | Can you do split screens that way? Like 1 big screen made up of 2 monitors? |
http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity.aspx |
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Hero I'm a spammer
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slovach wrote: | Hero wrote: | kls85 wrote: | If your not running in SLI or CrossFire, then you can mixed cards, but it's not recommended as installing the drivers will be a bitch.
Adding 2 graphic card not for gaming purposes is if your going to hook up more than 2 monitors. If you just got one monitor then there is not point on getting a 2nd video card. | Can you do split screens that way? Like 1 big screen made up of 2 monitors? |
http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity.aspx | This is sauce. I will do this some day. |
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kls85 I post too much
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Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:29 am Post subject: |
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Hero wrote: | slovach wrote: | Hero wrote: | kls85 wrote: | If your not running in SLI or CrossFire, then you can mixed cards, but it's not recommended as installing the drivers will be a bitch.
Adding 2 graphic card not for gaming purposes is if your going to hook up more than 2 monitors. If you just got one monitor then there is not point on getting a 2nd video card. | Can you do split screens that way? Like 1 big screen made up of 2 monitors? |
http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity.aspx | This is sauce. I will do this some day. |
You will need a DP monitor if you want to have do that some day. _________________
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Shota Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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