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2 Cards, 1 Computer
- Thread starter Skeeter
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I think Linus tried this out to see whether he could get the best of both worlds.
In fact, here it is - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqkI7bOfRkA
In fact, here it is - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqkI7bOfRkA
I'm not after SLI and Crossfire, I will only have a single card from each manufacturer.
It's to get 3 monitors as I have an nVidia in at the moment which is limited to 2 monitors, but I have a spare monitor and spare ATI card sat around doing nothing so if I can make a triple monitor setup for £0 I will.
Will I have a nightmare with drivers and display properties?
It's to get 3 monitors as I have an nVidia in at the moment which is limited to 2 monitors, but I have a spare monitor and spare ATI card sat around doing nothing so if I can make a triple monitor setup for £0 I will.
Will I have a nightmare with drivers and display properties?
I'm sure I read somewhere that If you install an ATI card, then nVidia barfs or it may be the other way around.
Here - http://www.ngohq.com/graphic-cards/16223-nvidia-disables-physx-when-ati-card-is-present.html
Here - http://www.ngohq.com/graphic-cards/16223-nvidia-disables-physx-when-ati-card-is-present.html
Soldato
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Provided you're running Vista or above, you shouldn't have any problems running two different cards to get three screens up and running. Obviously, you know you won't be able to game across all three, and as Spot35 said Nvidia will disable hardware PhysX due to the presence of the AMD card, but just for running screens you should be fine.
I briefly ran an Nvidia 460 alongside Crossfired 7970s with hacked drivers to enable PhysX. I tried connecting a monitor to the 460, and it worked perfectly. The only issue I had was Just Cause 2, for some reason, would only launch on the single Nvidia powered screen, not the main AMD powered one(s). No idea why, but it was a pretty hacked about setup, so may not be something you'll experience, and it never happened on any other games, just that one.
I'd say try it, it should work. If you find any weird issues and they're a showstopper for you, you can always just take out the card and you've lost nothing as it didn't cost you anything to try it.
I briefly ran an Nvidia 460 alongside Crossfired 7970s with hacked drivers to enable PhysX. I tried connecting a monitor to the 460, and it worked perfectly. The only issue I had was Just Cause 2, for some reason, would only launch on the single Nvidia powered screen, not the main AMD powered one(s). No idea why, but it was a pretty hacked about setup, so may not be something you'll experience, and it never happened on any other games, just that one.
I'd say try it, it should work. If you find any weird issues and they're a showstopper for you, you can always just take out the card and you've lost nothing as it didn't cost you anything to try it.
I'd game on only one screen anyway, using the nVidia. The hardware PhysiX thing might cause issues though?
I'll give it a go and report back. I'm running Windows 10 preview so am already in a beta drivers mire anyway
. May as well make it challenging for myself.
I'll give it a go and report back. I'm running Windows 10 preview so am already in a beta drivers mire anyway
. May as well make it challenging for myself.
Soldato
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Can't you run the onboard graphics simultaneously with the GPU? So two screens off the card and one screen from the onboard?
