Solve an argument for me!

Ryan_Anthony_ · 3 Feb 2015 at 20:20

Hi guys, just a quicky! Me and my Brother are currently in a bit of a dispute. He says that you can't for example, have 2x R9 290x's and a W9100 workstation card in the same system, But I vaguely remember somewhere that you can, it just disables whichever setup you aren't using or something???

Can someone clarify this for me.. Thanks guys!

CinderzFTW · 3 Feb 2015 at 21:58

No you cannot.

Different chips, different series, different everything.

When it comes to crossfiring cards, they have to be the same series i.e. 7950 to 7950. brand does not matter, nor does different clock speeds from the factory. But adding two graphics cards together then a professional workstation card... not a chance in hell!

You can add an nvidia card to an AMD system, but as a physics card only

varkanoid · 3 Feb 2015 at 23:08

CinderzFTW said:
You can add an nvidia card to an AMD system, but as a physics card only

correct me if I`m wrong but I believe that doesnt work anymore even with the hack.

CinderzFTW · 5 Feb 2015 at 09:41

varkanoid said:
correct me if I`m wrong but I believe that doesnt work anymore even with the hack.

Oh ok. Didn't know.

ZXSpectrum · 5 Feb 2015 at 11:00

You might be able to do it but I am not 100% as I havnt tried it. But if the AMD drivers are the same as the Nvidia drivers they actually have drivers for most cards regardless of if its the professional 3d cards or consumer variant. For instance you can have a Quadro K2200 in a system along with a GTX980 and they will work as separate cards unless you have software to support (Bunkspeed, 3DS max, etc). The W9100 is actually the same family of chips as the R290X (Hawaii) so should be compatible. I have supplied systems with W5100 and S10000. They have no issues at all.

pandem0nium · 5 Feb 2015 at 11:02

You can have them in the same system, yeah. They won't play nicely in crossfire / SLI though.

stopper · 5 Feb 2015 at 11:21

edit nvm

McGraw · 5 Feb 2015 at 11:33

Ryan_Anthony_ said:
Hi guys, just a quicky! Me and my Brother are currently in a bit of a dispute. He says that you can't for example, have 2x R9 290x's and a W9100 workstation card in the same system, But I vaguely remember somewhere that you can, it just disables whichever setup you aren't using or something???

Can someone clarify this for me.. Thanks guys!

Guessing at the reason for wanting to know but you could plug one card into one input of a monitor and the other card to another.

Then you could disable and reenable in device manager when you want to use the different cards...I think.

biuro74 · 5 Feb 2015 at 11:37

Of course you can HAVE them.
Having does NOT include (in its short definition) putting them into separate slots, or even powering them up ;-)

So you can just drop all cards to the case and you win the bet ;-)

Everything depends on the purpose. What's that ?