Monitors and Graphics and SLI, oh my.
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@MattSpeller said:
Return / sell the 970 for 2x 960's? You don't really need SLI if you're not gaming either - $0.02
Are you saying you can run 2x GTXs without SLI? That'd be fine for me. If so, do I just distribute the monitors evenly across the two cards and they operate independently? I didn't know you could do that. That sound amazing.
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@MattSpeller said:
Return / sell the 970 for 2x 960's? You don't really need SLI if you're not gaming either - $0.02
Unrelated: I'm going to be digging into developing for Oculus soon and the minimum requirement is a 970, so I have to stick w/ at least one of those.
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HMMMMMM. This:
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/sli/faq
Says SLI, even quad SLI, supports a max of 2 monitors. So it sounds like SLI is the opposite of what I need
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Since I don't need SLI I wonder if I can just run a 2nd 970 ( in case I ever do get into gaming and want SLI ) in the PCIe 2 16 slot and run a monitor or two through it.
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@creayt or just a generic card to give you more monitors, not sure if you'd see a benefit from another 970?? This is quickly heading outside what I know about.
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@MattSpeller said:
@creayt or just a generic card to give you more monitors, not sure if you'd see a benefit from another 970?? This is quickly heading outside what I know about.
I think you're right, in fact there's a note on that SLI page about when you do have 2 identical cards that support SLI about not being able to use a 2nd or 3rd in any way BUT SLI. So close call if that's true. Thx.
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Isn't the whole point of SLI to take all that horsepower and show it on one, maybe two screens?
You can put something like 6 video cards into a windows 7 machine and hand as many monitors off of each as they each individually handle. and make one honkin' desktop!
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@Dashrender said:
Isn't the whole point of SLI to take all that horsepower ...
This much I know to be true. I'm not sure about the rest.
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@Dashrender said:
Isn't the whole point of SLI to take all that horsepower and show it on one, maybe two screens?
You can put something like 6 video cards into a windows 7 machine and hand as many monitors off of each as they each individually handle. and make one honkin' desktop!
As far as I know, yes, as well as a few other benefits. My concern is that
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I'd like to get a 2nd identical graphics card in case I do want to SLI on my next build and reuse the cards
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The NVidia SLI page says:
which to me may mean that you can only run 2 identical cards in SLI, which isn't what I want to do and my mobo doesn't support it. So now I'm trying to get a definitive answer because: Restocking Fees.
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@creayt save some cash and just use a cheap POS now, then get your SLI card later when prices drop (970's are astronomical still, mine was cheaper on launch day than they are today by +10%)
Edit: upon further thought, that might be due to the $CDN falling like a rock vs $USD
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$100, no fan, 1x DVI, HDMI, DP
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500356
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@creayt said:
which to me may mean that you can only run 2 identical cards in SLI,
this is my understanding as well - they must be identical.
But if you are using any in SLI, you probably have to use them all in SLI if they are all the same. But, if you wanted to SLI 2 cards (it'd be silly to try to SLI 1 card
) you should be able to install different cards and add more monitors. -
I believe that SLI must always be identical, yes.
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@MattSpeller said:
@creayt save some cash and just use a cheap POS now, then get your SLI card later when prices drop (970's are astronomical still, mine was cheaper on launch day than they are today by +10%)
Edit: upon further thought, that might be due to the $CDN falling like a rock vs $USD
Mine was about $329 for the super, superclocked version, not bad at all and comes w/ OC-ability and tooling. How much was yours?
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@scottalanmiller said:
I believe that SLI must always be identical, yes.
This is true. My conundrum's the opposite. I want to use identical cards NOT in SLI.
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@Dashrender said:
@creayt said:
which to me may mean that you can only run 2 identical cards in SLI,
this is my understanding as well - they must be identical.
But if you are using any in SLI, you probably have to use them all in SLI if they are all the same. But, if you wanted to SLI 2 cards (it'd be silly to try to SLI 1 card
) you should be able to install different cards and add more monitors.Sorry for my poor wording. What I actually meant was:
May mean that if you have 2 identical cards, you can only run them in SLI, instead of independent of each other to operate autonomously so you can use them for different monitors.
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@creayt said:
Mine was about $329 for the super, superclocked version, not bad at all and comes w/ OC-ability and tooling. How much was yours?
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@MattSpeller said:
$100, no fan, 1x DVI, HDMI, DP
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500356
I actually have that old Radeon 5750 lying around, I suppose I could pop that in and put some of this stuff to the test, though the idea of having all of the NVidiaware installed and all of the AMDware installed makes me
TREMBLE IN FEAR.
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@creayt rofl, if you get that to work it'll be sooooooooooooo sketchy haha
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Just make sure you back up!
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@creayt said:
@Dashrender said:
@creayt said:
which to me may mean that you can only run 2 identical cards in SLI,
this is my understanding as well - they must be identical.
But if you are using any in SLI, you probably have to use them all in SLI if they are all the same. But, if you wanted to SLI 2 cards (it'd be silly to try to SLI 1 card
) you should be able to install different cards and add more monitors.Sorry for my poor wording. What I actually meant was:
May mean that if you have 2 identical cards, you can only run them in SLI, instead of independent of each other to operate autonomously so you can use them for different monitors.
I don't know why that would be true, but it might be.
