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multiple video card question
exoplasm
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My brother is building a new PC and wants to run 3 or more monitors. He has a few spare nvidia quadro fx 1400 cards and I can't figure out if they would work on one motherboard for this setup. He doesn't game on them or anything.
Or does he just need to buy two matching current-gen cards that do crossfire or sli?
He's planning on getting a motherboard with 2 x16 slots.
Or does he just need to buy two matching current-gen cards that do crossfire or sli?
He's planning on getting a motherboard with 2 x16 slots.
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I doubt that he'd be able to get them to work on the motherboard. What he could do is get a single card with two outputs and use a splitter for the second and third monitors.
My Radeon handles two monitors natively, and I have my mobo's onboard GPU turned on to provide the third. SoftTH handles the multi monitor duties by rendering in triple-width on the primary card then just cutting and pasting the appropriate third of the buffer to the mobo monitor's display. So the onboard video isn't a bottleneck at all because just it displays part of what my real card is rendering.
Best part: SoftTH is free.
Here's an example of it doing its magic with Bioshock
On the other hand, if you only want extra desktop space, then WinXP or newer will natively recognize multiple video cards and let you extend your desktop as desired, no magic needed.
He'll be using Vista 64-bit if it makes a difference.
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