So, I am not a hardcore computer guy or gamer, but I know a decent amount. Enough to get me by. I do some video editing and use Premiere. I play games occasionally. Anyway, all that said, I had been keeping my eyes and ears open for a cheap deal on a graphics card upgrade. My gtx460 seemed fine, but I felt like it was the weaker link. I have 12gb ram, 256gb SSD, an i7 @2.8ghz I believe (I know it can be overclocked, but have no experience in that). Since I use Premiere, I felt like finding something that had the CUDA technology would be a good idea. Anyway, a friend sold me his Nvidia, GeForce GTX 570 for cheap. Brand new.
My question is how do I get the best usage out of these two cards. I understand that they cannot be connected via SLI. I'm not certain, but from what I understand a second 460 to run in SLI may have been faster, but the 460 doesn't have the CUDA. I have read some info online (yahoo answers, etc) about using one of the two cards for one process and the other card for another. Since I don't really understand what I'm looking for, it's hard to know what to search for. If anyone could lend a hand, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'd take any suggestions as well. As far as I understand another perk to this second card is that I can now run 3 monitors. But that's another topic.
Anyway, after I physically install the 570, and the drivers, is there something I'll need to do to optimize the performance from the two cards?
Edit- Googling around now, trying to learn more about Physx and what role that plays.
My question is how do I get the best usage out of these two cards. I understand that they cannot be connected via SLI. I'm not certain, but from what I understand a second 460 to run in SLI may have been faster, but the 460 doesn't have the CUDA. I have read some info online (yahoo answers, etc) about using one of the two cards for one process and the other card for another. Since I don't really understand what I'm looking for, it's hard to know what to search for. If anyone could lend a hand, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'd take any suggestions as well. As far as I understand another perk to this second card is that I can now run 3 monitors. But that's another topic.
Anyway, after I physically install the 570, and the drivers, is there something I'll need to do to optimize the performance from the two cards?
Edit- Googling around now, trying to learn more about Physx and what role that plays.
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