Side-by-side AMD and Nvidia video cards

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byronhawkins

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I'm thinking about using two video cards in my PC, each one for a separate monitor. Will it work if one card is Nvidia and the other card is AMD? They will not be linked via SLI or anything (of course that's not possible). Thanks for your help.
 
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That wouldn't work very well as I'm not too sure how installation would go. The AMD drivers and Nvidia drivers will probably cause conflict problems with each others and not function properly. Just go with a single faster card. Just to let you know, driving multiple monitors on a single card hardly sucks any performance from the card. Only when you game and utilize all those pixels will you see a potential slow down (3xResolution Eyefinity, Nvidia Surround).
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That wouldn't work very well as I'm not too sure how installation would go. The AMD drivers and Nvidia drivers will probably cause conflict problems with each others and not function properly. Just go with a single faster card. Just to let you know, driving multiple monitors on a single card hardly sucks any performance from the card. Only when you game and utilize all those pixels will you see a potential slow down (3xResolution Eyefinity, Nvidia Surround).
 
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Currently my only card is a GeForce 9500 GT, which is dual DVI-D. It works fine for a 27" and a 24" monitor, but my new second monitor will be 30" at 2560x1600. Is that going to cook the card? I don't play games or anything, it will just be rendering normal apps like a music notation program.
 
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