Triple - Monitor with two different cards?

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Malzey

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I have seen many other threads with the same general idea but not really the same question.

Here is my predicament:

I have been planning to upgrade my first rig for a long time, i currently have a 560 ti SC SLI, and I am planning to upgrade to a single 960 ti FTW. I have a single 1080p monitor but I also plan to place two smaller monitors on either side to complete a sort-of triple monitor setup, and my 560's are still great little cards and I don't want to just leave them in a box to collect dust, and utilize their potential.

My question is, is it possible, in gaming, to use the 960 ti for the single monitor, and one 560 ti for the other two monitors in win7? (and the other 560 for PhysX) All of this set up would be intended for ONE desktop

Or just have each card run a monitor? Is this possible? If so how would i go about this?

(My main concern is the ability to produce the graphics on each monitor equally)
 
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The performance will terrible, but if your motherboard supports it, bridge the two cards together using SLI in the NVidia control panel. A better alternative is to sell both of your NVidia cards and get a single ATI card, as the higher model ATI cards have native support for three monitors. Nvidia does not. Period.
 
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k1114

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This is all just wrong.
 
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cdrkf

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Well, AMD / ATI cards do have *excellent* multi screen support (trust me I've had to do some crazy exotic display configurations for golf teaching / simulation systems which you currently cannot achieve with nVidia cards). They have native support for up to 6 screens off most of their upper mid range and higher gpu's (the prerequisite for this is you have to use DP connections to do it, or a DP MST hub).

nVidia have improved their game on multi screen support lately though, with MAxwell supporting up to 4 screens. Either way 3 screens is pretty straight forward with a single card.

I'm not sure what benefit keeping one of the 560ti cards in for Physx would be though, as how many games *actually use PhysX* these days?
 
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Ah, there's a few then. I must admit I tend to mainly play RTS which is why I guess I've never come across it (I'm currently on an AMD card but last gen I had a GTX 560 and was disappointed none of the games I played supported PhysX lol).
 
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I agree amd is better with up to 6 and miss and match res eyefinity capabilities. But there's a big difference in what you said and what he said. The only notable difference in maxwell is surround now supports 2-5 monitors with a +1 accessory monitor instead of just 3+1 max since the 200 series. 4 monitor support on a single card has been around for a couple years since kepler.
 
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