Duel Moniter SLI Connection

robosodope · Sep 27, 2017

I got a new moniter that is an addition to the one I already have. I have them plugged into the DVI ports on my 2 970s seperatly but only the moniter plugged into the graphics card in the first PCI slot seems to work

Gam3r01 · Sep 27, 2017

The second (slave) card has its outputs disabled, it simply processes half the information for the primary (master) card, since its just processing data, the primary card is the only one that outputs a signal.

robosodope · Sep 27, 2017

Gam3r01 :

Thank you for responding so quickly, but I only have 1 DVI port per card. Is there a way to get the slave card to output?

Gam3r01 · Sep 27, 2017

Not while keeping SLI enabled.
Your choices are either a different cable (HDMI, etc), or hooking the second monitor up to your motherboard (if your motherboard supports it).

robosodope · Sep 27, 2017

Gam3r01 :

Would hooking it up to the mother board be handling the moniter by itself? Or would the computer allocate the graphics cards to support it?

Gam3r01 · Sep 27, 2017

If you hook it up to the motherboard the CPUs integrated graphics would take care of it, assuming you have a processor with integrated graphics to begin with.

robosodope · Sep 27, 2017

Gam3r01 :

It does, but you are saying that if I were to play a game on that moniter the integrated graphics would power the game alone, without the graphics cards? Again, thank you for this information

Gam3r01 · Sep 27, 2017

Yeah thats how it would work.
So the idea is to only run games on the monitor that is hooked up to the GPU, and run things like discord or chrome on the other monitor.

I personally would just get a new cable that works with your graphics card and monitors.

Mousemonkey · Sep 27, 2017

Or you could just get a HDMI to DVI adapter or cable and run both monitors from the primary card.

robosodope · Sep 27, 2017

Gam3r01 :

The thing is I have one 1440p monitor and a 144hz monitor that both require DVI to run at its best. Is their a DVI splitter cable or something of the sort that I could buy?

k1114 · Sep 28, 2017

That's not how it works. I have my intel igpu running a monitor and playing a game in windowed still uses my dgpu when it's on that monitor. The second card also doesn't have it's ports disabled. You just can only use it when surround is enabled. The simplest solution would be to just get a adapter or cable.

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