Tom's Hardware > Forum > Graphic & Displays > Graphics Cards > Dual grapic card question.

Dual grapic card question.

Forum Graphic & Displays : Graphics Cards - Dual grapic card question.

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Ask the community Add a reply
Word :    Username :           
 
Lauger   07-06-2006 at 02:57:02 PM

First my sys specs: Asus A8N-SLI Prem, Corsair 3500LL pro 2 gig, Amd 3500 x64, Asus 7800gt dual (runing on it's own power) Yes it working in SLI, 600W sli cert p/s, 2 wd raptor 74g (raid0), Gateway FPD2185W 21". Can i throw in one of my old ASUS 6600gt card's in the sec slot to run a lower rez moniter for minor things like surfing and other crap while playing games? i though about trying it but wanted to know if anyone has tryed just for the hell of it.

Thx

Add a reply
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
chrisbrown   07-06-2006 at 03:50:58 PM
- 0 +

I dont think so sorry. 7800 and 6600 are two completely different chips.

Reply to chrisbrown
Lauger   07-06-2006 at 03:57:21 PM
- 0 +

Well i'm going to try it when i get home. I'm not trying to setup sli with the ASUS 7800gt dual with a 6600gt I know that won't work. I'm trying to run 2 diff LCD's at the same time with diff resoultions.

Reply to Lauger
chrisbrown   07-06-2006 at 04:01:39 PM
- 0 +

Yeah i know that. I'm no super techy so maybe someone else can correct me, but it just seems to reek of a bad idea.

Reply to chrisbrown
dreams411   07-06-2006 at 04:15:02 PM
- 0 +

I'm with Chris on this one. You need to have two compatible cards to run SLI. In other words, two 6600GTs, etc. I don't know if will hurt anything, but I'm certain it won't work. Not without awesome hardware/driver moding abilities.

Reply to dreams411
guyinyourattic37   07-06-2006 at 04:30:07 PM
- 0 +

He's not trying to run SLI with the 7800 and the 6600

Quote :

I'm not trying to setup sli with the ASUS 7800gt dual with a 6600gt I know that won't work.



@ Lauger

Im not to sure about it. But i guess you could get it to work.

Reply to guyinyourattic37
lowlifecat   07-06-2006 at 04:45:14 PM
- 0 +

Quote :

First my sys specs: Asus A8N-SLI Prem, Corsair 3500LL pro 2 gig, Amd 3500 x64, Asus 7800gt dual (runing on it's own power) Yes it working in SLI, 600W sli cert p/s, 2 wd raptor 74g (raid0), Gateway FPD2185W 21". Can i throw in one of my old ASUS 6600gt card's in the sec slot to run a lower rez moniter for minor things like surfing and other crap while playing games? i though about trying it but wanted to know if anyone has tryed just for the hell of it.

Thx



I'm not familiar with the MB (does it have a config option for SLI/non-SLI in bios?) but you should be able to run a 2nd GPU as a second head. make sure you aren't running in SLI mode.

note: windows might detect your second screen as head #3.

Reply to lowlifecat
deweycd   07-06-2006 at 04:59:58 PM
- 0 +

I could see some problems cropping up but that would be in the speed of the 6600, I don't see any reason it shouldn't work like adding a PCI in with an AGP card.

Reply to deweycd
Sonic_Reducer   07-06-2006 at 05:41:04 PM
- 0 +

i think it could work , the only bad thing i see happening maybe is the drivers getting screwed up by the different gpu's and your games getting unstable but its just a gess.i might work so trie it and then tell us if it worked.

Reply to Sonic_Reducer
Lauger   07-07-2006 at 01:44:17 PM
- 0 +

Well I tried it last night. And guess what, It worked. Sli was also enabled still with the 7800GT dual. It noticed the second LCD as head 3. As far as I could tell it didn't affect performance while playing games. I'm going to play around with it some more today.

Reply to Lauger
lowlifecat   07-07-2006 at 03:11:32 PM
- 0 +

Quote :

Well I tried it last night. And guess what, It worked. Sli was also enabled still with the 7800GT dual. It noticed the second LCD as head 3. As far as I could tell it didn't affect performance while playing games. I'm going to play around with it some more today.



see, it pays to listen to the scruffy pussy. :)

Reply to lowlifecat
dreams411   07-08-2006 at 03:21:38 AM
- 0 +

Quote :



see, it pays to listen to the scruffy pussy. :)



Not if you visit Bangkok! 8O :lol:

Reply to dreams411
flametank   07-08-2006 at 05:51:14 PM
- 0 +

I want to buy that same Gateway LCD, but have heard some bad things about it. How does it work for you, do you like it?

Reply to flametank
Heyyou27   07-08-2006 at 06:36:31 PM
- 0 +

It should work fine.

Reply to Heyyou27
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Graphic & Displays > Graphics Cards > Dual grapic card question.
Go to:

There are 685 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 0.393 seconds
Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
Related Topics
See all relatives topics
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them