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Profile: journeyman
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I just found out that I cant have multiple monitors with SLI, which is stupid so I disabled it. Does that mean that I cant connect 4 monitors to my gpu,s (2 outputs on each card).

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You can but you would have to toggle in and out of SLI for gaming. Do you mean you want 4monitors for desktop and 1 for gaming? or do you want all 4 for gaming? please explain.


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well I want to use 2 monitors for my desktop and 1 for gaming. I just said 4 monitors because I have 4 outputs and I would be abit pointless if I cant use the second gpu. Is switching SLI on/off the only way?

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SLI would be pointless for multiple displays because even a single card with 2 displays will cute each outputs resources in half. So lest say you have 2 monitors, it wouldn't make sense to have SLI even enables because you would just plug 1 monitor in each card giving each output its own video card. So you are saying you want to play a game on 1 monitor while having a desktop on 2 others at the same time?


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Profile: journeyman
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I've got 2 monitors which I have set to "dualview" for my desktop. But the only way I can have "dualview" is to disable SLI. I dont want to use both screens for gaming but theres no point having 2 cards if im not going to use them.
So is it possible to keep SLI enabled and still be able to use 2 monitors?

Im not going to, I just want to know. But can you plug a monitor into the second gpu to have more then 2 displays even though SLI is disabled?

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If SLI is disabled you should be able to plug a monitor in each DVI output, and have 4 monitors. If SLI is enabled then the same thing won't work, because of driver limitations. nVidia has promised to fix that, but I haven't heard of any solution yet...


Message edited by aevm on 05-21-2008 at 03:28:50 PM
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ok thanks. I hope they sort it out soon because I dont want to keep switching. How long have they been promising to fix it?

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I think I've read it 4 or 5 months ago. I wouldn't count on it too much.

Just curious, how hard is it to switch SLI on or off? Do you just start nTunes and check/uncheck a checkbox and click OK, or is it a lot of work?

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yeah I use ntune, but it takes awhile for it to actually change, and for some reason it messes up all my desktop icons.

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No matter what you'll have to toggle something, it won't work properly otherwise (think of how SLi works).

I know how difficult it is to click a checkbox :kaola:, but it's much better than rebooting to enable it the way you used to have to do it.


Message edited by TheGreatGr apeApe on 05-21-2008 at 07:07:55 PM

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yeah, lol. It wont be for much longer anyway. I'll proberbly get one of those 9900's when they come out.


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