How do I plug in dual monitors with 2 Nvidia graphics cards when in SLI mode?

[Jalida]

Hi,

I have dual monitors.

In my computer I've got two Nvidia GTX 460 hooked up together in SLI mode.

I only use one monitor as my primary monitor (the one that I play video games on) the other monitor is basically for watching youtube videos, or twitch streams, reading pdf manuals etc.

What I need to know is when it comes to plugging in both monitors, do I plug them both into just one of my GTX 460 cards, or do I plug one monitor into each of the Nvidia cards (Remember the cards are setup together in SLI mode.

Thanks

 

[hunter315]

You need to plug them both into one of the cards, in SLI mode there is a master card that is feeding the screens, the other cards it is hooked to become the slaves and do not attempt to output anything to monitors.

 

[Jalida]

Thanks very much, that's the way that I've been doing it all this time, but for some reason I was wondering if the secondary monitor might get better performance being plugged into the second graphics card but thanks to you I now know not to do that.

Much appreciated.