Bassman Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Presuming one has the correct Mobo, can one use a GTX460 and a Nvdia ECS N9800GTE -IGMU-F instead of having two identical graphics cards? I think the relatedvterms are Crossfie (for AMD??) and SLI (for NVidia??) . Presuming the answer is affirmative (apart from me likely using wrong terminology ) is there are real benefit from two cards? By the way, I will be using a Sandy Bridge 2600K and a Gigabyte GA P67A-UD5 Mobo. Cheers Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Routley Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 You can have two graphics cards, but not in SLI (unless they are identical, and SLI compatible) Crossfire is the ATI system. There is (unfortunately) no benefit to FSX in doing this ... the second card's cores can be used for CUDA for games/apps that support this, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman Posted January 9, 2011 Author Share Posted January 9, 2011 Thanks Ian, So if I understand right, if the cards are identical AND SLI compatible, there is a benefit for FSX? If the cards are not identical, then even if SLI compatible, there is no real benefit to FSX? Cheers dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alainneedle1 Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Thanks Ian, So if I understand right, if the cards are identical AND SLI compatible, there is a benefit for FSX? If the cards are not identical, then even if SLI compatible, there is no real benefit to FSX? Cheers dan Two card in SLI for FSX can be use IF you are using very high screen resolution....beside that SLI is of no use for FSX. By the way, to be used in SLI two identical card are needed... 2 x Asus GTX 570 or 2 x Gigabyte GTX 580. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman Posted January 9, 2011 Author Share Posted January 9, 2011 Thanks Alain (?) I notice that your system set up has two different graphics cards, one for PhysX? Going by the replies, your GTX285 must be for non-FSX purposes. Can you advise what that is used for? Cheers Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alainneedle1 Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Some games are built with Physx, a dedicated card for PhysX will take some load of the main one....here is an example of PhysX been use in Mafia II Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice_King Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 You can run 2 different Cards quite OK FSX won't give a toss, BUT for external view your going to be behind the 8 ball. I know a fellow who has the Mindstar G100 Glass instrumentation running on a 9800 GTX+ and a TH2GO running off an ATI 4800 doing the externals in a home cockpit with only a Quad Core 3 Ghz CPU (not sure exactly) but it works as it was intended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman Posted January 10, 2011 Author Share Posted January 10, 2011 Thanks guys, I am only interested in FSX so will just buy the best single card that I can afford rather than compromising by buying two less expensive cards. Going to try and kep my system powerful yet simple. Maurice, not too sure what you mean by "external view"? Cheers Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice_King Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 I mean the 2 smaller monitors were in front with the glass Cockpit G1000 on them and the 3 monitors via the TH2GO ran the view outside the cockpit . ie 2D without the Panel or VC without the panel. as if your looking out the Windscreen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman Posted January 10, 2011 Author Share Posted January 10, 2011 Thanks Maurice Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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