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Two different PCI-E graphics cards - possible?
My mobo = P5K Premium 'black pearl'. I have an nVidia-based 8800GT in
the blue PCI-E slot. Can I put an ATI-based PCI-E card in the other black PCI-E slot? Please note I don't want "SLI" or "Crossfire". Instead, I want to use one graphics card for one XP-based HDD partition setup, and the other graphics card for another seperate XP-based HDD partition setup. Inside the P5K Premium black pearl BIOS, there is an option to toggle between either PEG or PCI for the initial graphics card. There's also other related options next to this that says: PEG Port Control (Auto/Disabled) PEG Port Force x 1 (Enabled/Disabled) ASUS C.G.I. Function (Auto/Enabled/Disabled) CGI = cross graphics impeller I'm sure that having one PCI-E and one PCI graphics card is allowed. But two different PCI-E graphics cards (which are not in SLI / Crossfire mode)? Thanks a lot for any thoughts, Best regards, Robert. |
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Two different PCI-E graphics cards - possible?
"rpgs rock dvds" schreef in bericht ... My mobo = P5K Premium 'black pearl'. I have an nVidia-based 8800GT in the blue PCI-E slot. Can I put an ATI-based PCI-E card in the other black PCI-E slot? Please note I don't want "SLI" or "Crossfire". Instead, I want to use one graphics card for one XP-based HDD partition setup, and the other graphics card for another seperate XP-based HDD partition setup. Inside the P5K Premium black pearl BIOS, there is an option to toggle between either PEG or PCI for the initial graphics card. There's also other related options next to this that says: PEG Port Control (Auto/Disabled) PEG Port Force x 1 (Enabled/Disabled) ASUS C.G.I. Function (Auto/Enabled/Disabled) CGI = cross graphics impeller I'm sure that having one PCI-E and one PCI graphics card is allowed. But two different PCI-E graphics cards (which are not in SLI / Crossfire mode)? Thanks a lot for any thoughts, Best regards, Robert. Hi Robert I cannot give any guarantee for your situation but I have used an A8N-SLI mobo, with an PCI-E XFX 6800 GT plus a PCI-E Matrox Parhelia APVe plus a PCI FX5200 with up to 7 monitors for several years without any problem May be you can find more info here : http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon...?forum=1&tmpl= See you, Jan |
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Two different PCI-E graphics cards - possible?
On 6 Jun, 07:53, "Jan Arkesteijn" wrote:
"rpgs rock dvds" schreef in ... My mobo = P5K Premium 'black pearl'. *I have an nVidia-based 8800GT in the blue PCI-E slot. *Can I put an ATI-based PCI-E card in the other black PCI-E slot? Please note I don't want "SLI" or "Crossfire". *Instead, I want to use one graphics card for one XP-based HDD partition setup, and the other graphics card for another seperate XP-based HDD partition setup. Inside the P5K Premium black pearl BIOS, there is an option to toggle between either PEG or PCI for the initial graphics card. *There's also other related options next to this that says: PEG Port Control *(Auto/Disabled) * *PEG Port Force x 1 *(Enabled/Disabled) ASUS C.G.I. Function *(Auto/Enabled/Disabled) * *CGI = cross graphics impeller I'm sure that having one PCI-E and one PCI graphics card is allowed. But two different PCI-E graphics cards (which are not in SLI / Crossfire mode)? Thanks a lot for any thoughts, Best regards, Robert. Hi Robert I cannot give any guarantee for your situation but I have used an A8N-SLI mobo, with an PCI-E XFX 6800 GT plus a PCI-E Matrox Parhelia APVe plus a PCI *FX5200 with up to 7 monitors for several years without any problem May be you can find more info here :http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon...?forum=1&tmpl= See you, Jan- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks a lot for your post Jan, I'll check out that interesting link you provided. All the best from Robert. |
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Two different PCI-E graphics cards - possible?
"rpgs rock dvds" wrote in message ... On 6 Jun, 07:53, "Jan Arkesteijn" wrote: "rpgs rock dvds" schreef in ... My mobo = P5K Premium 'black pearl'. I have an nVidia-based 8800GT in the blue PCI-E slot. Can I put an ATI-based PCI-E card in the other black PCI-E slot? Please note I don't want "SLI" or "Crossfire". Instead, I want to use one graphics card for one XP-based HDD partition setup, and the other graphics card for another seperate XP-based HDD partition setup. Inside the P5K Premium black pearl BIOS, there is an option to toggle between either PEG or PCI for the initial graphics card. There's also other related options next to this that says: PEG Port Control (Auto/Disabled) PEG Port Force x 1 (Enabled/Disabled) ASUS C.G.I. Function (Auto/Enabled/Disabled) CGI = cross graphics impeller I'm sure that having one PCI-E and one PCI graphics card is allowed. But two different PCI-E graphics cards (which are not in SLI / Crossfire mode)? Thanks a lot for any thoughts, Best regards, Robert. Hi Robert I cannot give any guarantee for your situation but I have used an A8N-SLI mobo, with an PCI-E XFX 6800 GT plus a PCI-E Matrox Parhelia APVe plus a PCI FX5200 with up to 7 monitors for several years without any problem May be you can find more info here :http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon...?forum=1&tmpl= See you, Jan- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks a lot for your post Jan, I'll check out that interesting link you provided. All the best from Robert. It is no problem at all. I run two 8800GTX cards in SLI and in just a few seconds I can disable SLI and the cards are independent of each other and can each run two monitors on their DVI out ports. For some reason, dual monitors just don't work correctly while in SLI and the outputs are disabled on one card. Ed |
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Two different PCI-E graphics cards - possible?
On 7 Jun, 17:26, "Ed Medlin" ed@ edmedlin.com wrote:
"rpgs rock dvds" wrote in ... On 6 Jun, 07:53, "Jan Arkesteijn" wrote: "rpgs rock dvds" schreef in ... My mobo = P5K Premium 'black pearl'. I have an nVidia-based 8800GT in the blue PCI-E slot. Can I put an ATI-based PCI-E card in the other black PCI-E slot? Please note I don't want "SLI" or "Crossfire". Instead, I want to use one graphics card for one XP-based HDD partition setup, and the other graphics card for another seperate XP-based HDD partition setup. Inside the P5K Premium black pearl BIOS, there is an option to toggle between either PEG or PCI for the initial graphics card. There's also other related options next to this that says: PEG Port Control (Auto/Disabled) PEG Port Force x 1 (Enabled/Disabled) ASUS C.G.I. Function (Auto/Enabled/Disabled) CGI = cross graphics impeller I'm sure that having one PCI-E and one PCI graphics card is allowed. But two different PCI-E graphics cards (which are not in SLI / Crossfire mode)? Thanks a lot for any thoughts, Best regards, Robert. Hi Robert I cannot give any guarantee for your situation but I have used an A8N-SLI mobo, with an PCI-E XFX 6800 GT plus a PCI-E Matrox Parhelia APVe plus a PCI FX5200 with up to 7 monitors for several years without any problem May be you can find more info here :http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon...?forum=1&tmpl= See you, Jan- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks a lot for your post Jan, I'll check out that interesting link you provided. All the best from Robert. It is no problem at all. I run two 8800GTX cards in SLI and in just a few seconds I can disable SLI and the cards are independent of each other and can each run two monitors on their DVI out ports. For some reason, dual monitors just don't work correctly while in SLI and the outputs are disabled on one card. Ed- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But please note that I want to try running 2 different types of PCI-E cards, one nVidia the other ATI. If I bootup the PC, how do I choose which PCI-E card will be the primary display card? |
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Two different PCI-E graphics cards - possible?
"rpgs rock dvds" wrote in message ... On 7 Jun, 17:26, "Ed Medlin" ed@ edmedlin.com wrote: "rpgs rock dvds" wrote in ... On 6 Jun, 07:53, "Jan Arkesteijn" wrote: "rpgs rock dvds" schreef in ... My mobo = P5K Premium 'black pearl'. I have an nVidia-based 8800GT in the blue PCI-E slot. Can I put an ATI-based PCI-E card in the other black PCI-E slot? Please note I don't want "SLI" or "Crossfire". Instead, I want to use one graphics card for one XP-based HDD partition setup, and the other graphics card for another seperate XP-based HDD partition setup. Inside the P5K Premium black pearl BIOS, there is an option to toggle between either PEG or PCI for the initial graphics card. There's also other related options next to this that says: PEG Port Control (Auto/Disabled) PEG Port Force x 1 (Enabled/Disabled) ASUS C.G.I. Function (Auto/Enabled/Disabled) CGI = cross graphics impeller I'm sure that having one PCI-E and one PCI graphics card is allowed. But two different PCI-E graphics cards (which are not in SLI / Crossfire mode)? Thanks a lot for any thoughts, Best regards, Robert. Hi Robert I cannot give any guarantee for your situation but I have used an A8N-SLI mobo, with an PCI-E XFX 6800 GT plus a PCI-E Matrox Parhelia APVe plus a PCI FX5200 with up to 7 monitors for several years without any problem May be you can find more info here :http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon...?forum=1&tmpl= See you, Jan- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks a lot for your post Jan, I'll check out that interesting link you provided. All the best from Robert. It is no problem at all. I run two 8800GTX cards in SLI and in just a few seconds I can disable SLI and the cards are independent of each other and can each run two monitors on their DVI out ports. For some reason, dual monitors just don't work correctly while in SLI and the outputs are disabled on one card. Ed- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But please note that I want to try running 2 different types of PCI-E cards, one nVidia the other ATI. If I bootup the PC, how do I choose which PCI-E card will be the primary display card? The only problem you may have is a conflict with the ATI and Nvidia drivers. Give it a try and post back with the results. Ed |
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Two different PCI-E graphics cards - possible?
"Ed Medlin" ed@ edmedlin.com wrote in message ... "rpgs rock dvds" wrote in message ... On 7 Jun, 17:26, "Ed Medlin" ed@ edmedlin.com wrote: "rpgs rock dvds" wrote in ... On 6 Jun, 07:53, "Jan Arkesteijn" wrote: "rpgs rock dvds" schreef in ... My mobo = P5K Premium 'black pearl'. I have an nVidia-based 8800GT in the blue PCI-E slot. Can I put an ATI-based PCI-E card in the other black PCI-E slot? Please note I don't want "SLI" or "Crossfire". Instead, I want to use one graphics card for one XP-based HDD partition setup, and the other graphics card for another seperate XP-based HDD partition setup. Inside the P5K Premium black pearl BIOS, there is an option to toggle between either PEG or PCI for the initial graphics card. There's also other related options next to this that says: PEG Port Control (Auto/Disabled) PEG Port Force x 1 (Enabled/Disabled) ASUS C.G.I. Function (Auto/Enabled/Disabled) CGI = cross graphics impeller I'm sure that having one PCI-E and one PCI graphics card is allowed. But two different PCI-E graphics cards (which are not in SLI / Crossfire mode)? Thanks a lot for any thoughts, Best regards, Robert. Hi Robert I cannot give any guarantee for your situation but I have used an A8N-SLI mobo, with an PCI-E XFX 6800 GT plus a PCI-E Matrox Parhelia APVe plus a PCI FX5200 with up to 7 monitors for several years without any problem May be you can find more info here :http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon...?forum=1&tmpl= See you, Jan- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks a lot for your post Jan, I'll check out that interesting link you provided. All the best from Robert. It is no problem at all. I run two 8800GTX cards in SLI and in just a few seconds I can disable SLI and the cards are independent of each other and can each run two monitors on their DVI out ports. For some reason, dual monitors just don't work correctly while in SLI and the outputs are disabled on one card. Ed- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But please note that I want to try running 2 different types of PCI-E cards, one nVidia the other ATI. If I bootup the PC, how do I choose which PCI-E card will be the primary display card? The only problem you may have is a conflict with the ATI and Nvidia drivers. Give it a try and post back with the results. Ed With an A8N SLI, I'm running an ATI X300 and a NVIDIA 8600GT with no problem. To select primary display, go to display properties/settings and select the monitor on the card you want to be primary. john |
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Two different PCI-E graphics cards - possible?
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 01:08:19 -0700 (PDT), rpgs rock dvds
wrote: But please note that I want to try running 2 different types of PCI-E cards, one nVidia the other ATI. If I bootup the PC, how do I choose which PCI-E card will be the primary display card? Look in the bios. I don't know your MB but my Asus M2N32-SLI has a setting to configure the primary adapter - the options are PCI slot ans PCI-E slot. I guess your biggest problem will be getting the two drivers to co-exist. |
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Two different PCI-E graphics cards - possible?
But please note that I want to try running 2 different types of PCI-E cards, one nVidia the other ATI. If I bootup the PC, how do I choose which PCI-E card will be the primary display card? IIRC, the card in the lowest numbered pci-e slot will be considered to be the primary. However, once Windows is started you can tell it which one you want to be primary. |
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Two different PCI-E graphics cards - possible?
On 4 Jun, 18:08, rpgs rock dvds wrote:
My mobo = P5K Premium 'black pearl'. *I have an nVidia-based 8800GT in the blue PCI-E slot. *Can I put an ATI-based PCI-E card in the other black PCI-E slot? Please note I don't want "SLI" or "Crossfire". *Instead, I want to use one graphics card for one XP-based HDD partition setup, and the other graphics card for another seperate XP-based HDD partition setup. Inside the P5K Premium black pearl BIOS, there is an option to toggle between either PEG or PCI for the initial graphics card. *There's also other related options next to this that says: PEG Port Control *(Auto/Disabled) * * PEG Port Force x 1 *(Enabled/Disabled) ASUS C.G.I. Function *(Auto/Enabled/Disabled) * *CGI = cross graphics impeller I'm sure that having one PCI-E and one PCI graphics card is allowed. But two different PCI-E graphics cards (which are not in SLI / Crossfire mode)? Thanks a lot for any thoughts, Best regards, Robert. Thanks very much for all comments. |
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