A8N SLI Preium - ATI x850 AND ATI x600 AIW installed?

[sjfphoto]

I'm building a system based on the A8N SLI Premium. I do more photoshop work than gaming, very little gaming in fact. I need dual video cards to support my monitor color calibration software (it won't create and use separate color profiles on a dual head video card). I also capture video and use the TV function, hence the AIW. What I'd like to do is use the faster x850 (or x800) as my main video card (monitor 1) and have the x600 AIW as the secondary card (monitor 2). My questions are:

Should this setup work OK?
Will I only get the TV on the monitor 2?
Are there any potential issues with this setup?

Thanks,

Steve

 

[t0mn8r]

IMO it won't work.

 

[sjfphoto]

Originally posted by: t0mn8r
IMO it won't work.

What makes you say that? Just curious? I'm currently doing kinda the same thing now with an AGP and PCI card except it's the AGP card that has the TV stuff. Works real well.

Steve

 

[AznAnarchy99]

i would think it would work since ive heard people using that other slot for stuff like RAID etc

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I'm sure it will work because I've seen people using SLI boards for two different type cards, like a 7800 in one slot for gaming and a Quadro in the other for CAD. My only question would be do you have to do anything differently with the drivers?

 

[sjfphoto]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
I'm sure it will work because I've seen people using SLI boards for two different type cards, like a 7800 in one slot for gaming and a Quadro in the other for CAD. My only question would be do you have to do anything differently with the drivers?

The driver thing concerned me as well. I'm probably going to have the same manufacturer (that uses the same driver) for both cards. While I'd love to have a 7800 in one slot and a Matrox in the other, I can't help but think the drivers would not play nice in the sandbox together. In my current system, I'm using an ATI AIW 9600 Pro in the AGP slot and the 9250 in a PCI slot. Works like a champ.

So now the question becomes and (Gamer) fast ATI card should I use in PCI-e slot one with the x600 AIW in slot 2. I'm leaning towards the x850.