GPU Related Questions

[TheStu]

Trying to do something fancy with a fairly low power rig, and wanted to know if any of these were even remotely possible. If they are possible, but stupid/a bad idea because of <reason>, that'd be good to know.

1: Use intel HD4000 iGP & an nVidia 650 in a faux SLI setup.
2: Plug in an nVidia 600 Series card and still use the motherboard's HDMI out.

Motherboard is gigabyte B75N if that helps at all. I know that there was some sort of hybrid Cross-SLI mashup chipset called Vitra or something from a couple years ago, but wasn't sure if because of nVidia's work on Optimus if anything had translated over to the desktop space.

 

[DaveSimmons]

1. No.
2. Not using the 600 GPU, only as a dual-card setup with video from the HD4000.

 

[TheStu]

1. No.
2. Not using the 600 GPU, only as a dual-card setup with video from the HD4000.

1: OK
2: With 2, what I mean is, let's say I have my monitor hooked up over HDMI using the port on the motherboard and then plug in a gpu into the PCIe slot. I have to move the cable, right? There's no way to have the discrete card send it's rendering through the motherboard's HDMI port, or is there? I assume the answer is also no, but just thought I would check.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Right. The motherboard connector will only send video from the HD4000.

What I was saying is that if you left the HD400 enabled, you could be sending (different) video from both the HD400 and the video card at the same time, using 2 cables to 2 different monitors.

But you can also do that using 2 connectors on the video card, using the video card's own dual-monitor support and ignoring the HD4000.

 

[Ken g6]

Sounds like you're thinking of Lucid Virtu and Virtu MVP:

http://www.lucidlogix.com/product-virtu-mvp.shtml

I'm not quite sure what it does, but it claims to do something.

 

[TheStu]

Right. The motherboard connector will only send video from the HD4000.

What I was saying is that if you left the HD400 enabled, you could be sending (different) video from both the HD400 and the video card at the same time, using 2 cables to 2 different monitors.

But you can also do that using 2 connectors on the video card, using the video card's own dual-monitor support and ignoring the HD4000.

Yea, I've used that feature before, just for giggles.

Sounds like you're thinking of Lucid Virtu and Virtu MVP:

http://www.lucidlogix.com/product-virtu-mvp.shtml

I'm not quite sure what it does, but it claims to do something.

Yea, that was what I was thinking of. But, this mini-itx board doesn't have that.

Ok, so simple answers are, neither is possible. Cool.