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GTX460 + GTX260 in same machine

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Burner27

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I have the following cards in my machine:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127518

and my EVGA GTX260 Core 216.

The MSI is my primary card and it only has a 22" Samsung attached to it. The GTX260 has my 2 x 19" monitors attached to them. My PSU is a Corsair HX850 so I can definitely power these two without issues. Just wondering if anyone can offer any advice as to optimizing them? Is the second card overkill? Does the MSI support 3 monitors (I am guessing no)

I am using the 280.26 drivers now. I tried the 285 drivers but it kept BSODing my machine.

Thanks
 
Not looking to SLI. I know that won't work. Just trying to get some feedback/best practices from those who have dissimilar cards like me.
 
I don't see any potential problems with those two cards, just be aware that Nvidia's cards don't go into power saving mode with dual displays as far as I know. I have two very different cards and they work fine together, an Nvidia 8800GTS and an AMD HD 6870.
 
The only thing you can do is make the 260 the phsyx processor and free up the 460... Plus your looking at more noise and heat generation, for phsyx for what ? batman and dirt 3 lol

You cant SLI or do anything else.. Its a good phsyx card the 260 for the 3 games that support it LMAO.... thx gl
 
Burner27 said:
Explain 'power savings mode' please. You're not talking having your PC go into sleep mode right?
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I think some call it 2d power mode. it's when the gpu downclocks when it's not under a heavy load. Im pretty certain the gtx 260 will not downclock when running 2 monitors, im not sure about the gtx 460 though.

Tweakboy, he's interested in running 3 monitors and two nVIDIA cards will let him do that.
 
Am I better off running the GTX260 as my secondary card for two monitors rather than a 9800GT 1GB single slot card? (I have a 9800GT 1GB single slot card as well)
 
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