- Jun 30, 2004
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I suppose that since maybe 2006, I've struck out into my own custom wilderness of experimentation. I clung to the idea that I wanted to make a single PC multi-functional. It all worked quite well for a sig-system 2600K and a single GTX 780. Here it is in a nutshell.
An HD gaming monitor is connected to the first DVI port. An HD AVR->HDTV is connected through either HDMI or DVI from the same graphics card.
Media center is set up to display on the HDTV primarily. With the single VGA adapter (GTX 780), I could game on the desktop monitor while the CNN-broadcast-feed displayed on the HDTV. There was never a problem with this AS FAR AS I KNOW. The GTX 780 would run at maybe 30% usage and stay warm at just over 40C.
Now I have moved this functionality (WMC and HTPC-function) to the 2700K which is configured for 2x GTX 970 in SLI. Never had a problem with WMC on this second rig, and I'd tested it to show I could put my TV display in a small window at the lower corner of the DESKTOP monitor screen while gaming GRID2 on the rest of it. Didn't have a problem with that.
The problem became evident after moving the AVR-HDTV DVI/HDMI connection to the 2700K. When attempting to play GRID2 on the desktop, I had experienced either momentary freezes or resets/BSODs with gaming on the desktop and TV playing simultaneously on the HDTV. Or -- the freeze might occur some time after ending such a session. And I think I have it sorted out, no less have I discovered other "behaviors" with this SLI rig that only puzzled me before.
In the NVidia 3D-Graphics menu, there is a list of global settings and a range of settings for each program in a list of programs. "Multi-monitor" mode for this setup is not the way to go. For both WMC and Grid2, the dependable setting seems to be "Single-monitor performance mode" instead.
Each application has its own settings, and GRID2 probably should have SLI rendering mode set to "NVidia recommended SLI." WMC should have rendering mode set to "single-GPU." Time will tell; so far, this all seems to have been solved.
Are there any other insights or thoughts to this matter?
An HD gaming monitor is connected to the first DVI port. An HD AVR->HDTV is connected through either HDMI or DVI from the same graphics card.
Media center is set up to display on the HDTV primarily. With the single VGA adapter (GTX 780), I could game on the desktop monitor while the CNN-broadcast-feed displayed on the HDTV. There was never a problem with this AS FAR AS I KNOW. The GTX 780 would run at maybe 30% usage and stay warm at just over 40C.
Now I have moved this functionality (WMC and HTPC-function) to the 2700K which is configured for 2x GTX 970 in SLI. Never had a problem with WMC on this second rig, and I'd tested it to show I could put my TV display in a small window at the lower corner of the DESKTOP monitor screen while gaming GRID2 on the rest of it. Didn't have a problem with that.
The problem became evident after moving the AVR-HDTV DVI/HDMI connection to the 2700K. When attempting to play GRID2 on the desktop, I had experienced either momentary freezes or resets/BSODs with gaming on the desktop and TV playing simultaneously on the HDTV. Or -- the freeze might occur some time after ending such a session. And I think I have it sorted out, no less have I discovered other "behaviors" with this SLI rig that only puzzled me before.
In the NVidia 3D-Graphics menu, there is a list of global settings and a range of settings for each program in a list of programs. "Multi-monitor" mode for this setup is not the way to go. For both WMC and Grid2, the dependable setting seems to be "Single-monitor performance mode" instead.
Each application has its own settings, and GRID2 probably should have SLI rendering mode set to "NVidia recommended SLI." WMC should have rendering mode set to "single-GPU." Time will tell; so far, this all seems to have been solved.
Are there any other insights or thoughts to this matter?
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