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PCI Video Cards

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During one of my classes today this guy I know tried to convince me that a person had taken 4 of the G3/G4 PCI video cards and had set up 4 monitors, one on each. I told him that's mpossible, because they're not PCI-E so the mobo wouldn't know what to do.

Isn't that the same thing as if I had let's say one 9800 Pro in one AGP slot and another 9800 pro in another AGP slot? It wouldn't know which device to pick.

My real question I guess is: is it possible to hook up multiple PCI video cards and have them all run properly as a multiple display without having to do any work?
 
I'm pretty sure this would work.

More than one AGP wont work because I don't think any motherboards have more than one AGP slot... I think only 1 is in the AGP spec too.

You can certainly have one AGP and one pci. I don't think there's anything limiting you from adding more pci videocards.
 
Well there are no motherboards that have multiple AGP slots, but yes, you can have multiple PCI video cards, and have monitors connected to each. I've never tried with 4 cards, but it works with 2.
 
of course you can have multiple PCI video cards...infact a tech in my company has set this up for several clients for their stock trading PC.
 
I thought that if you hooked up PCI cards it would just confuse the system as to which was the primary display?

I realize my example with the AGP thing was bad, but I don't know of many PCI cards right off the top of my head so it was the best I could do.
 
Yeah, guess so. I didn't realize it worked like that with multiple displays. It's okay, this guy thinks he knows everything about computers, and rather than admitting he's a n00b, he just tries to act like he really does know everything.

If this situation had been the other way around and he were a member here at AT, I guarantee you he wouldn't have made a thread to check to see if it worked like that.

Learn something new every day.
 
Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Maybe he really does know everything 😉
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Yup, that's probably why he tried taking a hard drive out of a computer, then asked me for help and made up some excuse as to why he couldn't get it when it took me 45 seconds to get it out of the old computer, into the new one, and working. 😉
 
It works on most motherboards. I had one that it would not boot. But that is a rare excetion and that motherboard was a cheap Piece 'o Sh*t. But all other boards it has worked with out a problem on.
 
Originally posted by: Googer
It works on most motherboards. I had one that it would not boot. But that is a rare excetion and that motherboard was a cheap Piece 'o Sh*t. But all other boards it has worked with out a problem on.
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Are you familiar with Macs at all? I think it was a G3 but maybe a G4 that this guy supposedly had all these monitors running on.

Either way, don't all G3s have the same mobos and all G4s have the same mobos? Are they current enough that this is possible?
 

Very interesting.

Now for the follow up question...could you set it up so that you had three monitors--one on your primary gaming AGP/PCI-E card, the other two on the side on PCI cards?

If you did that, could you play games using only the center monitor and the good AGP/PCI-E card? Then later when you wanted to do work, could you have the computer set up the other two screens?

(Obviously, I know nothing about how multiple monitor setups work, but thought I'd ask since it's an interesting topic.)

 
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