[Poll] How Do You Have Your Video Cards Arranged?

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How Do You Have Your Video Cards Arranged?

  • 2+ Cards, Directly Next To Each Other

  • 2+ Cards, With At Least 1 Empty Slot Between Them

  • 1 Card, Other


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pw38

Senior member
Apr 21, 2010
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1 card currently but when I did X-fire last generation it was with one space between them.
 

WhoBeDaPlaya

Diamond Member
Sep 15, 2000
7,414
401
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My bitcoin miners (dual 5830s) are back to back with ~1/4" cardboard spacers in between them.
 

Herald85

Member
Feb 10, 2010
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One card at the moment after some Crossfire headaches. Previous rig had two 5850 too close to eachother at one point.
 

mk

Diamond Member
Apr 26, 2000
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A single card. Never even seriously considered a multi-GPU setup. The extra crunching/gaming power would be nice but I don't want to deal with the cooling and noise issues.
 

Railgun

Golden Member
Mar 27, 2010
1,289
2
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As it's not an option...

Two cards with a RAID controller in between, and a third in the last slot with a sound card between 2/3.
 

Smartazz

Diamond Member
Dec 29, 2005
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I have two video cards spaced out by one slot, but they're not in Crossfire. Even so, they still run pretty hot under load and I wouldn't want to see them running right next to eachother.
 

alfa147x

Lifer
Jul 14, 2005
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slpnshot

Senior member
Dec 1, 2011
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If I ever did man up and get a double GPU system, I would probably space the cards with an empty slot in between just for the better airflow. Unless I ran water cooling for the gpu, then I guess it wouldn't be that big of a deal.
 

taltamir

Lifer
Mar 21, 2004
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For those of you with multiple video cards I'd like to know how you have them arranged
Do you mean by "1 card" that you have a single card with 2 GPUs on it? because if so that is worth clarifying. I think people are voting for it if they have only 1 GPU.