Seperate SLI Settings for different User Accounts?

[Numode]

Ok here is something I need to know before I go ahead and buy a SLI board. I will be using this new system for 2 purposes. First and primarily for audio engineering and secondly for playing games

Now for my audio projects, I will need 4 monitors running. For game play I will want SLI enabled which limits the use of monitors to I believe only 1 or possibly 2?

Here's my question;

I want to create 2 different user accounts in WIN XP PRO for the 2 types of purposes. Will I be able to set the differnt driver settings for the different accounts and have them run indepent of one another or wil I have to remove the cover and take that golden finger bridge off/on every time I want to switch from one account to the other?

So in user account 1 -- Driver setting to be able to run all 4 monitors
user account 2 -- Driver setting to run in SLI mode

Is this possible???

Any help would be appreciated,

Larry

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I,m not 100% sure, but I don't think this will be possible. To switch back and forth requires flipping the PCB selector card on the board and rebooting at a minimum.

 

[Numode]

Oh Damn, That really sucks. I don't suppose there is any way around this?

I suppose it wouldn't be all that diificult as I will have the system in an Antech 4 unit rackmouint case which will be sitting near by anyway, or perhaps I will need to re-think this out.

 

[docshadow]

I'm also pretty certain you would have to remove the bridge and flip the SLI selector card everytime you wanted to switch. Unless there is a specific SLI option to allow for the different monitor setups (which I haven't seen yet, but I don't know about any boards that haven't been tested here).

 

[GuitarDaddy]

The really suckey part is with two VGA cards installed, its practically impossible to reach the selector card as it lies between the two cards. I can't get my hand in between them. You will most likely have to pull the second card, just to get to the selector.

*edit*
I almost forgot, the one time I switched from single to dual and back to single. I had to clear CMOS using the onboard jumper each time I changed modes to get the bios to recognize the new config.

Me thinks you need to rethink!

 

[Numode]

Whoa that sounds way too complicated. I can't believe they would make it that difficult for users to switch back and forth. Perhaps I can just leave it in dual mode and get the best video card in slot 1 (suggestion here) and another not so bad in slot 2 just for the additional monitors support. Would there be any point in getting a SLI board then? Perhaps it still would be a good choice as getting a board with an AGP port and having to run an aditional card off a PCI slot would surely kill performance. What do you guys think?

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I think this would work as long as you don't want the SLI capabilities. To enable SLI you must have two identical cards