SLI dual monitor questions

[Juddog]

Hey I was wondering if anybody has experience with this - SLI disables the second monitor for some reason when running SLI mode.

What about running a third card to use just for the extra monitors, a non-Nvidia card? Is it worth it to get that extra monitor running, or do the people here typically just allow the second monitor to turn off during gaming? The reason I ask is that typically I like to leave open a second monitor while playing WoW that has websites and such loaded on it, so that I can just mouse over to it, also I like to leave diagnostic windows up and running as well.

 

[Jax Omen]

I would also like to know this.

 

[sgrinavi]

I was thinking about it too, I found:

http://forums.slizone.com/index.php?showtopic=3726

However, with a 680i motherboard, people have got it to work, but its very rare. It consists of taking to SLi ready cards, and a lowend ATi card. First you setup SLi, with the cards, then turn off your computer.
Then you add in the ATi card in the primary slot, and install the drivers for that card without uninstalling the SLi drivers. Then you turn off your computer, put in 1 SLi ready card, and put the ATi card in the 3rd PCie slot (the middle slot) and see if it can run multimonitor. Go to the nvidia display driver and enable dual monitor setup. Turn off your computer, and add in the SLi card so you have all 3 cards in.

Sounds like a PIA if you ask me

 

[Juddog]

Originally posted by: sgrinavi
I was thinking about it too, I found:

http://forums.slizone.com/index.php?showtopic=3726

However, with a 680i motherboard, people have got it to work, but its very rare. It consists of taking to SLi ready cards, and a lowend ATi card. First you setup SLi, with the cards, then turn off your computer.
Then you add in the ATi card in the primary slot, and install the drivers for that card without uninstalling the SLi drivers. Then you turn off your computer, put in 1 SLi ready card, and put the ATi card in the 3rd PCie slot (the middle slot) and see if it can run multimonitor. Go to the nvidia display driver and enable dual monitor setup. Turn off your computer, and add in the SLi card so you have all 3 cards in.

Sounds like a PIA if you ask me

Hmmm.... looks interesting, thanks for the link.

 

[aka1nas]

You can't do this in Vista at all as all display adapters must use the same WDDM driver. The Forceware drivers will disable a 3rd Nvidia card when you enable SLI.