SLI Question

[BoycottValvoline]

I'm wondering if I can buy an SLI motherboard, buy two different video cards (perhaps SLI) and have them run separately, so that I can hook up up to 4 DVI monitors. If anyone knows anything about this, or whether it may vary from board to board please post a response.

Thanks in advance,
Josh

 

[CheesePoofs]

Yes, you can. You dont' need an sli motherboard to do that. You could do a pcie card and a pci card, or an agp and a pci, or use a board that has two pcie x16 slots but doesn't use the sli chipset (like the DFI nF4 Lanparty UT Ultra-d).

 

[kravmaga]

Or if you do buy/have an sli motherboard you can use two PCI-E cards just fine for multimonitors. Like a 7800GTX as the main card and a 6200 pci-e as the secondary card. You just disable the sli feature. YOu can even use two cards (granted they are the same card) in sli and switch between using them in SLI mode but that's a hassle since you need to disable and reboot each time. I'm not fully aware of how it works. I just know it's possible.