Yet another quad monitor / SLI topic

[nick128]

using an SLI capable board, has anybody been able to get quad monitors to work with different chipsets? i.e. plug a 6600GT in the primary slot and a 6200 in the other to get quad DVI outputs? All that hoopla about the cards not being able to run 4 monitors is BS, SLI cards can run quad monitors i know, but i'm looking at using two different (probably non-SLI capable cards. even at PCIe1x, there woudl be enough bandwidth to run graphics (more than the PCI bus, and it's dedicated and not shared bandwidth). I have dual DVI displays now, but an older DVI/Analog FX5700 now, and i'm looking at upgrade paths that will let me run dual DVI outs now and down the road add on another cheaper dual-DVI card and another one or two displays. I've heard of driver problems, all kinds of BS, i'm just wanting to do 2D display on the aux card, and little gaming on the primary, which is why i'll probably go with a 6600 or 6600GT as my main card and an even cheaper 6200 as the aux. Somebody's gotta have the tech laying around to do this.

 

[Cheesetogo]

I think that you can do that, runing two cards in the pci-e slots in a non-sli configuration. It works with one agp and one pci, so I think it works but I'm not sure.

 

[nick128]

THat's what i was thinking, i saw an article somewhere using one of Intel's dual PCIe 16x slots, and a pair of different Radeons. One was like an x800 the other an x300 or x600. Totally different setup, but it worked on theirs. The only thing that would stand in teh way that i can see is nVidia's dumbass drivers.