How can I get Nvidia FX 3800 and GTX 570 on the same board

[Hribi]

HI!

I am having difficulties running two different card on the same motherboard. I have a Nvidia FX 3800 for work and a GTX 570. Is it possible to switch between them in Windows 7 directly? Or can I just use a display with two VGA/HDMI connectors?

PLEAS HELP!

I found this on a different forum, but no look confirming it.

What you could do is get Windows 7 as that is the only OS that can handle running two drivers at the same time and get a motherboard with 2 PCIE slots, any Intel LGA 1366 or 1156 socket motherboard has them. Then all you would need to do is get a monitor with dual inputs and your done (dual inputs so you can switch between them with clicking a button on the monitor instead of having to unplug the monitor and connect it to the other card, for convenience.) Or run dual monitors, one to each card. You should not have to restart or mess with the BIOS in this setup.

Thanks

 

[adamjamesroe]

HI!

I am having difficulties running two different card on the same motherboard. I have a Nvidia FX 3800 for work and a GTX 570. Is it possible to switch between them in Windows 7 directly? Or can I just use a display with two VGA/HDMI connectors?

PLEAS HELP!

I found this on a different forum, but no look confirming it.

Thanks

I honestly don't think you can mate, tbh your better off just running the sigle card, eiter you switch the cards out each time, get a second rig or chose which is the best compromise for what you want to do. you could always try running differnt display if you have one to hand, so GTX 570 out of one and the FX 3800 out the other, that could work. which windows 7 you running becasue only certain version allow two GPU driver i think.

 

[Hribi]

I honestly don't think you can mate, tbh your better off just running the sigle card, eiter you switch the cards out each time, get a second rig or chose which is the best compromise for what you want to do. you could always try running differnt display if you have one to hand, so GTX 570 out of one and the FX 3800 out the other, that could work. which windows 7 you running becasue only certain version allow two GPU driver i think.

I am using Windows 7 Professional 64x. I knew that I can set a default GPU in Solidworks 2010, but I am not sure how to get them bough connected to one screen.

 

[I Hunta x]

I could be mistaken but in solid works the default gpu is the one it uses to do the work and nothing much else, so in theory you could have the 570 in the top pci-e slot with the monitor connected to that and the fx 3800 in one of the lower pci-e slots, that should allow you to use the 570 to display all the information through all the time and be used for games but have all the grunt work in solid works happen on the fx 3800.

It would be worth asking on the solid works forums for more information as ive only used it breifly on a machine at my old college.

 

[TMaksimov]

You can connect both to the screen without any worries and then just flick between the inputs. At least you can on my screen - Samsung 2450H. If you cant do that have them both plugged in the pc and then just plug and unplug whichever one you want to use in the monitor itself.

 

[Hribi]

You can connect both to the screen without any worries and then just flick between the inputs. At least you can on my screen - Samsung 2450H. If you cant do that have them both plugged in the pc and then just plug and unplug whichever one you want to use in the monitor itself.

OK will try that. THANK YOU FOR THE ANSWERS

 

[Rastalovich]

I'll have a go at this on the weekend if I get a chance.

Theoretically sounds do-able to me.

It'd be like selecting one card to do physx stuff and the other displaying - the pc (or windows, or drivers) I guess makes an assumption as to which you want for which. Probably based on which has a monitor signal returning to it during installation.

We'll see, no guarantees.

 

[adamjamesroe]

You could alwats get a cable from both GPU's and put them in a DVI switcher and plug the switch into the same monitor and swithch between the two GPU's.

 

[chudley]

MOst monitors come with input switching facilities nowadays - mine quite happily switches from vga to dvi, the original question was will the OS work with both cards and my answer is I do not know (yet) but I will monitor this thread to se if someone does know as I may need to do the same thing soon - with a 560 and 8800

 

[adamjamesroe]

MOst monitors come with input switching facilities nowadays - mine quite happily switches from vga to dvi, the original question was will the OS work with both cards and my answer is I do not know (yet) but I will monitor this thread to se if someone does know as I may need to do the same thing soon - with a 560 and 8800

i forgot about multiple monitor inputs, lol thats saved £20

 

[Hribi]

I am using a Dell U2410 monitor, will try it out. Will post the results.

 

[Hribi]

OK I tried the card and I can't get it to work properly. If the Quadro is in PCI-x1 slot some of the benchmarks won't even start! Some resolution error????

I put the GTX 570 in to PCI-x1 an the quadro in to PCI-x3/x2 and it works better and all the grafic benchmark work. I will look into it more over the weekend. O and is it normal to get an warning when I wont to install the ASUS GTX drivers (Please insert a ASUS VGA)???

One more question if I launch 3DMARK Vantage with a i7-950, GTX 570, Quadro FX 3800 every thing at stock. Aproksimatly what kind of number should I get out for the GPU part?

 

[Hribi]

OK got the all to work properly and it's great. Thanks for all the help!!!

Some numbers I get, which don't mean much to me, first time user. Every thing is at stock (installed and ran).

Do I have to manually turn on physx in 3DMark Vantage????