Two different video card one computer question

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MonkeyMagic

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Hi All

Newbie here.

I'm thinking about building a new system and would like to know if you can run dual video cards that are different. What I would like to do is set up the pc with a dual boot windows xp vista combo. For the Vista OS have a nVidia 8800 gt or the like installed for gaming.

And for the xp installations run a nVidia quadro FX1700 or the like for my cad work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

cheers
 
I am kinda a newbie too but, i know that you cant run two cards that are different. You have to run either two nvidia or two ati cards that are the same and in either sli or cossfire modes.
 
He's talking about using one card in one OS and the other in another. I've personally ran a FX5200 and S3 Virge 1MB PCI before fine.

Although I'm not sure if your idea is possible.
 
Hi

Thanks for the replies I guess I'll Just have to test it and see. When I build the system and I get it working I'll Post about how it went

cheers
 
well, if you're running your CAD WS on linux or somethin and dual booting, I see no reason why you cant have two cards installed, but having the different OSs using different drivers and dissabling one or the other. on a single boot windows or linux, you could try using virtual sofware to get them to work properly, or you could even do it the old fashioned way and go into device manager and disable and enable them as you do what you need to do, gaming enable the 8800 and working enabling the other card and disabling the 8800... hope that helps :)
 
Yes that is a lot of help it make me feel a little easier about building the system. The reason I would like to do this is because i think if you are going to spend the money on the pc you may as well not lock your self into having a workstation or medium performance gaming why not have you cake and eat it to. Just wondering if nVidia are helpful with asking questions like this or should I not even bother.

cheers
 
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