Two Graphics Cards

[xxman]

Hi
I`m going to upgrade to a new graphics card for vista.
I have a second card I`d like to run on the same vista
system. Does anyone know if both cards have to meet the
vista video card specs to run vista and show the new flip
3D feature

 

[gpalmer711]

You will only be able to run two cards at the same time if they are the special Nvidia SLI cards see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Link_Interface

or the ATI equivilent.

When running both cards they will run to the capacity of the lowest card.

i.e. 1x 256mb Graphics Card and 1x 512mb graphics card - the extra 256mb ram on the second card will be disabled. Likewise for the onboard GPU.

So in answer to your question, yes both cards must be Vista capable if you want to use Flip3D and the other graphical enhancements.



Greg Palmer
Freeware Utilities for Windows Administrators.

http://www.palmersoft.co.uk

 

[tonyblack]

SLI is not a requirement for running multiple graphics cards/monitors. I am running a four monitor system on Vista Business using 1 x NVidea GForce 6200 256MB AGP card and 1 x NVidea GForce 6200 256MB PCI card. This setup works fine. The only limitation i am aware of (and this is from personal experience) is that you can't mix graphics cards of different chipsets (i.e. ATI and NVidea).

 

[gpalmer711]

I stand corrected

Thanks for the info

Greg Palmer
Freeware Utilities for Windows Administrators.

http://www.palmersoft.co.uk

 

[tonyblack]

For further info on running multiple monitors on Vista have a look at:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/multimonVista.mspx