NON sli gpu

[Celtie]

Can you have a side gpu like a gtx 1030 to run a secondary monitor? what are the pros and cons of it.

[orangecat]

You can add as many GPUs as your PC can handle. They don't need to be in SLI but they can't be used together without some kind of multi GPU technology. That being said SLI is dead. You can use a 1030 as a display adapter however it will use PCie lanes and may increase overall power consumption.

[Celtie]

1 minute ago, Kilobytez95 said:

You can add as many GPUs as your PC can handle. They don't need to be in SLI but they can't be used together without some kind of multi GPU technology. That being said SLI is dead. You can use a 1030 as a display adapter however it will use PCie lanes and may increase overall power consumption.

Ok but can you do things like put windows from one to the next or even move your mouse onto the 1030 monitor?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, FREnCH man KId said:

Ok but can you do things like put windows from one to the next or even move your mouse onto the 1030 monitor?

yup that will work fine, but there normally isn't a reason to if youhave ports on your main gpu.

[WhitetailAni]

Yes.

[Celtie]

7 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

yup that will work fine, but there normally isn't a reason to if youhave ports on your main gpu.

so you can run your mouse from one to another?

[Electronics Wizardy]

7 minutes ago, FREnCH man KId said:

so you can run your mouse from one to another?

yup, it works like any other monitor

[Celtie]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

yup, it works like any other monitor

but they are seperate gpus so i would expext the gpu to not run smoothly between moniters

[Electronics Wizardy]

19 minutes ago, FREnCH man KId said:

but they are seperate gpus so i would expext the gpu to not run smoothly between moniters

It does, I have done this on many multi gpu setups. It will copy the data between gpus as needed. You can even drag games between monitors on different gpus.

[Middcore]

Since pretty much any single modern GPU has outputs to run multiple monitors I don't see the point of doing this. Unless your main GPU is one of those mining cards that only have a single DVI out. If you're worrying about the overhead of running Windows on the second monitor affecting your main GPU's performance in games, any impact should be negligible. 

[Celtie]

3 minutes ago, Middcore said:

Since pretty much any single modern GPU has outputs to run multiple monitors I don't see the point of doing this. Unless your main GPU is one of those mining cards that only have a single DVI out. If you're worrying about the overhead of running Windows on the second monitor affecting your main GPU's performance in games, any impact should be negligible. 

yeah i guess i would be nervous of performance