Seeking suggestions for secondary GPU

[Ziggidy]

Hey LTT!! 

 

I have been having an issue lately with my playing VR games. Currently my Vive Pro 2 usage requires that I unplug one of my 3 monitors (2x 27" 1440p  & 1x 24" 1080P) or I get an error that I have exceeded the max number of monitors. I unplug one of the 27" monitors and all is fine and well. I have just set up a new VR play space that gives me more than twice the room I have in my initial space, but I want to connect the TV in that room via HDMI as well, which would knock me down to 1 monitor connected to the computer while playing VR. I know that a solution would be to just keep shifting cables every time I play, but I'd rather not to be honest, I'm more of a set it and forget type. 

 

I saw the following post noting that adding in a GPU will get around that monitor limit, so I am thinking I can add a new GPU to my system as a solution. I haven't ever run dual GPUs before, so I am not really sure where to go from here. I anticipate that it would likely "play best" if I had another Nvidia GPU rather than an AMD offering to avoid drive conflicts, but at the same time don't know what vintage of card to go with from Nvidia to avoid similar conflicts. I have display outs on the motherboard also, but sadly can't use them as there is no APU in the 5800X.

 

 

 

Vive Pro 2 with Valve Index Controllers

AMD 5800X

MSI 3070

Seasonic FOCUS PX-850

2x 27" Dell 1440p monitors

1x 24" ASUS 1080p monitors (will have more in the future, as I repurpose my old 24" work monitors)

 

The 2nd GPU won't need to do anything difficult, the extra monitors I usually use to keep Discord pulled up, then video services of some kind, Hulu, Netflix, Plex, YouTube, etc.

 

What about for displaying the VR view on a TV, would that require much power, and be more beneficial to do that from the GPU which the VR headset is connected?

 

[8tg]

This really just depends on the budget, the software side of things is fairly universal for mismatched nvidia cards so depending on how much money you want to spend on a display adapter, you have a lot of options.

I just say GT 1030, they’re like 100$ still, gonna do everything you want and has enough graphical capability to handle some high resolution hardware video decoding if you ever needed to do that for any reason.

Alternatively as the budget goes down and down:

-GTX 750

-GT 730

-GT 710/720

-Quadro NVS 510

-3 or 4 Quadro nvs 310’s

 

[Ziggidy]

Thank you, I appreciate the recommendations!