2 Gpus?

[GhostzzU]

recently i upgraded from a 3060 to a 4070 and gave the 3060 to a friend and they gave me there 1660, should/can i put the 1660 in my as a 2nd gpu?
a 1660 and 4070
my build is: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/jkwRHG

 

[emosun]

Do you need a second gpu for a task?

[GhostzzU]

Just now, emosun said:

Do you need a second gpu for a task?

i was thinking for obs to not use my 4070 while playing games

[emosun]

Is your 4070 unable to play games while streaming currently?

[GhostzzU]

Just now, emosun said:

Is your 4070 unable to play games while streaming currently?

havent tested, im pretty sure it could but why take resources from it

[RONOTHAN##]

21 minutes ago, GhostzzU said:

should/can i put the 1660 in my as a 2nd gpu?

Can you? Sure. 

 

Should you? No. 

 

Unless you're doing something like rendering in Blender, the 2nd card isn't going to do anything other than sit there and look pretty. Even then the software needs to support two different GPUs, which Blender might not.

 

11 minutes ago, GhostzzU said:

i was thinking for obs to not use my 4070 while playing games

NVENC has such little impact on games that it isn't likely to give a noticeable difference to FPS while streaming. Heck, since the stream needs to go through the other card and the 4070 will have the fans blocked somewhat by the 1660 Ti resulting in higher temps, it might even be worse. 

[JP5]

youll be better off just selling the 1660 instead of keeping it.