My first desktop

[Atalix]

Hey everyone, I'm pretty new on these forums and I have followed the linustechtips channel for quite a long time and everything I've learned is awesome. |D

But, I have a curious question about two different graphics cards I'm having trouble deciding. Tho I'm curious about one thing if it's possible, to SLI a Geforce card and a Quadro together.

I'm building my first desktop and I have two passions, gaming and art. Geforce hold good promises for performance with gaming but they don't have the greatest structure when it comes to art like Autodesk Maya and Photoshop. That's when I looked into Quadro, and what I've learned about the quadro they're straight built for workstation performance for rendering and digital art painting. Tho, my brother has stumped me on a dicision, on only sticking with Quadro for art but they won't do well for gaming or go for Geforce, they can do well but they won't be the greatest for fast rendering nor smooth work for digital art.

So my question is. Is it possible to SLI a Geforce and a Quadro?

My idea on how to is that, I can run the Geforce mainly for it's performance and rendering when it comes to games but also Art while the Quadro will run as a PhysX card and other software it has for art. To have a win win to have a desktop that I finally have for Art but with out comprimising my passion for gaming.

[Tea1337]

No it is not possible. If you were to have $1000 to spend on a gaming and workstation class card, get a GTX titan black.

[dragoon20005]

answer to your question

 

SLi with Quadro and Geforce is not possible

 

have you look at Titan Black?

 

I think the cost of a Geforce and Quadro may be similar but I may be wrong

 

what is your budget for the GPU?

 

 

edit:Tea1337 beat me to it 

[Jerakl]

To my knowledge you can only SLI cards of the same architecture together.