SLI HELP

[Dr.J]

HELP ME PEOPLES!

 

I have 2 GTX 970's in SLI outputting to my main Monitor which has worked fine for months

 

ive decided to add 2 more monitors but i DO NOT want the 970's powering them (as i wont be gaming on them)

 

Since i added a cheap AMD card to the mix, i now have the other 2 monitors working just as i want them to but my 2 x 970's are no longer SLI'ed and i dont have an option to SLI them???

 

WHAT IS GOING ON

 

Thanks, Jamie

[Ekaterian]

HELP ME PEOPLES!

 

I have 2 GTX 970's in SLI outputting to my main Monitor which has worked fine for months

 

ive decided to add 2 more monitors but i DO NOT want the 970's powering them (as i wont be gaming on them)

 

Since i added a cheap AMD card to the mix, i now have the other 2 monitors working just as i want them to but my 2 x 970's are no longer SLI'ed and i dont have an option to SLI them???

 

WHAT IS GOING ON

 

Thanks, Jamie

What card are you using?

[C0LL0SS0S]

pretty sure NVIDIA isn't allowing an amd card to run whille running NVIDIA cards, could be false tough

[Dr.J]

Its just a simple AMD HD5450

 

And all the cards work the 2 970's wont SLI though

[Oshino Shinobu]

I don't understand why you don't want them running on the 970s? Pretty sure SLI only works with displays being powered by the cards in SLI. 

[Ekaterian]

pretty sure NVIDIA isn't allowing an amd card to run whille running NVIDIA cards, could be false tough

No, pretty sure LMG ran two AMD cards in crossfire and two Nvidia cards in sli in the same system.

[C0LL0SS0S]

No, pretty sure LMG ran two AMD cards in crossfire and two Nvidia cards in sli in the same system.

But they threw out a update afaik

[Taswell]

You cant have SLI enabled with mixed grapics cards. I dont see what the problem is with the 970s driving the outside monitors. Just dont run the game on those monitors

 

 

 

BTW linus did a video similar to this and called some ridiculous thing.

[Dr.J]

but if you have sli set to maximum 3D performance then it only uses 1 monitor

[Oshino Shinobu]

No, pretty sure LMG ran two AMD cards in crossfire and two Nvidia cards in sli in the same system.

I don't think they had each set of cards running displays though. Think they only had one running a display at a time. 

[Ekaterian]

But they threw out a update afaik

I know... But if you can make it work...

[Ekaterian]

I don't think they had each set of cards running displays though. Think they only had one running a display at a time. 

They never specified. :\

[Oshino Shinobu]

but if you have sli set to maximum 3D performance then it only uses 1 monitor

Try activating all displays first, then enabling SLI. Also, have all monitors connected to a single card. 

 

This is how I have mine set up and it works. 

[Dr.J]

these are my options

[Dr.J]

Sorry i just realised what you meant, gimme 2 secs and i will do that

[Guest]

Use your iGPU, it can easily handle 2 screens and SLI should work just fine alongside it. I do the same thing with my crossfire R9 290s, it works just fine.

[Dr.J]

Try activating all displays first, then enabling SLI. Also, have all monitors connected to a single card. 

 

This is how I have mine set up and it works. 

 

This worked!! Thank you so much

[Oshino Shinobu]

This worked!! Thank you so much

No problem. Getting it working is a pain, but after it's set up, it should work flawlessly (for the most part)