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so before I get criticized for this but i always wondered if you could take two of the same company but different models and be able to use them both. 

 

But Not using them in sli/crossfire. But to use them both in for different tasks

 

you can run any two cards of any type and any generation if you do not intend to use them for the same purpose. 

the only limitation is that if you run a radeon and a Nvidia card some proprietary things like Nvidia PhysX will not allow you to enable them. 

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so before I get criticized for this but i always wondered if you could take two of the same company but different models and be able to use them both. 

 

But Not using them in sli/crossfire. But to use them both in for different tasks

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Yeah. as long as their the same gpu

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Yes.

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Yeah. as long as their the same gpu

OP is not using CF. It doesn't matter at that point.

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If not in SLI/CF, you can use different GPUs with no problem.

 

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in case of GPU's maybe not... not sure about CPU's though...

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Yeah. as long as their the same gpu

he mean different models

 

so before I get criticized for this but i always wondered if you could take two of the same company but different models and be able to use them both. 

 

But Not using them in sli/crossfire. But to use them both in for different tasks

yes you can

 

you can have a Titan for rendering and a GTX 980 for gaming

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yes you can...

 

but it really isn't smart..

 

it is like putting and HDD & SSD in RAID-0.

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in case of GPU's maybe not... not sure about CPU's though...

you can have a quadro and a geforce in one PC

 

both will work fine with the drivers

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yes you can...

 

but it really isn't smart..

 

it is like putting and HDD & SSD in RAID-0.

read carefully

 

he say different task

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so thats means i could take an; say lets take an gtx 960 and gtx 750 and both be in the same computer? and if so whats the benefit from doing so?

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you can have a quadro and a geforce in one PC

 

both will work fine with the drivers

but let us say that he uses a 970 with a 950....

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read carefully

 

he say different task

Yeah....

 

my analogy still applies.

 

Why get different models? it can lead to hardware interference, as incompatibilities.

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so before I get criticized for this but i always wondered if you could take two of the same company but different models and be able to use them both. 

 

But Not using them in sli/crossfire. But to use them both in for different tasks

 

you can run any two cards of any type and any generation if you do not intend to use them for the same purpose. 

the only limitation is that if you run a radeon and a Nvidia card some proprietary things like Nvidia PhysX will not allow you to enable them. 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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Yeah....

 

my analogy still applies.

 

Why get different models? it can lead to hardware interference, as incompatibilities.

having a shitload of monitors. 

 

using one for rendering/ compiling/ mining/ folding. and using the other for the daily driver. 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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but let us say that he uses a 970 with a 950....

it the same!

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you can run any two cards of any type and any generation if you do not intend to use them for the same purpose. 

the only limitation is that if you run a radeon and a Nvidia card some proprietary things like Nvidia PhysX will not allow you to enable them. 

pretty much this sums it up

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having a shitload of monitors. 

 

using one for rendering/ compiling/ mining/ folding. and using the other for the daily driver. 

Yeah no..

 

Why not just get a display adapter?

 

And besides, once why would you want the higher cpu usage, higher power-draw, and have a louder system.

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Yeah no..

 

Why not just get a display adapter?

 

And besides, once why would you want the higher cpu usage, higher power-draw, and have a louder system.

because you've filled up all of the ports on the first card and have a cheap 2ndary card laying around. and about 4 spare monitors. 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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well the reason that i ask this because i cannot test this theory out with my current setup #polishedturd

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because you've filled up all of the ports on the first card and have a cheap 2ndary card laying around. and about 4 spare monitors. 

Why do you need four extra displays?

 

Again, higher power-draw.

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but this is great to know that you could do this, but the benefit wont be worth the cost to do so

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Why do you need four extra displays?

 

Again, higher power-draw.

because you frickin want them. 

no one cares about power draw when you add extra monitors to a rig. stop it. 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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but this is great to know that you could do this, but the benefit wont be worth the cost to do so

usually it for rendering PCs which need the power of a Quadro or Titan

 

and doulbe up as a gaming PC so the GTX 980Ti does the job

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but this is great to know that you could do this, but the benefit wont be worth the cost to do so

in 75% of the cases where this happens the cost is next to nothing, people do this most with extra random GPUs they have laying around. 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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