Question about 2 difference graphics cards in one system.

[NosRokanaske]

This is probably a stupid question, but I know you can put together a system with 2 difference GPU, like in Linus's workstation ghetto build, but i was curious is if you can put it the R9 290X and the GTX 780 (or any kepler based card). Use the 290X for that sound thing they're implementing where the sound has physics now and use the GTX 780 for G-Sync, assuming you can get the drivers working. I know that some games, like Guild Wars 2, lets you select where the audio outputs. So maybe it can do something like that? I have a feeling the answer is probably no, but i was just curious.

 

Also on topic of the 290X Audio. All it does is making the sounds of the game sound more realistic right? It doesn't actually output any audio it just takes the load of it off the CPU.

 

Edit: Damnit. Got a typo in the title.

 

TL;DR Can you get TruAudio and G-Sync working for one system using both AMD and NVidia cards?

[delet my acc pls]

Just don't...

Drivers will mess up.

Truaudio is not worth 550$ allthogh you could get a 7790/r7-260x for much less.

They would not be able to work together since they are not the same cards.

[Kayn]

So you're going to get a 290x for sound?

[NosRokanaske]

Just don't...

Drivers will mess up.

Truaudio is not worth 550$ allthogh you could get a 7790/r7-260x for much less.

They would not be able to work together since they are not the same cards.

 

Thats what i thought. I knew this was a dumb question to ask.

 

I guess my follow up is i thought true Audio is only for their new cards. At least i thought it was a hardware implementation not a software one.

 

So you're going to get a 290x for sound?

 

Yes and No. Yes in the sense that the TruAudio is somewhat of a good incentive to invest. No in that im not only going to get the card for audio.

[Nostar]

Getting a 550$ GPU to use for sound .. yeah sure, why not. What else would you be using it for? They couldn't work together in SLI/CF (or .. CLI?) for better performance in games, so it's just a waste of money.

Invest that money on a sound card, good headphones and speakers if you want to

[delet my acc pls]

Thats what i thought. I knew this was a dumb question to ask.

 

I guess my follow up is i thought true Audio is only for their new cards. At least i thought it was a hardware implementation not a software one.

 

 

Yes and No. Yes in the sense that the TruAudio is somewhat of a good incentive to invest. No in that im not only going to get the card for audio.

The 7790 is the same as the r7-260x the 7790 had the hardware for truaudio since it was released, but it was not enabled and will get truaudio with a driver update.

The truaudio thing only exists on the ones mentioned above and r9-290/290x

[DrainDoc]

This is borderline racist.........Mixing the Green Team with the Red Team?  Extremely Controversial.       

[NosRokanaske]

Getting a 550$ GPU to use for sound .. yeah sure, why not. What else would you be using it for? They couldn't work together in SLI/CF (or .. CLI?) for better performance in games, so it's just a waste of money.

Invest that money on a sound card, good headphones and speakers if you want to

 

I was asking a hypothetical question of if it could work. I do have a sound card and good head phones already, but as far as i know TruAudio doesnt change the quality of the sound but how the sound is presented in games. I was asking if you could get that experience along with something like G-Sync. Not should I, could I. 

 

The 7790 is the same as the r7-260x the 7790 had the hardware for truaudio since it was released, but it was not enabled and will get truaudio with a driver update.

The truaudio thing only exists on the ones mentioned above and r9-290/290x

 

Ahh okay. Thanks for answering the question. 

 

This is borderline racist.........Mixing the Green Team with the Red Team?  Extremely Controversial.       

 

But if you got the ASUS DCu2 for both of them, who can tell?

[DrainDoc]

But if you got the ASUS DCu2 for both of them, who can tell?

Incognito........