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[Fallen130]

so a friend of mine asked me if he upgraded his graphics card to a 1060 but kept the old card in the rig as a secondary card for his other two monitors, would they work in the same board or would he have to buy two new cards?

[Bradders]

2 minutes ago, Fallen130 said:

so a friend of mine asked me if he upgraded his graphics card to a 1060 but kept the old card in the rig as a secondary card for his other two monitors, would they work in the same board or would he have to buy two new cards?

I dont think so as far as i know to have sli you must have two of the same cards, meaning he would have to buy two 1060 (not really needed) one 1060 is perfectly fine, check that it comes with enough ports for the two monitors though

[auraofjason]

Why not plug them all into the 1060, or into the igpu (if it has one).

[Fallen130]

@Bradders he doesn't want to sli that's the thing and I found it very odd, because I told him as you said 1 1060 would be more than enough for what you want to do.

[doomsriker]

The 1060 should have 5 outputs..... how many monitors are we talking here

[Thinkfreely]

So yes and no. They could technically work if he has the motherboard and drivers to support it, but they wouldn't work on the same game or application. Wouldn't make a whole lot of sense because he couldn't really get performance out of both together.

[Fallen130]

I believe 3 or 4 I have no idea what hes doing with the rig lol

[doomsriker]

A graphics adapter outputs the rendered scene trough it's ports. It can not magically pass it's renderings through anther display adapter. So, in short NO it can not really be done. 

[Fallen130]

alright cool thanks everyone

[shadowbyte]

how many monitors are we talking about here?

because iirc a 1060 will support 4-5 monitors, and you don't have to deal with driver issues