Some planning questions.

[TheDamnableDuck]

I'm a little bad at explaining so i'll do a whole story.

 

I run a company (just me at the moment, no employees) that does content creation (basically a design agency but we do a lot of other stuff that requires a fairly beastly computer). This mainly involves editing 8k raw media (think commercials and corporate videos for people who want the best, and yes I use proxies duh) from my RED Weapon  and also 360/VR content to go with this for exhibitions. This tends to bust out the heat on my current computer so I am having to spend thousands of unnecessary £ on editor services, as my computer simply cant handle 2k, let alone 8. I also do aerial photography with an X5R (Inspire 2) for some highend real estate companies in Manchester and London.

 

Now the above is just an outline of the kind of computing power I need. I want to be able to cut editing and rendering times by 4+ by building my own PC later this year, leaving me to do the work and not my outsourced editor. Also, Bear in mind that I do about 5 hours of gaming in my spare time everyday.

 

I built my current computer and am a mild hardware enthusiast, so you don't need to ELI5.

 

Later this year, I fully intend on building the workstation/gaming PC of my dreams. Naturally, I'm waiting for the high-end Core i9s. At the moment, my build is planned with parts something like this (this is not including the custom loop)

 

Intel Core i9-7980XE

Founders 1080 Ti (Possibly SLI)

Quadro P4000

 

As you may have noticed above, I am mixing a Quadro with a GTX. This brings the question "Is this next statement below possible?".

 

I want to be able to run 3 monitors off the 1080 Ti and the fourth off the P4000. This is because the fourth monitor is going to be for the color work I do, either the NEC SpectraView 322UHD-2, or the Eizo CG318-4K, I'm more favouring the Eizo at the moment for its DCI 4K resolution which is aspect ratio friendly with my 2nd and 3rd BMC Ursa cameras.

 

The fact that one has to run off the P4000 is absolutely critical, as all of the Creative Cloud applictions run the 10 Bit color depth through OpenGL, which the GTX range of GPUs is not capable of delivering.

 

The reason for having the 1080 Ti is not only CUDA cores for rendering, but the gaming that I like to do, and NO, I cannot stand frame drops.

 

So is this something that you guys think would work? If so, what are the procedures for drivers and other stuff like that? If you have any motherboard recommendations or other recommendations please put them below, I want to make this MY ULTIMATE BUILD .

 

 

 

 

[brob]

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/928306/quadro-and-geforce-drivers-on-same-system/ provides an answer. Apparently it's doable so long as you can use the same driver for both cards.

 

[TheDamnableDuck]

20 hours ago, brob said:

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/928306/quadro-and-geforce-drivers-on-same-system/ provides an answer. Apparently it's doable so long as you can use the same driver for both cards.

 

Awesome, that's great. One of the guys on there is running one screen Quadro and other off his older GT card.