Two 1060s for different monitors

[ByteBlight]

Hello everyone, I was going to ask if I can use one 1060 for gaming and the other one in a virtual machine that also does gaming. Let me know if this is possible or if i should just get two 1070s instead I would rather try to save my money.

 

Thanks

[ByteBlight]

Also I know that you can't SLI 1060s 

[Jurrunio]

yes you can, with 1060s

[AskingForAFriend]

I don't think you can run both of them in the same PC and have them run two tasks. You'll need two individual PCs but I'm sure YouTube can proove me wrong.

[ByteBlight]

I've seen someone run a vm with non sli cards and it did work but I didn't see any with a 1060s.

It's just an idea.

[samcool55]

Yeah, but you need the right hypervisor for that (the piece of software that manages the VM).

Unraid can do this but it's one of the very few hypervisors that can give a GPU to a VM properly.

[ByteBlight]

What would I need to get the right hypervisor if you know that.

 

[SpaceGhostC2C]

21 minutes ago, ByteBlight said:

Hello everyone, I was going to ask if I can use one 1060 for gaming and the other one in a virtual machine that also does gaming. Let me know if this is possible or if i should just get two 1070s instead I would rather try to save my money.

It's as feasible with 1060s as it is with 1070s. In other words, if you can't make it work with 1060, don't bother with 1070s  

You'll be limited mostly by motherboard features, but GPU passthrough is flimsy anyways, so I'd advice doing a bit of research before puoling the trigger on anything (which is what you are doing anyway). More specifically, you need the way PCIe slots are organized in the motherboard to allow for this kind of passthrough to the VM. The channel Level1Linux and the forum at Level1techs.com has quite a bit of information about it, but mostly around using Linux as the host and creating a windows VM fro gaming. Still worth checking for information about potential driver conflicts, etc.

[ByteBlight]

2 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

It's as feasible with 1060s as it is with 1070s. In other words, if you can't make it work with 1060, don't bother with 1070s  

You'll be limited mostly by motherboard features, but GPU passthrough is flimsy anyways, so I'd advice doing a bit of research before puloling the trigger on anything (which is what you are doing anyway). More specifically, you need the way PCIe slots are organized in the motherboard to allow for this kind of passthrough to the VM. The channel Level1Linux and the forum at Level1techs.com has quite a bit of information about it, but mostly around using Linux as the host and creating a windows VM fro gaming. Still worth checking for information about potential driver conflicts, etc.

Hey man thanks for the advice I'll look into it.

[Radium_Angel]

Doing PCI passthrough for GFX cards requires certain conditions to be met, namely a CPU that supports VT-d and a mobo that supports IOMMU.

Without that, you can't do it.