Quote from pyro:
Hi guys.
I'm having problems regarding the new PC that I want to build, namely, the choose of the motherboard.
The problem is that I have 2 Nvidia graphic cards (Quadro NVS 290 and Quadro NVS 440) and I'd like to put them in the same PC, giving me the chance to have 6 monitors together.
After talking to a couple of people related to computers stores, all said the same thing, all motherboards with SLI capability won't accept these cards from Nvidia since none are cards with SLI capability (which I already knew - don't you hate when people talk to you in a way which indicate that you are retarded or something?) and their drivers don't work under these motherboards (which I didn't know).
Is this really true?
I was thinking on buying the Asus P6T, which has 2 PCIe slots at x16, and now I receive these news.
Actually, the new chipset from Intel, the X58 have the SLI capability built in, which would make impossible to build a i7 computer
Is all this true? From what I read here, it isn't, although, connect 1 graphic card is one thing, whereas connect 2 cards, is another, or at least can be another thing.
Can anyone advise for any motherboard so I can connect these 2 graphic cards?
Regards
Unfortunately, you can't rely upon "computer stores" to have the correct info on multi-card setups.
I'm almost 100% sure... you can run multi-card on ANY mobo with proper slots and where the BIOS allows.
Some mobos have "SLI" capability, and if that option is selected, you can't run multi-monitors while that feature is enabled. So, just don't enable that feature.
Any X58 mobo with at least 2, x16 slots should work for you.
