Video Card Question

2006-12-21 11:41:47

#1

colonelioan: Member; +14|6912|Kanada

Well i got my 7800 GSOC Overclocked, but my old card, can i put it in my pc, to have more performance?

So to make this simple, Can we put a second video card in the computer, and if we can how the hell we do it?

New card: Nvidia GeForce 7800 GSOC Overclocked AGP
Old card: Nvidia GeForce FX5200 XT AGP

And finnaly, i got 1.5 Gb of RAM

2006-12-21 11:42:45

#2

CC-Marley: Member; +407|7285

No

2006-12-21 11:44:49

#3

colonelioan: Member; +14|6912|Kanada

CC-Marley wrote:
No

Ru sure? dont you know about SLI-GPU rendering?

2006-12-21 11:54:39

#4

majorassult: I <3 ak101; +307|7119|under there hayousaidunderwear

I believe they would need to be the same card...

2006-12-21 12:06:42

#5

Scratch[USA]: Member; +105|7003

majorassult wrote:
I believe they would need to be the same card...

Correct
www.slizone.com has a lot of information on SLi.

2006-12-21 12:25:01

#6

CrazeD: Member; +368|7129|Maine

You need at least a 6600 to run in SLi, and you need the same card, and at the same clocks.

2006-12-21 12:34:33

#7

Leprechaun56: Proud Infantry Whore; +31|7040|U.S.A

and you need PCI express slots

2006-12-21 12:45:01

#8

CC-Marley: Member; +407|7285

colonelioan wrote:
CC-Marley wrote:
No
Ru sure? dont you know about SLI-GPU rendering?

Yes I'm sure. You have AGP.

2006-12-21 12:58:49

#9

Jammyc_53: Member; +5|7014|Newcastle-England

im not sure about they have to be exacly the same card, i have 2 different cards in my pc running in SLI.

2006-12-21 13:11:17

#10

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|7037|SE London

CrazeD wrote:
You need at least a 6600 to run in SLi, and you need the same card, and at the same clocks.

6600GT I think.

2006-12-21 13:15:16

#11

darthazeem: Member; +7|6928

Both card have to be the from the same manufacturer, same clock speed, same model, same memory interface (at least thats what NVIDIA states). You cannot have more than 1 GPU running in a system with the exception of SLI and CROSSFIRE systems, which is allowed due to the northbridge and southbridge chipset. Sorry to burst your bubble but it is NOT possible and you cannot SLI as they need to be at least (2) 6600GTs at bare minimum, and the motherboard has to support it with (2) PCIE slots, you cannot run SLI w/AGP!!!

https://www.bf2sigs.net/sigs/2/7/67240774.png

Last edited by darthazeem (2006-12-21 13:18:19)

2006-12-21 13:27:22

#12

CrazeD: Member; +368|7129|Maine

Leprechaun56 wrote:
and you need PCI express slots

Lol I didn't even realize he had AGP...*slaps self*

2006-12-21 13:40:28

#13

Bell: Frosties > Cornflakes; +362|7005|UK

Doesnt the faster clock also underclock it's self to the speed of the lesser card? Least that is what I have been led to believe.

Martyn

2006-12-21 13:55:02

#14

The Stillhouse Kid: Licensed Televulcanologist; +126|7098|Deep In The South Of Texas

darthazeem wrote:
Both card have to be the from the same manufacturer, same clock speed, same model, same memory interface (at least thats what NVIDIA states).

Since driver version 80, they only have to be the same type, you can mix brands, memory sizes, clock speeds etc:

http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_ask_mmm006.html

With the new "Release 80" driver, NVIDIA takes SLI to an entirely new level. First of all, gamers can use graphics cards in SLI mode with different clock speeds, different BIOS settings, different input/output configurations, different memory sizes and from different manufacturers. That means that our friends Nick and Jeff can buy any graphics card they want, as long as it's the same model as their current graphics card (GeForce 7800 GTX for Nick, and GeForce 6800 GT for Jeff). How's THAT for flexibility?

2006-12-21 14:01:12

#15

colonelioan: Member; +14|6912|Kanada

Damn, lol its ok my new card runs BF2 smoothly at everything at max, thanks for trying to help me, maybe 1 day ill change to PCI-E.

My 7800 GSOC Overclocked and my 1.5 Gb of RAM is letting me play BF2 the way its meant to be played!

2006-12-22 00:46:06

#16

swedge: Member; +23|6915|haggis hill

Bell wrote:
Doesnt the faster clock also underclock it's self to the speed of the lesser card? Least that is what I have been led to believe.

Martyn

yes

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CC-Marley wrote:

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darthazeem wrote:

Bell wrote:

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