Gaming performance with one of two cards folding.

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Moriarty
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Gaming performance with one of two cards folding.

Post by Moriarty »

Hello! I am planning on purchasing a new graphics card in the coming months, and I'm wondering if I will be able to move my current 980 to another slot on my motherboard to fold 24/7, while having the newer card in the old slot for gaming purposes. Am I correct in thinking that the 980 won't impede the newer card when it comes to gaming performance? Will I need any kind of sli bridge? The second lane that will fit my 980 is only an 8x slot. Will that be a problem? Please comment if you think that there will be any issues with this setup. Thanks! :)
bruce
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Re: Gaming performance with one of two cards folding.

Post by bruce »

FAH will treat each card independently; a sli bridge won't change anything. I can't speak for what your game will do when it sees two GPUs..

An 8x slot will do a reasonable job of feeding FAH data to the card but it may run slightly slower than it does in a 16x slot.

After you make changes to which GPU is in which slot, you'll need to reinstall both the drivers and the FAH software. .

You can configure FAH to run 24x7 on one card and you can run another FAH slot on the other card when you're not actually using the computer.
Moriarty
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Re: Gaming performance with one of two cards folding.

Post by Moriarty »

Thanks for the reply Bruce!
foldy
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Re: Gaming performance with one of two cards folding.

Post by foldy »

Windows and Games use the main GPU which is where your display is attached. So you need to attach it to your new graphics card.
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