Graphics cards, FPS, Dual Monitors

Grasschopper, on Dec 14 2016 - 12:32, said: Ok so I think I'm going to get the 1070...but my IT guy said that you guys are thinking that when I'm talking about 2 cards I'm talking about doing them SLI....which I'm not.  I'm looking at running them parallel, so the 4k monitor would have one card and the smaller non 4k monitor would have a second.  I'm not running WoT on both screens...just the 4k monitor.  The other screen is for other stuff...Chrome, TS mostly.  My IT guy is suggesting that for the second monitor I don't even need the 950, I could run a cheap card there since nothing I'm doing is really graphics intensive.


xMiracle45, on Dec 14 2016 - 12:38, said: I answered that in my edit, you can run both the 1070 and the 950. Again you will lose performance from the slot 1 card even in parallel because the Intel chipset only allows for 20 lanes from your GPU slots. your best bet would to be just run both monitors from 1 GPU. Your IT guy should have told you this.