Posted June 06, 2019
A friend at work gave me his old PC. Alienware X51 R3 i7 3.4ghz, 8gb ram. Quite a step up considering my old rig was an 8 year old Gateway...
But I digress. It has two video cards, not SLI. In fact, one GTX 980 Ti 2gb is in an amplifier and the other, GTX 970 4gb is in the desktop itself. Since I don't use 4k/occulus (which he did), is there any reason to have or use the amplifier with the GTX 980? The guy wasn't much help. He said he's a console player and I think he only got the amplifier to get the card so he could set up VR games. Since I'm not doing that, there's no added value for me. For a game to even see both cards. I have to have a DVI connector and HDMI in my monitor; one to the desktop and one to the amplifier.
But I digress. It has two video cards, not SLI. In fact, one GTX 980 Ti 2gb is in an amplifier and the other, GTX 970 4gb is in the desktop itself. Since I don't use 4k/occulus (which he did), is there any reason to have or use the amplifier with the GTX 980? The guy wasn't much help. He said he's a console player and I think he only got the amplifier to get the card so he could set up VR games. Since I'm not doing that, there's no added value for me. For a game to even see both cards. I have to have a DVI connector and HDMI in my monitor; one to the desktop and one to the amplifier.