Two 16x PCI Quadro NVS 420 + one 1x PCI Quadro NVS 420

[hummer11]

I am building a workstation and wated to run Two 16x PCI Quadro NVS 420 + one 1x PCI Quadro NVS 420 on the MSI k9n2 SLI Platinum MOBO. Will the PCI 1x card work? The board has two 16x and one 1x. I called MSI and they said they never tried a graphics on the 1x slot.

This is the part number for the 1X:
VCQ420NVS-X1-DP-PB
and the 16x:
VCQ420NVS-X16-DP-PB

[Movieman]

I am building a workstation and wated to run Two 16x PCI Quadro NVS 420 + one 1x PCI Quadro NVS 420 on the MSI k9n2 SLI Platinum MOBO. Will the PCI 1x card work? The board has two 16x and one 1x. I called MSI and they said they never tried a graphics on the 1x slot.

This is the part number for the 1X:
VCQ420NVS-X1-DP-PB
and the 16x:
VCQ420NVS-X16-DP-PB

I would not but HIS did have a lower end card that was designed for 1x so maybe???????

[hummer11]

VCQ420NVS-X1-DP-PB is made for pci 1x (short slot) but will the mobo support all 3? because msi said pci 1x is usually for sound an they never tried a graphics in the 1x pci

http://www.provantage.com/pny-technologies-vcq420nvs-x1-dp-pb~7PNY90CV.htm

[zanzabar]

why would u want an NVS they are slow and overall garbage, i have one at my computer at school and its the worst gpu ive ever used. it sucks at solid works and it cant game or even do fur mark. get a cheap desktop card (preferable ait so u can flash the device ID to fireGL) or spend the money for a full quatro

[Marvin_The_Martian]

why would u want an NVS they are slow and overall garbage, i have one at my computer at school and its the worst gpu ive ever used. it sucks at solid works and it cant game or even do fur mark. get a cheap desktop card (preferable ait so u can flash the device ID to fireGL) or spend the money for a full quatro

^This.

Or get a tesla s1070... j/k ;)

It would depend thought, what application do you want to run? And how many screens? Because you know those nvm's don't support sli right? So it's only usefull for many viewport windows, in which case you might have a good reason to use them depending on the program you want to use.

[zanzabar]

i havnt seen a use for them, the school im at spent $120 affter the discount for each of them and they have bad video playback

[Marvin_The_Martian]

I'm not familiar enough I guess, but I would guess anything that uses opengl.

And I think I was wrong, quadro's do support sli accoring to some link I just got pm'd :rolleyes: :poke:

[zanzabar]

the quatros do sli but the nvs quatros dont, they do run 4 monitors but only at low rez/refresh http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_quadro_nvs_420_us.html

this one is much better, same price
http://ati.amd.com/products/firemvseries/FirePro2450.html

[Marvin_The_Martian]

ATi's are better but you can buy any card afaik and flash them as firegl, nvidia hasn't had that option since the 6800's I think.

Btw, 2560x1600 isn't that low res is it :poke: Jeez I'm still on 1650-1080 ;)

[zanzabar]

running 4 monitors drops the max rez down unless u want to run ntsc/pal refresh instead of 60

there is also a via/s3 card thats nice and is $130 that will do 1600P on 4 monitors and a matrox thats about $180, and i amuse thats why that card was chosen

[hummer11]

They will be used for a stock trading computer to run 8 monitors (with 2 cards) or 12 monitors if 3 cards work. and I want to use that same mobo

Pretty much I need to run 12 22" monitors with 3 cards on 2 PCI 16x and one 1x slot on the K9N2 Platnium. and im lookin to the cheapest cards to do that

[Cooper]

XP/Vista supports up to 10 displays only.
Id say get couple FireMV 2400 (don't mix PCI and PCI-e though)

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Aren't matrox the best for multidisplay? 3 of these http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/g_series/g550lppcie/ which only have 2 outputs though so x3 = 6 screens. Add 3 dualhead2go = 9 screens.

Wouldn't it matter how many displays need to be clones or independant?