Is it OK to have an AGP graphics card AND a PCI one?

28 Feb 2005 9:34 AM

OM

Can someone tell me: is it OK to have an AGP graphics card AND a PCI
one?

I want to have 3 monitors.

Will this arrangement cause any problems?

Thanks.

OM

28 Feb 2005 10:28 AM

kony

On 28 Feb 2005 01:34:18 -0800, "OM" <om.newsgr***@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Can someone tell me: is it OK to have an AGP graphics card AND a PCI
>one?

yes

>
>I want to have 3 monitors.

4?

>
>Will this arrangement cause any problems?

Maybe.
Power users (or anybody) with a lot of other bandwidth
intensive PCI devices like video capture cards, gigabit NIC,
Creative Labs' (et al) sound cards, or RAID/non-RAID drive
controller cards may find there are times when there isn't
enough breathing room on PCI bus, or they need to adjust the
PCI latency... maybe not to get it to work at all, but drive
throughput can go down and sounds could stutter, among other
similar performance degradation per type of device. It's
certainly do-able though, Microsoft (are you running
windows?) has a dual display adapter hardware compatibility
list somewhere on their website, though it was rather (VERY)
old the last time i saw it.

You can't just randomly pick two cards, or at least you
could but it's not guaranteed to work, there is some kind of
interaction between the driver and OS but I dont' recall
what. ATI and nVidia cards made within the past 8 years are
probably your best bet, leaning towards nVidia because ATI's
drivers can be fickle, especially on some of their older PCI
cards.

28 Feb 2005 10:39 AM

Woodsy

On 28 Feb 2005 01:34:18 -0800, "OM" <om.newsgr***@gmail.com> wrote:

>Can someone tell me: is it OK to have an AGP graphics card AND a PCI
>one?
>
>I want to have 3 monitors.
>
>Will this arrangement cause any problems?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>OM

Working great here!

--

Woodsy,
Off the Grid, Off the Road, Off my Rocker...

28 Feb 2005 10:34 PM

OM

what cards do u have?

1 Mar 2005 1:26 AM

Woodsy

On 28 Feb 2005 14:34:46 -0800, "OM" <om.newsgr***@gmail.com> wrote:

>what cards do u have?

I am currently running an nVidea Vanta AGP and an Appian Jeronimo2k
PCI
nothing extreme on graphics here. I have tried dual Appian
Hurricanes,dual J2k's and been happy with both, the current config
just fits well, dont have room for the 4th monitor without buying
another pair of LCD's.

http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/db.asp is one site I used to help
set up.

What cards are you looking at?

--

Woodsy,
Off the Grid, Off the Road, Off my Rocker...

28 Feb 2005 4:55 PM

theyak

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> Can someone tell me: is it OK to have an AGP graphics card AND a PCI
> one?
>
> I want to have 3 monitors.
>
> Will this arrangement cause any problems?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> OM
>
>

It's fine if you can get it to work. Just don't count on games to
support that kind of setup.

28 Feb 2005 11:30 PM

Jon Danniken

"OM" wrote:
> Can someone tell me: is it OK to have an AGP graphics card AND a PCI
> one?

Generally, yes. There is a database which shows some specific combinations
(user data), along with other helpful suggestions here:
http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/

Jon (not affiliated with realtimesoft)