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Dual Monitor Setup w/ Dual ATI 4870x2
What is the best setup for running dual monitors with dual video cards?
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I just switched both monitors to one card and enabled Crossfire. Everything seems to run the same as it did before.
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What exactly are you trying to achieve?
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I just switched both monitors to one card and enabled Crossfire. Everything seems to run the same as it did before.
Except now you can run both monitors with crossfire enabled.
What exactly are you trying to achieve?
+ 1 ? :huh:
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im assuming gaming, but you would get about the same result, but the games would make use of both cards instead of just one card at a time.
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Correct. Your original response is the best way to have a dual monitor + crossfire enabled.
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Actually, I don't play games. No time. I do a bit of photo editing and lots of accounting. Just wanted to have everything running at the optimum performance with the hardware I have.
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Oohhh, connect to any available port then, and disable CrossFire since you don't need it... Any port will do for your apps.
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