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Post July 27th, 2005, 7:04 am

I know how dumb this question may sound but is it possible to have a PCI 5500 & a AGP 5600 work together on one monitor? like a Dual Video Card thing?
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Post July 27th, 2005, 7:04 am

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Post July 27th, 2005, 7:36 am

No. Only SLI will allow you to do that. I did had this old Diamon Graphics video booster a while back (worked the same as ATi's SLI varient). But it didn't do any good.
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Post July 27th, 2005, 9:28 am

you can without much of a problem do the dual monitor thing though
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Post July 27th, 2005, 9:31 am

EliteHunter wrote:
I know how dumb this question may sound but is it possible to have a PCI 5500 & a AGP 5600 work together on one monitor? like a Dual Video Card thing?


He wants better video performance I think.
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Post July 27th, 2005, 10:09 am

I know it didn't really answer the question, but I figured I would post it anyway incase someone happened across this thread looking for dual monitors.
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Post July 27th, 2005, 10:14 am

oh ok. Cool.
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Post July 27th, 2005, 10:15 am

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EliteHunter wrote:
I know how dumb this question may sound but is it possible to have a PCI 5500 & a AGP 5600 work together on one monitor? like a Dual Video Card thing?


He wants better video performance I think.


Acualy I dont want anything, i dont even Own the 5600 or 5500PCI.
this just poped up in my head. :lol: lol

i use a XFX 6600GT. smooth-as-butta. ha ha.

But this wouldnt work? you could'nt get that thing that SLI/CrossFire thing, and hook two cards PCI & AGP together?
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Post July 27th, 2005, 10:18 am

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No. Only SLI will allow you to do that. I did had this old Diamon Graphics video booster a while back (worked the same as ATi's SLI varient). But it didn't do any good.


What do you mean by this? "video booster"?

>god i have to much fun with these forums< :lol:
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Post July 27th, 2005, 10:19 am

SLI - no.

Crossfire - no clue, You might.

I don't know, it was the same idea as crossfire. Started by Diamon Multimedia. Didn't work. It was a PCI add-in card that connectd to your video card with a special 15-pin vga cable on the outside of the case.
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Post July 27th, 2005, 10:23 am

does anyone else have an opinon on this?

PS i dont know to much about ATi's CrossFire but they connect the two x800/x850 cards buy a cord that looks like a VGA to both cards and make it into one. and no idea on SLi -(sounds Corney) Lol
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Post July 27th, 2005, 2:45 pm

http://www.slizone.com/ - SLi

http://ati.com/buy/promotions/crossfireready/index.html - CrossFire
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