G+_Adam EL-Idrissi Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Building a new PC for school/VM/web browsing/watching videos/light gaming and need some help. So far my parts list is i5-4440s,asrock micro atx motherboard with dual PCI express 3.0 x16 and 16gb of ram. I very 4 monitors I want to drive,2 24",22",19". The video cards I'm looking at are running dual pny gtx750 ti cards. Do they have to run sli? What size power supply would I need? I'll also be moving the 4 HDD from the micro server to this new build and have a ssd for os and programs. Maybe dual boot win8.1 and Ubuntu.the games I want this to handle are battlefield and GTA whenever it comes out. Sound like I've got a good start? Do you guys see any issues with this set up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Darryl Gibbs Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 It should be fine, but I'm pretty sure you will struggle to run all 4 monitors in a game with that gpu setup. I think 2x 970s would be where you want to start, but even then for going it's a stretch. As for the psu, I think an 850w should be sufficient. I good corsair or seasonic should do the trick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Adam EL-Idrissi Posted February 15, 2015 Author Share Posted February 15, 2015 Darryl Gibbs I was planning on running games on one monitor. Will it auto to all 4 or stay to one? I was looking at other cards but since I rarely play games,maybe 2 hours a week, I can't justify the price for more expensive cards. With using two graphics cards is sli a requirement? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Darryl Gibbs Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Yes, if you run more than one card you will need to SLI them. Does that mobo support Nvidia SLI? If you will use one monitor for gaming then the power is sufficient. Just don't expect to run games on ultra for very long at 1080p. I can't say do certain if it will default to multi monitors in games, but disabling this shouldn't be hard, if even necessary. If the games support multi monitors, you'll have the ability to enable/disable within the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Taylor Graham Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 r9 290s and 290x's are dirty cheap right now. i think you would be perfectly happy with a single card and a single display. If you want to use multiple displays, youre definitely going to want identical displays and tiny bezels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Adam EL-Idrissi Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Gaming is only on one monitor. The rest is for better multitasking. Like oking at getting two more 24" monitors like the two I got a few weeks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Adam EL-Idrissi Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 So now I feel dumb since sli is using two cards for a single output.not what I thought. Since I don't need sli and the cards don't support it, would I be able to use both cards to run four monitors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jim Sauber Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 When I am going a new computer build, I look at pcper.com for both their product reviews and for their recommendations on different system builds. These provide some good guidelines for components based on price/performance tradeoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Darryl Gibbs Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Adam EL-Idrissi I'm by no means even vaguely familiar with SLI;Crossfire setups, but I do know that you cant run two cards independently within the system. The SLI/Crossfire bridge allows you to talk to 1 card effectively. But plugging in 2 cards will just confuse the hell out of it. Unless I'm wrong, but I really don't think I am on this one. I think what you really have to do is find a gtx760 at minimum to drive all four monitors, but you'll need connection convertors where necessary. Maybe try find some second hand ones, or store clearances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Adam EL-Idrissi Yes, what you want to do will work. Windows 7 was the first version of Windows to let you use multiple graphics cards completely independently from each other, so you can run 1 Nvidia and 1 AMD card in the same system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Taylor Graham Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 i even ran integrated graphics and a 260x on a 3 monitor setup at one point. was amazed it worked, but it did. Some applications (like photoshop CC) will only see one of the cards though. In my case, photoshop only identified the integrated graphics and would occasionally crash. I dont think you'd have that problem if you were using two capable GPUs. This is a known bug in photoshop that probably won't be fixed, but i didnt have the issue with other applications (GIMP, indesign, illustrator, etc). Never did any gaming though. But hey, if you dont already have two 750s, buy a 290. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Darryl Gibbs Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 I stand to be corrected... which is a good thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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