Hi guys, my question is basically what the title say ; I would like to know if Aster support two different gpu (in my case a gtx 660 and r9 290) as it would reduce the load on my main graphic card (r9 290) when my friend come over 🙂
Thanks !
Yes, multiple gpu's are supported.
My system has the following graphics cards:
Intel HD 530 integrated graphics (1 x HDMI + 1 x DisplayPort)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 (3 x DisplayPort + 1 x HDMI + 1 x DVI)
AMD Radeon RX 480 (2 x DisplayPort + 2 x HDMI + 1 x DVI)
The integrated graphics supports up to 2 simultaneous displays. The Nvidia and AMD cards each support up to 4 simultaneous displays. Therefore I *could* have up to 12 individual terminals, each with 1 separate monitor.
My actual setup is 3 terminals with a total of 5 monitors:
-Terminal 1 uses HDMI from the integrated graphics
-Terminal 2 uses 3 x DisplayPort from the GTX 1080
-Terminal 3 uses a single HDMI from the RX 480.
All this running on Windows 10 Pro, with Intel i7 6700K, 64GB RAM and a 1TB Samsung SSD.
Performance is really awesome, although next time I will probably build a 8-core (or more) cpu instead, and a PCIe or M.2 SSD with 128GB RAM. The only thing I noticed is I had some issues with audio working through HDMI. Instead, I just use a USB audio adapter and each of them work absolutely great on all terminals.
Hope this helps!
I wonder what will happen when i start 2x GTX1080 and DX12 game
WHEN
1 GTX for 1 Workstation
do game will take all power from 3 Graphic card? (+Intel HD 🙂 )
or just from one
any one test it ?
The games will take power from which ever graphics card you have assigned the workplace to,
Example
station 1 connected to GTX 1080
station 2 connected to GTX 1080
station 3 connected to internal iGPx
then station 1 and 2 will each use the respective cards for gaming and the 3 card connected to internal graphics will use the build in graphics
using internal graphics for gaming is not good.
If you want to have true gaming station then have 1 card assigned per monitor(station)
How do you "assign" a graphics card? Just plug in the monitor and assign the monitor?
Yes, plug in the monitor to each graphics card.
if you are gaming then do not use the igfx.
Connect 1 or 2 monitor each to the graphics card depending your requirement
and in the Aster configuration assign the monitors to each seat.
Note: assign monitors connected to same graphics card to 1 seat if you are doing dual monitor setup per seat.
