Monitors on one gpu, computations on another

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hey there tek,

 

i need to pick your brains on something.

 

I would like to know if it is at all possible to run monitors on one graphics card and have the computing done on another, for general use.

 

the specific set up would be a gtx 650 1gb for monitors and a 680 4gb for the comps.

i am doing this for the purpose of squeezing some performance out of the adobe universe as i understand that you can specify 1 card for monitors and one card for cuda.

i do not know if other programs will work this way or if having two gpus will just cause it to freak out. general programs include your web browsing, the occasional game or two, like morrowind, the original deus x, not a heavy gaming pc, its built for work but i have to relax sometime eh.

i must note that the cards will not be in sli, because i dont think you can with 650 and 680, but rather one card on one 16x and the other on the other 16x.

please share with me your expertise and perhaps some how to.

i am grateful for your help.

esr

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Overall there's no point of doing that as desktop pretty much doesn't have a lot of load. Without sli you won't be able to use 2nd card under games, but for computational based software it won't matter it will use both gpu's or if it has settings you can set which gpu to use. (some do - like boinc app xml files) As far as i remember you can also select under your drivers which card will be used to compute physx/apex - but again it affects games only and sli bridge most likely will be required.


Software (anykind) will either not see or use 1 gpu or will use both of them at the same time for primaboinca etc boinc projects that support cuda...