Midway GFX card
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 12:15 pm
Hi all,
Hope all is well in OctaneLand!?
I'm on the lookout to beef up my current rig, but don't want to throw money at it as I only do the odd bit of 3D freelance work now. I'm thinking about adding a GTX 295 or something, I will eventually go for a 470 but no need at the moment.
My question is, if I add the 295 in with my 9800GT, will I effectively get 3 cards to use OR with? Mainly I would be using the secondary card (295) for rendering and the 1st one for Win7, but if there's ever a crunch time would it be possible to have both cards churning out renders?
I'm also using a decent 650W PSU, 3 HD's (1 being SSD), DVD (which I never use so could disable it), and the specs in my sig. It should be OK to add something like the 295 or maybe even a 285?
cheers
Hope all is well in OctaneLand!?
I'm on the lookout to beef up my current rig, but don't want to throw money at it as I only do the odd bit of 3D freelance work now. I'm thinking about adding a GTX 295 or something, I will eventually go for a 470 but no need at the moment.
My question is, if I add the 295 in with my 9800GT, will I effectively get 3 cards to use OR with? Mainly I would be using the secondary card (295) for rendering and the 1st one for Win7, but if there's ever a crunch time would it be possible to have both cards churning out renders?
I'm also using a decent 650W PSU, 3 HD's (1 being SSD), DVD (which I never use so could disable it), and the specs in my sig. It should be OK to add something like the 295 or maybe even a 285?
cheers