My motherboard is an ASUS P5N73-AM w/NVIDIA GeForce 7050/nForce610i chipset. I have an NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO graphics card which is connected via the PCI-E slot. Could someone please tell me how to get both the onboard video and graphics card to work together, if possible. I searched around on then net but couldn’t find anything which clearly told me that this can’t happen, that’s why I’m asking. :retard:
Nope. It’s only one or the other.
You can get two PCI-E x16 cards working together, generally if they’re the same model/series (I don’t know much about crossfire, but I assume it’s close to SLI). If there’s no way to bridge the connection (SLI has special connectors that attach the two cards), then you can’t get them working together.
There’s probably a way to dedicate one to a certain process, and another to a different process, but I don’t know much about that subject.
some onboard video cards can work together as far as I know, but I think only that way, that the onboard one is for desktop and the real one for 3D apps
The latest nVidia motherboard chipsets+cards have these sort of features, while Dell mobos explicitly disable the onboard the moment anything else is connected, no matter what.
As for other mobos/cards, I don’t really know.
You should check out your BIOS for video features, there should be an option like “default video adapter” and the choices should be something like “PCI-E/ONBOARD/BOTH”
My onboard graphics card is a GMA3100 or something so I’m never gonna use it, even if my 8800GT goes boom I’ll just use my laptop instead.
ATI has a hybrid crossfire mode, which connects the onboard to the card, but its for ATI mobos with ATI cards.
Thanks for replying guys.
My BIOS gives me 3 options : PCI-E, PCI or ONBOARD. So no “BOTH” for me.
Anyway, thanks for your reply.