Running Dual Video Cards - One Gaming Card with One Professional

[Rotary Ninja]

This seems like a silly question to me because I consider myself to be fairly PC savvy. But I have never tried running dual video cards that weren't SLI...

 

Would it be possible to run a Quadro alongside a GTX card? I am running the HLE of X6 and currently have this system setup as a gaming PC. It doesn't do too well with Mastercam though so I am thinking an upgrade may be in order. I would want to use the same monitor for both so I could just use a second input on the monitor. Would I need to somehow setup Mastercam to use the Quadro, and my games to use the GTX card? Would this even work?

 

Thanks.

[Zoffen]

In windows 7 when i right click on an icon there is a render openGL on... option.......

 

I am running a Quadro 4000 and a GTX 55TI,

 

My original thinking was i would hook my nice monitors up to the quadro outputs; but it still drags on the quadro when i move the window onto a monitor driven by the GTX card.

 

Not an expert by any means, this is just my experience.

[Rotary Ninja]

I was wanting to do a single monitor using multiple inputs.

[Jayson Kramer]

Just spend the money on the higher end GTX like the 670 or higher sense this must not be your main programming box. this card will handle MC with no issues. Now you have your gaming box that sometimes you use for Mastercam.