Question Can my motherboard use two graphics cards ?

[p.heats]

Hello, im planning to buy a new Gigabyte RTX 3060 12GB OC (3fans) graphics card and my current one is GTX 1050Ti 4GB OC (1fan), but i don't know if my motherboard Gigabyte B560 aorus pro v1.0 have 3 slot PCIEx16.

1. 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16)
   * For optimum performance, if only one PCI Express graphics card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16 slot.
   (The PCIEX16 slot conforms to PCI Express 4.0 standard.)*
   * Supported by 11th Generation processors only.
2. 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIEX4)
3. 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x1 (PCIEX1)
   (The PCIEX4 and PCIEX1 slots conform to PCI Express 3.0 standard.)

but i dont know will it work after i connect new RTX 3060 to slot 1 (PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16) and GTX 1050ti to slot 2 (PCI Express x16 slot, running at x4), i dont know "running at x16, x4, x1" meaning and dont know how to check my current GTX 1050 ti use x16 or x4 ?

Please help me, thank you and sorry my bad English!!!

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

Technically speaking, you can insert the RTX 3060 in the primary slot, and the 1050 Ti in the secondary slot, but why do you want to use 2 cards at same time ?

To connect more monitors via secondary GPU ?

Because these 2 cards cannot be SLI'd. These are just PCI lanes, x16, x4. 1050 Ti work albeit with some reduced bus speed.

 

[Math Geek]

the x16, x8, x4, x1 refers to the lanes available to the slot.

the first slot has 16 lanes while using the second slot only has 4 lanes. however, this would be more than enough for a 1050ti card.

so no worries there. just be sure the 3060 is in the top slot

 

[USAFRet]

Why do you want the both of them running?

 

[p.heats]

Technically speaking, you can insert the RTX 3060 in the primary slot, and the 1050 Ti in the secondary slot, but why do you want to use 2 cards at same time ?

To connect more monitors via secondary GPU ?

Because these 2 cards cannot be SLI'd. These are just PCI lanes, x16, x4. 1050 Ti work albeit with some reduced bus speed.

Why do you want the both of them running?

yeah i want use both of them for two monitors, because one new is gaming monitor 180Hz and old monitor just 60Hz, and if i only use one GPU 3060 for two monitors not same refresh rate will make lagging when GPU running (it happen with my friend he using 12th CPU and one 3060ti for 2 monitors). That why i want to use two graphics cards. Thank you for help

 

[--SID--]

You can connect one monitor to the motherboard if your CPU is not a F model.

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

That's a good point. If the processor has an in built graphics/igpu then that can also be used for an external monitor. But we don't know which CPU OP is having. AMD G-series processors also have built-in graphics processor.