how many monitors...

[chibiturasu]

how monitors can i have connected to a gtx 770 4gb in 2way sli ?

 

[deadmaufive]

I believe it has 4 ports on it? so 4

 

[deadmaufive]

You could use a splitter but that drastically reduces quality.

 

[chibiturasu]

You could use a splitter but that drastically reduces quality.

thx but what i meant was im planning to get 2 780 and doing sli so can i connect example 8 monitors or its that uber overestimated??

 

[deadmaufive]

It's gonna be the same, you can have 1 monitor for each port on a single GPU. Since you're doing SLI, you can't use the 2nd card for display output. So even with both cards, you're only going to have 4 usable ports. Like I said though, you can use splitters, so theoretically, you can have 8 monitors, but it's highly unrecommended. I would say a max of 4 monitors will give you the best quality and quantity ratio. if you go less than 4 monitors you're basically just wasting VRAM that's there, and if you go over 4, you're gonna have to use a splitter, so it's going to degrade the quality of the picture coming from that particular port and if you use up to much of the VRAM it'll cause poor quality and/or issues arising.

 

[chibiturasu]

It's gonna be the same, you can have 1 monitor for each port on a single GPU. Since you're doing SLI, you can't use the 2nd card for display output. So even with both cards, you're only going to have 4 usable ports. Like I said though, you can use splitters, so theoretically, you can have 8 monitors, but it's highly unrecommended. I would say a max of 4 monitors will give you the best quality and quantity ratio. if you go less than 4 monitors you're basically just wasting VRAM that's there, and if you go over 4, you're gonna have to use a splitter, so it's going to degrade the quality of the picture coming from that particular port and if you use up to much of the VRAM it'll cause poor quality and/or issues arising.

ah ok thx XD never used/tryed sli before (then again i cant cause i have a laptop) so it wont double it just improve fps ok got it thx man

 

[deadmaufive]

Yeah, what SLI does is it takes the 2nd card and splits the load that's carried so that you can process double the amount of data at the same rate. That doesn't necessarily mean it doubles performance, but it increases performance by quite a bit still.

But it won't use the 2nd card for VRAM is the thing. So even though both cards have 4GB of VRAM, it'll only have 4GB of total usable VRAM rather than 8GB. Sucks, but that's unfortunately how it is. lol