Some basic questions -- SLI vs Crossfire, SSD vs Sata (?)

[Sam DeathWalker]

You don't need multiple monitors to use multiple video cards, since we'd be using the GPUs for rendering on the main screen anyways.

Speaking of links, if you have one where I can read up on it, I'm not up on using two gpu's onto one monitor and getting better results hows that work exactly, I have a ton of extra video cards and if two (not in sli or crossfire) can render different parts of the screen or something that would be nice (do you need to run tiled to do that or can you do it full screen)?

Or does one do one part of the rendering and the other gpu a different part like two gpus one would do physx and the other the other stuffs, if wow supported physx.

Seems you would have to run textures into both video card rams; would that not affect performace. Well I don't know I just use one monitor and one gpu per computer and play in full screen and alt tab between them.

Ya killer nic is usless but I spend 4000 words to say the same thing as to why it is.

[Sajuuk]

Speaking of links, if you have one where I can read up on it, I'm not up on using two gpu's onto one monitor and getting better results hows that work exactly, I have a ton of extra video cards and if two (not in sli or crossfire) can render different parts of the screen or something that would be nice (do you need to run tiled to do that or can you do it full screen)? .

The tools we would be using are ISBoxer/Innerspace, and possibly a dummy plug. (making a dummy plug here: http://www.overclock.net/folding-hom...ml#post4538942 )

Now, I'm not at all sure if you'll actually need the dummy plug, but when using folding at home on extra GPUs/dual-GPU cards where you don't have extra monitors it would trick your card into thinking a monitor is attached. You might not need it, but if you can't defer rendering of other clients to isboxer/innerspace without it, try with and see what happens.

http://isboxer.com/index.php/compone...le-video-cards

While that says you must use monitors, I'm sure in innerspace you can still make new profiles for games and assign them to different GPU cores. I'd got into more detail now, but you get the gist, right?

[Sam DeathWalker]

I see each gpu goes to a different monitor and deals with whatever clients you tell it to. Can't use two gpu with single client or with single monitor. And switching from main to slave (assuming on different video cards and monitors) isn't going to be as fast as people would like, even at same resolutions.

Still I guess for 5 boxers on a single cpu, one gpu/monitor for the main and one gpu/monitor for the 4 tiled slaves is optimal.