graphic card installation help please!

Super cheese sandwich

I have two 980 ti and one 970. In which slot I have to put the 980 ti to use as primary card for daz?

 

Thanks

Super cheese sandwich

I was wondering... How many cards can I use with daz? Because I have seen one motherboard on youtube what have 8 pci slots 

namffuak

If you're only interested in DAZ Studio and not gaming, I'd put the 970 in slot 1 and put all the monitors on it - and NOT use it for Iray. Then put the two 980 ti in slots 2 and 3. As I understand it, Windows assumes the monitor(s) will be on the first graphic card found in the system.

As far as I know, Iray will use all the cards you can cram into a case, but the high performance cards need two pci slots of space, limiting you to 4 cards -- and your case needs to support 8 slots, even if the MB doesn't or you won't be able to put a 2 slot card in slot 4.

prixat

Had a quick look at the manual, you have on-board graphics, using that would free all three cards from monitor duty.

...from the manual, (pages 7, 10 and 56.) put the faster cards in slots 1 and 3 and the other card in slot 2. 

you'll have to tell the BIOS to use the on-board instead of its default 'Slot 1'. (There was also a BIOS setting for Slot 2 to use a card that has more than the 4 lanes of that slot!.)

 

Super cheese sandwich

It's a bit confusing but thanks guys!