I'm thinking of saving up for a computer to be used for primarily gaming purposes. But I also need a card that works well with Maya and other 3D applications for school. A friend told me that I could have a gaming graphics card and a workstation graphics card in the same computer. All I had to do was click a button to switch between the two when I had to.
Is this possible? Thanks!
Originally posted by Freakmind:I'm thinking of saving up for a computer to be used for primarily gaming purposes. But I also need a card that works well with Maya and other 3D applications for school. A friend told me that I could have a gaming graphics card and a workstation graphics card in the same computer. All I had to do was click a button to switch between the two when I had to.
Is this possible? Thanks!
Nope, not possible. As someone on VR-Zone said, you don't mix play and work.
Also, a card that works well with Maya and 3D apps like AutoCAD? Those graphics cards cost a BOMB. When I say bomb, they will easily take a huge chunk of your budget.
You cannot mix between, say, a NVidia GeForce gaming card and Quadro FX Workstation card. There will be instability due to the different drivers used.
Yes you cannot match like what raraken said
The only way is to uninstall the graphics driver, and change graphics card and install the new driver
Oh! Ok thanks guys. :D
I think you'll be better off either finding a balance between both or building two seperate rigs.
Aside from the fact that it is virtually impossible to do this, do note that workstation cards cost a small fortune for a really basic wGPU.