Thank you, I had read those threads and understood that, but it seems like a waste of money to buy two Quadro 4000 cards just to disable the CUDA on one of them.
Our edit computer is a Supermicro workstation which is 4 yrs old, yet has plenty of power with dual xeon quadcore processors, so I don't want to replace it yet. I suppose that because it is a workstation, it makes sense to go with a workstation video card and not a desktop one. Correct?
We used to have a Matrox RTX2 to which the Sony NTSC monitor was attached, and then an ATI HD3870 to which the 2 HPs were attached. In upgrading to HD, we needed to get an HD monitor to replace the NTSC monitor. There is a DVI out on the Matrox as well, but it seems very outdated, so that's why we went with the Quadro 2000 which works better with CS6. In looking at various Nvidia cards, if I stay within the Quadro family, the cheapest one is a 400 @ $100, it's replacement is a 410 @ $140, and then the 600 which is 128bit (vs 64 bit) @ $150. (The 410 has more CUDA cores than the 600, but less bandwith since it is 64 bit.)
Does it matter what the specs are for the second card? Only thing I want is a third monitor. I don't want noise as we do plenty of audio recording. The MB has two PCIe2 slots for the two video cards.
Thanks for any help!
