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1. Re: 10 bit monitor option without Quadro
ECBowen May 19, 2014 8:01 AM (in response to LJH)I would suggest a Quadro K2000 for PS. Then use the 780GTX for GPU acceleration.
Eric
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2. Re: 10 bit monitor option without Quadro
LJH May 19, 2014 8:31 AM (in response to ECBowen)Cheers Eric, seems like a sound suggestion to me. I assume in this scenario, the rear outputs from the 780 would be left unplugged and the monitor[s] plugged into the K2000 ?
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3. Re: 10 bit monitor option without Quadro
ECBowen May 20, 2014 7:55 AM (in response to LJH)Yes that would be correct. I believe the Quadro drivers now include the Geforce drivers again but I have not checked in a while. If they don't you have to uninstall the current Geforce drivers installed. Then install the latest Quadro performance driver for the card. If the Geforce doesn't install at that point then you want to manually install the GeForce driver. To do that simply run the latest Geforce installer till it extracts to the Nvidia directory. Then cancel the install. Go to device manager and double click on the Display adapter for the 780GTX. Select the driver tab and then update driver. Point the folder location to the Nvidia directory for the Geforce driver. That will manually install the driver without effecting the Quadro installs.
Eric
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4. Re: 10 bit monitor option without Quadro
LJH May 20, 2014 8:58 AM (in response to ECBowen)Thanks for the sound advice Eric. I can get the K2000 and 780 for around the same price as one K4000 but with far superior combined performance, at least on paper. I just need the K2000 and I will put your suggestions into practice.
Just one thought though, if the 780 squirts its enhanced output at the K2000 for output to screen, will the K2000 not present a bottleneck, hence negating the reason for the 780 in the first place. I'm not being negative at all, just curious as to how the K2000 would cope.
LJ
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5. Re: 10 bit monitor option without Quadro
ECBowen May 20, 2014 9:04 AM (in response to LJH)Drawing out the frames ie screen is a completely different process and step than the GPU acceleration. As long as the application caching model is mature then having the 2nd GPU processing will not be effected by the output card. The driver itself negotiates that traffic based on the application requests.
Eric
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6. Re: 10 bit monitor option without Quadro
LJH May 20, 2014 11:25 AM (in response to ECBowen)Thanks Eric, that's good news.



