Digital BW, The Print

Not sure how it can help with 16 bit files - the path to your display is
still only 8 bit.  A better CPU and more memory yes - a better graphics
card, only at the margin.  (Google SLI and you'll see that it is that which
combines the two cards so I suspect that with it disabled you are only using
one card.)  At any rate I'm not sure this is a topic for here and you're
likely going to get better advice on a computing forum or from your
retailer.


> From: john794552 <jwillyfontana@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:17:38 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Multiple monitor display and SLI on twin graphics cards
> 
> Hope this problem is within the remit of this forum. Please point me
> elsewhere if not!
> Just taken delivery of a new computer. I have opted for two graphics
> cards(256 Mb Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTX) linked with SLI for hoped for
> improvement in handling large 16 bit files in Photoshop, along with
> the 2 Gig of RAM operating in Windows XP Home.
> The problem I have discovered is that enabling the SLI facility
> disables the dual monitor display, leaving only the primary monitor
> showing anything on screen.I use the second monitor to view Photoshop
> tools and dialog boxes.Disabling SLI restores both monitors. I would
> like to have both if possible! Is there a workaround. Both monitors
> are plugged into one of the graphics cards.
> Out of interest, I have timed applying radial blur to a 100 Mb colour
> file, and it takes about 34 secs with SLI both enabled and disabled.
> If SLI is disabled, am I only working with one graphics card?
> Many thanks
> John Fontana
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