2 monitor 2 gpu 970 pro 3 AMD

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   I want to run 2 independent monitors from 2 independent graphic cards om a asrock 970 pro 3 mother board, which I understand has crossfire, this could be problematic. Can I have each video slot operate independently? 

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leftofleo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 13 May 2023 Location: CALIF Status: Offline Points: 40	Post Options Post Reply Quote leftofleo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: 2 monitor 2 gpu 970 pro 3 AMD Posted: 13 May 2023 at 1:24pm
	I want to run 2 independent monitors from 2 independent graphic cards om a asrock 970 pro 3 mother board, which I understand has crossfire, this could be problematic. Can I have each video slot operate independently?
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threadzipper1957 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 05 Mar 2022 Status: Offline Points: 9335	Post Options Post Reply Quote threadzipper1957 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 Jun 2023 at 8:14pm
	Crossfire is about 2 cards that to the outside world, work as 1 card, and will give an performance increase of Max 60%. 2 Separate cards, could work, but having each slot working indivdually I don't think, will work. Better would be to use a faster graphics card, with mutliple monitors, and just expand to the second, and third monitor, and each have its own content.
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eccential Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 10 Oct 2022 Location: Nevada Status: Offline Points: 4360	Post Options Post Reply Quote eccential Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 Jun 2023 at 9:45pm
	In most cases, multiple GPU support is more of a software issue (operating system, drivers), not a hardware issue. But actually, BIOS is somewhat of a software, also, so that makes it a bit iffy. Ideally, BIOS would just leave the extra GPU alone, and then software can initialize it. Windows 10 and later makes it relatively easy to support multiple GPUs, and you can do much cooler things with modern OS & virtualization, such as letting a Virtual Machine get full access to one of the GPUs. With modern hardware, I don't see a problem doing this, but 970 Pro3 is pretty old at this point (almost a decade old AM3+). So if you run into BIOS problems, you're unlikely to get much support. I actually think it'll work okay, but I can't recommend it.