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Apollo Video Card Selection - 18 Choices!

Post Date: 2017-05-31
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    Posted: 31 May 2017 at 11:53am
As the title suggests, there are 18 different Video Cards for the Apollo.  Amongst those options, wildly varying price points.  I know absolutely nothing about Video Cards and need some help.

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I do not plan on doing anything VR related (looks like most are VR ready anyways).

4K not required.

I need to have dual monitor support.

I may or may not stream / edit content.  I'd prefer to have this capability and not need it than want it and not have it.

I will be using this machine for gaming and want to experience the games as the designers intended.  Max graphics.

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Thank you for any help you can provide in guiding me towards a good solution.
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For a 1920x1080 monitor the gtx 1070 is the card, assuming one monitor for gaming and the other for light duty like web surfing.   

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Originally posted by bprat22

For a 1920x1080 monitor the gtx 1070 is the card, assuming one monitor for gaming and the other for light duty like web surfing.   



There are 2 GTX 1070s :

1x GeForce GTX 1070 8GB

2x SLI Dual GeForce GTX 1070 8GB

What is the difference between the two?  Does the SLI mean 2 of them?  Why would anyone want two video cards, if one can run dual monitors?

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SLI uses two cards and gangs them together to give you more graphics processing power. However, it doesn't scale linearly and increases jitter, as the memory on both cards need to constant be synchronized.

It is usually recommended to go with single cards before going to SLI, because of the aforementioned jitter issues, as well as driver issues getting the set-up to work properly with programs.

A single card can run up to 4 monitors. Multiple graphics cards can allow for more. Obviously, as you increase the number of monitors, you will need more graphics processing power to handle graphics intensive work loads, like gaming, on all of those monitors.
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