Just a reminder that your Graphics CARD maker may have the fastest 'game' driver, but not the best 'technical' driver. For that, check out the CHIP maker...

I've just about completed a self-build of CAD Tower #3 to run turboCAD Pro, Poser11Pro, DazStudio etc etc. It has three WD Black HDDs, an AMD octo-core CPU, 32 GB RAM and a Gigabyte 990x mobo that supports SLI etc for gaming. I put in two twin-DVI Gigabyte nvidia GTX 750 Ti cards to run my three 21" wide screens.

{ I don't play games; I just need a vast work-space to hold multiple views, provide lonnng borders for lots of menu bars... }

Would those same-brand mobo and graphics cards play nice together ? No...

Neither graphics card was recognised until I reset the mobo BIOS. Though the first card popped up with two screens, the second card would not support Windows' 'extend onto' for more than a few seconds before 'vanishing'. Gigabyte latest driver fared no better. After working through their trouble-shooting list, I came to a link to nvidia site. Five minutes to find my cards, five to down-load the latest nvidia driver, five to install.

This time, all three screens popped up as they should...

Phew.

Currently browsing on old 'desktop' PC while loading Poser & CAD archive from NAS onto CAD Tower. I did a lot of work with Poser 4, TurboCAD and Floorplan etc, accumulated a LOT of freebies, but *that* CAD Tower #2 died in a storm. I managed to salvage much of my 3DS & Zip collection from its D: but C:'s programs and sprawling runtime were toast. Worse, my old NAS would not load my back-ups' XP directory tree onto this Desktop PC's 8.1. By the time I could afford to replace the hardware, my programs were too old to re-register....

I've added a bunch of freebies & bargain basement models while slowly building my new CAD Tower, so I'll be needing multiple external runtimes to keep everything tidy...