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(Test) Dummy VGA Dongle with Win7: Three Radeon HD 5770 and a Sin... http://www.geeks3d.com/20110622/vga-hack-test-dummy-vga-dongle-win...
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Update: this VGA hack is mostly intended for Radeon graphics cards (see the comments section).
I recently played with multi-GPU and I needed to test one my GPU tools on three Radeon HD 5770 at the same time (no
CrossFire). Under Windows 7, a graphics card is disabled by Windows if its not connected to a monitor. Not really
convenient if you need to test several graphics cards and if you have only one monitor.
If you look at the CCC (Catalyst Control Center), youll see the primary card (enabled) and two disabled cards:
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Same thing with the GPU Caps Viewer OpenCL panel, only the first GPU (Juniper) is listed:
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The second and third cards are disabled (for APIs like OpenCL, CUDA, etc.) but are still visible in GPU monitoring tools like
GPU Shark:
The trick to enabled all cards, is to fool Windows with a dummy VGA dongle.
This VGA hack require one DVI to VGA dongle and three resistors. Any resistor from 50 to 150 ohms can do the job.
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I found in my stock of electronic components, three 150-ohm resistors for the first VGA dongle. For the second I used two
100-ohm and one 120-ohm resistors.
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As soon as the dongles are plugged, Windows enables the cards. Here is the second card in CCC:
And in GPU Caps Viewer, OpenCL properly lists the three GPUs as OpenCL devices:
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Now youre ready to use any multi-GPU capable applications with a single monitor!
In the following screenshot, the first GPU processes all OpenGL render calls, while the second and third GPUs process the
OpenCL code.
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10 comments - What do you think? (3,418 views) Posted by JeGX - June 22, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Categories: GPU Caps Viewer, OpenCL, Test Tags: dummy, gongle, gpu caps viewer, graphics card, hack, opencl, radeon hd
5770, test, vga
10 Responses to (Test) Dummy VGA Dongle with Win7: Three Radeon HD 5770 and a Single
Monitor (VGA Hack)
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MFA says:
June 22, 2011 at 3:33 pm
pure win!
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AAmax says:
June 22, 2011 at 5:00 pm
What do you mean disabled if not connected to a monitor, how then they do it for Physx, they use one fast Radeon
and one poor Geforce just for Physx, or was this disabled?
3.
AAmax says:
June 22, 2011 at 5:14 pm
Separate run on each Radeon then just say saw, very interesting. Not parallel, each unit its own run, this is server type
stuff.
4.
JeGX says:
June 22, 2011 at 5:37 pm
I just tested with one HD 5770 + one GTX 260 + one GT 240 and without the VGA hack, both GeForce are listed in
the OpenGL section of GPU Caps Viewer.
Then this VGA hack is mainly useful for Radeon cards.
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6.
WacKEDmaN says:
June 23, 2011 at 7:46 am
amd need to add support for headless cards to their driver
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ca$per says:
June 23, 2011 at 7:54 am
Does disabled cards consume much power? I mean when used without dongle.
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ca$per says:
June 23, 2011 at 9:45 am
Hmm So i presume its just in idle state. Thanks.
I guess if i need to test some app on Nvidia card and on ATI card, to ease the process i can simply insert both cards in
my PC and then just switch the monitor to one or another and simply relaunch the application?
10.
Athlonite says:
July 1, 2011 at 9:00 am
this the same hack as used by use HDxxxx users to get F@H running before they fixed the CF problem
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