NVIDIA card without monitor and with monitor

I will install Quadro FX 180 to testing and development general purpose
programming, not a graphic one.

During my development I will not connect a monitor to the card
and I suppose just using GPU is OK. The question is what will happen
if I finish my development, send my program for testing to someone
using the card attached to monitor. How would my program work in
this case?

I will install Quadro FX 180 to testing and development general purpose
programming, not a graphic one.

During my development I will not connect a monitor to the card
and I suppose just using GPU is OK. The question is what will happen
if I finish my development, send my program for testing to someone
using the card attached to monitor. How would my program work in
this case?

pardon…Quadro FX 1800

Same as on your PC, right up until the watchdog timer bites you in the rear, if your kernel execution time is longer than the watchdog allows. There are plenty of threads about the watchdog timer, read through a few of them to get a bit more information if you need it.

Quick summary:

  1. watchdog timer on XP/Linux: approx 5 seconds
  2. watchdog on Vista: approx 2 seconds
  3. linux not running X doesn’t have a watchdog, so is essentially as good as running a dedicated CUDA card.