Thinking of getting a new motherboard with two PCI-slots that support it, and I was wondering the advantage of having two video cards was?
multiple monitors are a blessing,especially when doing research and taking notes at the same time. I ve used dual monitor setups to speed up research related work, its easier on the head too, not having to memorize locations, but looking at the right monitor simply.
Multimonitor setups are more useful than one big monitor, since you get more workable space for less cash. I'm seeing more and more of them at work, for people working on various programs at once (secretaries etc), if they didn't improve efficiency they wouldn't be bought in the first place. Dual videocards, though, are just $ signs in the eyes of the VGA card manufacturers as far as I can tell.
Eh, guess i'll hold off. A 30% increase isn't much for a computer with a 7800GT with 1.5 Gig of RAM that can already play pretty much everything. Not to mention I can already set up a second monitor for research due to the two slots.
You're an idiot :110: Only get SLI/Crossfire if you're into PC gaming, thats the only use for them OR if you do heavy duty AutoCAD or PhotoSHOP, etc. but don't go SLI, just get two PCIexpress videocards and have a Quad Display output for four high-res monitors (DON'T Go with ATI at all because they are horrendous when it comes to displays more than 2 monitors, go with nVidia instead). SLI for sure, cannot do quad display, so have that disabled if you're gonna do dual PCIxpress for 4 seperate displays.
