Advantage of two cards

[Yanko693]

i have seen pics of peoples rigs with two gfx cards installed. what is the advantage here? will it get you better gpu power to one monitor or is it for multiple monitors?

 

[Backwoods166]

i have seen pics of peoples rigs with two gfx cards installed. what is the advantage here? will it get you better gpu power to one monitor or is it for multiple monitors?

It is for better performance. You can actualy run multiple monitors off of one video card. It is similar to comparing a single core cpu to a dual core with twice the ram... faster

 

[Gooberman]

It will increase your preformance and you will be able to run games better

 

[Droogie]

Here is a nice thread if you are interested that was recently made that explains both Nvidia's and ATI's dual card technology, SLI and Crossfire respectively.

http://www.computerforum.com/134899-official-sli-cf-thread.html

 

[tlarkin]

It is for better performance. You can actualy run multiple monitors off of one video card. It is similar to comparing a single core cpu to a dual core with twice the ram... faster

If you use them in SLI I think you can't run multiple monitors off the cards. Multiple video cards are mainly used for two reasons. 1) To run them in SLI mode, which puts both GPUs in a parallel processing mode, increasing the bandwidth of data it can crunch, and 2) to set up and use multiple displays.

 

[Kornowski]

If you use them in SLI I think you can't run multiple monitors off the cards.

nVidia have had drivers out for a while now that allow you to run SLI with multiple monitors, and it works great!

 

[Yanko693]

and are Nvida and ATI just like Intel and AMD ? they each have there fans who say theres is better?

 

[just a noob]

nvidia has had the crown of performance for a while now, so they have lots of fanboys
amd/ati just got the crown of performace(i think they lost it) they don't have so many fanboys, ati is better for crossfire, mainly because the cards are cheaper

 

[Yanko693]

alright thanks for the quick help.

 

[Kornowski]

and are Nvida and ATI just like Intel and AMD ? they each have there fans who say theres is better?

Yeah, pretty much.

nvidia has had the crown of performance for a while now, so they have lots of fanboys
amd/ati just got the crown of performace(i think they lost it) they don't have so many fanboys, ati is better for crossfire, mainly because the cards are cheaper

Yeah, CF also scales better than SLI for some reason.