2 cards

[zanatos]

What are the benifits of having two cards?
Is worth getting two cards if you don't have 2 monitors?

 

[Geoff]

Is worth getting two cards if you don't have 2 monitors?

There is absolutely no reason to if you only have 1 monitor.

Now if you're talking about having two video cards in SLI or Crossfire, thats different. With two or more SLI/Crossfire ready video cards, you can connect them together so both cards perform about half the work, so theoretically you should get twice the performance with two cards over one. However it doesnt perform that well, so you may have around 30-50% improvement (more or less) depending on the game/program your using.

 

[zanatos]

There is absolutely no reason to if you only have 1 monitor.

Now if you're talking about having two video cards in SLI or Crossfire, thats different. With two or more SLI/Crossfire ready video cards, you can connect them together so both cards perform about half the work, so theoretically you should get twice the performance with two cards over one. However it doesnt perform that well, so you may have around 30-50% improvement (more or less) depending on the game/program your using.

does it perform better if running on a dual core system, lets x2 3800?

 

[sniperchang]

does it perform better if running on a dual core system, lets x2 3800?

Once again, depends what program your running.

You could have a CPU intessive program, wich CPU performance is good, but you wouldn't se any diferent with different graphics card, or say a game that doesn't use much the CPU, but mostly graphics, wich then would be better to have a good graphics performance and you would notice the differents with a crappier CPU.

The thing about dual-core CPU is that games must support it for it to be affective. You can still play non dual-core supporting games, but it would get much performance from the one-core of the CPU. However, dual-core is future proof, future games will be dual-core supported (some already are).

Just go with what you can afford, and try to balance it out. Try to get nice but not overpriced parts. Your best bet is to try to find the best performance-to-price ratio.

 

[zanatos]

Alright cool good advice THx!