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heya everyone, my little borther runs dual monitors but he is having issues with crashing whenever it uses its video moderately.
he has a q6600, 6GB ram, xp64, 6800 pcie & x1600 pci,
so he wants to buy a nice graphic card setup so he can run 2 or 3 cards (he just wants to be able to run the resolution and monitors and do whatever he likes)
so i was thinking two 4850's. 2x200$=400 since his budget is 400$ish for the cards. and that seems to be the price to performance deal atm.
and then getting this dfi board that does pcie 2.0 at 16x/16x
DFI LP LT X48-T2R LGA 775 Intel X48
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136046
but he may eventually get a third monitor. so i was thinking maybe 3 x 8800GT's (if 3 cards are nesisary for three monitors.) which i could get for around 130$ each so that would be 3x133$= 400$ and they would still be very decent performing cards.
EVGA 512-P3-N802-AR GeForce 8800GT Superclocked 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130319
i am still torn between using evga cards with the evga board, or just using the very slightly faster
ZOTAC ZT-88TES3P-FCP GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500006
and i was thinking id get this motherboard NV sli @ pcie2.0 16x 2.0/16x 2.0/ 16x
EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188024
in any case what are the pertinant points of using a multi monitor setup? can you use SLI or CF and still use 2 or more monitors?
or do you have to use the cards without running in SLI or CF? meaning 1 card per monitor?
if this is the case do people regularly switch back and forth from sli/cf to multi monitor and back again?
<------multi monitor newbie
thx guys!
he has a q6600, 6GB ram, xp64, 6800 pcie & x1600 pci,
so he wants to buy a nice graphic card setup so he can run 2 or 3 cards (he just wants to be able to run the resolution and monitors and do whatever he likes)
so i was thinking two 4850's. 2x200$=400 since his budget is 400$ish for the cards. and that seems to be the price to performance deal atm.
and then getting this dfi board that does pcie 2.0 at 16x/16x
DFI LP LT X48-T2R LGA 775 Intel X48
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136046
but he may eventually get a third monitor. so i was thinking maybe 3 x 8800GT's (if 3 cards are nesisary for three monitors.) which i could get for around 130$ each so that would be 3x133$= 400$ and they would still be very decent performing cards.
EVGA 512-P3-N802-AR GeForce 8800GT Superclocked 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130319
i am still torn between using evga cards with the evga board, or just using the very slightly faster
ZOTAC ZT-88TES3P-FCP GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500006
and i was thinking id get this motherboard NV sli @ pcie2.0 16x 2.0/16x 2.0/ 16x
EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188024
in any case what are the pertinant points of using a multi monitor setup? can you use SLI or CF and still use 2 or more monitors?
or do you have to use the cards without running in SLI or CF? meaning 1 card per monitor?
if this is the case do people regularly switch back and forth from sli/cf to multi monitor and back again?
<------multi monitor newbie
thx guys!