Dual card question

[romeo11523]

I just bought an 8800 gts 640mb without really looking at things, ooops! I need another card for my third monitor, would I be better to pair the gts with an 8800 gt or another gts?

Thanks,
Ryan

 

[haadij404]

Well getting another 8800 just for a third monitor would be waste of money because if you did enable SLI, only one monitor would work.

What you should do is buy a cheap PCI gfx card just for the 3rd monitor.

 

[romeo11523]

So the second card wouldn't help performance?

Thanks,
Ryan

 

[Ragenrok]

if your trying to play games on all 3 monitors no it wouldn't because to display mulitple monitors off different cards you cannot have SLI on so you loose all speed bonus of having 2 cards.

If you only want 3 monitors for normal stuff but want to play game son just 1 screen then all you ahve to do is just enable SLI when you wish to game to get the speed bonus, and then turn it off when your not gaming.

 

[romeo11523]

I'm wondering if I was too quick to jump and buy the gts, I feel buyers remorse from paying $360 for it and not the $300 for the 8800gt. Why is the GTS more expensive?

Thanks,
Ryan