Quick question about the GTX 295

[jdraughn]

Does it act the same as a normal SLI setup where multiple displays is not supported?

I was pretty bummed when I bought a second 8800GT only to find out that not only was multiple displays not supported, but I couldin't even use the second card to run a seperate game at the same time that im running a different instance of the game on the first card. In fact, plugging a display into the second card would make the second display appear very laggy since the display was actually being rendered on the first card, then passed through the pcie bus and passed through the second card.

I was thinking about starting up WoW again and multiboxing where I play multiple accounts at the same time.

 

[evilsofa]

http://www.slizone.com/object/sli_multi_monitor.html

 

[BlueStorm]

Does it act the same as a normal SLI setup where multiple displays is not supported?

I was pretty bummed when I bought a second 8800GT only to find out that not only was multiple displays not supported, but I couldin't even use the second card to run a seperate game at the same time that im running a different instance of the game on the first card. In fact, plugging a display into the second card would make the second display appear very laggy since the display was actually being rendered on the first card, then passed through the pcie bus and passed through the second card.

I was thinking about starting up WoW again and multiboxing where I play multiple accounts at the same time.

As the above poster implied, SLI now works with multi-mon (as of 180.xx drivers).

But to answer the other part of your question, yes SLI and multi-gpu cards are the exact same thing (both ATI and NVIDIA).