Rammstein11
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Just wondering...why do a lot of people have two video cards? Is that used for two monitors or for better gaming?
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Two video cards
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Dangman
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Both.
Crossfire (using two ATI cards of the same family) and SLI (Using two Nvidia cards of the same family) allows for better gaming performance at higher resolutions.
Dual video cards allow you to use multiple monitors. You can use totally different video cards for just a multi-monitor setup but not cannot get the added performance that Crossfire and SLI provides. However, Crossfire allows you to use multiple monitors. SLI does not.
You can use Crossfire on Intel and AMD chipsets but you need an Nvidia chipset motherboard in order to use SLI. Nvidia chipset motherboards do not support Crossfire.
Crossfire (using two ATI cards of the same family) and SLI (Using two Nvidia cards of the same family) allows for better gaming performance at higher resolutions.
Dual video cards allow you to use multiple monitors. You can use totally different video cards for just a multi-monitor setup but not cannot get the added performance that Crossfire and SLI provides. However, Crossfire allows you to use multiple monitors. SLI does not.
You can use Crossfire on Intel and AMD chipsets but you need an Nvidia chipset motherboard in order to use SLI. Nvidia chipset motherboards do not support Crossfire.