Dual Monitor Video Card

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I am planning on buying a new computer and to save money I might just go with dual cards instead of one. I’m planning on getting Dual 1GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460 – SLI Enabled but I was wondering exactly how it worked. So far after reading I know that each card basically renders half of the screen but can anyone go into more detail?
**BTW I’m buying a Alienware comp, *good or not good?*
I am really big on multitasking things like Gaming/Videostreaming/Micro. Office/iTunes at the same time. I also need this computer to last me a WHILE because I’m definitely not rich haha. Do you guys think this graphics card will be good enough? Any recommendations?
***ALSO, does the dual cards work for everything I do? For ex. they only work together for certain games and not everything i do on my system?

Can these two cards be merged together? If not which one have better performance?

I heard rumours on the internet about some new generation card with dual gpu that may be coming out in the future,is this likely?
Really Caolan?,then I guess the guy at the computer store lied to me…

Cut through the hype and learn to evaluate your graphics cards like a pro.

I have 2 video cards and recently changed the primary to my 2nd one..
this caused a problem because now i cant logon to windows, i entered on safe mode and tried system restoring to an earlier time but the restore keeps failing
is there any way to change the primary on startup? or any other way?

Basically I want to connect 2 video cards to get more memory to run games better.

I bought a computer for 20 bucks that was better than my old computer and just needed a hard drive. So I took my old hard drive out and put it in there. I also had a Radeon 9200 128MB in my old computer, which was better than the 64MB Radeon 7500 in the one i bought.

So it came to my mind that maybe i can use a dual video card setup, not to have 2 monitors with the same display, but to use both there video RAM to have, in this case, 192MB of total video RAM. What do you guys think?
Edas, I’m sure 1.8ghz and 512MB of RAM can run better games than Hearts and Solitare. Ok, I’m not trying to run the craziest games here and I’m not a hardcore gamer, but I gave it a thought and guess it won’t workout with my motherboard. Just waiting for the day I have enough money to buy a killer laptop.

Thanks for all your answers.

I bought the Abit KN9 SLi motherboard, An AMD 64×2 4200+ AM2 processor, and an ATI X1300 pro crossfire graphics card, I found a great deal on these ATI X1300 pro cards, so i was going to buy another one. The problem is that I dont know if crossfire will work with this motherboard. Microcenter’s website stats say it will, but i have heard differently, will someone please shed some light on this subject, thank you.

To run dual monitors, do I have to have a dual head video card, or can i use two pci video cards?

I just installed two ATI Radeon HD 4850s and connected them with a Crossfire Bridge – in Catalyst Control Center it says Crossfire is enabled however when I look at the graphics adapter is says I only have 1024 mb of dedicated video memory – each card is a GB, is it just polling one of the cards??

how can I be sure Crossfire is working and that both cards are being used to render draw stuff?

I have a Dell XPS 410 but I don’t have the manual anymore so I was wondering is anyone could point me in the direction to find out if my motherboard can support dual video cards. I really don’t feel like unplugging the computer and opening it up to figure it out.