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  • #16
    Frankly, this sounds icky. Both cards will have to do the majority of the work, since they'll both need to consider polys and lighting that originate in the "other half."
    Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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    • #17
      This almost sounds like it'd be some sort of external box that both video cards plug into, then the box itself controls the output and sends it to one monitor.... so in essence it's Surround gaming, except that rather than horizontally having three monitors, it essentially splits one monitor into two sections, a GPU per half? What's the point?

      Even if they get an extra 50% performance out of current cards (which I guess the current would be now considered X800 and 6800U?) it'd be pretty pointless until software can even be optimized for it. This just smells of problems...

      Just think if one of the Video cards happens to have bad memory, how would you figure out which one? All of a sudden there is screen corruption on the upper half, but which card controls that half and is it because of a driver bug, bad memory, bad connection with the other card.... Talk about trouble-shooting nightmare...

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