I'm figuring on putting together a new system, so I'm pretty flexible to what components I can put in it. The two cards I was looking at were

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...&Sku=P450-8830 times 2 and in SLI, getting SLI ready everything, mb/ ram/ psu the works. or
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...&Sku=V261-4870

The second is obviously a better card by itself, but I was wondering if using 2 of the 8800's linked would be better performance in the long run. Cost wise, I'd be saving about $40 going with the 8800's, but with the 4870, I can disregard the SLI ready stuff and get whatever, possibly saving some clams here and there on the rest of the system.

Basically, is 2 better than 1.