One video card per monitor?

[Ualaa]

I'd run both monitors off of the 470, but have both cards installed in the system.

[Payne]

I'd run both monitors off of the 470, but have both cards installed in the system.

That's an interesting option that I hadn't considered. If you don't mind my asking, could you explain how that would help? If no monitor is connected to the second card, and they're not in SLI (which I hear is bad for WoW anyway), what is the second card doing?

Many thanks.

[ILikeTwins]

I believe you can run non matched nvidia video cards so that one of them processes all of the physics and the main one processes all of the rest. It isn't sli since they don't match but I think it can speed up gpu processing.

I am not sure if there is anything special you need to do in order to configure it but a quick google search would probably give you any answers you needed in that regard.

[MiRai]

That's an interesting option that I hadn't considered. If you don't mind my asking, could you explain how that would help? If no monitor is connected to the second card, and they're not in SLI (which I hear is bad for WoW anyway), what is the second card doing?

Many thanks.

The 260 would be doing nothing and could either be used to hook up more monitors to your computer or could be safely
placed wherever the rest of your old computer hardware goes. By using 2 monitors on 1 card this lets you not take a
performance hit when swapping characters between screens.