Need Geeksquad support. Hardware issues

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The motherboard supports crossfire.. I want to run two video cards seperate to run 3 monitors. If I go with two video cards it puts it to pci express 8x instead of two 16x on that motherboard. I dont know if thats normal or what. When I was talking with the geeksquad today I was asking about two video cards running seperate and they said cant run more than 1 monitor. Maybe they thought I meant SLI or Crossfire.

I have 2 Dell 22's on the way. I have a 24inch dell. I just purchased vista and plan to upgrade my xp. I want to know what the best way to get this done is. I really dont want to buy a new mb, and 2 video cards. If I can run a second card like you suggested that would save me a ton.

Ok

I have dual view screens on one Video card, Geeksqued are dumb, I don't need any more proof :P

I need to check out Tom's Hardware site, I know they had some where a post about testing video cards performance wile limiting lines on cards, I know 8800 deteriorated in performance the most when limited connections, but some ATI did as good at 16 as they did at 8. so you shouldn't think about it too much...

[EDIT] Here found it XD
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/03/...ling_analysis/

I guess you do need 16x for top performance, but I doubt you will even need it for WoW, even with multiple instances, because it more memory intense then GPU.
just load it with 8Gig like in http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/15/vista_workshop/ they did and you will be fine XD

btw you also in luck because 3800 dropping in prices too