Quote Originally Posted by 'Negative1',index.php?page=Thread&postID=61349#pos t61349
Quote Originally Posted by 'Knytestorme',index.php?page=Thread&postID=60832#p ost60832
More ram first as each client requires ~400Mb to run so with 2Gb you'll be hitting swapping fairly quickly. No need to really upgrade to vista 64, yes you'll only see 3.5Gb of ram max under xp but it is still workable, only need vista if you really want to upgrade it.
Currently I'm running 2gb and with 5 copies of wow open I am only using ~750MB. However my clones are at very low res 4x on one 23inch LCD and main on another 23 inch. Thus my main uses 450 or so MB's and the rest only about ~80-90 a piece. Also I run xp and unless your wanting really good performance from your clone windows you shouldn't need >3.5 Gb

Quote Originally Posted by 'OzPhoenix',index.php?page=Thread&postID=61012#pos t61012
Since XP doesn't handle multi-view properly(only horizontal/vertical span and clone), I'm wondering why then if you're using XP would you want a second card at all, unless you can span a desktop using two monitors connected to two different physical cards (which I likewise think XP can't do).
I'm no pro with XP or computers in general but I am running dual 9800GTX's on two 23 inch LCD's each connected to a separate card on XP. Which took no special configuration on my part maybe 15 minutes setup with NVidia's video manager.
Heya Negative,

I was referring specifically though to XP's problems in handling dual-view multi-monitor mode, that is, two independent desktops, as opposed to horizontal span, which is just one desktop stretched across the two monitors.

From my research dual-view cripples the performance seen on the second monitor. Since I don't think you can horizontally span the desktop across multiple physical graphics cards (correct me if I'm wrong here), and SLI (and presumably Crossfire also) disables multi-monitor mode, then your only option in XP (32 anyway) is to horizontally span a single desktop across two monitors on a single graphics card. That is, there's no benefit from SLI / Crossfire for a single-PC multiboxer and hence no benefit to be gained from a second graphics card.

If anyone can find fault in my reasoning I'd be very interested to hear about it, because I'm currently respeccing my main gaming rig, and given my reasoning above, I intend on only a single graphics card for it.