Ive been lookin around at different websites that sell custom computers. One thing i was wondering, would I be better off getting a card like a 768mb one, or would I get better performance with like 2 vid cards that are like 256?
From what I gather, you are looking to use 2 video cards in the SLI configuration vs using one really good video card. In my personal opinion, i would go w/ one good video card. Games are only beginning to take advantage of SLI. Furthermore, from a pure memory standpoint, Im pretty sure that if you're using SLI configuration, the amount of video memory available is still only the amount of video memory available on one of the video cards (i think its the one w/ the lowest memory). So, in example, if your using two video cards where one has 512MB and the other 256 MB, you wouldn't get 768MB total VRAM, but instead only 256MB of VRAB that is split across both cards.
From what I gather, you are looking to use 2 video cards in the SLI configuration vs using one really good video card. In my personal opinion, i would go w/ one good video card. Games are only beginning to take advantage of SLI. Furthermore, from a pure memory standpoint, Im pretty sure that if you're using SLI configuration, the amount of video memory available is still only the amount of video memory available on one of the video cards (i think its the one w/ the lowest memory). So, in example, if your using two video cards where one has 512MB and the other 256 MB, you wouldn't get 768MB total VRAM, but instead only 256MB of VRAB that is split across both cards. gautham
While that's true, the ram available is only as much as one of the cards has, you shouldn't be SLIing two cards with different amounts of memory...
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