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It doesn't work anything like that. Your original question is the equivalent of asking if two moped motors strapped together is better than a single car engine, and the answer is no in this case. Find some reviews for a 5450, add ~70 to 90% on top, and see if that is close to a 5870. I'm...

Haha well I should expect users up to date drivers -- especially in this forum. Excuse the incorrect assumption ;) Obviously something else is afoot here, and it's going to require cooperation from everyone to figure it out. Thanks for the compliment! I'm generally a lurker, but now that I'm...

The entire desktop is composited starting with Vista, and that definitely causes some extra strain on the card. We are dealing with pseudo 3d here -- perhaps try disabling Aero to see if that's the issue, WelshBloke.

WelshBloke, I believe the change from the old (working) generations to the new (busted) behavior with dual screens occurs because GPUs before the ATI x2xxx series used dedicated 2d hardware while everything is done in Shaders now. I may be wrong on the generation of hardware, but that'd be my...