To SLI or not to SLI, that is the question.

[Fedaykin311]

Here's my situation.

I'm not a real hard core gamer, and I have little need for bleeding edge tech. To illustrate, I finally getting around to replacing my 4+ year old 7800GT which has up until the last 3 months or so been plenty for my gaming needs.

Thus, I've never really considered an SLI rig up to this point.

However, what I do that *is* somehwat taxing on the GPU is that I run a dual head (2x 22" WS LCDs) and I am pretty regularly playing DVDs or other videos on one screen while doing other graphically demanding tasks on the other (generally games).

I'm currently looking to get a GTX 275 (or possibly the AMD equiv). Instead of a 275, would I maybe be better off with SLI'd 260s?

 

[aka1nas]

SLI isn't going to help any of the tasks that you mentioned.

 

[Fox5]

A single graphics card could handle gaming on one screen and movie watching on the other.
You may need a cpu upgrade to keep up with both tasks though. Consider getting a quad core.

 

[masteryoda34]

Get a GTX 260. If it isn't fast enough (sounds like it will be fast enough) then get another.

 

[alcoholbob]

The less you fiddle with SLI the better. One day there may be dual-core GPUs (on the same integrated memory controller), but for now, the gains with SLI are not always consistent, or even always gains.