Single 4Gb Video Card or 2x 2Gb Video Cards?

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I'm in the process of building a new pc. The most CPU hungry tasks that this pc will do would be photoshop editing and occasional video production. I want to have 3 monitors setup and I want to stick with an AMD based video card.

The problem is I am not sure if I should be going with a single 4GB video card to run all the monitors (2DVI + 1 DP) or two 2GB video cards (2DVI on one and 1DVI on the other). I'm wondering if running 3 monitors off a single 4GB card will be too taxing and perhaps I am better off with two 2GB cards. Or maybe I should be going with a single 8GB card?

I do have a budget of around $300 for the video card(s). The CPU is an AMD FX 8 core with 32MB ram. The 4GB video card I was looking at is http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125836
 
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If your not doing any gaming than you really don't even need 2gig card however since you are doing photoshop and video editing then you probably should look up which software support OpenCl which is supported by AMD. Google reviews to see if there are any difference in performance that being said if you do want to game a little then I would actually look at RR 390 since your budget is $300 you probably can find some on sale for around that much which much better than the 380X.
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Buy the best single card you can and run all the monitors from that.
Any dual card (SLI) solution isnt going to be the most effective use of memory. You want all that memory on one card for whatever program you are going to use.
 
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If your not doing any gaming than you really don't even need 2gig card however since you are doing photoshop and video editing then you probably should look up which software support OpenCl which is supported by AMD. Google reviews to see if there are any difference in performance that being said if you do want to game a little then I would actually look at RR 390 since your budget is $300 you probably can find some on sale for around that much which much better than the 380X.
 
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tscwol

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Thanks for the replies. I'm not looking to game. I just want to make sure that three 27" monitors will run smoothly while editing HD video or retouching photos.
 
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