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This is a really stupid question, but what would happen if I put my 8800 GT in one PCI-e slot and put my 3870 in the other....

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you would have two gfx cards in your system.

sorry, had to say it, AFAIK you can only use one gfx card at a time.


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a waste of power i suspect... maybe some programmer somewhere could get them to work on seperate screens or something but.... certainly beyond my experience

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perhaps running two OS's at the same time could be done, i ain't sure however.


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