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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.

------------------------------ I'm a git, deal with it.

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Reply to Strangestranger

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

Reply to spuddyt

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

------------------------------ I'm a git, deal with it.

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