Vista - Crossfire / Dual Video Cards

Hi,

If I am not a gamer, is there any benefit to be had from having dula video cards?
I have purchased and installed a 2nd ATI Radeon X1650Pro 512MB card, but I don't see any significant performance gains.
For the $200.00 bucks, I'd really like to know, otherwise I am taking it back.

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Windows Vista Home Premium 64 Bit
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
2GB RAM
2 x 512MB ATI RAdeon X1650Pro

Take it back if you are not a gamer.

"MarkyMarc43" <MarkyMarc43.2s83b3@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> If I am not a gamer, is there any benefit to be had from having dula
> video cards?
> I have purchased and installed a 2nd ATI Radeon X1650Pro 512MB card,
> but I don't see any significant performance gains.
> For the $200.00 bucks, I'd really like to know, otherwise I am taking
> it back.
>
> ******************************
> Windows Vista Home Premium 64 Bit
> AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
> 2GB RAM
> 2 x 512MB ATI RAdeon X1650Pro
>
>
> --
> MarkyMarc43

There is no benefit for non-gamers.

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"MarkyMarc43" <MarkyMarc43.2s83b3@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
news:MarkyMarc43.2s83b3@no-mx.forums.net...
>
> Hi,
>
> If I am not a gamer, is there any benefit to be had from having dula
> video cards?
> I have purchased and installed a 2nd ATI Radeon X1650Pro 512MB card,
> but I don't see any significant performance gains.
> For the $200.00 bucks, I'd really like to know, otherwise I am taking
> it back.
>
> ******************************
> Windows Vista Home Premium 64 Bit
> AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
> 2GB RAM
> 2 x 512MB ATI RAdeon X1650Pro
>
>
> --
> MarkyMarc43

"Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> wrote in message
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> There is no benefit for non-gamers.
>
> --

Unless you want to run three or four displays. Then you wouldn't be using
Crossfire, though you would have dual video cards..

Thank you gentlemen for the response.
I will return the card this weekend.

Regards,

Windows Vista Home Premium 64 Bit
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
2GB RAM
512MB ATI RAdeon X1650Pro