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Ok so whats the prurpose of having two video cards ?? will I even noticce a difference???? for games is all I need are video card and ramm>>>??

also dual processors?? what does that do??

Thanks

Two video cards will dramtically boost frame rates in the game. (This determines how fast the game is going. The higher frame rates the better)
Dual Cores used to be useless, but (for AMD, I dont know about Intel) they have released a download to optimise both cores.
Dual Cores are two processessors in one, and since theres a new driver out (what I was talking about) With a dual core, the game will have some bumps to the framerates per second as well.
So now, both are good to have (if you have a lot o' cash) and I'd get em.
However, be careful about reaserching the graphics card(s) you want.
an ATI x1900xt beats two 7900GTs at Oblivion, but two 7900GTs SLI beat em at Quake 4 (I think). Its all about the games you want to play and the graphic quality your interested in.

You have your game - stuff runs on the cpu - ai, physics, math, some collisions etc. it calculates a scene and passed it to the card(s).

If you have 2 cards, then you double up on bandwidth and pixel processor power, with the limitation that the power is combined at a higher level than the most optimal - i.e. in the chip. If you're pushing extremely hogh resolutions, then the doubling of fillrate and bandwidth can nearly double the frame rate.

Lets say your game wasnt desiged for dual core (in other words, it's not multithreaded - think of a thread of a series of instructions to be computed for the game). If a game is multithreaded - say the AI and physics run in threads seperate from the rest, then the AI thread can occupy the attention of one cpu core, the physics another, and the rest of the game on another core, distributing the processong power accross multiple cores.

For games that run one thread, the game puts it all on one cpu core. in a dual core or multi processor machine the other cores have nothing to do, and arn't beneficial. In a game like quake 4 which does support multiple processors, you can get a performance boost using dual core.

The thing is that most processors arn't saturated enough to as yet necessitate dual cores for gaming. The videocard and ram should be top priority. Even an awesomely powerful card like teh x1900xt appears to skip frames with 1GB of ram playing battle field 2. The reason is because all the data can't be held in ram, so it constantly swaps data to and from the harddrive - the slowest component in your system. With 2GB, it was smooth sailing.

yep.
2 GB DDR2-800. Will handle it like a breeze.

Any Dual Core (AMD&Intel) CPU's do nothing for frames when at, or over 1280x1024. The only time it helps is in very low resolutions, that hardly anyone would be playing with, with such a CPU.

It does increase your 3Dmark06' score.. which is another reason that benchmark it useless.

But now, Dual Cores from AMD have support tha blend them into one core so there should be some performance increase.

Yet there isnt. The recent driver hasnt done anything that many power users have not been doing for some time already, adding /usepmtimer line to your boot.ini.