Is it possible to have a Intel Conrow E6700 (when released) and nvidia SLI cards on the same system?
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Yes why not. nVIDIA SLI would be on your mother board and till then motherboard manufacturers will incorporate that technology in their motherboards. So the answer to your question is yes that's possible.
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you can't have 2 graphics card at the same time in that computer (they would confusing each other). for that purpose you need a SLI mainboard.
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most used chipset is the Northbridge NVIDIA nForce4 SLI
493195
It looks like the motherboard has an AGP 4X slot.\nA further constraint is imposed by the psu which is 250W at best (in the mini tower configuration).\nThis rules out the nVidia 6600 & 6800 and (I'm guessing - the 7800).\nThe only AGP 4X cards this leaves at my usual source (scan.co.uk) which will drive two monitors have only a single DVI connector plus a D-Sub(analogue) and TV-out.\nThe nVidia 6200 has only a 64bit memory bit rate, so I would recommend an ATI offering - I am unaware of any power problems - but do your own research!  \nGiven the AGP/power limitations - don't expect to get a card than can play the very latest games, even with the eye-candy turned off, but I do know that the 9550 would play both HL2 and Doom3 at 800x600 on my son's AMD2500+. noAA.\nI couldn't find any reference to on-board graphics on the link below, but I did notice that desktop configuration will take only a half-length card (17.65cm)... I don't think that's an issue - it's 15 cm to the back of the AGP slot - faster cards may well be bigger...\nhttp://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=174195\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814153008
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For what you are spending, you processor wont bottleneck the video card.  I would suggest that you spend that $150 on one good card rather than two very mediocre cards.  Try to go with the Nvidia 7800 series and above or the ATI 1800 series and above.  Those cards will outperform the two 7300's in SLI.
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I almost entirely agree with the previous answer.\nThe only possible thing to watch out for is the next version of Windows, dubbed Windows Vista.\nThis OS is going to come packaged with a new drawing API that uses the capabilities of your 3D card.\nThe quality of what your OS displays is going to be correlated to the specs of your 3d card.\nNvidia keeps a list of GPUs expected to work to some extent with Vista. Obviously, the more recent chips are likely to yield better rendering quality.\n\nIf you don't feel the need to always run the latest software, you don't need to worry about it.\nOtherwise, you may want to plan for the future.
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If you are looking for highest performance using multiboard, I would say Nvidia is better due to SLI. If you are looking to go with a single board, I would go with ATI Radeon. Overall, I think they are both closely matched video card. During the game, I do not think you would closely notice the difference of those two. As long as you are no using other video card from 3rd party, any one of those two should be okay.
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Generally it's not the case that a card is advertised as compatible with a list of games, but more often that a game supports a list of graphics chipsets.\nI have found \nhttp://www.tomshardware.co.uk/site/vgacharts/index.html\nuseful in determining the relative ability of graphics cards.\nEssentially, it comes down to how much you are able/willing to pay, within the constraints of which card type your mobo will support.  \nhttp://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?SubCategory=48 is useful for filtering down the list of what's generally available.\nGood Hunting!
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you'll need to buy a video card, right now you have on-board graphics...  go with a ATI or N-VIDIA card
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Assuming that you're referring to a SLI or teamed graphics cards configuration, the cards nearly double their horsepower which is most significant in graphics and games applications.  Dual-processor systems are only an advantage when the software is specifically written to use dual procs.
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Yes you can but why?  You'd have to have two AGP slots (I know of no motherboard like that) or you'd have to have two PCIe slots, newer motherboards have this but you wouldn't be able to use them in concert.  If you want the cards to work together you have to get a Crossfire ATi card or SLi nVidia card, this is not a mix and match game, it's one or the other.  But if you don't mind them functioning separately then yeah, sure, but why?  It just wouldn't make any sense.\n\nIf you have an AGP slot or PCIe slot I suppose you could install another graphics card in one of your PCI slots but again, why would you, that would make even less sense.
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Simply enough, if you have the money for it, do it. It's called SLI, Nvidia came out with it. An SLI capable motherboard will have 2 pci-express slots, in which you can put 2 video cards and connect them with a bridge (DON'T get the ones that claim to work without a bridge, through software, they're not nearly as good) Even if you don't want to spend the money right now, I suggest still getting an SLI capable motherboard and one SLI capable video card. You can always use just one for now and get another later, if you do.\n\nEdit: Guys, we're not talking about have 2 monitors, we're talking about using two video cards in tandem, for increased performance in graphics-heavy things, games especially. It's called SLI, look it up.
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That motherboard supports Crossfire by ATI and a 6800GS is an Nvidia card, so no I would say not
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Typically, you can't and wouldn't want to.\n\nThe GPU (graphics processing unit) is using a portion of main memory.  This is less efficient than having its own of course.  However, there's nothing you can do for a laptop.  If you're low on system memory then just add more.
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Yes, that's basically correct.  A few years back (probably not applicable in the situation that you're talking about), ATI cards could work with some special drivers on a VIA motherboard.\n\nhttp://www.vr-zone.com/?i=1552\n\nThere's another article that I don't really understand here about another patch that doesn't seem to be working anymore but might have at one point in time.  I don't have the technical knowledge to figure out the true meaning, though: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1070\n\nThe 975X supports both, so we'll probably move towards that as time goes on: http://www.theregister.com/2005/09/13/intel_975x_crossfire_sli/
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You can't on any motherboards i've ever heard of & i don't know why you'd want to either.\n\nYou can get motherboards which can take 2 processors (dual core) & 2 graphics cards (dual core) though
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Only if you are using on board graphics. If you have a separate video card you don't need it.\n\nKar