I want to buy a computers with the dual 8800GTX cards in them. Falcon North West says you cant run dual monitors in SLI mode and that I would have to disable the SLI mode to run 2 monitors (one for main panel and the second for the throttle quad and FMC) and use one for each monitor. Dell says with the same cards in SLI mode I can have 2 monitors working as described above.Who is right???

Hi,I think this will answer your question.http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/05/1..._sli_pt2/2.htmlMike

You can run 3 monitors with a tripplehead2go and an SLI setup. Infact, @ 3840x1024 you may see a performance advantage in doing so, however I have my doubts because I already peg my locked FPS the world over in FS9 with 1 8800gtx @ 3840x1024. I'm probably still going to get the 2nd 88gtx eventually just because I play other games that actually can use it, and I really need the 800fps. :)

I've read quite a few queries why SLI doesn't allow more than one monitor to be used and always wonder why it isn't obvious to people...SLI, i.e. 2 or more GPUs is used to get the combined power of those cards. Why would you want to connect two GPUs together to get the most processing power so that the combined power is then split back out again to two monitors? Just connect a monitor to each of the cards on their own and run them in multi monitor mode.That's why SLI only outputs to one monitor, to do otherwise would be to totally negate the reason for running them together in the first place.To answer the original question, Falcon is correct, Dell is wrong.@Banks and Mike, have either of you had anuy issues with your 680i based boards? e.g. data corruption, the PS2 keyboard issue, memory failing etc.?

I'm only following the memory failure issue as there is a 400 post thread on the evga forums trying to come up with a cause. Other then that I really can't complain....I am having stability issues but that is because my bios isn't tweaked for my speed...need to find time to switch variables one by one for my most stable settings. I am running my mem voltage lower than most with my setup till they can come out with a reason why all the memory is going dead.

Hi, I have been around the horn on this subject, I could never run multiple monitors in sli mode, I only use my comp. for flight simming so sli never was an issue. I run three monitors on my system. two monitors on a nvidia 7600 card, and one monitor on a nvidia 6600 card. you must first set the mother board for a single card, and then connect the cards together as if you were going to use sli. works fine.

I guess I could run 1 24" monitor in SLI mode and keep the throttles and FMC on that panel, but it was nice tomove the FMC and throttles and ATC text over to the second monitor. I'll have to compare the performance with 1 monitor in SLI mode and 2 in non-SLI mode with the dual 8800GTX.Thanks Forum again for your insight in clearing up a computer issue for a "computer dummy" pilot.

>Hi, I have been around the horn on this subject, I could>never run multiple monitors in sli mode, That's by design, see above...