Nvidia GTX295 question

[Shade Slayer]

<p>I'm thinking about getting one of these mammoths and they have auto SLI meaning the card has 2 processors.I know EQ2 doesn't run as well with duals, so will this mean bad performance with a GTX295? If so, I may go for a GTX280 or maybe it's possible to disable one of those processors in the Nvidia drivers. Maybe some owners of the card could help. Thanks.</p>

[bluefish]

<p><cite>Shade Slayer wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I'm thinking about getting one of these mammoths and they have auto SLI meaning the card has 2 processors.I know EQ2 doesn't run as well with duals, so will this mean bad performance with a GTX295? If so, I may go for a GTX280 or maybe it's possible to disable one of those processors in the Nvidia drivers. Maybe some owners of the card could help. Thanks.</p></blockquote><p>I am not a huge fan of ATi and not sure your take of ATI, but right now you can get ( if you can find one) an ATI 5870 and that single GPU card crushes the GTX295 by a minimum of 25% in perofrmance and in some cases over 50% and it has only one GPU</p><p>also the ATI 5870 ( around 400.00 usd) is about 100.00 cheaper than a GTX295 ( around 500.00 usd - IF you can find one)</p>

[tshook]

<p>I have the 295 and have to disable one of the processors to play this game.  It will work for a bit then start getting funky, stuff wont render, and the game will crash shortly after.  You can disable one of the processors in the nvidia options menu (easy to do) and enable it for other games etc.</p><p>BTW looks friggen awesome even with one processor.</p>