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Is it over kill to go with SLI on a system that is going to do a lot of graphical work such as Photoshop? &nbsp;Or MS Publisher?<br />
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2 PCIe card is &nbsp;16x &nbsp;but if you put 2 in the board, then the slots drop to 8x.<br />
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I need a system that is HELLA fast.<br />
I bought the following and have the parts IN MY HAND waiting on this thread to do the build:<br />
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MSI P6n DIamond Board &nbsp; &nbsp;(was told the 680i was VERY VERY good and stable)<br />
4 &nbsp;sticks of 1 1GB &nbsp;DDR2 &nbsp;PC2-8500. &nbsp;This is the &nbsp;Ballistix high speed ram.<br />
2 75GB WD 10k RPM Raptor Drives, SATA. &nbsp; These will be RAID Striped for performance.<br />
2 7200RPM 500GB SATA for storage.<br />
2 SLI &nbsp;XFX 6800 GTS Graphics cards<br />
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And the Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 CPU. &nbsp;3Ghz, &nbsp;4MB L2 Cache, &nbsp;1333 Mhz FSB.<br />
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I need this thing to sing... will this work? &nbsp;Should I use both video cards or just one and refund the other?
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Is it over kill to go with SLI on a system that is going to do a lot of graphical work such as Photoshop?  Or MS Publisher?


2 PCIe card is  16x  but if you put 2 in the board, then the slots drop to 8x.


I need a system that is HELLA fast.
I bought the following and have the parts IN MY HAND waiting on this thread to do the build:

MSI P6n DIamond Board    (was told the 680i was VERY VERY good and stable)
4  sticks of 1 1GB  DDR2  PC2-8500.  This is the  Ballistix high speed ram.
2 75GB WD 10k RPM Raptor Drives, SATA.   These will be RAID Striped for performance.
2 7200RPM 500GB SATA for storage.
2 SLI  XFX 6800 GTS Graphics cards

And the Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 CPU.  3Ghz,  4MB L2 Cache,  1333 Mhz FSB.

I need this thing to sing... will this work?  Should I use both video cards or just one and refund the other?

SLI and Graphics like Photoshop, a good thing?

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