I know that you can not use sli if you have two different (models) of video cards in your system, but what can you do? Can you still use the older one for physics or anything?
Ok cool, can I use it for extra screens and as a physics processor at the same time? This is really great because I know that I want to buy a new gpu when the 300 series comes out but I do not want to pay so much for a 280 if it was going to be totally useless afterwords (if I could not keep using the gpu I was just going to get a 260 to minimize the loss)
Just sell your old cards on, make a few bob unless you really want quad monitor (which to be honest, who wouldn't ) I doubt the 300 series is going to make the 280 redundant anyway, probably a wee bitty faster but not worthless and deffinitly worth holding onto
No, I actually predict that the 300 series will be a major improvement in comparison to the 200 over the top 9000s. As we know the current 200 series was not too big of an improvement but I think that the 300 will be a greater improvement than the 200 was over the last series. For one I believe that by the time that Nvidia implements GDDR5 in the new 300 series it will help to offer a bigger performance boost over the GDDR3 200s. Also the 300 series should be DX11 and thus would be able to take full advantage of the Win7 platform.
This time next year, also this was released "after" I made above post: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/memory/display/20081124071421_Hynix_Semiconductor_Introduces_7GHz_GDDR5_Memory.html
