also sometimes in the device manager, under display adapters I'll see 2 Geforce 9800GX2 and sometimes only 1. This also coincides with sometimes not being able to choose the multi-GPU configuration...the optiion isn't even there. I just don't understnad what to do...Could the card not be attached well or is this normal for the 9800GX2?

Thanks again

K so I recently got an alienware with this card and I am really confused. They advertise 1Gb dedicated memory but my computer tells me it only has 512Mb. Is this right? I also read that the 9800GX2 does not perform well with antialiasing turned on. Is that true or have they fixed that now? and if so do you need to download drivers or would they do that at the factory? last thing is that the multi GPU is "recommended" for this card I think. Why? and for some reason I can't seem to access it sometimes in my Nvidia control panel. Sometimes its there and sometimes its not it doesnt seem to be picking up the 2nd part of the graphics card sometimes

Thanks for any replys

I don't know where else to go. I recently got an alienware with the geforce 9800GX2. In device manager I only see 1 shouldn't there be 2? and I dont even see a way to turn from single GPU to a Multi-GPU. WHen I first started I changed it somehow then tried to download some drivers and went back to some **** VGA standard card so I did a system recovery/restore to put it back to factory settings.

Now I only see one geforce 9800 GX@ under display drivers and I can't figure out how to do the Multi-GPU setting. Wouldn't that be better since the 9800 GX2 is dual 512 cards? If someone could give me a step by step process to turn this on I would be extremely thankful.