If budget is no problem at all, what video card/cards would you use out of these?

A single 260 GTX 896mb, a single 280 GTX 1gb, two 9800 GTX 512mb, or a single 9800 GX2 1gb. Again, price is no problem, just sound and compatibility(drivers). My resolution is 1280x1024 but I'm looking at getting a 22" 1600x1050 soon.|||It depends on your usage of video and/or graphics (sli or no sli), and the brand somewhat. But generally, I would go with the single 9800 GX2 1gb because it's a good card with the latest technology, and (in assuming so) you won't need sli (one card is better for a few reasons - some being: less space usage, less heat, less power usage, and everything on one board instead of the system having to use the resources on the other board when needed).|||The GTX 280 by far. It performs better than all of those other cards, even the X2 cards (and without the negative side effects of SLI rendering that those X2 cards come with)!



Edit: the X2 card is nothing but 2 cards (2 separate PCBs) under one housing. You have to run it in SLI mode and you have to have an SLI grade power supply... so when a single PCB card can beat that AND not run in SLI mode, there is only one clear winner.



Also, GTX 200 is Nvidia's newest series. The 260 is a (relatively) mid-range card, and the 280 is the top end card.



Note: PCB stands for "Printed Circuit Board". Generally, video cards are manufactured with all their chips on a single PCB.