I want to run dual DVI monitors with my 8800GT wth a 26" and 22" LCD's

Today, my 26" LCD arrives. My 24" goes upstairs and the 22" LCD comes downstairs to my office. I want the 26" to be my main monitor and the 22" to be my web browsing monitor for when I'm editing photos or playing games on the 26" Things like managing my windows media player via the 22" would be nice. Nvidia has support for dual monitors in thier latest video drivers. My question is wheather I lose video processng power by running two monitors. I have have Vista 64 bit and 8GB of ram to support my system. Some suggest getting a second video card, but the 8800gt is already powerful enough for me.
What do I do and what will be the best setup for my system

Try it and see what the results are. You are going to get a perfomance hit as the VGA is now doing double duty--not sure how much--testing will tell you.  What kind of budget do you have?

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