Two Gfx cards in an MP

It was suggested to start a new topic on this. I do have a 3870 and a spare stock card for my MP. I'm getting a 2nd screen and wanted to drive the smaller screen off the stock card. But it seems two cards confuses Motion, so maybe this is not a good idea. How is Motion affected by two cards?
Thanx
Rob

Motion seems to work well with any number of graphics cards. I have four stupid nvidia 7300 cards on my machine (Apple marketing, we fell for it!). In our case, the cards are next to worthless. I have enough power to drive 8 32" Apple cinema displays but I cannot connect more than two displays to the system because FCP will fail to use most FXPlugs supplied by Motion.
AFAIK: You can sue as many cards as you want in your machines but experiment carefully with Motion and FCP when you try to run more than one monitor. You cannot run them from two cards, you can run them from a single, dual-head card.
I don't think you gain anything in Motion's performance but having two displays is grand.
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