Maxing a system for online gaming

I have read that online games like Everquest and Dungeons & Dragons Online
have such superior graphics capabilities that no home-based desktop can even
hope to render.  So naturally I want to.  

What are some of the best graphics cards & systems out there, and where can
I get them that run like a cheetah out of the box?  I am not looking to
liquid-cool anything or spend more than an hour swapping out cards, etc.  

Thanks in advance ~MX

Look into the nVidia SLI cards....if you have a motherboard that will support 2
of the cards, run them in SLI and watch it hum...

 

--R

How much trouble is it to just slap in another video card and get it to share
the load?

Not easy.  For example, XP wants identical cards for the least problem.  There
are some who have made it work with different models, but it's probably not
worth the time,

MarauderX:

I have read that online games like Everquest and Dungeons & Dragons Online
have such superior graphics capabilities that no home-based desktop can even
hope to render.  So naturally I want to.  



 

That would be marketting suicide if it didn't run on all but the best, look at
games of old that required the very best and they've pretty much all flopped (eg
Giants Citizen Kubuoto at the time it needed a 500MHZ system with at least a
16mb graphics card, doesn't sound like much but it pretty much sunk it)