@Hornet - Tell me about it. I suffered the same sorts of misfortune after building my previous machine. It served me well for over a decade, but didn't work out as I had planned. I built it at the time Octane had just arrived, it was the first time I'd seen anything like that so built the machine back then to facilitate its use. So I bought two GTX460 cards that had 1GB RAM each, thinking that I'd get the power of both cards, and the ability to use up to 2GB combined.

The only part I got right was the performance, it lived up expectations but I later discovered that regardless of how many cards are installed, I can only use the RAM from one at a time. So that's what I had for over a decade, and to add insult to injury, now that I just built my new machine, I discover the old one can now use out of core memory (ouch).

So I had to be content with just 1GB Video RAM for over a decade, then as soon as I built my new machine, the old one finally became capable of doing what I thought it would be capable of doing over a decade ago!