It seems to be possible to run dual video cards without enabling SLI. However, could anyone comment about the cons and pros for running dual video cards without SLI?

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Yes, it's actually the default setting I believe, and works fine. Why would anyone want to do this? What is your goal?

The point of SLI is to get (about) twice the performance of 1 card. If you're not using SLI, you just have one card doing nothing while the other card is gaming.
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    If you run SLI, the cards will act like one, on the other hand if you run multi card without SLI, you can use each card separatelly for a specific task. Running SLI or not really depends on your goal, for gaming you probably want SLI, though some games are not compatible with it. I personally don't use SLI, because my rig is for professional purposes, and the applications I use can take advantage of each card individually. Also if you are in the rendering/editing business (or anything that uses GPU processing), you can use one card just for the monitor(s), and the other card(s) exclusively for your GPU intensive task.
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