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How many of you are happy with SLI?

Neil79

Neil79

Neil79

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I see a lot of posts from different people stating how bad SLI is, how it's a pain to get games to work with the set up and it is better just stick with a single card.

So whats your take on it? Surely there must be happy SLI users :p
 
When it actually works, I am very happy with it! :p
Just don't play many games that take full advantage of them but its great having the power there when I need it for the res I play at.
 
Works great in most games and when there is a problem you can just set alternative frame rendering in NVidia control panel. Heat & noise is only disadvantage unless watercooled as top card will have limited access to air and fan has to spin faster as a result. You can use SLI when needed, turn it off for older titles or use single GPU+ dedicated PhysX setting for titles like Batman. All done in NVidia control panel never had any issue with it.
 
Its not bad as such - just with the now more advanced use of DX9-11 there is a lot more stuff that can and does break SLI compatibility and there doesn't seem to be quite the same momentum to get new releases up and working with multi GPU as there used to be.

So I haven't hurried to SLI this round like I did in the past - where you could much more easily brute force it even if the drivers lacked a profile.
 
Not had an SLI issue in cover 3-4years?
I've played
Mafia 2
LoL
Dota 2
Euro truck sim
Watch dogs
Shadow of mordor
Witcher 3
TF2
Sniper ellite 2 & 3
Bioshock inifite
Company of heroes 2
Killing floor 1 & 2
Rocket league
Tomb taider

Just to name a few
Currently running 2*980 @ both 16x
Before running 2 7970
Before that 2* 570s
When I had an issue I was on 2*280 nvidia only because of ABP that AWFUL game
 
Happy when it works.

Sometimes you have to wait until Nvidia have updated drivers a few times or sometimes you have to wait for the game developers to patch the game (Hello AC:Syndicate)

Tomb raider runs SLI from the get go but only at about 75% usage of both cards, which means 4k/very high is running at 30-50fps when it should be much better.
 
I love it, havent had many issues with it over the last few years apart from some games not supporting it!
Last 3 cards I've had I have run in Sli and now wouldn't go back to just a single card.
 
Been running sli since I got my 670s' not had a single issue with it.

One thing that would be nice though when you do a driver update for some reason mine reverts to single card so I have to remember to turn it back on again. Come on nvidia it shouldnt be hard to work out the 1 screen and 2 cards should have sli on as default
 
Ditched my pair of 280x recently and went to a single GTX 970. Partly power reasons as the two R9s were drawing around 500w and the 970 is 140 ish or something. My monitor is 2560x1600 though so the 970 isn't really enough to run everything maxed out, so I'm going to wait and see what the next gen cards are like. Might just stick another 970 in if they get cheaper.
 
Currently considering moving to a 980ti. Personally feel that there's a few too many issues on launch for a lot of big titles.

In the past I've had 2x5750, 2x6870, 2x680 and now 2x970. This is the first time I've ever felt like it's becoming a bit of a chore to put up with the quirks.
 
I have two GTX580's in SLI, I run 5760x1080 (Surround over three monitors) and I am very very happy with the performance, especially given my cards are old school these days along with my i7 870.

I'd expected to struggle with later titles such as GTA V, Battlefront etc running over three monitors but, bar the occasional slight stutter (which I'm sure is down to lack of VRAM) on Battlefield 4 I'm having no issues.

If & when I eventually upgrade, I won't buy new unless something mid range and killer performance comes along, I'll most likely SLI again once 970 / 980's are down to sensible money second hand.
 
Always had problems with SLI and XFire basically because I play games that don't support it. In my opinion it should be transparent to the game i.e. the OS see's a single card and the underlying hardware takes care of it :(
 
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