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kingnoob

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ok quick question

for gaming whats better ATI crossfire or Nvidia SLI ?

im building a new computer and iv never had a ati
 
youre putting too many questions in too many forums, its difficult to look at the components individually, post one thread in general hardware with your overall budget and what you want from the machine, youll get good advice with alternatives, I recomended an AM3 chip in your CPU section, and because of that ATI would be best to go with it as they support xfire but not SLi, as yet, a 4890 would be good, but as before do one post in general forum
 
GTX 260/275 sli, cheaper/same price as 4890 xfire and sli scales better in most games!
Best option would be neither sli or xfire, single card is best, eg:gtx295 or 4870x2.
 
badogblue said:
Best option would be neither sli or xfire, single card is best, eg:gtx295 or 4870x2.
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Ugh, that's very loose usage of the term "single card".

Both the 295 and X2 have the drawbacks of a multi-GPU configuration, except the need for two PCIe slots.
 
Well if you're having issues with games not working or performing properly with two separate cards, switching isn't going to help! :p
 
badogblue said:
GTX 260/275 sli, cheaper/same price as 4890 xfire and sli scales better in most games!
Best option would be neither sli or xfire, single card is best, eg:gtx295 or 4870x2.
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:confused: SLi scaling better than crossfire is news to me.

GTX260 SLi is slower than 4890 crossfire by quite a bit for around the same price.
 
Can't go wrong with either...

Tests across 15-20 games show that 260/275GTX SLI win 5-6 games, 4890 CF wins in 5-6 games and the rest they are equal within 1-2 fps. So really which is better depends on what games you play... on balance they are both as fast as each other.
 
If your building a new machine then really your choices are:

X58 which gives you SLI and CF

or CF on an intel or AMD chipset board... nForce boards are for the most part shockingly bad.

Or wait for the new stuff coming.
 
Slightly off topic, but I have always wondered, Nvidia have the better marketing strategy with "the way its meant to be played" partnership and their drivers being better suited to new games on initial release due to the links with more game developers than ATI, so how come theres much more support for xfire than SLI? Anyone know?
 
well using old socket 775 as example: P43, P45, X48 vs crappy nforce chipsets - not too many of them either
also new AM3 boards as yet have no SLI supprt, kinda understandable I guess with merger of ATI and AMd but still.........
 
Oh I see what you mean...

Thats just nvidia being their normal closed minded money grabbing selves without realising they are only hurting their own pockets ultimately.
 
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