Should I SLI for crysis?

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After a disappointing weekend playing the crysis demo on very high settings at 12FPS with 4XAA and spending hours finding which where the best settings to turn down, one though was left in my head, should I buy another GTX?

Would this help my FPS as I could pick one up for around £250 (used).

I would be running it on a P5B-deluxe so I will be running 2 lots of 8X PCI-E so is there any point?

Also will my PSU be up to the task, OCZ Gamexstream 600W?
 
I may be misinformed, but unless you are running at stupidly high resolutions, SLi won't be of much benefit. I probably am misinformed.

I'd sell your GTX and buy two of the new GT's if you are going to SLi.
 
Same thoughts here, the GTS isn't up to task so I was thinking of grabbing either:

a) another one
b) selling it and pluck 2 GTs to replace

C'mon 2pm...
 
I was thinking the same thing Loowie. But I have read many people's posts with SLI GTX who say they still are not able to play on max settings either.

So I am not spending £300 to get a boost of 5 FPS.

Anyone with 8800 GTX SLI tested the difference/gain between 1 and 2 cards?

Info would be greatly appreciated :)
 
Id wait till the 9800GTX comes out because most likely it will eat two GTs in sli alive for dinner.
 
Well, either SLI works or it doesn't but I gain only a measly 6fps from it ;)

I don't like what's going on, it's a demonstration of a product you can buy, so why do they demonstrate things it cannot do?

Like Quad core support and SLI?
EEeeeh!
 
SLi doesn't work at all in the demo, nVidia confirmed it (read the [H] review).

It'll be added later.
 
You'd be better of buying an 8800 Ultra or nothin at all. If you were expecting to run this on very high with AA then you will be sorely disappointed. The game still looks good with some things tuned down slightly, and its AA that really kills it. So I say no, don't SLi, put up with having some sliders turned down for a while and look at the next-gen graphics cards, eg GeForce 9 series.
 
gamer_boy said:
You'd be better of buying an 8800 Ultra or nothin at all. If you were expecting to run this on very high with AA then you will be sorely disappointed. The game still looks good with some things tuned down slightly, and its AA that really kills it. So I say no, don't SLi, put up with having some sliders turned down for a while and look at the next-gen graphics cards, eg GeForce 9 series.
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I can overclock my gtx to ultra speeds give or take, SLI GTX's should kill a single ultra.

Currently we dont have any release dates for the next gen 9800, for all we know it could be summer next year!
 
Are you really that bothered by having some sliders slightly turned down that you'll spend another £300? That is the question that needs to be asked. Especially at the moment, where SLi performance in Crysis is unknown. At least wait to see what performance comparisons say.
 
Rapacious said:
I'd sell your GTX and buy two of the new GT's if you are going to SLi.
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Except that's gonna cost more and the GT has a larger performance drop when using AA. :confused:

Also wait for the retail game and again 4xAA is asking a bit much if you ask me, with Very High that is, I can manage about 17-22 fps on average with 2x but 4x sends me into the <14 regions. (Though I was using the config on XP Dx9) Single GTX here, 1680x1050.
 
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