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SLI & Crossfire

ozzyDe

ozzyDe

ozzyDe

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With the advancements being made with graphic card technology will there really be a place for SLI & Crossfire all your getting is the GPU you don’t have use of the extra memory or any of the other cards features and these days people have access to affordable and powerful graphic cards so what is the future of SLI & Crossfire. And I ask this question because I use 2 OCUK 7900gs cards SLI



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ozzyDe said:
so what is the point of SLI & Crossfire.
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SLI/crossfire is needed for High res monitors like dell 30" etc
And even 24" 1920x1200 monitors could make use of SLI / crossfire on some games..specially if you like to use high AA settings
 
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For an upgrade maybe, people might need a little more power and a cheap way could be to put in a 2nd card as it all probably half the price that what you oringinaly payed for it.
 
they will over come that as things progress they have to thats what they do is
advance in technology if they didn’t we would all still be using Banshess or Savage 4
They have always tried to get better res and you can only plug 1 monitor in with SLI but if I turned my SLI of I can plug 4 monitors into my cards. With AMD & ATI and Nvida,Intel quad core processors
high res can only go so far the next step from there is hologram images or something. we can only wait and see
 
and I ask every one of you Would you go and buy a second card or wait keep the money and see what comes next, just look how fast these cards are getting and its happening so fast, next year your cards won’t be the best because they will have made advancements’ and bring out even better ones.
I did buy the second card and lost out on faster cards bye 2 months ATI came out with new cards Nvidia then came out with the 8000 series, each 7900gs cost me £125 so I had £250+ what can I get now for 250 which will score more in 3dmark than my 2 SLI OCUK7900gs, last card was a 6600gt so it was a big diffence for me had I am happy with the SLI but where is it future
 
ozzyDe said:
and I ask every one of you Would you go and buy a second card or wait keep the money and see what comes next,
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well im buying a second 2600xt card . its a cheap way of getting a performance boost. it'll keep the games running well till about late 2008 when ati beings out the r7xx cards then maybe upgrade....
 
which technology is better or gives more performance SLI or crossfire using the top range nvidia and ATI cards.
How do you Choose between the to diffrent technologys
My brother is changing over to c2d from 939 but what graphic's to go with as that Dictates what motherboards to look at.
SLI or Crossfire motherboard which is the better one to go for.


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Crossfire is probably the best technology wise but i still think 2 ultras will blow
2900s out of the water. Crossfire definately scales better but atm nvidia
have the power gpu wise.
 
Also i may be wrong but i think i read somewhere that Crossfire works in all/most games and doesnt have to have the game coded to enable crossfire where SLI has to have the game coded for it so probably theirs more games taking advantage of CF than SLI.
 
Wow that graph shows almost double the performance didnt expect that, although 8800 series have been out months longer than the 2900xt and the 2900xt's are cheaper.
 
gareth170 said:
does it run the same as a game with a SLI mode in it
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I've never seen a game with an SLI option. It's all done in the drivers, when Nvidia add SLI support for a game to their drivers all it's doing is adding a predefined profile for a specific game.

Jokester
 
Jokester said:
I've never seen a game with an SLI option. It's all done in the drivers, when Nvidia add SLI support for a game to their drivers all it's doing is adding a predefined profile for a specific game.

Jokester
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in some games there is a muitigpu option.. like in Lost Planet Extreme Condition
 
gareth170 said:
but thats only one game..

as truebluecfc said SLI doesn't work in all games.. Crossfire does work in all games
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:eek: One game :confused:

There more then one game tested with SLI & crossfire in that review...

The follwing games where tested
F.E.A.R. – Direct3D
Oblivion Mountains HDR
Oblivion Foliage HDR
HDR+AA: Oblivion Mountains
HDR+AA: Oblivion Foliage
Call of Duty 2 – Direct3D
Half-Life 2 Lost Coast – Direct3D
Company of Heroes – Direct3D
Quake 4 – OpenGL
STALKER – Direct3D
Far Cry – Direct3D
DX10: Company of Heroes
DX10: Call of Juarez Performance demo



Plus you can make your own SLI profiles for games that don't support SLI as default..(Or i know you could do this back in the 7800gtx days went i use to have my own SLI setup with a pair of 7800gtx cards..)
Edit:Just notice Jokester already answered this..
 
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