Is there any way to get around this if a game doesn't support the use of SLI? I just bought a GTX 560 Ti, and I was thinking if I should get a 750w XFX PSU to support 2 560 cards, but I'm not so sure now I have heard about compatibility issues with some games.
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SLI Incompatibility
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Oh, I realise that most new games will support it I was just worried about games from back in the day that wouldn't support it. Deus Ex, Thief, Baldur's Gate, System Shock 2 etc. Mostly stuff from the 90s and early 2000s although I realise that SLI will support games from today as a lot of people have dual cards.
I understand that the 560 will kill most games, but all I was wondering was whether there were other compatibility issues with games that don't like to run with 2 cards. I was looking at an SLI compatible list and a lot of older games weren't on there which made me think that there were software constrictions that were incompatible with running two cards.
That SLI setup is an absolute beast. A single card is good enough for most games but two is mindblowing. Why buy an enthusiast single £500 card when you can have that for less than £400?Yeah, graphics card's market moves quickly. Although I can't imagine what it would have been like 8 years ago when you KNEW you would have to upgrade soon as graphics were moving forward considerably. Although these days it is hard to see where it will be pushed next, 3D is a possibility and you will have to upgrade a card for that but I imagine you can hold on-to a card for a pretty long time nowadays, especially with SLI & Crossfire.