SLI or Crossfire

[dousland70]

Hi all

Im thinking about running two graphics cards, but cant decide whether to go for 2 x 3870x2 in crossfire ( when drivers are available ) or wait and run 2 x 9800GTX in sli ? Im looking to play top games
like crysis at 1920 x 1200

My spec currently :

Q6600
Asus P5K-E
4GB Geil 6400 ram
WD Caviar 500gb WD5000AAKS
OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB GDDR3
Vista Ultimate 32bit
Samsung SM-245B 24" Widescreen 1920 x 1200

I know i will have to upgrade psu and motherboard in any case as i believe my
mobo's 2nd PCIE GPU slot is only x8 in crossfire

Would love to hear peoples pro's and cons for each

 

[dousland70]

Thanks for posting guys , its all very helpful

 

[dousland70]

Hmmm maybe i should wait till later this year for the next gen , if i start thinking with my head it proberbly dosent make a lot of sense to pay more for a card that im not gonna see much improvement on graphics