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Xfire hate!?

Turb3k

Turb3k

Turb3k

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Why all the troll hate towards xfire and sli? People act like it only works 10% of the time, i dont know about others but in my life time ive had 3870 xfire - no problems, 5870 xfire - no problems, 6950 xfire - no xfire problems (card two over heated but that was my cases at fault) my friend has 6990 -no problems, and by other friend had gtx 480 sli - no problems, when i say no problems that includes no mirco stutter.

So my question is when any one asks/talks about/ considers xfire or sli setup people react like a vampire to sunlight, i guess some of which have never even owned an xfire or sli setup! Why the bad rep!? It seems simple to me, two 7970's are better than one! Two gtx 580's are better than one! Two of any card are better than one, and if u can get 7970 preformance from two 6950's for less cost and u have the mother board and psu to do it, then why not?
 
reflux said:
It's always better to buy the single fastest card that you can afford, rather than going for two cheap ones.
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But if you buy a cheaper card because you cant afford the latest and greatest, then come in to some money say 6moths later rather than remove and attempt to sell the old one, why not buy another and xfire or sli, thus increasing gpu power and keeping cost down?

Also people who sli/xfire the latest cards like say xfire 7970's can just disable xfire if a game comes out which doesnt work well with it, then turn it back on when its had a driver update, even with one 7970 running they still have the same power as the single gpu users then when the fix is out they have more power/frame rate.

It just seems to me, people go over board with how bad multi gpu setups are! They wouldnt bother with the technology if it didnt work would they? You can just see how it all started... "one guy had a few problems got annoyed, told his mate it was flawed, who told his mate, who told his mate etc etc, and now 30-40% of the pc world think its broken and doesnt work" without actually trying it them selfs.
Now im not saying it does or doesnt work for everyone i just think the problems are hyped up to seem worse than they really are by some people
 
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