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QOTW: Have you ever used SLI or CrossFire?

by Parm Mann on 5 July 2013, 16:30

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Multiple GPUs sure do look good, don't they?

Bragging rights don't come much better than having two, three or four high-end graphics cards in your gaming rig, and if you believe the marketing material from AMD and Nvidia, there's no better gaming experience than CrossFire or SLI.

But there are a couple of questions marks hanging over the multi-GPU experience. Scaling performance can be hit or miss and tends to vary from title to title, and then there's always the perceived issue of micro-stutter.

On the other hand, there's no denying that, with the right implementation, a couple of GPUs can deliver stonking performance at extreme resolutions with massive amounts of image quality. You wouldn't argue against a pair of Titans, would you?

Swings and roundabouts, we reckon. So for our latest question of the week, we're letting you, the readers, have the final say. Whether you're green, red, or something in between, we want to know: have you ever used SLI or CrossFire? And if so, how was your experience? Let us know in the comments below.



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I've always gone for the single card option. Always slightly below top-end. Seems like the best power/pound.
I used to have 3 way SLi (3 GTX 570's) but the middle card kept overheating. I told SCAN and they refunded me for one card.
I now have 2 way SLi.

I run 3 monitors 5760x1200 btw.
Yeap - in the first release of SLI I used 2 x voodoo 2 cards to give better performance in quake.

After that it was a high end single card for a few years before using SLI again with the 6600GT series.

Now its back to single card, but the next upgrade is going to be 2 cards at least :)
Last time I ran Crossfire was with X1900XT's(you know the dongle) Since then just always ran an ATI/AMD Flagship card. So now on a 7970
next Best Card and a SSD HDD seems like much better performance