crossfire or sli

stevieg · 10-06-2009, 11:48 AM

should i go for crossfire or sli (with reasons)?

linkin93 · 10-06-2009, 11:51 AM

Neither is better or worse, and most games on the market don't utilise either. Or they do, and scale badly. IMHO, Single cards are the way to go.

daisymtc · 10-06-2009, 12:26 PM

Depends on resolution of monitor. In most case, a powerful single card will do the job.

Ethan3.14159 · 10-06-2009, 12:55 PM

Crossfire tends to have better scaling than SLI. About 70% performance boost with Crossfire and a little less with SLI in synthetic benchmarks. Of course this is 2 cards. 3 cards and the performance increase drops massively.

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daisymtc Diamond Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: UK Posts: 3,918	Depends on resolution of monitor. In most case, a powerful single card will do the job.