how do you get the most out of 2 video cards

EidoloN

EidoloN

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anyone know any tricks...? just bought a new motherboard and have 2 nvidia 7600 gs 512mb, doesnt seem like any differences!
 
Now you see why I told someone I wasn't going to spend $300 for one particular card let alone the $600 or more for an SLI or Crossfire setup. no thsnks! You are finding out what others have already come to realize is that there is no significant gain to be seen. You simply have a spare card onhand there if one of them quits on you.
 
PC eye said:
Now you see why I told someone I wasn't going to spend $300 for one particular card let alone the $600 or more for an SLI or Crossfire setup. no thsnks! You are finding out what others have already come to realize is that there is no significant gain to be seen. You simply have a spare card onhand there if one of them quits on you.
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Thats not true it really depends on what games your playing, some can be up to 80% higher and some can be no gain at all and all in between.
 
For EidoloN I would suggest a single high end DX10 compatible model or a 7950 since there is no gain in an SLI setup being seen with whatever games are being run there. Even the newer mid range models support antiliasing and anisotropics.
 
EidoloN said:
anyone know any tricks...? just bought a new motherboard and have 2 nvidia 7600 gs 512mb, doesnt seem like any differences!
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That is because you won't see any real world differences in two GPUs, set in a parallel processing mode. Parallel processing hardly boosts performance anyways, unless you are crunching huge amounts of data (like decrypting something).

You are better off buying 1 high end card over 2 lesser or 2 high end cards even for performance. It is the same old and busted argument that gamers think RAID 0 makes their games faster, but in reality it doesn't.

If you are still with in return policy, I suggest you exchange them for one higher end card.
 
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