SLI or Crossfire

nVidea has many more popular and better graphics cards out so go with SLI. you cant use 2 ATI cards in a SLI MOBO. and you cant use 2 nVidea in a Crossfire.
 
Hard to say, before the P35's I would say SLI all the way, since CrossFire boards were rare. However now CF and SLI boards are very popular, so it really depends on what graphics card is better.
 
It depend really. If u decide to get Nvidia's card then choose sli, on the other if u go with ati's card then crossfire.
 
I would personally go with SLI, considering they put the technology into the mainstream market first. But now, both are very popular. But I have been using SLI for a while, and I have never had a problem.
 
I would go with neither and wait it out. As of right now SLI or CF does not offer any significant performance increases, and in some cases, it actually runs slower with some games. Unless it has been improved in the last few months, I haven't checked up on it recently.

Nvidia writes way better drivers in my experience. ATI has pissed me off royally with their drivers, to the point where I probably won't buy their cards for a while.

Also, both major manufacturers already announced that they will be developing dual core GPU cards. So, in reality SLI or Crossfire may become a pointless technology since the dual core GPU cards will probably run better and faster and out perform something that has to run in a parallel processing mode.
 
tlarkin said:
I would go with neither and wait it out. As of right now SLI or CF does not offer any significant performance increases, and in some cases, it actually runs slower with some games. Unless it has been improved in the last few months, I haven't checked up on it recently.
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With the games out now it does improve performance, but no where near double that of a single card. Mainly in the past when SLI was very new, some games would run slower with two cards, but thats not so with the newest games out now.

I still see your point though, and unless your rich and buy two high-end cards and use them in a multi-video card configuration, theres really no point. I hate it when I hear people say they want to SLI two 7600GS's or two x1650PRO's. You are MUCh better off spending that money on a single card.
 
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With the games out now it does improve performance, but no where near double that of a single card. Mainly in the past when SLI was very new, some games would run slower with two cards, but thats not so with the newest games out now.

I still see your point though, and unless your rich and buy two high-end cards and use them in a multi-video card configuration, theres really no point. I hate it when I hear people say they want to SLI two 7600GS's or two x1650PRO's. You are MUCh better off spending that money on a single card.
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yup that was pretty much my point as well, plus I think that multi core processors is going to be the new way to go with everything.
 
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