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are you still required to get the exact same card or for example can you sli' 2 560's together from different makers?
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Sith_Mauler posted:
are you still required to get the exact same card or for example can you sli' 2 560's together from different makers?
you can get them from 2 different makers but they have to be the same model and same ram amount....overclock doesn't matter
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a pny gtx560 with 1gb ram would SLI with a MSI gtx560 with 1 GB ram
a MSI gtx560 with 1 GB ram would not SLI with a MSI gtx560 with 2GB ram
a gtx560 would not SLI with any gtx560TI
a gtx560TI will NOT SLI with a gtx560TI 448 core
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Only dumb people buy SLI.Don't waste your money.
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I had sli once and I'll never do it again. Most of the games I wanted to play did not work with sli and I spent most of my time with one turned off.
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-Mithan- posted:
Only dumb people buy SLI.Don't waste your money.
no dumb people on these boards 
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Terminius_Est posted:
I had sli once and I'll never do it again. Most of the games I wanted to play did not work with sli and I spent most of my time with one turned off.
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What about Crossfire? 
Haven't had any problems there except for Blacks Ops, except that game wasn't ported over well.
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What about Crossfire?
Haven't had any problems there except for Blacks Ops, except that game wasn't ported over well.
unless you are doing an SLI or Crossfire of the best card out there, the cost of buying two cards easily is defeated by buying one card for the price you'd pay for two that's FAR better.
as in, if you buy two $250 cards, you might as well spend $500 on one card that will out perform the crossfire/SLI configuration due to the percentage of loss you get on the second card.
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I have two GTX 580 in SLI and I have no complaints
I game at 2560 x 1600 though
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SLI by many accounts that I've read is usually not worth the cost and fuss for the amount of performance gain which is generally about 25%. Granted if you're running a big monitor at high res, this might be the solution you require.
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you can play any game with high res and maxxed graphics with one card.
i would just buy higher end card (300-400 range) and not worry about the mess that is SLI gaming.
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Jezza_Belle posted:
RRwho37_2000 posted:
What about Crossfire?
Haven't had any problems there except for Blacks Ops, except that game wasn't ported over well.
unless you are doing an SLI or Crossfire of the best card out there, the cost of buying two cards easily is defeated by buying one card for the price you'd pay for two that's FAR better.
as in, if you buy two $250 cards, you might as well spend $500 on one card that will out perform the crossfire/SLI configuration due to the percentage of loss you get on the second card.
SLI has benefits for people with less money to spend....
it's about the same to buy one 570 now as it is for two 560ti's....and it is better to buy one 570 but 2 years down the road that 570 isn't going to cut it....SLI provides the benefit of being able to buy an outdated or used model for a fraction of the cost of whatever new card comes out and get roughly the same performance
there are tradeoffs no doubt like power consumption....heat build up....some games not supporting SLI...microstuttering.....etc .......but that stuff is offset if you are on a budget later in the life of the computer and just trying to get some more play out of it
SLIing later in a computer's life can save you 25% overall and 50-75% over a new card purchase...and add years to the computers functional life
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Do not post on that computer anymore, it is watching! 
I bet the gubment and sopa have infected your machine. Move to dumbfookastan now!!! 
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I always buy the best single card I can afford when a new generation is rolled out and then buy another of them 2 generations down the line for peanuts the generation after that I start the cycle again.
It's a good option for cheaply increasing performance of an older system, a bad one to buy two at once imo.
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