SLI and Crossfire

[simontompkins]

Has anyone actually upgraded from a single GPU. I'm wondering how many people bought one GPU and then bought the same card. Don't GPU's just get faster or you just buy two at a time

[ZaO]

There's plenty of people that run CF/SLI setups yeh. It can be more cost effective to get a second GPU than upgrading to a better single GPU. There are issues that come with multi GPU setups though - Cooling issues & extra power consumption being the main ones. Also some games don't work well with CF/SLI so you don't get the benefit of the second card. Whether it's worth doing or not is very specific to your situation. You thinking of doing it?

[jimbouk]

Unless you are buying at the top end of the market for maximum performance then it's usually a 2 step process. Buy one GPU now that gives you good performance, then buy another later when the price drops and your in game performance on newer titles is slowing.

Crossfire / SLI performance is a lot better now that it was (pretty much 2x the performance in some cases) but their can be issues. Power consumption is getting better on cards as well. I've been on MATX motherboards for a while now so dual graphics hasn't been an option for me really.