Features - QOTW: Have you ever used SLI or CrossFire?

[lodore]

I have not used Crossfire or SLI yet but Yesterday I ordered a new haswell system from scan which has two way SLI 770GTX.

I will post my experience when I get my new rig.

[th3_f15t]

I dream of dual graphic cards... 3 GTX 780's... What's that bank balance? you say NO!... :'(

[bridges009]

No, never. Just one GTX 285 is good enough for me so far. It's also hot and noisy enough.

[cornel222]

always used nvidia videocards ..think theyr the most stable in drivers and games ...and most of the games are optimesed for nvidia cards (to use physx and cuda cores ), never had any problem with nvidia ....have never used sli moslty cose of the costs of another card , the mother board its a little more expensive and a biger power suply as well that support sli ...dont think il ever use sli cose i dont see the point of extra power if i use a regular 21" display and all the games run smoth on a single GPU so far

[Percy1983]

I had 2x 1950 pros, I remember selling them both and buying a 3870, made a small profit and gained performance.

Been single gpu since.

[Otherhand]

I've never seen the point. I'd just buy the best single card I can afford, every time. Aside from the fact that 2 cards in SLi does not mean twice the power, I've noticed that multi-card system owners are often the ones complaining in forums about the latest game not working for them. Why wait for a game and then wait even longer for driver fixes to accommodate a minor increase in power per £ spent?

[RussiaForever]

Apart from hybrid crossfire, no.

[minicale]

I prefer single gpu set ups with more then one you get worse frame ratings and need a bigger psu and more room and better cooling so its just easier with one gpu in my opinion.

[Kovoet]

Crossfire a couple of times and no problems with it

[MrBozack]

Never used SLI.
I have used Crossfire HD3870X2 (in the form of a dual GPU on a single PCB). Does that count?

[zugged]

Always single cards - I would rather have 1 good card than 2 cheap ones. Currently have a GTX260 and thinking about a 5850 next.

[Wholfen]

I've used SLI with two GTX260s for the last 3 years. Just recently replaced with a single MSI GTX660 OC Twin Frozer. Actually getting much better performance from the single 660 than I had from the dual 260s. Saving up to by another 660 so I can go back to SLI...

[Willzzz]

It's all about price/performance, just like buying a single card.

[Phillikon]

I had 2x GTX 480s and before that I had 2x 8800GTXs in SLi.
the only reason I don't have SLi now is the cost of my 1 Titan, Love Sli though

[sasko88]

I was using CF. But playing a games was better with one card.

[[DW]Cougho]

I had a 7950GX2 back in the day, so technically it was SLI even though it was a single 'card' (again debatable).

It was fine, I was very happy with the scaling over my 7900GT and I never experienced any microstutter - although it must be said at the time I was too busy gawping at Crysis running in 'High' settings (not very high).

I imagine things have moved on immensely since then and so I wouldn't hesitate to use a multi-GPU setup in the future although as I have a 1080p monitor my 7970 is pretty much overkill for the time being.