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

[AJRDLawrence]

Many moons ago I took my GeForce 7800 GT over to a mates house to 2 way SLI with his to experience F.E.A.R. in all of it's glory.

I didn't SLI again until 7 years later I bought a second hand GeForce GTX 560 Ti to go with my original new card. Most games worked significantly better with SLI, in particular I was able to get a steady 1080p60 on Dragon Age II. Rage only seemed to work with a single GPU though and I still couldn't really run Battlefield 3 on 1080p Ultra as my 1Gb VRAM was the real limitation, which wasn't helped by not being added to the total available memory but mirrored.

I'd be quite tempted to SLI a pair of GeForce GTX 760 somewhat soon as I could do with 2Gb of VRAm and some extra oomph, but power consumption is an issue for me as I really want to keep the electricity bills down so it may not be the best option for me.

My motherboard came with Lucid Virtu Green which didn't really impress me that much and introduced several compatibility issues but Lucid Virtu MVP 2 hybrid SLI/CrossFire is an interesting concept I'd really like to try, but it is incompatible with SLI/CrossFire, which means I'd have to get a half decent single discrete GPU solution to make full use of it, which means I'd probably be better off with a GeForce GTX 770.

I've not used crossfire yet though - I'm not an nVidia fanboy or anything, I've just not seen an ATI/AMD card that has interested me for some time and sadly for them their pretty amazing free games bundle hasn't been enough to change that. Never say never though!

[stanonwheels]

I had crossfire-d 5870s last year. Great in a few games, but got gradually buggier as driver support seemed to slowly get worse. Sticking with single for now, mostly because I only run 1920x1080 - my 660Ti handles everything I can throw at it happily.

[Kecman]

Sticking to single card solutions for now, because of the budget (witch is very low). I've a GTS 450 1GB and it handles everything so far in FULL HD. I never bought 2 or 3 cards because of the extra costs. You have to buy at least one graphics card more, a motherboard that support SLI/Crossfire, a bigger PSU. My next rig will also be with single graphics card, but with a support for SLI, so I could add one more card if the performance drops down, if I can buy an identical card at that time...

[ALIAKSANDR]

I never used the SLI and Crossfire, But I want to try to spark A8 6600 video card, ATI (only while not decided yet if it's worth ).

[ConnorLowe]

Never used SLI or CrossFire but I am definitely interested in moving over to one of them. Only problem is the amount of cash it may involve!

[scaryjim]

Curiously, following my 7750 dropping out on me at the weekend (for no apparent reason, and seems to be working now ) I've stuck my old 3470 in my 785G motherboard as an interim, which automatically enables Hybrid Crossfire as long as you have the onboard graphics enabled too - so yes, I'm currently running the awesome crossfire combination of 3470+HD4200 @ 750MHz.

Interestingly, scaling in 3DMark is close to 100% from that combination. Partly to do with the sideport memory available to the IGP, I think (the HD4200 @ 800MHz is actually faster than the dedicated 3470 ).

[csung]

Nope still running my 9800gt!

[SOOMRO]

I never used one because i think "A Big Monster IsBetterr Than 2 Small'

[Saracen]

Or are you strickly a single-GPU user?

Single GPU.

I've had some expensive graphics cards (£1000+) in the past, for workstation purposes, but never needed SLI or Crossfire.