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

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Or are you strickly a single-GPU user?

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[terriblebugger]

I've always gone for the single card option. Always slightly below top-end. Seems like the best power/pound.

[RIX]

I used to have 3 way SLi (3 GTX 570's) but the middle card kept overheating. I told SCAN and they refunded me for one card.
I now have 2 way SLi.

I run 3 monitors 5760x1200 btw.

[Lee H]

Yeap - in the first release of SLI I used 2 x voodoo 2 cards to give better performance in quake.

After that it was a high end single card for a few years before using SLI again with the 6600GT series.

Now its back to single card, but the next upgrade is going to be 2 cards at least

[INSTG8R]

Last time I ran Crossfire was with X1900XT's(you know the dongle) Since then just always ran an ATI/AMD Flagship card. So now on a 7970

[fragman]

next Best Card and a SSD HDD seems like much better performance

[Valinor]

Only ever run a single card (7970 atm), never wanted to run the risk of wanting to play a poorly or yet-to-be optimised title.

[LowMoralFibre]

I've used both. Had some trouble over the years but 99% was fixed by drivers or tweaks. It's definitely better bang for buck and drivers are improving all the time.

Having said that going single card more than likely next time.

[z-machine95]

I've always gone for the single card option. Always slightly below top-end. Seems like the best power/pound.

Yeah better one powerful card vs 2 mid card

[tekgun]

I had a couple of 4890s in CF for a while, the idea was to improve performance in ArmA2. I noticed the rise in case temps more than any performance increase so went back to a single card solution. Now I'm just running a single 7970Ghz.

[hellig]

Used to use a gtx285, and when i thought i could use the extra power, you could no longer buy a gtx 285, so alway single card, some games cant take advantage of 2 cards, so thats a hold back too.

[goldcd]

2 x 7990 (Bitcoin mining - although handily doubled up for gaming).

Ran anything at ultra settings and ridiculous FPS (also kept the room toasty warm, and required headphones to drown out the noise).
Never had any issues with Crossfire - clicked the box to turn it on, and it 'just worked'

Sold off one of them, and bluntly haven't noticed any drop other than on the FPS counter.

[AndyM95]

next Best Card and a SSD HDD seems like much better performance

Solid State Drive Hard Disk Drive? O_o

[shrekdaklown]

i myself love crossfire and sli i perfer to run to middle edge cards then spend the money on the bigger boys being on a tight budget it allows me to buy parts here and there currently i run 2 xfx dd 7850's with the snot overclocked out of them

[phil4]

Yep,

Way back had 2xVoodoo2
Also had a 7950GX2, so pseudo SLI
Now I have 2x680

In between single cards only. Haven't really had and issues or problems so its money that stopped me doing it every time.

[db87]

Yep, for quite some time.

2x Nvidia Geforce 7800GT's 256MB
2x Nvidia Geforce 7900GTO's 512MB
2x ATI Radeon HD2900PRO's 512MB (for testing only, second card was from a friend)

And currently I run two AMD Radeon HD5850's in Crossfire. All cards have been overclocked and watercooled since the 7800GT's.