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Is SLI really that much better than Crossfire?
Has anyone been lucky enough to try both? Any downfalls to Crossfire. Ive read a lot of reviews and the benchmarks seem pretty much even, except the ati cards seem a bit more expensive.
I can get a really good deal on an intel ddr3 board, but it only uses crossfire, so i wanted to know if i would notice a difference between the Geforce 8800gtx and the equivalent ati card?
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I dont think there is an equivalent ATI card to a GTX. nVidia's 8800 series boards have dominated the market for a very long time.
as for the motherboard, its sort of a double edged sword. The intel chipset motherboards are better all around, but only support crossfire. The nVidia boards have overclocking issues, not to mention terrible raid controllers, yet they support nVidia SLI.
I was recently looking to build a new PC and came to the conclusion that Id be better off building it around an x38 or x48 chipset motherboard and not worry about SLI or Crossfire. I really dislike ATI boards, and Im sure if you visited tomshardwares forums you'll understand why a lot of people are not favoring ATI lately. So I decided to buy the X38, use DDR2 1066 to save some money and a single nVidia board solution.
as for the Crossfire and SLI, I only have a 22" monitor so an 8800 GTS (G92) is about all the power this thing needs for the next year or so. It has 128 stream processors like a GTX does and is about $220
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A 3870 X2 performs roughly equal to an 8800GTX. Pretty sure the 3870X2 is a bit more expensive than an 8800GTX, but if you have more than 2 PCI-Express slots you can can crossfire 2 3870s for about $340.
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I use an 8800 GTS, but honestly instead of buying an expensive 300-400 dollar Nvidia card id rather get 2 HD 3870's in Crossfire.
Also SLI and Crossfire are pretty much the same, I have friends using Crossfire and its amazing really.
You can compare HD 3870's in Crossfire to maybe 8800 GT's in SLI mode. Check some graphs etc nd see for yourself, im not sure how they compare though.
lol... 3870 crossfire can rock the house and pwn anything else in some tests and games... but in some others they get smoked even by a lonely 8800 gtx
Biggest downfall to crossfire is ATI dropped support for it in XP. Also not many games add crossfire support because Nvidia pays the developers not to. Crossfire scales better then SLI though.
crossfire is better than any 8800 in sli, new 9600-9800 sli improved a lot and since cards are better it is better,
9600gt in sli is best performance for your money right now
did you just say the 9600 is better than an 8800?
you should get a towel to wipe all that ATI fanboy off of you.
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simple, they both suck. Both are based on spending lots of money on minimal performance gains that don't work with all games. Get the best single card you can afford and you'll be fine.
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