Uncensored2008
Libertarian Radical
To start with, my rig is;
XCLIO 2000 Black & Titanium Case
KingWin Gold Certified 80+ 1000 Watt PS
ASUS P8P67 Pro Motherboard
Intel Core I7 2600K @ 4.6 gHz
Corsair CWCH70 Hydro Series H70 CPU Liquid Cooler
CORSAIR Vengence 8GB
2 X Diamond Radeon 5870's In Crossfire
OCZ RevoDrive 80 GB PCIE SSD (540 MBps Read)
1TB WD Black Edition SATA 3 + 500 GB WD enhanced 32mb Cache SATA 2
Panasonic DVD
Windows 7 - 64 bit
So I run a Crossfire setup. When Crossfire is supported, it really improves frame rates. I assume that the same is true of SLI on the Nvidia.
In the last few years, virtually all games are ports from consoles. consoles are running 5 year old technology with DX9 level graphics, and SURE don't support Crossfire. So about 80% of the games I get not only don't benefit from Crossfire, but actually have problems unless I disable it.
So why would anyone bother to buy a second card? Actually, given that the Xbox 360 is equivalent to a GeForce 8800, why would anyone bother to buy a high end video card at all?
Sure, Creative Assembly still makes high end games, but they are pretty much alone and may dumb things down for consoles in the next generation, so why not just run onboard I3 graphics? Modern Warfare 7's DX9 visuals won't look any different, nor will Battlefield 12's.
/rant
XCLIO 2000 Black & Titanium Case
KingWin Gold Certified 80+ 1000 Watt PS
ASUS P8P67 Pro Motherboard
Intel Core I7 2600K @ 4.6 gHz
Corsair CWCH70 Hydro Series H70 CPU Liquid Cooler
CORSAIR Vengence 8GB
2 X Diamond Radeon 5870's In Crossfire
OCZ RevoDrive 80 GB PCIE SSD (540 MBps Read)
1TB WD Black Edition SATA 3 + 500 GB WD enhanced 32mb Cache SATA 2
Panasonic DVD
Windows 7 - 64 bit
So I run a Crossfire setup. When Crossfire is supported, it really improves frame rates. I assume that the same is true of SLI on the Nvidia.
In the last few years, virtually all games are ports from consoles. consoles are running 5 year old technology with DX9 level graphics, and SURE don't support Crossfire. So about 80% of the games I get not only don't benefit from Crossfire, but actually have problems unless I disable it.
So why would anyone bother to buy a second card? Actually, given that the Xbox 360 is equivalent to a GeForce 8800, why would anyone bother to buy a high end video card at all?
Sure, Creative Assembly still makes high end games, but they are pretty much alone and may dumb things down for consoles in the next generation, so why not just run onboard I3 graphics? Modern Warfare 7's DX9 visuals won't look any different, nor will Battlefield 12's.
/rant