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Old Dec 27, 2010, 04:50 PM   #47
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Originally Posted by cheezburger View Post
anyway i would say gtx 580 is better than dual gpu crossfire as you would have to deal with driver issue and micro-shuttering and even lower minimum frame rate than single card due to data latency between crossfire/sli bridge.

to op: unless you'd ready for more buggy gaming experience with crappy driver&micro-shuttering + bigger power supply i'm suggesting you just get a single gpu card and gtx 580 is ftw! do not confuse by those fanboi's post because multi gpu ain't very good configuration for simple gaming. 5970 and 4870x2 were all well known to have micro shuttering and since crossfire/sli are worse scaling than dual gpu card they have even more problem that you may have to spend most of your time debug the amd driver...
Nope. 6950's in CrossFire work great. Better performance than my single GTX580
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